FirstTilt v0.6.0

Added

• FirstTilt has a browser viewer with site and product selection, live scans, and playback. Choose the WoolawayWx radar feed or process NEXRAD Level II scans on your device.
• Settings now gives you access to local diagnostics. FirstTilt keeps recent desktop session logs and Rust panic reports, and the web viewer can download a report of recent errors.
• FirstTilt can send limited crash reports automatically to WoolawayWx. Automatic reporting is on by default in builds with a report collector. You can turn it off in Settings or review and send a report yourself.

Fixed

• Dragging the "maximum frames" slider no longer deletes loaded frames along the way, and dragging the polling-interval slider no longer restarts live updates on every step. Both apply when you let go.
• The P shortcut now saves the product you land on and skips products that have no data. Single-letter shortcuts no longer fire when Ctrl, Cmd, or Alt is held.
• Esc now closes the update prompt.
• Map layer order set in Settings is now remembered between launches, and the move buttons are disabled at the ends of the list.
• Live radar updates are now merged by compass angle instead of by each volume's radial order, which could blank part of a sweep or draw part of it twice when a new volume started at a different angle.
• Radar downloads and listings now time out and retry instead of hanging forever, and a network problem is reported as one rather than as "no scans available". Switching sites no longer waits on the old site's live catch-up.
• Switching product or tilt while a live update arrives no longer mixes products on the timeline or leaves frames blank.
• The live watcher no longer re-processes the same partial volume while waiting for new data.
• Disabled playback buttons now explain why. Color-table import messages clear on their own.
• Choosing a screenshot, animation, color table, or archive no longer freezes FirstTilt while the file dialog is open, and live updates no longer stall the interface while they are merged.
• Zooming in is limited to a level where radar and map lines stay steady instead of jittering.
• The web viewer is more dependable on slow connections: downloads show progress, retry automatically if the connection drops, and have a Retry button if they fail.

Changed

• Settings is now organized into pages (General, Radar, Map, Alerts, Labels, About & diagnostics) with reset buttons for the basemap, alerts, and labels, an interface size control, and a diagnostics folder button.
• New shortcuts: R shows or hides radar data, T cycles the elevation tilt, H loads history, A opens the Alerts panel, 1/2/4 choose the number of map panes, and Ctrl/Cmd+, opens Settings. A new top-bar button toggles radar data too.
• The timeline lets you drag to scrub through frames and shows each frame's time when you hover it. Icon buttons now have names for screen readers.
• The web viewer works better on phones (pinch and double-tap zoom, Previous/Next stay on screen), lets you type to search for a site or tap one on the map, shows the elevation angle, and can be panned from the keyboard. Background tabs stop polling.
• Live radar playback and the IEM feed use less memory and bandwidth, and the radar cache is written safely.
• FirstTilt has a new look for its icon and logo, in the WoolawayWx burgundy, ink and cream: an FT monogram under a radar scope with a lightning-bolt sweep. It replaces the rainbow icon in the app, the installers, the macOS disk image, and the browser viewer's tab icon and header.
• The desktop app and browser viewer use the same colors as the new logo: warm ink backgrounds, cream text and highlights, and burgundy for selected items and primary buttons. Radar and alert colors are unchanged.

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Portable copies that update themselves are listed under Assets below.