ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 2

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⚠ Breaking changes

This is the beta-2 release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9. Many features of the version 8 are missing and there are a lot of breaking changes. All features and settings may be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 3, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/13.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET 6.0 Runtime.
• Windows 7 SP1 ESU 64 bit.

📝 Changelog:

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🟣 General changes

• Removed support for custom codec.
• Supports for seamless process privilege elevation:
  • No longer requires igtask.exe to run admin commands
  • All functions that require admin permission will trigger the "User Account Control" dialog automatically. For example:
    • Set as desktop background
    • Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
    • Set / unset default photo viewer (ImageGlass unable to set file extensions #832, Set as default photo viewer... setting get error alert #1085, Trying to Unregister File Extensions #1360).
• Introduces new classes for user actions that being used widely in the app:
  • SingleAction: contains a single action that can be chained. For example:
    • Click to enter Full screen mode and then set zoom to 200%.
    • See more details in the "Toolbar component" section.
  • ToggleAction: contains ToggleOn and ToggleOff action. Each of them is a SingleAction. ToggleOn and ToggleOff are taken turn to call to switch on or off a feature. For example:
    • First double click to enter Full screen mode.
    • If double click again, exit Full screen mode.
    • See more details in the "ImageGlass.Views" section.
• Added theme-aware dialogs for:
  • Save / Save as
  • Rename
  • Go to
  • Custom zoom
  • Move to Recycle bin / Delete
  • ...
  • All dialogs can be closed with ESC (Enable ESC to close/cancel dialogs #1324).
• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 12.1.0.

🟣 New viewer component: ImageGlass.Views

• ImageGlass.Views is based on D2Phap.DXControl which supports both Direct2D and GDI+ graphics thanks to WicNet library.
• Replaced ImageGlass.PhotoBox with ImageGlass.Views, supports Direct2D 1.3 features.
• Supports GPU rendering for transparent formats: PNG,...
• Supports image interpolation modes:
  • NearestNeighbor (default when zoom > 100)
  • Linear (default when zoom <= 100)
  • Cubic
  • SampleLinear
  • Antisotropic
  • HighQualityBicubic
• Improves performance when the checkerboard is on.
• Supports heading for text in-app message.
• Reduces resource usage.
• Image focus mode is now only for panning using keyboard.
• Supports smooth zooming without enabling Image focus mode.
• Zooming with keyboard/ mouse is centered by cursor position (Single Left-Click Behavior To Switching Between Actual Size and Fit-to-Window, but also bring user to zoom in the cursor position #381).

Added support for custom mouse actions:

Mouse click actions (#381, #648, #748, #909, #991, #1337):

• Setting name: MouseClickActions.
• Supports events:
  • LeftClick
  • LeftDoubleClick
  • RightClick
  • RightDoubleClick
  • XButton1Click
  • XButton1DoubleClick
  • XButton2Click
  • XButton2DoubleClick
  • WheelClick
  • WheelDoubleClick
• Action for mouse click is ToggleAction which means you can configure on and off event separately. Each on and off action can be chained as well.
• Example:

  "MouseClickActions": {
    "LeftDoubleClick": {
      // first left click to enable full screen mode and set zoom factor to 50%
      "ToggleOn": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": true,
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_SetZoom",
          "Argument": 0.5,
        }
      },
      // second left click to exit full screen mode
      "ToggleOff": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": false
      }
    }
  },

Mouse wheel actions:

• Setting name: MouseWheelActions.
• Supports events:
  • Scroll
  • PressCtrlAndScroll
  • PressShiftAndScroll
  • PressAltAndScroll
• Actions for mouse wheel are pre-defined:
  • DoNothing
  • Zoom
  • PanVertically
  • PanHorizontally
  • BrowseImages
• Example:

  "MouseWheelActions": {
    "PressCtrlAndScroll": "BrowseImages",
    "PressShiftAndScroll": "PanHorizontally",
  },

🟣 Thumbnails bar component

• Significantly improved the loading speed when opening big folder.
• Shows more image information on tooltip:
  
  • Image name and dimension
  • Full file path
  • File size
  • Date modified
  • Frames count (if the viewing image contains more than 1 frame)
  • Rating (if image contains rating)
• Use the Magick.NET library to read image metadata to fix the issue that the image dimension shows (0 x 0) in some image formats.

🟣 Toolbar component

• OnClick is a SingleAction. So you can set a chain of actions to run.
• Added support for custom icon path for field Image in ToolbarItems in igconfig.json. The path can be absolute or relative.
• For example for the above changes:

  "ToolbarItems": [
    {
      "Type": "Button",
      "Id": "btn_Flip",
      "Text": "Flip and save the image, then exit ImageGlass",
      "DisplayStyle": "Image",
      "Alignment": "Right",
      "Image": "%systemroot%\\system32\\my_custom_icon.svg",
      "OnClick": {
        "Executable": "MnuFlipHorizontal",
        "Argument": "",
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_Save",
          "NextAction": {
            "Executable": "IG_Exit",
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]

🟣 Image Booster component

• Auto-detects and uses current monitor color profile (Color management in settings seems to be ambiguous? #781, Automatically Use Windows Color Profile #693).

🟣 New features

• Rename
• Delete
• Move to Recycle bin
• Delete / Recycle bin confirmation
  • Option to update the warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Go to file
• Custom zoom
• Flip horizontal / vertical
• Set as desktop background
• Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
• Share (Windows 10+)
• View image channels
• Save
• Save as
  • Auto-process image color, rotation,...
  • Supports reading multi-frame format, saving to GIF (Save of animated GIF loses animation #1058)
  • Supports custom quality for JPEG.
• Save / Save as override confirmation (PSD layers merged after press Ctrl+s #1074)
  • Option to update the override warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Copy & paste image with transparency support (Copy image data does not copy transparency correct #1305).
• Support Clipboard image (Need help understanding "Open Image from Clipboard" #584)
  • Flip horizontal / vertical
  • Print
  • Save as
  • Set as Desktop background
  • Set as Lock screen image
  • Share
  • Open with
  • Re-copy
• Full screen mode (Full screen improvements #1403):
  • Toggle Full screen mode.
  • Options to hide tool bar and thumbnails.
  • Restore window size, position and state correctly when restoring a maximized window from Full screen mode (Switching fullscreen and back moves window to primary monitor #1015).
  • Save and restore for next run.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.2.904_Beta-2_x64.zip	0488E3B86564CE1BA8725354C56F1B991604E374

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