AngelLoader v1.11.0 - now works better on Wine! (updated 2025/07/24)

FenPhoenix on 25/2/2023 at 13:35

At the top-right of the tabs area, there's a little menu button, click it and you can re-enable the Comments tab if it got disabled that way.

FenPhoenix on 7/3/2023 at 08:35

(https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/download/v1.7.1/AngelLoader_v1.7.1.zip) AngelLoader v1.7.1 is out.

Features and improvements:

* Greatly improved accuracy of release date detection in the scanner.
* You can now right-click anywhere on the FM details tab bar to bring up the tab show/hide menu. Hopefully this is a little more intuitive/discoverable.

Fixes:

* Fixed if there was one FM selected, you could ctrl-click it (or ctrl-shift-click it) to deselect it, putting the app into an unexpected state. There is always supposed to be at least one FM selected whenever there are any FMs displayed in the list.
* Fixed a nasty bug in the scanner: The flag for "this folder-on-disk FM is an extracted .7z file" was never reset between FMs in a multi-FM scan. This meant that once a .7z FM had been scanned, any subsequent folder-on-disk-only FMs (installed FMs with no matching archives) would be incorrectly assumed to be extracted .7z FMs, and thus would fail to be scanned and would be filled out with default data.

fxdwg on 9/3/2023 at 00:40

I've noticed an issue where I've replaced an existing FM archive with a newly D/L'd version. The new version has different text in the FM info text file.

I right-clicked the pertinent FM to "Scan FM" again to see the updated text in the information window. However, I noticed that I wasn't seeing the updated text. It seems that if a corresponding file in the "FMsCache" folder already exists for that FM, AngelLoader (v1.7.1) will display the cached version over replaced text file inside the updated FM archive.

Only when I manually delete the cached text file will the correct updated text information be displayed in the main window.

Does this explanation make sense?

FenPhoenix on 9/3/2023 at 01:33

Yeah, you have to click "Rescan for readmes" in the Edit tab. AL can't really know if the archive is new if the name is the same, so it can't know to re-cache the readme. But I suppose scanning should re-cache the readmes, now that you mention it. I'll add that for the next version.

Stingm on 9/3/2023 at 03:50

Thanks again for the work Fen.

fxdwg on 9/3/2023 at 06:50

Thanks FenPhoenix for pointing out the "Rescan for readmes" feature. I completely missed that.

AngelLoader is a great piece of work.

caqo on 14/3/2023 at 03:43

Hi Fen,

Here is the updated 1.7.1 Spanish translation:
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cjy80tuL39FjKjyHFPHuIumsfe31gtc/view?usp=share_link) https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Cjy80tuL39FjKjyHFPHuIumsfe31gtc/view?usp=share_link

FenPhoenix on 14/3/2023 at 05:04

Added, thank you :)

FenPhoenix on 1/4/2023 at 09:38

(https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/download/v1.7.2/AngelLoader_v1.7.2.zip) AngelLoader v1.7.2 is out.

Mostly some polish and fixes for non-English text in readmes.

Features and improvements:

* Readmes are re-cached and reloaded when scanning individual FMs.

Performance:

* Small performance increase in 7z scanning, and scanning in general.
* Some heavy rtf readmes should now load a little quicker in dark mode.

Fixes:

* Fixed a bug that caused Cyrillic encoding detection in plaintext readmes to frequently fail.
* Fixed: Two known FMs (The Mirror and Upside Down) have rtf readmes with Cyrillic characters that were not displayed correctly.

Stingm on 2/4/2023 at 03:25

Thanks again for the work Fen!