Development Notes | 2020.01.03

Hi, SAO players, long time no see! Today (?) I would like to show you some exciting new features in next major version. Please leave comments to tell us your ideas!

New Widget Operations

• Now we provide a standard frame for every desktop widget, you can optional "Always show", "Always hide" or "Auto hide" every single widget frame independently.

• Some basic widget options, such as "Always on top", "Transparent" options are integrated in the standard widget menu, so there're no extra codes needed for a 3rd-party widget to support such options.

• New widget options: "Opacity", "Show on desktop/launcher", "Mouse activation" and more.

• Anyone can code QML scripts to create widgets now.

Data Picker

• We remake a more friendly data selection and preview dialog. Also URL type data could be previewed as a image.

• "Update parameter" and "Invoke parameter" inputs are now featured with preference settings, no more geek codes.

• New "GPU Data": You don't have to install 3rd-party applications to read general GPU information now.

• New "WMI Data": Query based system information.

Let's introduce the new geek "Script Value" which allows writing JavaScript codes to satisfy some "hard-core" requirements:

• Customizing value format.

• Combining outputs from multiple values.

• Data sharing and persistence.

• Converting values to displaying images.

Icon Picker

Icon catalogs are added to the new icon picker dialog, it also allow choosing a EXE file as a common icon.

Image Picker

Image previewing is added to the new image picker dialog.