Changes in v4.12 - Test 14

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New:(Clipboard Bar)
- improved the interface
- improved clip displaying

Fix:(Tooltips)
- improved clip displaying
- issue drawing an empty clip

NOTES: The Clipboard Bar now uses a new minimal interface. Dragging and closing the bar, however, is now a trivial task.

RichText sizing and displaying is improved for Tooltips.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 13

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Fix:(Popup)
- Clipboard shown as empty on first run
- Caption cached for minor performance improvement


NOTES: The clip caption caching is the same as the picture caching. After the first calculation, the cache version is used for subsequent calls.

At this point, I'm unable to see any improvements for the popup speed on my system. I've reached the limits of the resolution of the clock. To get any meaningful tests, I'm having to run a virtual machine with slower rendering and drive access.

For those interested, the timing entries in the debug log (double right-click the system tray icon) will look like the following

6:42:57 PM: paint ms=16
...
6:42:53 PM: acpopup end - milliseconds=16

Changes in v4.12 - Test 12

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Fix:(Permanent Clips Window)
- issue drawing older Unicode clips

Fix:(Misc)
- reduced clipboard access

NOTES: Several parts of the program access the current clipboard contents. In this version, the current clipboard is cached in a single location and is only updated if the clipboard contents have changed. When a large clip is on the clipboard, the program will perform much better because of this change.

This change effects the Clipboard Bar, the system tray icon Tooltip, and the Current clipboard item on the popup.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 11

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Fix:(Popup)
- minor changes to Tooltip position

Fix:(Misc)
- more "stream error" fixes


NOTES: The release seems to be pretty stable. Experiments with compression proved to be too slow, even using the fastest compression. It would require delayed rendering to make work well - which is too involved.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 10

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Fix:(Misc)
- various errors in previous test version

Changes in v4.12 - Test 9

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Fix:(Misc)
- re-worked clip read/write routines

Changes in v4.12 - Test 8

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Fix:(Edit History)
- re-worked displaying the Removed Clips tab

NOTES: This queue was updated to be compatible with the updated icon cache and to improve the drawing speed of the list.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 7

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Fix:(Misc)
- icon cache issue with Recently Clicked queue
- minor improvements

NOTES: Previous versions treaded file loaded icons and live loaded icons separately. In this version, all duplicate icons use a single instance. The purpose of the icon cache is to minimize file loading from caches. The memory usage and popup drawing changes are too minimal to label as improvements.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 6

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New:(Popup)
- improved picture displaying on popup and tooltip

NOTES: Pictures are now smoothly scaled. On the popup, only part of the height of the picture may be visible, but the entire width is shown.

Changes in v4.12 - Test 5

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Fix:(Misc)
- re-worked icon cache

NOTES: The re-worked clip queues required doing the same for the icon cache.
Currently, I've seen no proof one way or the other that using picture thumbnails affects performance.