Drop Changelog

What's new in Drop 0.0.1 Alpha 7

Apr 8, 2020
  • Changes:
  • Add/Remove custom color formats, including the existing formats
  • Add crash reporting
  • Can now modify palette names
  • Fixes:
  • 5187fa2 Fix clear button in palettes
  • Small peformance improvements

New in Drop 0.0.1 Alpha 6 (Apr 3, 2020)

  • This update fixes the braking changes in alpha.5 as well as adds shortcut functionality. Shortcuts can also be modified in the settings.
  • Additionally, this update allows for Linux support that should now work without any errors.
  • Changes:
  • Added shortcuts
  • To open picker
  • To open palette list
  • move picker in 1px and 10px intervals
  • Increase/decrease picker size
  • Go to next/previous color format whilst using the picker
  • Added button to find logs easily to About Tab in settings
  • Linux support
  • FixesL
  • Fixed auto-updater bug
  • Fixed the issue that picking a new color or an existing color from the palette didn't work due to the ColorFormats not returning a value
  • Fixed last check for update timestamp not being updated correctly/not showing the correct time since last check
  • Fixed alignment issues with windows that would display on the wrong monitor or not where they were expected
  • Fixed a bug where the picker magnifier would flash up on an external monitor instead of the primary display
  • Fixed error that would occasionally occur when quitting Drop

New in Drop 0.0.1-alpha.5 (Mar 30, 2020)

  • Changes:
  • Settings window has seen improvements
  • The general tab has now been set up and those options are fully working now
  • Updating system has improved and automatic updates are now possible in theory the auto-updater will check every hour for a new release
  • Drop now makes a drop sound when you pick a new color, this can be disabled in the settings
  • Individual colors can be removed from a palette by right-clicking them
  • You can now clear a palette using the eraser icon, this will clear all colors in the palette. This can also be done on the color history palette to clear it
  • Many code readability improvements, IPC channels better separated and more consistent for picker window now
  • Updated README.md
  • Color formats have been moved into a separate directory so a plugin system can be implemented, users can create their own custom formats now essentially, a proper implementation to achieve this through the settings window
  • Fixes:
  • B2cc807 - Fixed a previous bug that meant that on increasing and decreasing the size of the picker the grid would not properly cover the lens
  • 6e826cf - Fixed a small number of security vulnerabilities
  • 4edec99 - Automatic update downloading and installation should now be functional
  • 930f8f6 - Fixed a bug that would cause the window not to resize on deleting a palette
  • F918726 - Settings window can be opened through the tray's context menu
  • Known Bugs In This Release:
  • Trialling a Linux build for this application, it currently isn't fully functional but further work could be done on this in the future. Linux build has been primarily introduced to allow for end-to-end testing in our CI build system currently