ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 5 🌕

⚠ Notes

This is the final beta release of ImageGlass version 9. Features and settings may still be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 RC, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/16.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• 🆕 Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) - 64-bit
• 🆕 .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 5 is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 4,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.4.416.

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🟣 Breaking changes

• Change app settings and app registry from per-machine to per-user:
  • App settings: Use %LocalAppData% folder (previouly, it was %AppData%) to save user setting file igconfig.json when ImageGlass does not have write permission in its startup folder
  • App registry: Use HKEY_CURRENT_USER (previously, it was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) for registering file type associations, app protocol (#1581)
• Updated the argument naming of the settings ToolbarItems, Tools from Argument to Arguments.

🟣 General changes

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.2.0
• Removed igcmd10.exe utility
• Added support for reading grayscale DNG images (#1575)
• Added support for showing file thumbnail when dragging from Windows to ImageGlass (.NET 7 build on Windows 11)
• Added new commands for igcmd.exe utility: install-languages, install-themes, uninstall-theme
• Improved DPI and text scaling for menu
• Improved the direction of the menu dropdown when it's open
• Improved keyboard parser with better accuracy (#1612)
• Improved the stability of Share dialog
• Added setting SlideshowImagesToNotifySound to let user determine the number of images to play notification sound in slideshow mode
• Fixed an issue where user could not start slideshow due to incorrect command line prefix
• Fixed an issue where the image is sometimes not displayed after a very quick navigation
• Fixed an issue where orientation of HEIC format is displayed wrong (#1551)
• Fixed an issue where NEF files appear darker with colors less saturated (#1577)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass displays NEF files in wrong orientation (#1478)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass could not display TIF files due to invalid tag 32932 (#1583) and tag 34031 (#1617)
• Fixed an issue when triggering custom hotkeys such as Alt and key causes windows error sound to play (#1613)

🟣 Add UI for App Settings

• Added support for changing user settings for:
  • Tab General
  • Tab Image
  • Tab Slideshow
  • Tab Edit: except for the EditApps setting
  • Tab Viewer
  • Tab Toolbar: except for the ToolbarItems setting
  • Tab Gallery
  • Tab Layout
  • Tab Mouse: except for the MouseClickActions setting
  • Tab Tools
  • Tab Language
  • Tab Appearance
• Resolved an issue where settings are hidden on high DPI screen (#793, #1266)
• Resolved an issue where emoji characters are not rendered in Settings window (#1220)
• Resolved an issue where user does not see the changes when pressing "Apply" button (#623)
• Resolved an issue where the Settings UI is reset when switching tabs (#482)

🟣 Viewer component

• Added support for touch guestures:
  • Supports zooming image by 2 fingers (#591, #739, #1611)
  • Supports panning image with inertia by 1 finger (#591)
  • Supports opening context menu by long tap
• Added support for custom zoom levels via setting ZoomLevels (#1563).

🟢 Added a new Webview2 viewer component using HapplaJs library

• Supports scaling SVG (#421), animated SVG (#1098), interactive SVG files
• Supports opening image by dropping files from desktop
• Supports navigation arrow buttons according to the setting
• Supports showing in-app message
• Supports customizing MouseWheel action
• Supports customizing MouseClick action (right button)
• Supports zooming features:
  • All zoom modes
  • Zoom by hotkeys
  • Set custom zoom
  • Follow zoom levels setting
• Supports panning features:
  • Pan by hotkeys
  • Follow pan speed setting
• Other features may just work, except for Rotation, Flipping, Color picker, Cropping, Page navigation, Copy image data, Print, Set as Desktop/Lock screen, View image channels, Export image frames, ...
• Added an option to switch back to the native viewer component:
  • Open Settings > Viewer
  • Uncheck the option Use Webview2 for viewing SVG format (or set UseWebview2ForSvg to false in igconfig.json).
• When ImageGlass window is minimized, the Webview2 viewer component will be suspended to consume less memory similar to MS Edge's sleep mode.

🟣 Toolbar component

• Added support for adding external tool as toolbar button using the tool ID
• Improved Main menu position to make sure it does not cover the toolbar when the toolbar is at bottom
• Fixed an issue where user cannot use custom image path for toolbar icon (#1554)
• Fixed an issue where user cannot click the toolbar buttons when the window is inactive (#1202, #1363)
• Fixed an issue where tooltip overlaps the hovered button when the gallery's position is not on top

🟣 Gallery component:

• Added support scrolling thumbnails by swipe guesture (#753)
• Added support for resizing gallery by dragging the separator in vertical layout
• Added support for saving the last size of gallery component (#1502)
• Added support for displaying scrollbars with dark mode
• Improved gallery layout scaling according to system text size setting
• Improved click action to only allow to use the left mouse for image navigation
• Fixed an issue where the dragged thumbnail is still selected after mouse is released
• Fixed an issue where thumbnail's tooltip is still showing after leaving the thumbnail
• Fixed an issue where tooltip overlaps the hovered thumbnail when the gallery's position is not at bottom

🟣 Tooltip component

• Added supports for dark mode
• Added supports round corner on Windows 11
• Added supports for using accent color for tooltip title
• Improved tooltip size and text scaling according to system text size setting

🟣 ImageGlass Tools

• Added support for CIELAB color space for Color Picker tool (#1543)
• Added support for setting topmost state of tool window according to ImageGlass window
• Added support for assigning hotkeys for external tool in Tools section in igconfig.json file:

  // in igconfig.json
  "Tools": [
    {
      "ToolId": "Tool_MyDemoApp", // a unique ID
      "ToolName": "My Demo app", // name of the tool
      "Executable": "path\\to\\the\\DemoApp.exe",
      "Arguments": "<file>", // file path to pass to the tool
      "Hotkeys": ["X", "Ctrl+E"], // press X or Ctrl+E to open/close the tool
      "IsIntegrated": true|false // true: if the tool supports 'ImageGlass.Tools'
    }
  ]

• Improved the built-in tool window readability by increasing opacity to 95% (from 85%) in inactive state
• Fixed an issue where the second ImageGlass instance cannot open the external tool if other instances already open it

🟣 Other updates for ImageGlass 9.0 beta 5

• Published ImageGlass.Tools library v1.9050
• Published ExifGlass app v1.1

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Full Changelog: 9.0.4.416...9.0.5.726