hydrusnetwork/hydrus v597

Version 597

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misc

• fixed an issue that caused non-empty hard drive file import file logs that were created before v595 (this typically affected import folders that are set to 'leave source alone, do not reattempt it' for any of the result actions) to lose track of their original import objects' unique IDs and thus, when given more items to possibly add (again, usually on an import folder sync), to re-add the same items one time over again and essentially double-up in size one time. this broke the ability to review the file log UI panel too, so users who noticed the behaviour was jank couldn't see what was going on. on update, all the newer duplicate items will be removed and you'll reset to the original 'already in db' etc.. stuff you had before. all file logs now check for and remove newer duplicates whenever they load or change contents. this happened because of the 'make file logs load faster' update in v595--it worked great for downloaders and subs, but local file imports use a slightly different ID system to differentiate separate objects and it was not updated correct
• the main text-fetching routine that failed to load the list UI in the above case can now recover from null results if this happens again
• file import objects now have some more safety code to ensure they are identifying themselves correctly on load
• did some more work on copying tags: the new 'always copy parents with tags' was not as helpful as I expected, so this is no longer the default when you hit Ctrl+C (it goes back to the old behaviour of just copying the top-line rows in your selection). when you open a tag selection 'copy' menu, it now lists as a separate item 'copy 2 selected and 3 parents' kind of thing if you do want parents. also, parents will no longer copy with their indent (wew), and the taglists are now deduped so you will not be inundated with tagspam. futhermore, the 'what tags do we have' taglist in the manage tags dialog, and favourites/suggestions taglists, are now more parent-aware and plugged into this system
• added Mr Bones to the frame locations list under options->gui. if you use him a lot, he'll now remember where he was and how big he was
• also added manage_times_dialog, manage_urls_dialog, manage_notes_dialog, and export_files_frame to the list. they will all remember last size and position by default
• the client now recovers from a missing frame location entry with a fallback and a note in the log
• rewrote the way the media viewer hover windows and their sub-controls are updated to the current media object. the old asynchronous pubsub is out, and synchronous Qt signals are in. fingers crossed this truly fixes the rare-but-annoying 'oh the ratings in the top-right hover aren't updating I guess' bug, but we'll see. I had to be stricter about the pipeline here, and I was careful to ensure it would be failsafe, so if you discover a media viewer with hover windows that simply won't switch media (they'd probably be frozen in a null state from viewer open), let me know the details!
• some built versions of the client seem unable to find their local help, so now, when a user asks to open a help page, if it seems to be missing locally, a little text with the paths involved is now written to the log

parsing

• all formulae now have a 'name/description' field. this is wholly decorative and simply appears in the single- or multi-line summary of the formula in UI. all formulae start with and will initialise with a blank label
• the generic 'edit formula' panel (the one where you can change the formula type) now has import/export buttons
• updated the ZIPPER UI to use a newer single-class 'queue list' widget rather than some ten year old 'still has some wx in it' scatter of gubbins
• added import/export/duplicate capability to the 'queue list' widget, and added it for ZIPPER formulae
• also added import/export/duplicate buttons to the 'edit string processor' list!!
• 'any characters' String Match objects now describe themselves with the 'such as' respective example string, with the new proviso that no String Match will give this string if it is stuck at the 'example string' default. you'll probably most see this in the manage url class dialog for components and parameters
• cleaned a bunch of this code generally

client api

• fixed an issue fetching millisecond-precise timestamps in the file_metadata call when one of the timestamps had a null value (for instance if the file has no modified date of any kind registered)
• in the various potential duplicates calls, some simple searches (usually when one/both of two searches are system:everything) are now optimised using the same routine that happens in UI
• the client api version is now 75

Win 7 news

• for Win 7 users who run from source, I believe newer the program's newer virtual environments will no longer build in Win 7. it looks like a new version of psd-tools will not compile in python 3.8, and there's also some code in newer versions of the program that 3.8 simply won't run. I think the last version that works for you is v582. we've known this train was coming for a while, so I'm afraid Win 7 guys will have to freeze at that version unless and until they update Windows or move to Linux/macOS
• I have updated the 'running from source' help to talk about this, including adding the magic git line you need to choose a specific version rather than normal git pull. this is likely the last time I will specifically support Win 7, and I suspect I will sunset pyside2 and PyQt5 testing too

Windows future build

• I am releasing a future build alongside this release, just for Windows. it has new dlls for SQLite and mpv. advanced users are invited to test it out and tell me if there are any problems booting and playing media, and if there are no issues, I'll fold this into the normal build next week
• mpv: 2023-08-20 to 2024-10-20
• SQLite: 3.45.3 to 3.47.0
• these bring normal optimisations and bug fixes. I expect no huge problems (although I believe the mpv dll strictly no longer supports Win 7, but that is now moot), but please check and we'll see

boring code cleanup

• in prep for duplicates auto-resolution, the five variables that go into a potential duplicates search (two file searches, the search type, the pixel dupe requirement, and the max hamming distance) are now bundled into one nice clean object that is simpler to handle and will be easier to update in future. everything that touches this stuff--the page manager, the page UI (there's a whole edit panel for the new class), the filter itself, the Client API, the db search code, all the unit tests, and now the duplicates auto-resolution system--all works on this new thing rather than throwing list of variables around

duplicates auto-resolution

• I pushed this forward in a bunch of ways. nothing actually works yet, still, but if you poke around in the advanced placeholder UI, you'll see the new potential duplicates search context UI, now with side-by-side file search context panels, for the fleshed-out pixel-perfect jpeg/png default