Zaratul on 15/11/2019 at 08:03
Feature request: add support for dark theme.
FenPhoenix on 15/11/2019 at 08:58
It's on the list, but it's harder than it sounds. I would have to change UI framework. If I change to WPF, I get a skinnable UI, but the FMs list becomes slow because WPF's DataGridView is slow. If I change to a third-party UI, I don't get the RichTextBox and can't display .rtf files. I could twist the current UI's arm until it sort-of allows dark mode, but the look would be incomplete (scroll bars wouldn't change for instance) and it would look half-assed.
FenPhoenix on 19/12/2019 at 23:29
(http://fenphoenix.com/apps/AngelLoader/AngelLoader_v1.3.2.zip) AngelLoader v1.3.2 is out.
Since upgrading to a new PC with Windows 10, a stupid bug (see below) started happening. Fixed it.
-Critical fix: On Windows 10, the "activate-first-instance" feature broke and would cause a second instance of AngelLoader to stay running and prevent others from starting properly. Argh.
-Changed all character encodings to be explicit: should prevent potential issues for non-English Windows versions.
Maitre Malterre on 20/12/2019 at 13:57
Well, with whom does it always take the longest?
Is it the women who buy shoes ... or is it the German translator?
I should throw my wife out and quit my job - it's terrible, to always be the last ... :tsktsk:
Anyway: here the Germanized v1.3.2
Many greetings
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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rOUrLtGmJ7V-89mm_aas63zEKc69FX9F)
FenPhoenix on 20/12/2019 at 14:19
No worries. Thanks :)
FenPhoenix on 2/3/2020 at 18:47
(http://fenphoenix.com/apps/AngelLoader/AngelLoader_v1.4.zip) AngelLoader v1.4 is out.
Added:-Added "Date Added" column, which shows the date the mission was added to the list. This is helpful in finding newly downloaded FMs when you have a lot of missions in the list.
-Newly added FMs are now scanned completely, rather than having only their game type scanned. This is almost as fast, and allows searching by title and other metadata if you can't remember a new mission's archive name.
-Added recent FM highlighting feature, where you can say that recently added FMs should be displayed at the top of the list and highlighted.
-Initial readme selection now takes AngelLoader's language setting into account. For instance, if the language is English, "fminfo-en.txt" would be selected, while if the language is German, "fminfo-de.txt" would be selected. This only takes effect for readmes that have not been detected yet. Those that have been detected already or have been selected manually are not affected, so as not to mess with your previous selections.
-Added a feature where you can manually choose the language you want to play an FM with (in the Edit FM tab).
-Middle-clicking the FMs list now centers the selected FM onscreen if it wasn't on screen before.
Changed:-Home and End now scroll the FMs list to the top and bottom, rather than the left and right.
Fixed:-Fixed: If you added user tags to an FM, re-scanned it, made no further manual changes to the tags, then closed AngelLoader, the user-added tags would be lost.
-Fixed: When scanning newly added FMs, the progress box wouldn't pop up if there was only one new FM and that FM was a zip.
-Fixed: When the FMs list was scrolled to the right and you changed selection or sorted a column, it would instantly scroll all the way back to the left.
-Fixed: Forward slashes were not always handled properly in file paths.
-Fixed regression: Date fields in the Edit tab would no longer change their visibility based on whether the dates were specified.
-Fixed regression: Multiplayer Thief2MP.exe was no longer detected on startup.
ticky on 3/3/2020 at 16:38
Do you have any idea about how long should a first startup of AngelLoader take (after FM directories are set up)? By first startup I mean first startup after windows start&login. A quite annoying thing follows me, no matter I use newDarkLoader or Angelloader. The startup takes 60-90 seconds, which is quite long, considering I have a decent modern PC without any speed related problems (if any of you need exact tech specs, I can provide, but I think that's not the point here). The only other thing that comes to my mind is I have T2 missions installed well above 100 - but that should not cause this slowness, I guess.
Do you guys have any ideas? Thank you.
FenPhoenix on 3/3/2020 at 16:48
Are any of your FM directories on a network?
Do you have "Include subfolders" checked in AngelLoader?
How many files total (not just FMs, but all files) are in the entire directory structure of your FM archive directory/directories?
ticky on 3/3/2020 at 17:00
Here You go, Fen:
Are any of your FM directories on a network? -> No,
Do you have "Include subfolders" checked in AngelLoader? -> Yes,
How many files total (not just FMs, but all files) are in the entire directory structure of your FM archive directory/directories? I can tell you the TG and T2 FM directories, where the unpacked versions of FMs are. If you need the number of files of the whole Thief folders, I can also tell you that.
t2 fm folder: 7,529 folders, 236,516 files.
tg fm folder: 884 folders, 10,815 files.
Thanks for the help in advance!
FenPhoenix on 3/3/2020 at 17:13
Alright, could you tell me a couple more things:
-For each directory where your unpacked FMs are, tell me how many folders are in there, but not in the entire directory structure, just how many folders are in the base unpacked FM directory for each game.
-For each archive directory, tell me how many files are in the entire directory structure.