FenPhoenix on 10/5/2019 at 02:33
Sorry, been busy with all the fixes and minor features and polish. SS2 is earmarked to at least give a look at for 1.1
FenPhoenix on 13/5/2019 at 23:02
(
http://fenphoenix.com/apps/AngelLoader/AngelLoader_v1.0.14.zip) v1.0.14
Just some small RichTextBox polishing. No other issues have cropped up, so might as well just release this minor update.
Changes:-RichTextBox: Optimize new scrolling for high-resolution mouse wheels and trackpads (Xanfre)
-RichTextBox: Fix the mouse cursor flicker exhibited when entering reader (middle-button auto-scroll) mode (Xanfre)
vincentlancon on 14/5/2019 at 06:06
Impressed Mr Fen. This is truly a successor to DarkLoader, no offense to the others who have tried. :)
Dahenjo on 14/5/2019 at 13:11
I'm still waiting for v1.0.783 which I'm hoping will fix the cat nagging.
And happy birthday, Fen!
Fraser on 16/5/2019 at 03:59
Oh wow. I've been ignoring T1 and T2 missions for about a decade because it was getting so clunky on newer Windows computers.
This new loader ought to make life much easier.
Many thanks, Sir Fen. Your YouTube walkthroughs are fab, and now this.
jolynsbass on 26/5/2019 at 04:08
I just discovered this new loader, and I am getting back into thief after a 7 year(!) hiatus... But, I've been a regular returner to the game since it first came out in '98. Loving the ease of AngelLoader - thanks!
Question: Can there be an option to sort or filter by tag? Or at least search/filter by comment? The reason I ask, is that, in my experience with it so far, I have no way to effectively use tag data, such as "Beauty Contest", or "20th Anniv Contest", despite being able to add such helpful info. I'd love to be able to click a "Filter by Tag", type "contest", and see all of the missions that were tagged as being contest missions. (or "horror", or "campaign" etc.) I realize I've got my work cut out for me in tagging everything... but I'm the kind of guy who would definitely spend the effort to tag it all!
FenPhoenix on 26/5/2019 at 06:09
You can filter by tag; there's a tag-looking button up top on the filter bar. It opens a window where you can choose tags to filter by, with options for "must include all", "must include any" and "must not include". It's a little bit clumsy tbh and doesn't actually let you text-search for tags the way the add/remove tags tab does, but it's there and I've got it noted to improve that. Glad you're finding it pleasant to use otherwise!
Mat99 on 17/6/2019 at 21:43
Fen, any chance to implement and force the Fixed-Font to display with, when readme files are on *.TXT format? (Courier New would be great).
It's annoying to see that disorderly mess and disorder in 95% of missions. Yes... the files are "broken" already in archives, because people don't know what they are doing ;) But maybe such Loader's behaviour will at last force them to properly create/edit that files? (or maybe not :) However the others will have a well displayed text in *.TXT that they have fixed/improved for themselves :)
FenPhoenix on 17/6/2019 at 21:52
Can you be more specific about "mess and disorder"? If you mean that some missions have one too many or one too few tabs in the
Name:
Description:
Release date:
Etc:
section, then fixed-width doesn't fix that, I just tried. If you mean something else, I'll need more details so I know what to look for.
EDIT: Hang on, it looks like DarkLoader displays plaintext readme files with a fixed-width font. Wow, that's super embarrassing for me... :o I'll have to add the option now, because certainly a whole ton of missions will have been designed with DarkLoader's behavior in mind.
FenPhoenix on 18/6/2019 at 00:51
Okay, the fixed-width font option is in, to be released with version 1.1 (which is almost ready). It still doesn't solve every formatting problem, but it's something, and it does match DarkLoader, so hey.
Speaking of new versions, some musings about other language translations... I'm very grateful to the people who have offered translations thus far, but I think I need to do something slightly different going forward. At the moment, I take the translation .ini files that people give me and provide them right in the download package as an official part of the distribution. But any time I add new text (which if there's a new feature there's usually going to be new text), I feel like I have to impose on people to translate them, and then inevitably a new bit of text will pop up right after I've asked :p. I don't wanna bother people or delay a release if I can't find someone to update the translation, etc.
So, maybe I could release new versions without bundled translations and just maybe have a list of language files that people can download, to be marked as whatever version they're for? And/or I could release with whatever the latest translations are and just have a few un-translated strings, which would seem unprofessional but at least most of it would be there?