Generate icons in Macro Composer from Popmenu Editor With this release, the Popmenu Editor's "Generate Macro" icon, which formerly popped up a wee dialog with the macro text in it, will instead generate an actual macro entry in the Macro Composer tab. This allows the user to assign an icon and tooltip to that macro, if desired, as well as save it with the Profile. Additionally, the Macro Composer now shows a more representative icon when no particular icon is picked, that is, one that is grey with white text on it like the game creates by default for macros. Finally, starting with this release, we start building and distributing .AppImage.zsync files, which should, in principle, allow AppImage users to download just the differences between older AppImages and the current one. This is -very- experimental but we'll flog it until it works.

Build AppImages for Linux This release is functionally the same as v0.36.2.2, and is solely an update to the build process. We now have an experimental AppImage for Linux users. This should give more deterministic results than the ZIPfile has been, though if the ZIPfile has been working for you, there's no advantage to switching to the AppImage. I realise the AppImage is huge; I think that just comes with the territory. I'm looking into ways to cut it down further, but this might be about as good as it gets. If you end up trying out the AppImage, please open a Github issue to report any weirdnesses you find, along with your distro and version. Alternatively, if it's working great for you, let me know that, too, in the Homecoming Forums thread: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/38674-bindcontrol-keybinds-and-popmenus-editor-and-manager/

A couple of bugfixes and cleanups, and fixes to the build process: * README and build script updates: + Upgrade a few actions' versions because of Github Node 20 deprecation + Pint ubuntu-runner version to 24.04 instead of latest; update wx download URL to match * New AppImageBuilder.yml file, for use down the road. * Remove old build_mac and build_windows scripts * Remove ZIP-icons step from build script and from tools/

A few MacOS bugfixes and build improvements This release is mostly about the build script. MacOS and Linux builds are now smaller downloads, significantly so in the case of MacOS. Also a couple of bugfixes to weird UI fiddliness under MacOS.

Remove icon ZIPfile storage completely This is another back-end update, removing the older ZIPfile-based icon storage in favor of either the new "concatenated strip of icons" storage in most cases, or just back to simple PNG icons in about a dozen cases, mostly for tiny UI images. This should have no visible effect apart from maybe some miniscule speedups. The distribution ZIPfile is also about 200kb smaller. This release also rolls up a couple of tiny bugfixes about loading old old old Profiles, specifically around repopulating Power Pickers on the General page from the ancient data. Apart from Jurassic profiles loading more correctly, there should be no visible changes apart from a miniscule bit of UI speedup with power pickers and so forth. Please file issues if you notice any weirdnesses or new bugs.

Use new scheme for Powers icons This release is mostly a back-end update, changing the powers icons to use the new faster cleaner storage scheme that was introduced for the macros icons in v0.36. This should lead to marginally shorter startup times, and has simplified some of the icon code quite a bit. There's some notion of going ahead and doing this scheme for all of the icons that get shipped, on the notion that getting rid of the old codepath completely would be a small win. This should reduce the size of the download ZIP file a little bit, which should be the only externally-visible change. If anything acts any differently apart from faster, please open an issue.

Use new scheme for Powers icons This release is mostly a back-end update, changing the powers icons to use the new faster cleaner storage scheme that was introduced for the macros icons in v0.36. This should lead to marginally shorter startup times, and has simplified some of the icon code quite a bit. There's some notion of going ahead and doing this scheme for all of the icons that get shipped, on the notion that getting rid of the old codepath completely would be a small win. This should reduce the size of the download ZIP file a little bit, which should be the only externally-visible change. If anything acts any differently apart from faster, please open an issue.

Use new scheme for Powers icons This release is mostly a back-end update, changing the powers icons to use the new faster cleaner storage scheme that was introduced for the macros icons in v0.36. This should lead to marginally shorter startup times, and has simplified some of the icon code quite a bit. There's some notion of going ahead and doing this scheme for all of the icons that get shipped, on the notion that getting rid of the old codepath completely would be a small win. This should reduce the size of the download ZIP file a little bit, which should be the only externally-visible change. If anything acts any differently apart from faster, please open an issue.

New Macro Composer feature This release contains another longstanding TODO -- support for creating custom macros. The new "Macro Composer" tab allows you to create custom macros, using PowerBinder to create the contents and optionally to associate an icon and tooltip with the macro. You can then poke the "Get Macro String" button and get the string to paste into the game to install the macro. Macros are saved per-profile, and can be imported and exported just like Custom Binds -- in fact, the Macro Composer tab -very- closely resembles the Custom Binds tab, and acts in very much the same way. The icon picker for macros shows all of the known icons in the game that can be assigned to macros. There are over 3400 of these, so the picker dialog features a text string search box to narrow down the list by name, and a rudimentary color-matching picker, in caser if you're really wanting a red icon for this macro and just wanted to browse those. This was a fun feature to code, but is mostly just there for playing with -- it's far from bulletproof in its selection of "similarly colored" icons. The icon picker also features a new way to store and retrieve icons on the back end which is quite a bit faster than the existing scheme that's been used for powers icons to date. It may be that going forward, the power icons will be shifted over to a similar scheme which will increase startup performance a little bit and clean up some code. Anyway, this feature seems to work well for me, but again is sort of beta quality, so if you find anything weird about it, please do file issues and give feedback.

New press / release bind support for Simple and Complex Binds With this release, Simple Binds and the steps of Complex Binds support performing separate actions on key press and on key release. Each of "press" and "release" has its own PowerBinder to set up the payload of the keybind, and BindControl will automatically set up the various mini bindfiles needed to make it all work. A Simple Bind or a step of a Complex Bind can be set to this mode by toggling the new "circle-plus" button just to the right of the PowerBinder. The press/release functionality is fairly well supported by the game but can be a bit fiddly with extremely fast press/release cycles. It might require a little bit of practice to get the timing just right for these binds. This feature was inspired by a section in Shenanigunner's "CoX Technical Reference Guide" which is a fantastic resource for this sort of thing. *NOTE* This is an experimental feature. It seems to work well for me, but check it out and file bugs and give feedback as you find things.