Version 1.3.8

[1.3.8] - 2025-11-23

Added

• Help Menu: New Help menu in the menu bar with quick access to documentation and application information
  • User Guide (F1): Opens embedded user guide dialog with beautifully rendered markdown documentation
  • About KAsset Manager: Shows application version, author, license, and GitHub repository link
• Embedded User Guide: Complete user documentation is now embedded in the application binary
  • Theme-Aware Rendering: Automatically adapts to dark/light mode with custom CSS styling
  • Native Markdown Display: Uses Qt's QTextBrowser with setMarkdown() for proper formatting
  • No External Dependencies: All 137 lines of documentation embedded as C++ raw string literal
  • Beautiful Typography: Custom CSS for headings, code blocks, lists, and links
• Full-Screen Preview Navigation Enhancements:
  • Synchronized Selection: When navigating assets in full-screen preview using arrow keys, the Asset Manager grid/list automatically highlights the currently previewed asset in the background
  • Persistent Selection: When closing the full-screen preview, the Asset Manager selection remains on the last previewed asset for immediate keyboard navigation
• Context Menu Actions:
  • Show in Explorer: Right-click any asset and select "Show in Explorer" to open Windows Explorer with that file selected
  • Generate Thumbnail: Right-click any asset (image, video, or sequence) to regenerate its thumbnail immediately

Changed

• Settings Dialog: Version label now dynamically displays the application version from QCoreApplication::applicationVersion() instead of hard-coded string
• About Dialog: Documentation link now instructs users to press F1 instead of linking to external file

Technical

• Created UserGuideDialog class (native/qt6/src/user_guide_dialog.{h,cpp}) with embedded markdown content
• Added Help menu to MainWindow with F1 shortcut for User Guide
• Updated main.cpp to set QCoreApplication::applicationVersion() from CMake PROJECT_VERSION macro
• Added compile definition KAM_APP_VERSION="${PROJECT_VERSION}" in CMakeLists.txt
• Implemented synchronized selection in MainWindow::showPreview() and MainWindow::changePreview()
• Added "Show in Explorer" and "Generate Thumbnail" actions to asset context menu in MainWindow::onAssetContextMenu()
• Updated CMake project version, Windows resources (app.rc), and NSIS installer metadata to 1.3.8
• Release artifacts now use the KAssetManager-Setup-1.3.8.exe naming