Changelog Version 1.7

Added

• Pad skins: pad art now lives in Assets/Pads/<skin>/; any folder with all
  seven images becomes a switchable skin, including ones dropped in next to
  the exe after install.
• Sound effects: Navigate/Select/Move/Remove blips, a volume setting
  (0–100%, steps of 15), and an on/off switch.
• Window transparency setting (20–100%, steps of 15).
• Settings screen rebuilt as a categorised, scrollable list (Appearance,
  Audio, Library, Controls, Button bindings, System); values are colour-coded
  (green On / red Off) and editable with Left/Right as well as Confirm.
• Window fade in/out on show/hide; screens cross-fade on navigation.
• Selected pad/tile: soft blue-toned glow with a small one-shot "tap" landing
  animation, replacing the old thin red/blue outline.
• settings_tile.png support for the Settings panel background.
• UI font switched to a bundled .ttf/.otf when present (prefers real SFNT
  over web-font formats).

Removed

• Custom tags (the + tile that captured whatever the game wrote to the
  Center pad as a .bin under CustomBins/). It depended on the listener
  either answering GET_TAG (0x05) or streaming the tag back out to a file
  path in LOAD; against the target emulator build neither happens, so the
  app could never read the written bytes back, and the feature has been taken
  out entirely.

Fixed

• App-wide input lag and stutter: two assets (wordmark, scroll bar) were being
  bicubic-resampled from full size on every frame; both now cache like every
  other asset. Controller polling moved off WM_TIMER (lowest priority,
  shared with WM_PAINT) onto a paced posted message.
• App freeze when no emulator/listener is running: every socket connect()
  was unbounded and could block the UI thread for 2+ seconds per attempt
  (measured on this machine); all three call sites now use a 250ms bounded
  connect.
• Roster grid: the character/vehicle separator's extra spacing could push the
  last visible row off the bottom of the window on a scrolled page; the
  compact-layout fallback now applies to any page, not just an unscrolled one.
• Move-source pad highlight was rendering orange instead of blue (byte-order
  mistake in the color constant) and was too faint to read.
• Sound volume / window transparency sliders had their Left/Right directions
  inverted.
• Assets/Pads/Old (and any skin folder sharing a name with the legacy
  top-level Assets/Old dump) was being silently excluded from the pad-skin
  list.

Changed

• Toypad LED mirroring now defaults to Off (was On).
• Background choices reordered: default wallpaper, then Clear (was last),
  then the rest.