Announcing ImageGlass Moon 9.0 beta 3
This is the beta-3 release of ImageGlass Kobe version 9. Many features of 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 can also support this project by making a donation or purchasing from Microsoft Store (version 8):
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General changes
- Added support for assigning multiple hotkeys for Menu in
igconfig.json
. - Added support for smooth zooming and panning without using Image Focus mode.
- Improved high DPI scaling.
- Upgraded Magick.NET to version 12.2.2.
Theme component
- Added support for Windows 11 UI (dark mode only) via setting
WindowBackdrop
. There are 3 options:Acrylic
,Mica
,MicaAlt
. - 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 fileigtheme.json
. - Improved context menu with the new checkable indicators: Check box for multiple choices, Radio button for single choice.
- 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
.
- Added support for auto-updating theme colors when system accent color is changed.
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
andImageInterpolationScaleUp
. 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.
- Improved thumbnail size when DPI is changed, or scroll bar is visible.
- 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. - Added support for opening image bigger than 16384px by scaling down it to 16384px.
New features
- Add new feature: Unload image to unload the viewing image and release memory resource.
The new Slideshow mode!
- Moves slideshow to a separate process with only clean viewer.
- Supports open multiple slideshows.
- Supports run ImageGlass in slideshow mode.
- Prevent OS from entering sleep mode.
- Supports sub-second slideshow interval.
- Uses the correct : symbol for countdown text.
- Auto-hides cursor after 3 seconds.
The new Crop tool!
- New crop UI, follows system accent color, and shows size of the selection.
- Adds support for holding Shift to select a square.
- Adds support for aspect ratio.
- Adds a lot of options for Crop tool settings to set the default crop selection when switching to a new image.
For all new features and details of the changes, please visit: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/releases/tag/9.0.3.1225
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