New SyMenu releases and changelog
SyMenu beta 8.00
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
06/03/2022
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Hello.
What's happening here? Why an 8 version?
Well this release is a sort of milestone for SyMenu.
Since the SyMenu first version the only requirement for the host PC was to have the .NET framework 2.0 or higher installed.
This version has been heavily rewritten to implement the new .NET 7 framework that allows to include in the SyMenu package the entire framework. This way SyMenu can be executed with no prerequisites at all because all the needed libraries are already included.
This means full portability for SyMenu.
There are two cons with this approach.
1) The program size has increased a lot. This version weighs almost 70MB while the stable version weighs only 4MB.
2) The modern .NET frameworks abandoned the support for the oldest Windows OS (bye bye XP and Vista). The oldest supported OS is Win 7 SP1 and SyMenu will be forced to do the same.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL
We are finally out from the alpha testing. A beta version is available since October 2022 and it means it could be used in a more extended way.
Anyway I can't assure, at this point of development, SyMenu is fully working, nor that your configuration files will be preserved with the next version, I can't assure the automatic update will be able to update this version in the future... So please don't use this version as your main one. Any help for testing will be welcome but don't do stupid things with it.
Enjoy.
2023.05.28 - v.8.00.8548 (.NET Core 8)
2023.06.06 - v.8.00.8557 (.NET Core 8)
2023.07.19 - v.8.00.8600 (.NET Core 8)
2023.07.21 - v.8.00.8602 (.NET Core 8)
2023.07.21 - v.8.00.8616 (.NET Core 8)
2023.08.11 - v.8.00.8623 (.NET Core 8)
2023.09.15 - v.8.00.8658 (.NET Core 8)
2023.09.15 - v.8.00.8672 (.NET Core 8)
2023.10.04 - v.8.00.8677 (.NET Core 8)
2023.10.13 - v.8.00.8686 (.NET Core 8)
2023.11.08 - v.8.00.8712 (.NET Core 8)
2023.11.08 - v.8.00.8723 (.NET Core 8)
https://onedrive.live.com/download?resid=D06528ECD5C93C26%21563&authkey=!ALysxsY6dHn6988
Here you can download a compatible version of the SyMenu plugin OpenFolder
2022.06.09 - v.0.9.0.0
https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=D06528ECD5C93C26&resid=D06528ECD5C93C26%21214&authkey=AMg192GAC9nahjo
edited by Gianluca on 19/11/2023
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
19/11/2023
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Well I'm working on the glitches but finally there is some good news: the .NET Core 8 has been released so the SyMenu version I've just published is built on a final (LTS) framework. This means I finally
have a stable platform to work with.
I imagine a lot of the glitches you are experiencing have not been fixed by a simple framework change but at least from now on every fix I'll do will be stably fixed.
IMHO the only option stored in the SyMenuConfig.zip that can change something with visualization is the <system ... DPIUnware="False" /> that corresponds to the checkbox "Check this for issues on HD monitors" in Options - General. Every other element doesn't impact the form visualization. The change you've experienced is probably originating from some other reasons.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
04/10/2023
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My hope is that virtual resizing will soon be useless because Windows will start to do its job better and better. So I would not include the option in the initial wizard.
Plus, at the initial wizard you still don't know if you need the option or not. The glitches start to appear when you load the most complex forms not in the wizard.
Again... the virtual rendering shouldn't have any problem because Windows renders the forms with default DPI (96) in a sort of sandbox, then it zooms the image for the user screen (this is the reason for the blurring)... so where do those glitches come from???? Probably it's again the bad GPU management that Windows does in the sandbox phase too...
Well I never saw such a large unreliability from Windows.. What were they thinking about when they implemented it?
Anyway I'm happy to hear that the new option can be decisive for the 8 adoption.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313
13/10/2023
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There's a reason for this: I found a machine with the graphical issues you reported and I've been able to fix them one by one.
Anyway I don't completely agree with you because some objects are still broken (for example the font inside textbox and listbox doesn't scale correctly yet and remains too small) but we are on the right path now.
Thank you for your help, it was fundamental.
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