Releases: Adstrax/Perch
Release list
Perch v3.1.0
Perch v3.1.0
The tray icon is now optional
A new Tray icon item in the menu shows or hides the icon; the choice is remembered in HKCU\Software\Perch so it survives restarts. Default stays "shown", so nothing changes unless you turn it off.
You can never lock yourself out
Until now the menu was only reachable through the tray icon. The widget itself now answers a right-click with the very same menu, so hiding the tray icon still leaves you a way to dock, pin, quit or bring the icon back. While the tray icon is off, Hide to tray is greyed out, since that would hide the only remaining way in.
Also: the icon is re-added automatically if Explorer restarts.
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Perch.exe below is a single portable binary - no installer, no runtime dependency.
Perch v3.0.1
Perch v3.0.1
Smoother text
The whole widget is now drawn onto a canvas three times larger than the window and then box-filtered back down in premultiplied-alpha space. Text, numbers, arrows, the shield and the capsule / ring outlines therefore get real grey coverage at their edges instead of snapping to whole pixels - the stair-stepped look is gone.
Nothing else changed: same layout, same colours, same size, same acrylic look.
Cost
Roughly one extra render pass per second; measured idle CPU stays around 0.5% of one core and the working set is unchanged (~28 MB).
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Perch.exe below is a single portable binary - no installer, no runtime dependency.
Perch v3.0.0
Perch v3.0.0
Memory indicator
- The colour ramp now starts from a cyan-blue accent (
#4CC9F0) instead of teal, so the low end of the capsule bar / floating ring matches the download arrow and the CPU label. - Amber anchor moved from 60% to 70%, red anchor moved from 85% to 90%. The transition stays fully smooth (interpolated along the hue circle) and the gradient fill is kept on both the capsule bar and the ring.
Tray menu
- The context menu now follows the Windows light / dark theme (uxtheme preferred app mode set to AllowDark) and re-applies itself when the system theme changes - no restart required.
- The widget itself is unchanged: it keeps its acrylic look no matter what the system theme is.
Other
- Version bumped to 3.0.0 (About dialog and file properties).
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Perch.exe below is a single portable binary - no installer, no runtime dependency.
Perch v2.0.3
Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.0.3
Perch v2.0.2
Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2
Perch v2.0.1
What's new
- Fixed: the CPU label no longer has a separate background chip - it now matches the text style of the network speed rows
- Version bumped to 2.0.1
Patch on top of v2.0.0. Requires Windows 10/11 (native Win32, no .NET).
Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1
Perch v2.0.0
What's new
- New app icon: frosted-glass tile with vibrant, colorful signal bars (teal-cyan-blue-violet-pink)
- Built-in About dialog - right-click the tray icon then "About Perch" to see the version
- Version bumped to 2.0.0
Requires Windows 10/11 (native Win32, no .NET). Rebuild with build.bat + MinGW-w64 if needed.
Full Changelog: v1.1.3...v2.0.0