ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 1 🌑

♨ Updates

• Build v9.0.1.518: Fixed an issue where the app cannot find Codecs folder.
• Build v9.0.1.515: Fixed an issue where the app cannot write igconfig.json file in the startup folder.

⚠ Breaking changes

This is the first beta release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9, rewritten from scratch. Many features of the version 8 are missing and there are a lot of breaking changes. All features and settings may be changed when the official version 9 is released.

💀 If you want to try this bleeding edge release, use it at your own risk!

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 2, please follow: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/12.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET 6.0 Runtime.
• Windows 7 SP1 ESU 64 bit.

📝 Changelog:

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🟣 General changes

• Changed format of config, theme, and language from XML to JSON: igconfig.json, igtheme.json, <language name>.iglang.json.
• Supports hardware acceleration for non-alpha, non-animating image formats (#272).
• Adds Image Focus mode for better panning and zooming the viewing image.
• Supports hotkey customization for menus, and Image Focus mode (#608).
• Supports more flexible customization for toolbar buttons and positions.
• Supports smooth scrolling and displaying tooltip for thumbnails.
• Adds ability to choose which image information tags to display on title bar (#971).
• Adds more options in theme pack.
• Supports FITS, XV, VIFF, MJPEG and animating WEBP format (#508).
• The server for Check for update feature is changed to https://github.com/ImageGlass/config.
  Supports 3 levels of setting: igconfig.json, igconfig.default.json, igconfig.admin.json
• Supports passing individual settings to ImageGlass.exe through command line (#669).
  The setting must start with a hyphen -, and setting value comes after equal character =. For example:

  # hide the toolbar and set background color to red
  ImageGlass.exe -ShowToolbar=false -BackgroundColor=#ff0000

• Supports customizing the image information on title bar through the setting InfoItems (#971), supports displaying EXIF Rating.
• Upgraded Magick.NET to v11.1.2.
• Fixed: when single instance enabled, window always stayed behind when passing a file (#620).
• Uses the new API to save the window position: WindowPlacement. This works better with multi-screens.
• Changes registry keys for Set as default photo viewer from ...\PhapSoftware\ImageGlass\... to ...\ImageGlass<code>\..., while code is either Kobe, Spider, or Moon. This is ImageGlass Moon release, so the key is ...\ImageGlassMoon\....

🟣 New viewer component: ImageGlass.PhotoBox

• Supports hardware acceleration to improve image interaction performance (#272).
• Navigation arrow buttons are improved with better look and interaction behaviors (#1224).
• Supports showing better text message.
• Supports Image focus mode for smooth zooming and panning (#272, #522).
• Able to change zooming/panning speed.
• Supports customize keyboard for Image focus mode through the setting ImageFocusModeHotkeys (#608). Default values:

  "ImageFocusModeHotkeys": {
    "InternalPanningLeftKeys": "Left",
    "InternalPanningRightKeys": "Right",
    "InternalPanningUpKeys": "Up",
    "InternalPanningDownKeys": "Down",
    "InternalZoomInKeys": "-",
    "InternalZoomOutKeys": "+"
  }

🟣 Toolbar component

• Supports fully customizable toolbar buttons through the setting ToolbarItems: []. For example:

  "ToolbarItems": [
    {
      "Type": "Button", // "Button" or "Separator"
      "Id": "btn_Thumbnail", // Id must be unique
      "Text": "Thumbnail bar", // Tooltip text for the button
      "DisplayStyle": "Image", // Style of button: "Image" or "ImageAndText"
      "CheckableConfigBinding": "ShowThumbnails", // Bind the setting name for auto-check on click
      "Alignment": "Left", // Alignment group: "Left" or "Right"
      "Image": "ThumbnailBar", // Predefined image key in theme pack
      "OnClick": {
        "Executable": "MnuToggleThumbnails", // Can be the name of menu, name of function in FrmMain.IGMethods.cs, or path of executable file.
        "Argument": "" // argument for function in FrmMain.IGMethods; or command arguments for executable file.
      }
    },
  ]

  • Built-in methods (start with IG_): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/ImageGlass/FrmMain/FrmMain.IGMethods.cs
  • Setting names (Config.cs): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/Components/ImageGlass.Settings/Config.cs
  • Menu names (start with Mnu): https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/9.0.1.514/v9/ImageGlass/FrmMain.Designer.cs#L1203-L1311
• Able to add new buttons with custom actions: Use menu item's action; predefined methods; or a custom command
• Supports 2 position groups: Left/Center group, Right group
• Adds more properties for theming
• Improves toolbar overflow panel (#541)

🟣 Thumbnails component

• Adds option to show filename under the thumbnail (#539)
• Supports item tooltip
• Supports dark mode for scrollbar
• Supports persistent disk cache, maximum 100 MB by default (#1292)
• Supports dragging thumbnail to other app (#990)
• Improves scrolling performance by mouse wheel, trackpad.

🟣 Image Booster component

• Supports cancelling loading the previous images on fast navigating (#1025, #1107)
• Supports custom codecs. Currently, only contains Magick.NET codec

🟣 Menu component

• Supports custom keyboard shortcut through the setting MenuHotkeys (#608). For example:

  "MenuHotkeys": {
    "MnuAbout": "Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A",
    "MnuCopyPath": "F1",
    "MnuOpenFile": "O"
  }

• Removes the ugly top-left lines (#1218)

🟣 Supported features

• File > Open file..
• File > Open width...
• File > Print...
• File > Refresh / Reload / Reload image list
• Navigation > View next / previous image
• Navigation > View the first / last image
• Zoom > Zoom in / out / view actual size
• Zoom > all 6 zoom modes from version 8:
  • Auto zoom,
  • Lock zoom,
  • Scale to width,
  • Scale to height,
  • Scale to fit,
  • Scale to fill.
• Image > Image focus mode (new)
• Image > Loading orders
• Image > Open image location
• Image > View image properties
• Clipboard> Copy / Cut multiple image files
• Clipboard > Copy image pixel data
• Clipboard > Copy image path
• Layout: All menu features from version 8: Toggle toolbar, thumbnail bar, checkerboard background, set window always on top
• Help > Set as default photo viewer (new)
• Help > Unset default photo viewer (new)
• And other features...

🟣 Limitations

• Changing settings in runtime is not supported yet. If you want to change settings, you can do it using igconfig.json before the app runs.
• Supporting for animating WEBP format is not native yet, ImageGlass converts WEBP to GIF to play the animation.
• Hardware acceleration is not supported for those images that contain alpha pixels (transparent) and larger than 16,380 pixel width and height.

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