Warning - upgrade users read this information carefully!

If you have some internet screen savers made with old versions (3.6, 4.0) of the program in circulation, pay attention that updating their web locations using this version (4.5 or above) of the program will make them display text messages incorrectly. Screen savers made with old versions of the program will display text code labels instead of text messages when they update themselves with changes made with this newer version. The effect is caused by changes to screen saver scenario (script) format which were necessary to achieve more efficient screen saver updates by extracting text messages from screen saver scenario (script) to a separate file.

You have two options to handle this situation properly:

1. Continue to update old screen savers using old scenario (script) format

Use "Make screen saver v4.0" option from the Tools menu to make a screen saver with scenario (script) in old format. Please note that if you choose to work this way you can not take advantage of features introduced in newer versions of the program (e.g. flash files). Anything not supported with the old version will be ignored in the generated scenario (script).

2. Make controlled transition to the new scenario (script) format

•  Make new version of a screen saver and put it on a new web location.
•  Update any screen saver download links to point to the new version and replace old version of the screen saver with new one in all other distribution channels you have in use.
•  Make changes to the old version still on the old web location using "Make screen saver v4.0" option from the Tools menu so it displays just one text screen with a short explanation what happened, a call to download new version and a link (consider using URL command here) to the screen saver download page.

Upgrading from version 4.5 to 5.0 and above

Moving from version 4.5 to version 5.0 required more changes to the screensaver script format. SCR files created with version 5.0 should work ok with scripts created with version 4.5, but the opposite direction will not work.