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WindowTop v5.22.1
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https://github.com/WindowTop/WindowTop-App/releases/tag/v5.22.2
WindowTop v5.22.0
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WindowTop v5.21.2
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Major updates (from v5.21.0):
New features
- Option - Do not apply "Always on top" to maximized window (#303)
Disable.set-top.when.maximized.demo.webm
Improvements
None
Bugfixes
- [Opacity + Always on Top] The border around a window with AOT and Opacity enabled should have the same opacity applied (#299)
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Changes
None
Minor updates (v5.21.-->X<--)
- Fixed (5.21.1): Default PIP Size (Picture-in-Picture) doesn't change default PIP size (#310)
- Fixed (5.21.1): Small bug in PIP that when disabling live-preview and enabling interact mode with read mode, the PIP generates a preview for the mouse.
- Changed (v5.21.1): Allow to set default PIP size to up to 400% instead of a maximum of 200%
- Fixed (5.21.2): Invisible windows appeared when saving the configuration for some programs with Always-on-Top (#315)
- Fixed (5.21.2): Fixed issue with 30 days trial that some users complained that the trial ended before it started
WindowTop v5.21.1
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See https://github.com/WindowTop/WindowTop-App/releases/tag/v5.21.2
WindowTop v5.21.0
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See https://github.com/WindowTop/WindowTop-App/releases/tag/v5.21.1
WindowTop v5.20.2
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New features
- Picture in Picture (PiP) - Implemented a new feature to allow cropping of a region from the PiP view (#133)!
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You can now select a sub-region to show by clicking on the "CROP" button:
Then select a region:
And finally, click on the V button!
When a region is selected, you will also see an indication about it while interacting with the window:
Improvements
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Picture in Picture (PiP) - Added option to enable the mouse-interact mode by default for predefined apps:
In the PiP settings, we added the following button:
From here, you can configure a list of apps that interact mode enabled by default
So if you enable PiP for any app under this list, the PiP will automatically be enabled with mouse interact mode (meaning that you will be able to control the window) -
The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear:
The idea is that we group the hotkeys by the major features that they relate to.
So if the user was looking for a specific hotkey about the opacity feature, he expected to find it much more quickly.
In addition, I reduced the words on the hotkeys descriptions and improved them to be clearer. -
Added hotkey to enable crop mode
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Implemented option to open the shrink context menu by right-clicking on the title bar:
You can now right-click on the PIP title bar, as shown below
Before that, you could only do it from the PiP and only when mouse-interact was disabled.
Bugfixes
- Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app
- Fixed some exceptions bugs (bugs that you see the blue window with the scary error)
- Bugfixes in settings
- Improve the stability of the Anchors when auto-move is enabled. Sometimes the anchors stopped automatically moving away from text/image, and now it should recover for such failures more
- (v5.20.1, MS Store version only) Fixed an issue that the button "Purchase or Login (Microsoft Store)" changed to "Purchase (Microsoft Store)" (translation revert by mistake)
- v5.20.2 - Fixed: Always On Top AOT (red) borderline does not adjust the size with window when resizing horizontally or vertically (#302)
Changes
- The PiP icon changed to
WindowTop v5.20.0
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WindowTop v5.19.4
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Improvements
- Added Korean translation (#288)
Bugfixes
None
Changes
None
WindowTop v5.19.3
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Improvements
- Implemented option to configure the toolbar hover time (#269)
- Stability improvement: Improved the recovery logic that was used to avoid the case that the app UI thread froze. The old logic avoided it by allowing the app to crash silently and exit. Now the logic will interrupt the UI thread so the app UI can show the actual fatal error while allowing the user to continue running the app or exit the app and report the error.
- Implemented "Restart program" button in the global error handler:
Now you can easily restart the app instead of relaunching the app (useful when the error does not go away until restart) - Removed unneeded logs and improved a few logs
- Improved a few English text's grammars
Bugfixes
- Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275)
This time it will not allow you to use this option if the list is empty.
- Fixed: updated fix for #235 that sometimes the app froze
- Fixed bug in the Microsoft Store version that when enabling a feature like always on top for an elevated window and confirming the admin permission request, the app froze for a few seconds and failed to enable the feature.
- Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275)
- Potential fix for some
NullReferenceExceptionexception from the Dispatcher queue (the bug possibly happen when Anchors are enabled in Windows 11) - Fix for possible
InvalidOperationExceptionexception in RendererManager when killing a renderer process (can happen when disabling dark-mode / glass-mode) - Fixed exception in
HoverPreviewItemwhen it sets an invalidWidthvalue for the hover preview in some cases (the bug can happen via the PiP feature when it tries to show a bigger preview when the mouse hovers over the small PiP thumbnail window) - Fixed exception when removing hotkey via the getting started window via the backspace button
- Fixed fatal error in WTToolBarArrow that reported in the Microsoft store version by three users
- Fixed other different fatal errors that were reported by 8 users (see #282 )
- Fixed bug: "Disable when Game Mode detected" setting does the opposite (#268)
Changes
- (v5.19.3) Rename "BiGilSoft" publisher to "WindowTop.Info"
What next?
See #287
WindowTop v5.19.1
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If you have some issues, please try version v5.19.2 beta from #282
Dark & Glass Modes (#264)
Improvements
- A massive improvement in the rendering performance of the dark-mode feature by using GPU (graphic card) hardware acceleration.
Before this version, GPU acceleration was possible only for NVIDIA GPUs, and now the renderer was rewritten to take advantage of Direct2D API by using filters implemented by standard GPU drivers. The NVIDIA CUDA acceleration option was deleted and replaced with an optimized code that uses acceleration anyway. (#264) - The "Filter Images" option (which allows you to exclude images from color inversion/glass) was improved:
2.1. The accuracy of the detection algorithm improved a lot, and the difference is noticed more in non-4 K displays
2.2. The speed of the "Filter Images" option improved by implementing logic to automatically disable the additional processing (of image detection) when we know that the window frame is unlikely to contain any images. The additional algorithm for this task (evaluate if the frame may contain images) is hardware accelerated by the GPU using Direct2D filters.
2.3. memory usage is optimized by automatically cleaning extra buffers that are unnecessary when we know that the window does not contain images. - The algorithm to determine if the window is bright/dark was optimized and rewritten by using Direct2D acceleration.
- Battery usage & rendering speed optimization by:
4.1. Suspending the re-render process of any window fully covered by other windows. If the window is not minimized, but you still can't see it because it is entirely behind the windows above, the renderer of this window will be suspended. This will reduce a lot of CPU/Power usage and improve rendering speed in case of enabling these effects for multiple windows simultaneously.
4.2. Stopping the renderer capture & processing threads and freeing all buffers memory in case the window is minimized or in a different virtual desktop. In these cases, the renderer processes for such windows will not consume any resources until the window returns from minimized state/ visible in the current virtual desktop
Bugfixes
- Fixed: when having multiple monitors and each monitor has different DPI scaling - the dark/glass modes were not rendered correctly (#9)
- When combining dark mode with the always-on-top mode, the border around the window was not visible because it was created behind the dark frame.
- When closing windows in dark mode, an empty frame is left on the screen that cannot be moved or closed (#257)
- Partially fixed (the issue is not with any window..): Window position in the maximized state when dark mode is on (#256)
- Improve stability on Windows 10
- Fixed bug in the NVIDIA GPU CUDA acceleration of the Glass feature due to an issue that the code compiled with Cuda toolkit 11.8, which does not support old GPUs, and this option is now enabled by default.
- Fixed input delay lags that may happen when any of these effects are enabled
- Fixed in v5.19.1: Issue that the filter images option did not apply after enabling/disabling it (needed to re-enable the dark-mode effect for the change to take effect)
Changes
- The sliders of the Glass effect (smart transparency) were simplified to Opacity, Blur Level, Images, Texts, Filter Images (checkbox), and the effect will render any text in bright with dark background
- The default settings of the Glass effect changed, and now the blur filter is disabled by default (because the performance has never been good when it is enabled)
Other improvements
None
Other bugfixes
- [Toolbar] When the "Integrate with the minimize button" option is enabled, and the DPI scaling is not 100%, in some cases, the edge of the toolbar is placed after the edge of the monitor.
- [Toolbar] Fixed UI bugs in a few toolbar themes when the windows theme is in light mode
- Fixed bug that sometimes the app fails to parse the settings, and as a result, it removes them (so all settings, including activation deleted)
- Fixed the issue that, in some cases, the Microsoft Store version may crash when changing activation settings.
- Fixed a few English strings (for example: stop using the word "Shrink" and instead always use "PiP")
- Fixed bug with wizard pages that their settings did not update when returned back to them
- [Anchors feature] Improve stability (fix the potential error)
- Fixed some UI bugs
Other changes
- Few minor changes in the general tab
- Toolbar Settings: The settings page reorganized