i2van/hourglass 1.15.29

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Hourglass Changes

Installer

• Adds the Hourglass executable path to the Windows App Paths, so the Hourglass command-line is available out of the box.

Command-line

• New command pause
• New command resume
• New option --digital-clock-time / -c
• New option --multi-timers / -mt
• New option --activate-next / -an

See usage for details.

UI

• Uses a Windows Task Dialog instead of a message box (GitHub).
• The Command-line usage dialog can be accessed from the About dialog and vice versa.

Notification Area

• The double click shows/hides all the timer windows.
• All the timers are arranged by the time left. The order of the timers is new, expired, paused, running.
• The red circle is shown over the notification area icon if at least one timer is expired.
• The pause sign is shown over the notification area icon if at least one timer is paused.
• The digits from 0 to 9 are hotkeys for timers in the notification area icon context menu.
• The Open timer context menu menu command opens the timer window context menu. The shortcut is the holding the Shift during right click on the notification area icon.
• The Pause all menu command pauses all the running timers.
• The Resume all menu command resumes all the paused timers.
• The Exit menu command asks to close all the running timer windows if the Prompt on exit option is on.

Timer Windows

Keyboard Shortcuts

• The Esc shortcut minimizes the timer window.
• The F11 shortcut makes the timer window full screen and back.
• The Ctrl+N shortcut creates a new timer window.

Context Menu

• All the timer window commands are available in the timer window context menu.
• The shortcuts are displayed in the timer window context menu.
• The Window title submenu is available directly from the timer window context menu.
• The Reset bounds menu command sets the timer window default position and size.
• The Restore, Minimize and Maximize timer window commands are always present in the timer window context menu.
• The Advanced options / Display time in the digital clock format timer window context menu option toggles the displayed time digital clock time format. The command-line option is --digital-clock-time / -c
• The Advanced options / Activate next window when minimized or closed timer window context menu option enables the next timer window activation when the current timer window is minimized or closed. The command-line option is --activate-next / -an
• The Pause all timer window context menu command pauses all the running timers. Command-line command is pause
• The Resume all timer window context menu command resumes all the paused timers. Command-line command is resume

Other

• All the timer windows are arranged by the time left. The order of the timer windows is new, expired, paused, running.
• The minimum timer window size is limited by the Windows only.
• The timer tooltip is shown if the timer window size is too small.
• The progress bar changes direction to vertical when the height is more than the width and vice versa.
• When the timer window is minimized or closed the next visible non-minimized timer window is activated.
• The time left is now used for editing instead of the original launch time.
• The timer window pops up on the current virtual desktop.
• The mouse double-click on progress border toggles full screen.
• The sound file can be placed to the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hourglass or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hourglass\Sounds directories. It can be the symbolic link created by the mklink system command.

Misc

• The Hourglass is built deterministically using the GitHub Actions.

Full Changelog: 1.15.27...1.15.29