ImageGlass Kobe 8.9.6.9 (updated)

♨ Updates

• 09/06/2023: Updated the binary files (and hash codes) to fix broken auto-update.

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📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to v13.1.3
• Added support for reading grayscale DNG images (#1575)

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass always opens using nearest-neighbor zoom (#1549)
• Fixed an issue where NEF files appear darker with colors less saturated (#1577)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass displays NEF files in wrong orientation (#1478)
• Fixed an issue where ImageGlass could not display TIF files due to invalid tag 32932 (#1583)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x64.msi	13C10937298DE6FC0F6F0EFFD4C06FBCCFC3BC07
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x64.zip	F8149236EEF50CC4726DBEB34721BF6B6F294D64
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x86.msi	821944971EC2881B1E40D79CC88D22994953F9D0
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.9.6.9_x86.zip	AC5C43C76A64F68B71F535D4E65515867B6DBC52

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 5 is under development.

🎐 ImageGlass 9.0 minimum requirements

• 🆕 Windows 10 version 2004 (20H1) - 64-bit
• 🆕 .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64

Full Changelog: 8.8.4.4...8.9.6.9

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 4 🌔

⚠ Notes

This is the beta-4 release of ImageGlass version 9. Features and settings may still be changed when the official version 9 is released.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 5, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/15.
You also can support this project by making a donation or purchasing the Microsoft Store version (version 8):

🎐 Minimum requirements

• .NET Desktop Runtime 6
• 🆕 WebView2 Runtime x64
• 🆕 Windows 10 64-bit

📝 Changelog:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 4 is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 3,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.3.1225

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🟣 General changes

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.1.
• Improved ImageGlass startup time and latency by enabling ReadyToRun compilation.
• Showed Color space and Color profile info on the title bar.
• Added basic support for animated APNG format (#396).
• Fixed a bug where ImageGlass cannot load image with CMYK color space. Error message: "Operation is not valid due to the state of the object".
• Fixed a bug that caused memory leak during loading image.
• Skipped file existence check while loading image files into the list (#585).
• Changed the prefix for passing app setting as command-line from - to /. Example: ImageGlass.exe /EnableFrameless=true.

🟣 Theme component

• Added support for auto-switching theme according to system's dark/light mode (#434).
  • Splits the setting Theme into DarkTheme and LightTheme.
  • Loads LightTheme if system light mode is on, otherwise ImageGlass uses DarkTheme.
• Removed accent color in theme config.
• Added new icons for toolbar: Play, Pause, Export.

🟣 Viewer component

• Improved frame animation (GIF, WEBP, ...)
  • Adds support for hardware acceleration.
  • Supports playing, pausing or viewing a single frame of image.
  • Adds basic support for playing animation for all animated formats using MagickNET, such as APNG.
• Made the navigation arrow buttons clickable on whole left and right areas (#1472).

🟣 Thumbnail bar component

• Shows Color space and Color profile info on the thumbnail's tooltip.

🟣 Image Booster component

• Reduced memory usage when loading non-transparent image.
• Enabled basic support for all animated formats using MagickNET.
• Cached metadata to improve loading image.

🟣 Features

• Added support for updating the viewing image folder in real time:
  • Updates the viewing image, thumbnail when it's changed by third-party app.
  • Updates the thumbnail bar when image file is deleted, added, renamed.
  • Added an option to disable it by setting: EnableFileWatcher.
• Added Edit image with external editor:
  • Added setting EditApps, example:

    // in igconfig.json
    "EditApps": {
      ".png": {
        "AppName": "Paint.NET",
        "Executable": "C:\\paint.net\\paintdotnet.exe",
        "Argument": "<file>"
      }
    },

  • Added options what to do after the external editor is launch AfterEditingAction:
    • Nothing: Do nothing (default).
    • Minimize: Minimize ImageGlass window.
    • Close: Close ImageGlass app.
• Added feature: Export image frames
  • Moves the function to igcmd.exe with command export-frames.
  • Shows exporting progress and status.
  • Added a button to cancel the on-going export progress.
  • Added a button to open output folder after the export is done.
• Added feature: Rotate image (only for non-animated format).
• Added image transformation features:
  • Supports image rotation.
  • Improves performance of image flipping / ratation by using hardware acceleration.
  • Shows asterisk * on title bar next to the image name to indicate there is unsaved change.
  • Displays "Save..." / "Save as..." button on toolbar if the image is changed.
• Adds native support for animated Webp format (#1466) using libwebp.dll v1.3.0:
  • Supports hardware acceleration.
  • Fixed: Quality of animated Webp is reduced (#1526).
  • Supports saving image as Webp, including animated format (#1477).
• Supports for saving TIFF, GIF as multiple frames.
• Improves ImageGlass Slideshow view:
  • Removed support for multiple slideshow views
  • Added support for changing slideshow image list when user changes it in the main view.
  • Made slideshow view togglable.
  • Added support for new window modes in slideshow view.

🟢 New window modes

• Frameless mode
  • The window corners are rounded by default.
  • Hold SHIFT and drag to move the window.
• Window fit mode
  • Disables Maximize button of the window.
  • Improve performance when user zooms the image.
  • Added support for all zoom modes in Window mode.
• Window modes combination for the main view and slideshow view:

  Mode	Full screen	Frameless	Window fit
  Full screen	✅	❌	❌
  Frameless	❌	✅	✅
  Window fit	❌	✅	✅

🟢 Layout customization

• Added support for layout customization using setting Layout (#318) for:
  • Toolbar with setting Toolbar,
  • Thumbnail bar with setting Gallery,
  • Contextual toolbar with setting ToolbarContext.
• Supports Toolbar position: Top, Bottom.
• Supports Thumbnail bar position: Top, Bottom, Left, Right.
• Allows to change control's order if they are in the same layout position.
• Example:
  • Default layout:

    // in igconfig.json
    {
      // default layout
      "Layout": {
        "Toolbar": "Top", // Toolbar is at top
        "Gallery": "Bottom;0", // thumbnail bar is at bottom
        "ToolbarContext": "Bottom;1", // contextual toolbar is at bottom, above thumbnail bar
      },
    }

  • Layout: toolbar and thumbnail bar at top, contextual toolbar at bottom

    // in igconfig.json
    {
      "Layout": {
        "Toolbar": "Top;1", // Toolbar is at top, below thumbnail bar
        "Gallery": "Top;0", // thumbnail bar is at top, above the toolbar
        "ToolbarContext": "Bottom", // contextual toolbar is at bottom
      }
    }

🟢 New Color picker tool

• Shows cursor location on the viewing image.
• Clicks to pick the pixel color.
• Adds support for color formats: RGB, HEX, CMYK, HSL, HSV.
• Adds buttons to copy color code.
• Adds Settings window with options to show alpha value for each color format.

🟢 New Page navigation tool

• Supports for viewing separate image frame.
  • Non-animated formats (TIFF, ICO,...).
  • Animated formats (GIF, WEBP, APNG,...).
• Respects the size and orientation of the image frame (#1077).
• Exports all frames.

🟢 External tools support

• You can download external tools at https://imageglass.org/tools.
• Created https://github.com/ImageGlass/ImageGlass.Tools library for other 3rd-party apps to communicate with ImageGlass via IPC message events.
• Sends events to the external tools using ImageGlassEvents.
• Sends EnableWindowTopMost as a command-line argument to request the external tool window to be top most.
• Uses ToolSettings setting to store settings of the built-in tools (Crop tool, Color picker) instead of Tools.
• Added support for adding external tools to ImageGlass Tools menu with setting Tools and assigning the tool's hotkeys with setting MenuHotkeys.
• Shows "Tool not found" dialog to allow user to select executable path of the tool.
• For more details, please refer to https://github.com/ImageGlass/ImageGlass.Tools.

🟢 Introducing ExifGlass - a new ExifTool for ImageGlass

ExifGlass is a brand new EXIF metadata viewing app, designed to work seamlessly with ImageGlass 9, but can also be used as a standalone software on your computer. To use ExifGlass, you need to have ExifTool by Phil Harvey installed on your system.

For more details, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ExifGlass.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.4.416_Beta-4_x64_net6.zip	CCE6542B9952779972A50FF350984A6961A097D2
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.4.416_Beta-4_x64_net7.zip	1EFC8419A4364709A9EDAF60E51A2CC230DDCF9E

ImageGlass Kobe 8.8.4.4

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📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Adds setting HideAppName in igconfig.xml to hide ImageGlass text on title bar.
• Adds support for showing "Tag ID" column for the Exif tool.

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.1.
• Uses Magick.NET to load animated WEBP if libwebp.dll does not found (#1526).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where non-animated transparent WEBP image does not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool window shows error before showing exif data (#1520).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool does not show -H in the preview command (#1530).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool throws error when using custom file format .fmt (#1530).
• Fixed an issue where language is reset to English after each update (#1523). This fix applies to next update (from v8.8.4.4 to v8.8+).

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x64.msi	2B8C0D6B8A990A29E3B87C683BE0383DCE130653
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x64.zip	A4ECA3122C893F7EBEE3EC2AABF5E5F7E8A6F404
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x86.msi	7A70FAD060AC55339C491A2E1B7CD48DD8191749
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.4.4_x86.zip	68DC339943102C1F2FE6B8BF0FEBDB0C461EDAC1

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

Full Changelog: 8.8.3.28...8.8.4.4

ImageGlass Kobe 8.8.3.28 (updated)

♨ Updates

• 26/03/2023: Updated the license to make the registration for non-personal purposes optional, see https://imageglass.org/license.
• 24/03/2023: Updated the binary files (and hash codes) to fix the issue #1516: Zooming by hotkey in Window Fit mode does not work.

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

Alternatively, you can use the one-time donation from ♥ GitHub Sponsor, then drop me a message in ImageGlass Discord or email, and I will send the code shortly.

📝 Changelog:

🌱 New:

• Adds setting DisabledMenus in igconfig.xml to disable ImageGlass features using menu name (#1498).
• Adds support for relative path of Exiftool in igconfig.xml file (#1208).
• Adds support for displaying and extracting Unicode characters from EXIF metadata (#1169).
• Adds a new confirmation dialog when the user overrides the current image to warn them about the limitations of ImageGlass regarding image saving (#1094).
• The About dialog now includes information about the ImageGlass license and privacy policy.
• The Check for Update feature has been improved to show more information about the update and check if the user's system can install version 9.0 in the future.
• Image saving has been updated to only work with supported formats listed in the "Write" column of the supported formats page (#1504):
  • If the user attempts to save an unsupported format, the "Save as..." dialog will be opened instead.
  • This change also affects other image saving-related features such as rotation, flipping, and cropping.

🔮 Improvements:

• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 13.0.0.
• Improved loading speed for animated WEBP format (#1466) by directly using libwebp v1.3.0.
• Thumbnails are now automatically centered (#1049).
• Enhanced the corner radius of the toolbar, thumbnail bar, and menu to ensure optimal display on high DPI screens running Windows 11.
• Implemented rounded frameless window borders on Windows 11.

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where the user couldn't minimize the window in Window Fit mode (#1448).
• Fixed a bug that prevented ImageGlass from loading certain TIF files with invalid tags (#1181, #1454).
• Fixed an issue where the Exif tool was not functional when using the default name of ExifTool: exiftool(-k).exe (#1178).
• Fixed an issue where images became corrupted during the save process, causing display errors when navigating to the next image or exiting the app (#1097, #1273, #1504).
• Fixed an issue where the "loading..." message always shows when viewing next images.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x64.msi	9DFFA4CF4690C2D5D4F87E976DD4E7333FFC4848
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x64.zip	ABA769BF454B16053BE062306B142660E10EAE98
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x86.msi	748A9BFF8C8AD85E7D616060F0160B1A7C6F6FA4
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.8.3.28_x86.zip	AFF015F6B8DA5DB945BB4BD3B51225A184DD371E

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 4 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

Full Changelog: 8.7.11.6...8.8.3.28

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 3 🌓

⚠ Notes

This is the beta-3 release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9. 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.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 4, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/14.
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:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 3 is the continuation of the version 9.0 beta 2,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.2.904

Show / hide details

🟣 General changes

• Showed version info of ImageGlass and Magick.NET with the error message when the image is invalid.
• Added support for assigning multiple hotkeys for Menu in igconfig.json (#1400).
• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 12.2.2.
• Improved high DPI scaling for:
  • Viewer component:
    • Scale navigation buttons.
    • Scale in-app message.
    • Scale checkerboard tile.
  • Toolbar component: Scale ellipsis button.
  • Thumbnail bar.
  • Menu component.

🟣 Theme component

• Added support for dark/light title bar in Windows 10, and Mica title bar for Windows 11, according to the IsDarkMode property in theme pack config file igtheme.json (#595, #630).
• Added support for using system accent color.
• Added more theme-aware ability to more controls: Combobox, Numeric box, Check box, Label, Link label, Button, Toolbar, Thumbnail bar, Menu, ...
• Added support for Windows 11 UI (requires Windows 11 22H2) via setting WindowBackdrop:
  • Transparent backdrop style Acrylic, Mica, MicaAlt for the main and slideshow window (#548, #591, #937).
  • Tool window and other dialog windows show MicaAlt by default.
  • Supports alpha value for the background color of the BackgroundColor, SlideshowBackgroundColor, and theme pack (Toolbar, Thumbnail bar).
• Improved menu component:
  • Correctly shows the checkable type of menus: Check box for multiple choices, Radio button for single choice
  • Updates arrow icon.
• Reorganized sections in igtheme.json
  • Added Colors section to contain all theme colors.
  • Settings section is for all other settings.
• Added support for using system accent color in Colors section, by the syntax: accent[:alpha = 255]
  • accent is required.
  • alpha is optional, allows you to change the alpha value of the system accent color.
  • Example: accent:180
• Shows a circle as the default toolbar icon (instead of showing blank) if the icon in igtheme.json is missing or invalid.
• Added support for auto-updating theme colors when system accent color is changed.
• Added support for auto-changing SVG icon color for dark/light mode.

🟣 Viewer component

• Added fading transition when switching images, configurable by the setting EnableImageTransition.
• Added support for smooth panning by default without Image Focus mode.
• Uses accent color for heading text message, navigation buttons, selection.
• Added support for customizing the interpolation mode corresponding to the image's zoom factor: ImageInterpolationScaleDown and ImageInterpolationScaleUp (#1088, #1092). Interpolation values:
  • NearestNeighbor
  • Linear
  • Cubic
  • SampleLinear
  • Antisotropic
  • HighQualityBicubic

🟣 Thumbnail bar component

• Improved the speed of generating thumbnails by using cache from Windows File Explorer.
• Added setting ThumbnailCacheSizeInMb to change the maximum size of thumbnail cache on hard disk. The default setting is 300 MB.
• Aligned the thumbnails center horizontally by default (#1049).
• Added support for auto-scaling the thumbnail size when DPI is changed.
• Added support for auto-adjusting the thumbnail size when scroll bar is visible.
• Fixed: thumbnail is not scaled properly when enabling showing filename.
• Fixed: thumbnail bar size is not correct when the window size is smaller than the minimum size of the thumbnail bar.
• Fixed: image height information in tooltip is not correct.

🟣 Image Booster component

• Added support for GIFV image format.
• Added setting ShowImagePreview to display the image preview while the image file is being loaded, using embedded image, and sync the interpolation mode (#682).
• Added settings: EmbeddedThumbnailMinWidth and EmbeddedThumbnailMinHeight to set minimum size of the embedded thumbnail to use for displaying (#1290, #1293).
• Added setting ImageBoosterCacheMaxDimension to ignore caching large image dimension (#495).
• Added setting ImageBoosterCacheMaxFileSizeInMb to ignore caching large file size (#495).
• Added support for opening image bigger than 16384px by scaling down it to 16384px (#272).
• Fixed an issue that ImageGlass cannot load some TIF files due to invalid tags: 34022 (ColorTable), 34025 (ImageColorValue), 34026 (BackgroundColorValue) (#1181, #1454).

🟣 Settings component:

• Added settings EnableCopyMultipleFiles and EnableCutMultipleFiles to enable/disable copy/cut multiple files (#917).
• Added Tools section dedicated for managing tool settings.

🟣 Features

• Removed Image Focus mode, all of features of Image Focus mode are interated into the Viewer component.
• In the menu Image > Panning:
  • Added menus: Pan image left/right/up/down.
  • Added support for smooth panning when using menu and hotkey.
  • Added menus: Pan to left/right/top/bottom side (#974).
• Added support for smooth zooming when using menu (and hotkey).
• Added File > Unload image (U): to unload the viewing image and release memory resource.
• Menu Help > Set / Unset default viewer:
  • Reverted back to use ImageGlass as key name in registry.
  • igcmd.exe: Added new arguments to optionally show result dialog.
    • --ui: show all result dialogs.
    • --hide-admin-error-ui: hide the error dialog when admin is required to execute the command.
• Full screen mode: Fixed an issue that window icon is missing when exiting Full screen mode.

🟢 New Slideshow mode:

• Moves slideshow to a separate process with only clean viewer (#1336).
• Supports open multiple slideshows.
• Supports run ImageGlass in slideshow mode (#740, #885).
• Prevent OS from entering sleep mode (#718).
• Supports sub-second slideshow interval (#1155).
• Uses the correct : symbol for countdown text (#1226).
• Auto-hides cursor after 3 seconds.
• Adds slideshow functions:
  • Play/pause.
  • Toggle full screen / windowed mode (#1394).
  • Toggle countdown.
  • Toggle checkerboard background.
  • Change slideshow background color.
  • Navigate next/previous or first/last image.
  • Change zoom modes and view actual size.
  • Change image loading order.
  • Show "Open with..." dialog for the viewing image in slideshow.
  • Open the viewing image location.
  • Copy the viewing image path.
  • Exit slideshow.

🟢 New Crop tool:

• New crop UI, follows system accent color, and shows size of the selection (#1230).
• Adds support for holding Shift to select a square (#903).
• Adds support for aspect ratio (#755, #1057, #1145).
• Actions:
  • Reset selection
  • Save (Ctrl+S)
  • Save as (Ctrl+Shift+S)
  • Crop image
  • Copy the selection to clipboard (Ctrl+C)
• Crop settings:
  • Load, save selected aspect ratio settings.
  • Close crop tool after crop is completed (#755-3).
  • Set default selection (#755-1, #1311, #1410)
    • Use the last selection
    • 0% -> 100% (select all)
    • User-defined area
  • Option to center the selection.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.3.1225_Beta-3_x64.zip	A0783B13DEA7499B03A7FCCDCBD29DF386EC3123
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.3.1225_Beta-3_x64_net7.zip	801450971564D86E7093F6C791E3AB51F370D7D9

Enjoy the release and Happy holidays! 🎄 🎇

ImageGlass Kobe 8.7.11.6 - Hotfix

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

Alternatively, you can use the one-time donation from ♥ GitHub Sponsor, then drop me a message in ImageGlass Discord or email, and I will send the code shortly.

📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Added a new property isdarkmode to igconfig.xml to determine the theme pack is dark or light mode. If it's not defined, dark mode will be used by default. For details, visit: https://github.com/ImageGlass/theme.
• Added support for dark mode title bar from theme pack (#595, #630).
• Allowed to set slideshow interval to be less than 1 second (#1155).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where igcmd.exe crashed when auto-checking for a new update.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.11.6_x64.msi	B3ACE84D1F52C3A1F85069513083EE9771453CA1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.11.6_x64.zip	234AC01CF68AE174839A2F2D3EF7CA9E16606C7F
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.11.6_x86.msi	5B70095CEE9639863B2BA78A47B6287F5CFCBCB3
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.11.6_x86.zip	0A4FCBB621D7CB2DFB7A49346C4FA09C635C2B05

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

Full Changelog: 8.7.10.26...8.7.11.6

ImageGlass Kobe 8.7.10.26

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

Alternatively, you can use the one-time donation from ♥ GitHub Sponsor, then drop me a message in ImageGlass Discord or email, and I will send the code shortly.

📝 Changelog:

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to v12.2.0.
• Changed to use Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP (32 bits-per-pixel component) for the best image quality. This requires a bit more memory to load and process the image. You can download the x86 release of ImageGlass, which uses Magick.NET-Q8 for less memory consumption.
• Allowed user to override the extension icons in Exts-Icon from Config folder (similar to Themes folder).
• Added support for showing translators of the language pack in Settings > Language.
• Added support for auto-applying selected language pack in Settings window when clicking Apply button.
• Added support for using millisecond to set slideshow interval (#1155), thanks to @BenHUET.
• Updated the colon character in slideshow countdown (#1226).
• Added Exit option to the context menu (#1322, #1390), kudo to @BenHUET.
• Updated toolbar icon for Thumbnail bar (#1364).
• Re-enabled the ability to change extension icon for .ICO (#1396).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue when the Window Fit mode is enabled, zooming the image causes the window flickered badly (#1371), a big applause to @2480258.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x64.msi	2DD25B7D859FD9192BDC1E34FC966C3BDA4A930E
ImageGlass_Kobe_8.7.10.26_x64.zip	04362969E66F33867F5D7A3878CF3B52250CA4A5
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🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 3 is under development.
• From version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

New Contributors

• @2480258 made their first contribution in #1380
• @BenHUET made their first contribution in #1393

Full Changelog: 8.6.7.13...8.7.10.26

ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 2 🌒

⚠ Breaking changes

This is the beta-2 release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9. 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.

To follow the progress of version 9 beta 3, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/projects/13.
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:

ImageGlass 9.0 beta 2 is a continuation of the version 9.0 beta 1,
you should read the previous changelog here: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.1.514

Show / hide details

🟣 General changes

• Removed support for custom codec.
• Supports for seamless process privilege elevation:
  • No longer requires igtask.exe to run admin commands
  • All functions that require admin permission will trigger the "User Account Control" dialog automatically. For example:
    • Set as desktop background
    • Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
    • Set / unset default photo viewer (#832, #1085, #1360).
• Introduces new classes for user actions that being used widely in the app:
  • SingleAction: contains a single action that can be chained. For example:
    • Click to enter Full screen mode and then set zoom to 200%.
    • See more details in the "Toolbar component" section.
  • ToggleAction: contains ToggleOn and ToggleOff action. Each of them is a SingleAction. ToggleOn and ToggleOff are taken turn to call to switch on or off a feature. For example:
    • First double click to enter Full screen mode.
    • If double click again, exit Full screen mode.
    • See more details in the "ImageGlass.Views" section.
• Added theme-aware dialogs for:
  • Save / Save as
  • Rename
  • Go to
  • Custom zoom
  • Move to Recycle bin / Delete
  • ...
  • All dialogs can be closed with ESC (#1324).
• Upgraded Magick.NET to version 12.1.0.

🟣 New viewer component: ImageGlass.Views

• ImageGlass.Views is based on D2Phap.DXControl which supports both Direct2D and GDI+ graphics thanks to WicNet library.
• Replaced ImageGlass.PhotoBox with ImageGlass.Views, supports Direct2D 1.3 features.
• Supports GPU rendering for transparent formats: PNG,...
• Supports image interpolation modes:
  • NearestNeighbor (default when zoom > 100)
  • Linear (default when zoom <= 100)
  • Cubic
  • SampleLinear
  • Antisotropic
  • HighQualityBicubic
• Improves performance when the checkerboard is on.
• Supports heading for text in-app message.
• Reduces resource usage.
• Image focus mode is now only for panning using keyboard.
• Supports smooth zooming without enabling Image focus mode.
• Zooming with keyboard/ mouse is centered by cursor position (#381).

Added support for custom mouse actions:

Mouse click actions (#381, #648, #748, #909, #991, #1337): (see full example at #991 (comment))

• Setting name: MouseClickActions.
• Supports events:
  • LeftClick
  • LeftDoubleClick
  • RightClick
  • RightDoubleClick
  • XButton1Click
  • XButton1DoubleClick
  • XButton2Click
  • XButton2DoubleClick
  • WheelClick
  • WheelDoubleClick
• Action for mouse click is ToggleAction which means you can configure on and off event separately. Each on and off action can be chained as well.
• Example:

  "MouseClickActions": {
    "LeftDoubleClick": {
      // first left click to enable full screen mode and set zoom factor to 50%
      "ToggleOn": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": true,
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_SetZoom",
          "Argument": 0.5,
        }
      },
      // second left click to exit full screen mode
      "ToggleOff": {
        "Executable": "IG_ToggleFullScreen",
        "Argument": false
      }
    }
  },

Mouse wheel actions:

• Setting name: MouseWheelActions.
• Supports events:
  • Scroll
  • PressCtrlAndScroll
  • PressShiftAndScroll
  • PressAltAndScroll
• Actions for mouse wheel are pre-defined:
  • DoNothing
  • Zoom
  • PanVertically
  • PanHorizontally
  • BrowseImages
• Example:

  "MouseWheelActions": {
    "PressCtrlAndScroll": "BrowseImages",
    "PressShiftAndScroll": "PanHorizontally",
  },

🟣 Thumbnails bar component

• Significantly improved the loading speed when opening big folder.
• Shows more image information on tooltip:
  
  • Image name and dimension
  • Full file path
  • File size
  • Date modified
  • Frames count (if the viewing image contains more than 1 frame)
  • Rating (if image contains rating)
• Use the Magick.NET library to read image metadata to fix the issue that the image dimension shows (0 x 0) in some image formats.

🟣 Toolbar component

• OnClick is a SingleAction. So you can set a chain of actions to run.
• Added support for custom icon path for field Image in ToolbarItems in igconfig.json. The path can be absolute or relative.
• For example for the above changes:

  "ToolbarItems": [
    {
      "Type": "Button",
      "Id": "btn_Flip",
      "Text": "Flip and save the image, then exit ImageGlass",
      "DisplayStyle": "Image",
      "Alignment": "Right",
      "Image": "%systemroot%\\system32\\my_custom_icon.svg",
      "OnClick": {
        "Executable": "MnuFlipHorizontal",
        "Argument": "",
        "NextAction": {
          "Executable": "IG_Save",
          "NextAction": {
            "Executable": "IG_Exit",
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]

🟣 Image Booster component

• Auto-detects and uses current monitor color profile (#781, #693).

🟣 New features

• Rename
• Delete
• Move to Recycle bin
• Delete / Recycle bin confirmation
  • Option to update the warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Go to file
• Custom zoom
• Flip horizontal / vertical
• Set as desktop background
• Set as Lock screen image (Windows 10+)
• Share (Windows 10+)
• View image channels
• Save
• Save as
  • Auto-process image color, rotation,...
  • Supports reading multi-frame format, saving to GIF (#1058)
  • Supports custom quality for JPEG.
• Save / Save as override confirmation (#1074)
  • Option to update the override warning setting in the confirmation dialog.
• Copy & paste image with transparency support (#1305).
• Support Clipboard image (#584)
  • Flip horizontal / vertical
  • Print
  • Save as
  • Set as Desktop background
  • Set as Lock screen image
  • Share
  • Open with
  • Re-copy
• Full screen mode (#1403):
  • Toggle Full screen mode.
  • Options to hide tool bar and thumbnails.
  • Restore window size, position and state correctly when restoring a maximized window from Full screen mode (#1015).
  • Save and restore for next run.
  • Fixed: Screen flashes when entering full screen mode (#905)

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.2.904_Beta-2_x64.zip	0488E3B86564CE1BA8725354C56F1B991604E374

ImageGlass Kobe 8.6.7.13

♨ Updates

• Updated the ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x64.msi to fix #1365, the old one is marked 'deleted'.

👐🏿 Support ImageGlass Kobe on Microsoft Store!

This is the paid version, you will need to pay a small amount after 7-day trial. You will get the convenience of fast, easy installation onto all of your Windows devices along with fully automatic, behind-the-scenes updates with all the newest features, improvements, and fixes.

Alternatively, you can use the one-time donation from ♥ GitHub Sponsor, then drop me a message in ImageGlass Discord or email, and I will send the code shortly.

📝 Changelog:

This is a hotfix for ImageGlass 8.6.6.6.

🔮 Improvements:

• Updated Magick.NET to v11.2.0.
• Reverted the app folder back to ImageGlass (instead of ImageGlass Kobe) (#1352).
• Add a non-UI setting AutoFocusToolbarOnHover to fix an issue when the window in inactive, user need to click twice for the toolbar buttons, kudo to @Sxderp (#1202).

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue that the MSI 64-bit installer threw the error "Could not write value..." when user chose the option Only Current User (#1355).
• Fixed an issue that the app could not load image due to missing vcomp140.dll file from Magick.NET library (#1354).
• Fixed an issue that the igcmd.exe was crashed and shown every time user launches the app (https://github.com/ImageGlass/Spider/issues/4)
• Fixed an issue that Left/Right keyboard control keeps losing focus causes by AutoFocusToolbarOnHover setting in igconfig.xml is enabled by default.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
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ImageGlass_Kobe_8.6.7.13_x86.zip	9BEAFBDF4499325FC2A8D7CCE56D7FD423BACA3C

🛣 ImageGlass 9.0 development updates

• Version 9.0 beta 1 was already released. Try it and let me know your feedback.
• Version 9.0 beta 2 is under development.
• Since version 9.0, .NET 6 Runtime is required to run ImageGlass, you can download it at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0.

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:

Show / hide details

🟣 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.

🥒 Checksums:

File	SHA-1
ImageGlass_Moon_9.0.1.518_Beta-1_x64.zip	BF9F2BD48989BDA7E7700BA5A0D495EDCE83F257