NFL-TCKR v0.1.57

0.1.57 — 2026-11-08

• Shortcut L jumps the scroll to the first Leaders card. Does nothing when
  Leaders are not currently on the ticker.

0.1.56 — 2026-11-08

• Settings → Leaders tab: weekly and season PASSING / RUSHING / RECEIVING
  leaders (top 1–5). Each scope can show during live games, when no live games
  are running, or not at all. Weekly tops come from this week's in/post
  scoreboard leaders; season tops from ESPN season leaders.

0.1.55 — 2026-11-08

• Fix crash when two or more displays are selected: mirror bars no longer borrow
  NFLTicker.nativeEvent/moveEvent (super() failed on TickerMirror).

0.1.54 — 2026-11-08

• Settings → General: Display placement (Single / Clone / Continuous span) and
  per-monitor checkboxes. Clone syncs the same scroll on each selected display;
  span runs one continuous path left-to-right across them. Each bar docks and
  hides for fullscreen on its own monitor. Applying settings re-reads the
  display plan (monitor_index was previously ignored on Apply).

NFL-TCKR v0.1.53

NFL-TCKR CHANGELOG

0.1.52 — 2026-10-04

• Settings → Shortcuts lists the ticker keys. + and − change scroll speed.
  Q still quits.
• Settings → General: Follow Team. F centers that game and pauses; F or P
  resumes.

0.1.51 — 2026-10-04

• Keys while the ticker is focused: P pause/resume, T start the scroll
  from the beginning, R replay the last scoring banner

0.1.50 — 2026-10-04

• Dock: reserve the full on-screen strip and sit below other top docks
  instead of covering them. Apply and quit release that strip, so the next
  start no longer parks under the previous reservation.

0.1.49 — 2026-09-30

• Dock: keep checking the top of the monitor for another bar, not only other
  tickers and not only at startup. NFL-TCKR stacks below that reservation.

0.1.48 — 2026-09-30

• Defaults: 64px bar, speed 10, 5s refresh, city names, team-name glow,
  drive summary, post-game stats in Subway Ticker, and alternate colors for
  Bills, Patriots, Browns, Steelers, Bears, Packers, Texans, Titans, Seahawks

0.1.47 — 2026-09-29

• Scroll: passer-line rotation on a final (and live) card stamps that line
  onto the cached card. The names, logos, and team-name glow are not
  repainted every 5 seconds.

0.1.46 — 2026-09-29

• Scroll: team-name glow stays on the cached card. Live ticks still stamp
  only the clock, down, play, score, timeouts, and possession icon. Glow-all
  still repaints the whole card.

0.1.45 — 2026-09-29

• Scroll: cache the stable part of each live card (names, logos) and stamp
  only the clock, down, play, score, timeouts, and possession icon so a
  tick does not rebuild the whole card on the GUI thread. Both possession
  slots stay reserved so a possession flip does not change card width.

0.1.44 — 2026-09-29

• Scroll: paint changed cards on the GUI thread one per event-loop turn
  (QTimer.singleShot(0)); install each image as it finishes so VBlank wakes
  are not starved by a QThread holding the GIL in QPainter

0.1.43 — 2026-09-29

• Live cards: reserve center from clock + fixed down samples only; last play /
  drive wraps up to 3 lines inside that column so scores sit closer

0.1.42 — 2026-09-29

• Scroll: yield the GIL during card rebuilds and install only finished images so
  down / play / score updates do not drop a VBlank frame

0.1.41 — 2026-09-29

• Scoring flash: 3s all-caps type line (e.g. GIANTS TOUCHDOWN!), then 4s play detail
• Detail form e.g. Giants Score: Scattebo 22 YD Run Touchdown!; hold is 7s total

0.1.40 — 2026-09-29

• Live cards: reserve fixed center and two-digit score columns so down / last-play /
  score-digit updates do not change card width or shift logos and neighbors
• Timeouts stay centered under the reserved score slot

0.1.39 — 2026-09-29

• Last play: Pixel Font7 (fonts/PixelFont7-G02A.ttf) at 8–14px with AA off for that line only

0.1.38 — 2026-09-29

• Live down line: Ozone LED face (uppercased); last-play text nudged down 2px

0.1.37 — 2026-09-29

• Live down line: "2nd & 7 on NYG 45" (word "on" instead of "@"; connector stays white)

0.1.36 — 2026-09-29

• Last play: Roboto Medium (fonts/Roboto-Medium.ttf) instead of Zed Sans Regular —
  slightly thicker at the small play-line size
• Quarter / linescore table: Ozone LED face for grid cells; FINAL/HALFTIME
  heading stays on the clock/time face

0.1.35 — 2026-09-29

• Pregame center: larger gap between kickoff / network / spread; network and
  spread fonts closer to kickoff size; away record sits left of the team name

0.1.34 — 2026-09-29

• Add -test / --test CLI mode: fake live slate (no ESPN) so the bar can be
  demoed when no games are on; advances clocks / downs / plays every ~4.5s

0.1.33 — 2026-09-29

• Final cards: restore the center linescore table (periods only, OT when
  present); remove compact quarter digits under each score
• Linescore table no longer includes a redundant FINAL/total column on
  finals or in-game quarter breaks

0.1.32 — 2026-09-29

• Live down line colors: 4th down gold, else red zone red, else possession
  team color (clock blue / white when possession unknown); & and @ stay white
• Settings → General: Show drive summary (mutually exclusive with last play);
  bottom row shows "12 plays, 75 yards" from the current drive when available
• Pregame cards: team records beside names, broadcast under kickoff, spread
  in the center (hidden once live or final)
• Final cards: compact quarter points under each score; no down / last play /
  drive / possession; full linescore table kept for in-game quarter breaks

0.1.31 — 2026-09-29

• Glow all: keep halos cached (text, logos, possession icons) and drop the
  oldest entry instead of wiping at 400. A full slate was rebuilding every
  halo on the next card and holding the scroll clock for hundreds of ms
  per card; the scroll blit itself stayed under 1ms
• Card rebuild runs at low priority and yields between halos so a cold glow
  pass cannot pin the machine

0.1.30 — 2026-09-28

• Settings → General: Include Post-Game Stats (off by default)
• After each final score, scroll away then home PASS/RUSH/REC/SACKS/TACKLE
  leaders (headers in that team's color, e.g. LAC PASS); post-game line is
  2× situation size; Settings chooses the post-game stats typeface

0.1.29 — 2026-09-28

• QB line includes completions/attempts: #16 Lawrence 20/33 182 YDS, 3 TD, 1 INT
  (live/final boxscore C/ATT and pregame season leader C/ATT)

0.1.28 — 2026-09-28

• AppBar always registers (ABM_NEW/QUERYPOS/SETPOS) so NFL reserves its own
  strip below any existing top reservation; windows should not open underneath
• Clear WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW before register so Explorer includes this HWND in rcWork
• Stop SPI_SETWORKAREA(NULL) which rebuilt work area from AppBars and dropped us
• Re-force work-area top to the bottom of our strip 1s and 3s after dock

0.1.27 — 2026-09-28

• Ticker face: ignore leftover Settings.json "Arial" and use bundled Ozone;
  Settings → General now has a Ticker font list from fonts/
• AppBar: if the top is already reserved, dock below it (do not steal y=0);
  still shrink the work area so windows start below NFL-TCKR; re-park if Qt
  snaps the HWND back to the screen top

0.1.26 — 2026-09-28

• Frozen exe: ship each fonts/*.ttf|otf into the onefile extract (fonts/ and root)
• Register bundled faces after QApplication; exe prefers fonts-folder over installed
• Search _MEIPASS/fonts, extract root, and a fonts/ folder next to the exe

0.1.25 — 2026-09-28

• Settings → Network tab: Enable Proxy + URL, optional SSL certificate file
• ESPN fetches honor proxy (HTTP(S)_PROXY + requests proxies); corporate SSL
  inspection uses a merged Windows CA bundle when no custom cert is set

0.1.24 — 2026-09-27

• Live center: fixed 4-row slots so clock Y stays put with or without last play;
  more gap clock→down, play a tad lower, clock face +1px
• Clock > 2:00: time + down in bright blue, dash white; down line & and @ always white
• Logo / name / score gaps use visible ink (not canvas pad) and a shared 10px spacing
• Inter-game gap 40% tighter (~1.8× bar height instead of 3×)
• Timeout dashes use the team-name color; row sits 1px lower
• Last play: Gotham Medium then smaller, now fonts/zed-sans-regular.ttf
• Fonts: installed family first, then fonts/, then default; --debug logs every role
• Scroll: ESPN fetch on _SlateThread, cards on _CardBuildThread (QImage); idle
  scoreboard poll 60s when no live / kickoff-soon games
• Intro: yellow "NFL-TCKR" centered 3s, then scroll in from the right; --faststart skips
• Loop marker: logos/nfl-com-logo.png at the start of each pass
• Right-click + tray: About… (author, 2026 copyright, github.com/krypdoh/NFL-TCKR)
• build-nfltckr.ps1: onefile PyInstaller (console + noconsole) and Authenticode sign
• Frozen APP_DIR uses sys._MEIPASS so bundled fonts/logos/images resolve in the exe
• .gitignore: build/, dist/, logs, pycache, exes, signing certs

0.1.23 — 2026-09-27

• Logo / possession-icon white glow much more subtle: lower opacity (~half),
  tighter scale, smaller pad; team-name / text bloom unchanged from 0.1.22

0.1.22 — 2026-09-27

• Team-name / text glow: real behind-glyph bloom (wide soft silhouette + heavy
  multi-pass blur at moderate opacity) so names keep normal weight instead of
  looking bold/outlined; shared _draw_text_glow also improves glow_all text

0.1.21 — 2026-09-27

• AppBar fix: always ABM_NEW/QUERYPOS/SETPOS when docked (old “passive dock”
  skipped shell registration whenever anything was already at the top, so the
  bar never reserved desktop space)
• Force SPI_SETWORKAREA if the shell does not shrink the work area after SETPOS
• Deferred + retry AppBar setup after HWND is realized; clearer [AppBar] logs

0.1.20 — 2026-09-27

• Glow reworked as soft background bloom (blurred halo behind content) instead of
  tight offset copies that only made glyphs look bolder

0.1.19 — 2026-09-27

• Windows AppBar: docked mode reserves top desktop strip (SHAppBarMessage)
• Passive dock below sister tickers (MLB-TCKR / other *-TCKR) so bars don’t stack
• Fullscreen yield: hide via opacity when a fullscreen app owns the monitor
• Settings: “Do...

NFL-TCKR

NFL-TCKR CHANGELOG

0.1.30 — 2026-09-28

• Settings → General: Include Post-Game Stats (off by default)
• After each final score, scroll away then home PASS/RUSH/REC/SACKS/TACKLE
  leaders (headers in that team's color, e.g. LAC PASS); post-game line is
  2× situation size; Settings chooses the post-game stats typeface

0.1.29 — 2026-09-28

• QB line includes completions/attempts: #16 Lawrence 20/33 182 YDS, 3 TD, 1 INT
  (live/final boxscore C/ATT and pregame season leader C/ATT)

0.1.28 — 2026-09-28

• AppBar always registers (ABM_NEW/QUERYPOS/SETPOS) so NFL reserves its own
  strip below any existing top reservation; windows should not open underneath
• Clear WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW before register so Explorer includes this HWND in rcWork
• Stop SPI_SETWORKAREA(NULL) which rebuilt work area from AppBars and dropped us
• Re-force work-area top to the bottom of our strip 1s and 3s after dock

0.1.27 — 2026-09-28

• Ticker face: ignore leftover Settings.json "Arial" and use bundled Ozone;
  Settings → General now has a Ticker font list from fonts/
• AppBar: if the top is already reserved, dock below it (do not steal y=0);
  still shrink the work area so windows start below NFL-TCKR; re-park if Qt
  snaps the HWND back to the screen top

0.1.26 — 2026-09-28

• Frozen exe: ship each fonts/*.ttf|otf into the onefile extract (fonts/ and root)
• Register bundled faces after QApplication; exe prefers fonts-folder over installed
• Search _MEIPASS/fonts, extract root, and a fonts/ folder next to the exe

0.1.25 — 2026-09-28

• Settings → Network tab: Enable Proxy + URL, optional SSL certificate file
• ESPN fetches honor proxy (HTTP(S)_PROXY + requests proxies); corporate SSL
  inspection uses a merged Windows CA bundle when no custom cert is set

0.1.24 — 2026-09-27

• Live center: fixed 4-row slots so clock Y stays put with or without last play;
  more gap clock→down, play a tad lower, clock face +1px
• Clock > 2:00: time + down in bright blue, dash white; down line & and @ always white
• Logo / name / score gaps use visible ink (not canvas pad) and a shared 10px spacing
• Inter-game gap 40% tighter (~1.8× bar height instead of 3×)
• Timeout dashes use the team-name color; row sits 1px lower
• Last play: Gotham Medium then smaller, now fonts/zed-sans-regular.ttf
• Fonts: installed family first, then fonts/, then default; --debug logs every role
• Scroll: ESPN fetch on _SlateThread, cards on _CardBuildThread (QImage); idle
  scoreboard poll 60s when no live / kickoff-soon games
• Intro: yellow "NFL-TCKR" centered 3s, then scroll in from the right; --faststart skips
• Loop marker: logos/nfl-com-logo.png at the start of each pass
• Right-click + tray: About… (author, 2026 copyright, github.com/krypdoh/NFL-TCKR)
• build-nfltckr.ps1: onefile PyInstaller (console + noconsole) and Authenticode sign
• Frozen APP_DIR uses sys._MEIPASS so bundled fonts/logos/images resolve in the exe
• .gitignore: build/, dist/, logs, pycache, exes, signing certs

0.1.23 — 2026-09-27

• Logo / possession-icon white glow much more subtle: lower opacity (~half),
  tighter scale, smaller pad; team-name / text bloom unchanged from 0.1.22

0.1.22 — 2026-09-27

• Team-name / text glow: real behind-glyph bloom (wide soft silhouette + heavy
  multi-pass blur at moderate opacity) so names keep normal weight instead of
  looking bold/outlined; shared _draw_text_glow also improves glow_all text

0.1.21 — 2026-09-27

• AppBar fix: always ABM_NEW/QUERYPOS/SETPOS when docked (old “passive dock”
  skipped shell registration whenever anything was already at the top, so the
  bar never reserved desktop space)
• Force SPI_SETWORKAREA if the shell does not shrink the work area after SETPOS
• Deferred + retry AppBar setup after HWND is realized; clearer [AppBar] logs

0.1.20 — 2026-09-27

• Glow reworked as soft background bloom (blurred halo behind content) instead of
  tight offset copies that only made glyphs look bolder

0.1.19 — 2026-09-27

• Windows AppBar: docked mode reserves top desktop strip (SHAppBarMessage)
• Passive dock below sister tickers (MLB-TCKR / other *-TCKR) so bars don’t stack
• Fullscreen yield: hide via opacity when a fullscreen app owns the monitor
• Settings: “Docked (reserve desktop space)” checkbox (default on); undocked =
  floating always-on-top without AppBar

0.1.18 — 2026-09-27

• Settings: optional "Glow team names" (team-color halo)
• Settings: optional "Glow all items" (text glow + faint white logo glow)

0.1.17 — 2026-09-27

• Settings: Content transparency slider (scores/logos/names/stats strip)
• Renamed prior control to Background transparency for clarity

0.1.16 — 2026-09-27

• Settings → General: Transparency slider (0% solid … 100% clear) for ticker
  background; persists as background_opacity

0.1.15 — 2026-09-27

• Scroll debug default OFF; enable with python NFL-TCKR.py --debug
  (or NFL_TCKR_SCROLL_DEBUG=1; =0 forces off)

0.1.14 — 2026-09-27

• Residual scroll judder: drive animation from DwmFlush VBlank (MLB _VBlankDriver),
  not QTimer — fixed dx still phase-drifted vs the display refresh
• Each VBlank: fixed px/refresh + synchronous repaint() before compositor deadline
• QTimer remains fallback if DwmFlush unavailable; SCROLL_DEBUG shows clock=VBlank|QTimer

0.1.13 — 2026-09-27

• Scroll judder: fixed px/tick at ~display refresh (no wall-clock dt catch-up)
  — kills dx swing from 8 ms timer jitter (logs: spikes=0 but dx 0.2–5.3 px)
• Skip STRIP rebuild when slate fingerprint unchanged (scoreboard poll + QB rotate)
  — stops ~5 s / refresh 32k pixmap hitches when cards look identical
• Preserve scroll offset across rebuilds; SPIKE threshold 1.5× for softer cadence hits
• SCROLL_DEBUG summaries include fixed step=…px

0.1.12 — 2026-09-27

• Fix name Y: center on actual KeepAspectRatio logo height (was using request box
  79px while logos draw at ~59px → names sat low beside logos)
• Extra optical lift (~logo_h/8); one-shot [CARD] align coordinate log
• Scroll debug default ON (SCROLL_DEBUG=True); NFL_TCKR_SCROLL_DEBUG=0 to silence
• All [SCROLL]/DEBUG] prints flush=True; loud startup "[SCROLL] profiler enabled"

0.1.11 — 2026-09-27

• Card layout: team names optically centered on logos (QB stats still under name)
• Was centering name+QB as one block, which sat names too low beside the logo
  (incomplete: still used logo_size box, not pixmap height — fixed in 0.1.12)

0.1.10 — 2026-09-27

• Scroll judder profiler: NFL_TCKR_SCROLL_DEBUG=1 (dedicated; API DEBUG can stay off)
• ~1s summaries: tick/paint dt min/avg/max/jitter/stdev, dx, offset, pause state
• Immediate SPIKE lines when tick dt > 2× timer target or paint interval > 2× VBlank
• Logs STRIP rebuilds (pixmap recompose hitch risk)

0.1.9 — 2026-09-27

• Smooth scroll: PreciseTimer ≤8 ms + delta-time px/ms (MLB QTimer path; kills ~1 Hz judder beat)
• Strip is a DPR-aware QPixmap; paint blits via QPointF (no per-frame rescale)
• SmoothPixmapTransform only at DPR<2; LED background cached

0.1.8 — 2026-09-27

• Settings: Team Colors tab (AFC/NFC divisions) with Primary/Secondary/Tertiary/Custom
• Defaults seeded from NFL team color guide hexes; overrides persist in Settings.json
• get_team_color matches MLB model (per-team slot int or custom hex → names + flash)

0.1.7 — 2026-09-27

• Consistent inter-card gap: fixed ~3× ticker height (MLB-style) in strip composer
• No longer embeds tiny trailing spacing in each card (avoids pregame bunching)

0.1.6 — 2026-09-27

• Player surnames keep multi-part / suffixes (Beckham Jr., Penix Jr., Cook III)
• Prefer ESPN athlete lastName; unified format_player_lastname for QB + scoring flash

0.1.5 — 2026-09-27

• Pregame: hide 0-0 score digits (kickoff/vs only until live/final)
• Scoring flash: team-color sweep overlay on new ESPN scoringPlays (live only)
• Alert text: PASS / RUN / FIELD GOAL / SAFETY / 2PT / XP; dedupe by play id
• DEBUG notes when a scoring flash is queued/shown

0.1.4 — 2026-09-27

• Finals: hide last-play text under the score (show "F" only)

0.1.3 — 2026-09-27

• DEBUG console logs for ESPN GETs (endpoint, status, ms) + abbreviated payloads
• Parsed-game digests include scores, situation, QB lines (game vs season scope)
• Gate with NFL_TCKR_DEBUG (default ON; set 0/false/off to silence)

0.1.2 — 2026-09-27

• QB stats: live + final use this game's boxscore passing; pregame uses season leaders
• Pregame season lines formatted as C/ATT YDS TD Int (from competitor passingLeader)

0.1.1 — 2026-09-27

• Logos 2× size on score cards
• Smaller kickoff / clock time font
• QB/player stats use Gotham Black (+ MLB-TCKR size formula), matching MLB player text

0.1.0 — 2026-09-27

• Initial NFL ticker (sibling to MLB-TCKR)
• ESPN scoreboard + summary fetch for scores, situation, QB boxscore
• Layout: logos, team-colored names, center score / down & distance
• Last play under score (wraps to 2 lines), ball-on text, possession football icon
• QB stats under team names; rotate when ≥2 QBs with ≥4 pass attempts
• Settings: name display (team / city / both / abbr), refresh, height, filters
• System tray + hover-to-pause scrolling bar