MultiPing change history

Last Revision: November 29th, 2006
Check www.multiping.com for the latest version.

Version 2.00.1 of MultiPing is primarily a bug fix. This is a free upgrade for all MultiPing 1.x or 2.x licensees.

Fixed occasional error: "Cannot create shell notification icon" at boot if MultiPing was in startup group.
Workspace collected data is now saved to a temporary file first, then renamed (this ensures a file is fully saved before the old file is overwritten).
If collected data was partially saved on shutdown (or file was corrupted), a "Catastrophic Failure" error would show and there was no way to fix it without manually deleting the file.
If time graph was narrow, the time scale would overwrite the target name. Now, the target name wins to make it easier to read.
If MultiPing was minimized or maximized and then closed, the normal window size wasn't saved.
If the network was down when loading a workspace, the re-resolving of DNS names would cause the startup process to fail. Now, the previously resolved IPs are used and pinging begins - even if the network is down.
Updates to the help file to support context sensitive help popups on Vista.
Minor fixes to exception handling (now includes a bit more information, better stack information).
Rare Access Violation on shutdown corrected.

Collected data is now saved with your workspaces. Closing and restarting MultiPing no longer loses all history.
Time graphs can now be sorted to match the target list graph (right-click on the time graphs and use the "Sort to match target list" menu option).
New option to prompt or minimize to tray instead of closing if "X" button is hit.
Hops that have alerts firing on them have a red "exclamation point" indicator, plus a float-over hint showing which alerts are firing.
Customizable alert email messages (better for pagers and mobile phone alerts).
Mouse wheel scroll wheel scrolls the time graphs forward / backward. CTRL-mouse wheel zooms the time graphs.
Sort column and order is now saved / reloaded in workspace.
Can now rename a target in the list by right-clicking and "Rename selected target".
Expanded help file now in HTML help format.
New Options Dialog.
Improve time graph area resize logic. Your current size is also saved in the workspace.
Entering a time in "Samples to include" auto-calculates the number of samples that would make that happen.

Column headers in grid now use current system theme (on OSes with theme support - i.e., Windows XP)
Date / times on summary graph now use time format from computer, rather than forcing am/pm style times.
Now uses TrueType font on main trace graph - text is easier to read, especially when using large fonts.
Show a "reason" message if address is already being pinged and you attempt to add it again (rather than doing nothing).
Resizing columns in the graph has better indicator - more clean and natural now.
New "Customize View" menu option to turn on/off columns in grid.
Saving or loading a workspace updates the caption with the workspace name - this differentiates between multiple running instances.
New focus indicator on time graphs is easier to see / understand.
Error logs are now limited in size.
ms (milliseconds) indicator now shown on legend (rather than unlabeled numbers).
Updated taskbar behavior: Move, Size, Tile, Cascade now work.
New exception (error) handling system.
Target names are re-resolved when you load workspaces with history.
With more than 255 targets, performance is now MUCH better than previously, especially with any time graphs displayed.

Version 1.01.2 is primarily a bug fix.

Bugs Fixed

If the computer was running for over 25 days since the last reboot, using the scrollbar in the timegraph area would freeze MultiPing requiring a forcible termination. Fixed.
Fixed the erratic behavior resizing the graphs in the timegraph area using the invisible splitter directly above the lowest graph.
The right-clickable area for a time-graph was artificially reduced even if a timegraph was not floating. Fixed.

Version 1.01 is primarily a bug fix.

Bugs Fixed

Email alert subject line including $HOST filled in -- NO HOST -- always instead of the alerting target. Fixed.
PingPlotter integration would only work if PingPlotter was installed before MultiPing was launched. PingPlotter can now be installed anytime and right-click menu in MultiPing will allow exporting data to PingPlotter.

Other changes

Error messages now show a lot more details that can be used in our troubleshooting efforts. Also, support emails can be created right from the error dialog.

Version 1.01 is primarily a bug fix.

New Features

Enhanced support for emailing alert messages. MultiPing now supports non-standard SMTP server ports and SMTP servers that require username / password login.
Any unexpected packet errors (for example, removal of all network cards, or TTL expired messages) now show the error message above the graph in the main window.

Bugs Fixed

Packets that expired in transit wouldn't report correctly. Now these appear as lost packets and a message is displayed.
The alert setup dialog would sometimes lose events when switching between alerts. Also, settings would sometimes be overwritten with default settings.
Associating more than one alert to a target would lose all associations to that target.
Alert emails included samples from *all* targets, not just the one that caused the alert to fire.
"Log to file" alert event would only allow US characters in the filename. Many non-US characters are now allowed.
An error message would sometimes occur when a dialog was very close to the desktop border and a popup hint appeared near that border.
Width of user interface didn't load correctly when closing / reopening MultiPing.
When adding a new target, the wrong time graph would sometimes flash.
Packet Loss graph scale wasn't remembered correctly between sessions.
Time period for time graphs would sometimes reload as 0 seconds, instead of default or previous settings.
Reset / Restart (right-click Start/Stop button) didn't always clear history data for hosts added mid-session.