This update focuses on getting custom color formats working. Custom color formats can now be created under the formats tab in the settings. Additionally, 4 further formats have been added to add support for Java and .NET.

📑 Changes

• Add/Remove custom color formats, including the existing formats
• Add crash reporting
• Can now modify palette names

✔️ Fixes

• 5187fa2 Fix clear button in palettes
• Small peformance improvements

This update fixes the braking changes in alpha.5 as well as adds shortcut functionality. Shortcuts can also be modified in the settings.

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Additionally, this update allows for Linux support that should now work without any errors.

📑 Changes

• Added shortcuts
  • to open picker
  • to open palette list
  • move picker in 1px and 10px intervals
  • increase/decrease picker size
  • go to next/previous color format whilst using the picker
• Added button to find logs easily to About Tab in settings
• Linux support

✔️ Fixes

• aed5ef2 Fixed auto-updater bug
• 4552fca Fixed the issue that picking a new color or an existing color from the palette didn't work due to the ColorFormats not returning a value
• 4552fca Fixed last check for update timestamp not being updated correctly/not showing the correct time since last check
• f4c8108 Fixed alignment issues with windows that would display on the wrong monitor or not where they were expected
• 39e0541 Fixed a bug where the picker magnifier would flash up on an external monitor instead of the primary display
• a76c467 Fixed error that would occasionally occur when quitting Drop

Some major updates and changes in this version!

📑 Changes

• Settings window has seen improvements
  • The general tab has now been set up and those options are fully working now
  • Updating system has improved and automatic updates are now possible in theory the auto-updater will check every hour for a new release
• Drop now makes a drop sound when you pick a new color, this can be disabled in the settings
• Individual colors can be removed from a palette by right-clicking them
• You can now clear a palette using the eraser icon, this will clear all colors in the palette. This can also be done on the color history palette to clear it
• Many code readability improvements, IPC channels better separated and more consistent for picker window now
• Updated README.md
• Color formats have been moved into a separate directory so a plugin system can be implemented, users can create their own custom formats now essentially, a proper implementation to achieve this through the settings window

✔️ Fixes

• b2cc807 - Fixed a previous bug that meant that on increasing and decreasing the size of the picker the grid would not properly cover the lens
• 6e826cf - Fixed a small number of security vulnerabilities
• 4edec99 - Automatic update downloading and installation should now be functional
• 930f8f6 - Fixed a bug that would cause the window not to resize on deleting a palette
• f918726 - Settings window can be opened through the tray's context menu

🐞 Known Bugs In This Release

• Trialling a Linux build for this application, it currently isn't fully functional but further work could be done on this in the future. Linux build has been primarily introduced to allow for end-to-end testing in our CI build system currently

Mainly work on the about section in settings and small code formatting improvements

📑 Changes

• FTR: Settings Window Work
• FTR: Auto Updater/Update system work
• FIX: When quitting Drop an error message would appear, this message no longer appears
• CDE: Picker Window now follows other window formats, having its scripts in a separate file
• CDE: Prettier now get used to format code more concisely
• CDE: auto-updater is accessed through a new Updater class
• CDE: Automatic Build Pipeline through Travis

🐞 Known Bugs In This Release

• BUG: Updater is still in development and may have bugs and not update correctly. Newer versions can still just be downloaded from here and installed as normal

Mainly work on the settings window.

📑 Changes

• FTR: Settings Window Work
• FTR: Auto Updater/Update system work
• FIX: When quitting Drop an error message would appear, this message no longer appears
• FIX: A new builder for building application, the application now comes with an installer
• FIX: Potential zoom bug where a user could accidentally zoom whilst using the picker

🐞 Known Bugs In This Release

• BUG: Updater is still in development and may cause bugs

Primary focus on rewriting the backend for a more readable codebase as well as just general cleanup trying to work on improving performance.

📑 Changes

• FTR: Started work on the settings window
• FIX: The application can now be closed using the power button in the bottom right of the palettes window
• FIX: Electron's remote module no longer gets used in the renderer code, closing a potential security vulnerability
• FIX: Now using correct versioning. Will be using semantic versioning, previous releases are using incorrect and inconsistent version numbers which can lead to confusion. Further alpha versions will be incremented in the last number 0.0.1-alpha.1, 0.0.1-alpha.2, etc.... Alpha will change to beta once all desired functionalities have been implemented and upon further testing will lead to release.

🐞 Known Bugs In This Release

• BUG: Colour-Format dropdown is constantly in selected mode and has a darker background.
• BUG: Selecting alternative colour formats currently doesn't work on this pre-release alpha.

Further work on Drop to flesh out core functionality.

Multiple palettes can now be created and deleted. Mainly code cleanup occurred.

Ctrl/Cmd & I is still the shortcut, settings window still has to be added.
With the magnification tool open, pressing ctrl/cmd & + or ctrl/cmd & - will increase or decrease magnification.

Drag and drop colours from one palette into another or drop it into the available blank palette.

The first release just has the basics and is still in beta.

The global shortcut defaults to Ctrl+I and application defaults to start at boot. There currently is no settings window to set options for the app.