Esse on 12/3/2021 at 00:04
I want to pop in and say how great this little application is. It's fast, it's easy to use, and I've had no problems with it whatsoever playing a variety of missions. Excellent, excellent work, FenPhoenix - your contribution to the community is greatly appreciated. :thumb:
FenPhoenix on 12/3/2021 at 01:15
Thank you. :) I've been hard at work on some big additions for the next release. Dark mode is coming, as well as faster 7-zip scanning and a bunch of fixes, polish, and convenience features that have been asked for.
FenPhoenix on 1/5/2021 at 02:56
AngelLoader v1.5.0 is almost ready to go, but I'd like to get a few people testing it before I release a final version. It should be pretty stable, and I expect any bugs to mostly be with the UI, but any issue reports are welcome.
The big features are:
-Dark mode option for the UI.
-.7z files now scan much faster on average.
-Readme character encoding detection accuracy is improved, and can also now be manually selected if the auto-detector gets it wrong. No more garbled readmes.
-Fixed
Sinister Night's Rüstung.bin became Rstung.bin when extracted to disk.
And a ton of other fixes and additions.
You can get the
(https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/download/v1.5.0_beta4/AngelLoader_v1.5.0_beta4.zip) v1.5.0 beta 4 here and the (
https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/tag/v1.5.0_beta4)
changelog here (this post will be updated with the latest beta link)
JoergA on 2/5/2021 at 08:28
I am playing the Thief games under Linux and decided to give AngelLoader a try.
Wine was already installed, so I installed DotNet 4.8 via winetricks and it works well ( some minor complaints on startup and tooltips not working is what I see so far ). I will continue using AngelLoader and report back if it's for use for you. And : thanks for the tool and the work and time you put in :thumb:.
FenPhoenix on 2/5/2021 at 09:00
Yeah, all bets are off for Linux, I'm just happy if it works in any capacity. I've tried to get it running on a couple distros myself (I think Mint and Zorin?) and it was always broken beyond usability. I think one time it couldn't get past the initial settings window without crashing, and then another time the main UI was unresponsive or something. Don't remember details, it was a while ago. I know very little about Linux so I may have just done something wrong, but like I said I'm happy other Linux users are able to get it working at a reasonable level at least.
But bug reports on Linux won't be of much use to me I'm afraid, as if I can't get it running then there's not much I can do.
FenPhoenix on 10/5/2021 at 14:14
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https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/download/v1.5.0/AngelLoader_v1.5.0.zip)
AngelLoader v1.5.0 is out.
The big new feature is
dark mode!Inline Image:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/86f3363a77c2feefafece2a9fea1f76da47471d7/docs/images/AngelLoader_v1.5.0_screenshot2.pngThis took a solid three months to implement, and several in-progress things didn't make it into this release for the sake of timeliness. So more things are coming in the future.
Enjoy! :)
Features and improvements:* Added dark mode.
* Scans of .7z FMs are now significantly faster on average. Certain .7z FMs may still be quite slow, depending on their structure, but I've done what I can.
* Readme character encoding detection is now more accurate.
* Readme encoding can now be selected manually in case the autodetector gets it wrong.
* Added "Open FM folder" option to the FM context menu. It only appears when the FM is installed.
* Added option to show FMs that are in the database but that don't exist on disk.
* Added a lightweight splash screen with text so you can see what's being loaded on startup.
* When deleting an installed mission's archive, you will now be asked if you want to uninstall it first.
* The confirm message for playing an FM that is not yet installed is now "Install and play FM?" instead of just "Play FM?".
* Improved accuracy of release date detection in scanner.
* The FMs list columns no longer highlight their headers blue for the "selected" column. Since we're in "full-row select" mode, the concept of a "selected" column makes no sense and is just a visual distraction. (I wasn't lazy, this really did take that long to figure out how to force it not to highlight)
* Lucrative Opportunity's readme can now be viewed properly.
* Show Unsupported option is now global, because it's really more of a "debug" thing and shouldn't really be treated as a full-fledged filter I don't think.
Fixes:* Fixed: Readme box would lose focus when scrolled with the mousewheel.
* Fixed: When scanning a single mission, the scanner reported 100% progress when it should have remained at 0% until done.
* Fixed: When extracting zip files, in rare cases filename encoding would be wrong (Sinister Night's obj\Rüstung.bin for example would end up "Rstung.bin"). We now match other loaders' (and most zip programs') behavior.
* Fixed: Tags drop-down list closed on mousewheel, now it scrolls like you'd expect.
* Fixed: If the tags drop-down list was open, you pressed the mouse button down over the tags textbox, then you dragged the mouse outside of the textbox/drop-down area and released the mouse button, the mouse button would get stuck and you would have to click again.
* Fixed: The top-right tabs could be reordered wrong if you dragged one, moved the mouse vertically off the tab bar, moved it horizontally some, then moved it back vertically onto the tab bar.
* Fixed: Invalid-field checking in the Settings window Paths section was not quite right and could sometimes result in invalid fields being marked as valid.
* Fixed: When the top-right panel was hidden, and the main window was resized, the top-right panel could "creep" into view.
* Fixed: When in the middle of a heavy UI-changing operation (such as zooming the FMs list or changing languages), mouse input could sometimes "fall through" AngelLoader's window to the window behind it.
Spyrano on 10/5/2021 at 16:30
Dark Mode looks great, thanks for all your hard work Fen!
PPoe on 11/5/2021 at 13:59
First let me thank you for your awesome work.
Next, I have one problem:
I installed AngelLoader on my new PC and I cant figure out how to play missions in .7z archives. No matter which one I download, AngelLoader dont show them.. Any idea what Im doing wrong?
FenPhoenix on 11/5/2021 at 14:34
Okay, try these steps:
1. Enable the "Show FMs marked as 'unsupported game or non-FM archive'" filter (looks like a zip file with a question mark)
2. See if you can find your .7z FMs in the list
3. If so, right-click on one of them and choose Scan FM
4. Post the contents of AngelLoader_log.txt (located in your AngelLoader directory) and FMScanner_log.txt (in same directory)