Cider for Flexbar v1.5.0

Customize Now Playing directly from FlexDesigner → Settings → Application → Cider.

New

• Cover play/pause overlay: larger white icons without a circular backdrop. Playing shows Pause; paused shows Play. The overlay can be hidden while keeping tap-to-play/pause enabled.
• System font selection: choose from fonts available on your computer, with multilingual fallback when a font is unavailable.
• Adjustable font size: set the title to 12–30 px, or leave it empty to retain the key's font size. The artist line adapts to fit above the timeline.
• Timeline color: customize the played portion of the progress bar.
• Save from the appearance section: a SAVE SETTINGS button below the font controls applies changes immediately and shows the save result.

Behavior and fixes

• Appearance changes redraw current Now Playing keys immediately, reuse the existing playback state, and preserve connection settings.
• Saving appearance no longer resets Volume synchronization or unnecessarily resends an unchanged slider.
• Keep the existing cover and timeline layout, with 45 px timeline margins and standard 50 % volume formatting.
• Preserve playback controls, Listening Mode synchronization, and protection against stale layout updates.

Downloads

• Windows x64: com.sonw.cider.flexplugin
• macOS Apple Silicon: com.sonw.cider.macos-arm64.flexplugin
• macOS Intel: com.sonw.cider.macos-x64.flexplugin

On macOS, you may need to download the matching package manually. Match FlexDesigner's architecture; Intel FlexDesigner under Rosetta requires the Intel package. macOS support remains experimental; physical Flexbar testing was performed on Windows.

Each platform package is built and validated separately by GitHub Actions, including the automated test suite and native Canvas loading.

Full changes: v1.4.0...v1.5.0