0.5.0 - New Translation, New Theme, New Options for the New Year 🎉

This release includes so many new features and updates that I might 💥

Changes: 👀

• New: Added a new Midnight Blue theme.
• New: Font selection has been added to the Settings page.
  • Font selection applies to the grid on the Viewer (main) page.
• New: Added an option to use the accent color for the background of "snackbar" messages.
  • Snackbar messages are the small messages that slide in from the edge of the screen.
• New: Added options to Export, Import, Open and List the application's settings.
  • These options can be found by navigating to Settings and scrolling down to the Settings File section.
• New: Added Korean language support. Thanks to @VenusGirl 🎉 #17
• New: Added English (United Kingdom (en-GB)) support. Mainly spelling variations.
• Updated: Language selection has been reworked.
  • For new installs, the default will now be to use the OS language, provided that there is a translation available.
  • If there is no translation available, the default will be English (en-US) and the option to use the OS language will be disabled.
  • This will provide a better experience for new users.
  • This change will not affect existing installs.
  • This change will also be applied to the other Timthreetwelve applications during their next update.
• Updated: Optimized the way language dictionaries are compared.
  • Pressing Ctrl+Shift+K will compare the current language dictionary keys to the en-US dictionary to find missing and extraneous keys.
  • The comparison can also be invoked by clicking the new compare icon in the Language Settings section on the Settings page. The icon looks like two slightly offset arrows pointing at each other.
  • The comparison is written to the application log which will be opened automatically, if the system is configured to open .log files with a text editor.
  • A language other than en-US must be in use for this to work. Otherwise the en-US dictionary will be compared to itself.
• Updated: The snackbar message area has been move to near the upper right ↗️ corner.
  • Updated: The translation contributors grid on the About page has been updated to show the percentage of strings translated.
• Updated: Bump CommunityToolkit.Mvvm from 8.3.2 to 8.4.0.
• Updated: Bump Nerdbank.GitVersioning from 3.6.146 to 3.7.112.
• Updated: Lots of code optimizations and cleanup based on code analysis.
• Updated: The usual UI polish and tweaks. ✨

I'm now on Bluesky where I post about new releases, etc.

Translations ✍

My continuing thanks to all the people that have contributed translations and updates. 👏🏻

If you wish to contribute a translation, check out the Contribute a Translation topic in the Wiki. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.5.0

File Descriptions:

File Name	Description	Size
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_x64x86_Setup.exe	Installer, requires .NET 8 runtime to already be present	8.02 MB
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_SC_x64_Setup.exe	Installer, x64 architecture, Self-Contained, .NET runtime not required	61.25 MB
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_SC_x86_Setup.exe	Installer, x86 architecture, Self-Contained, .NET runtime not required	56.47 MB
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_x64x86_Portable.zip	Zip archive, requires .NET 8 runtime to already be present	11.41 MB
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_SC_x64_Portable.zip	Zip archive, x64 architecture, Self-Contained, .NET runtime not required	84.48 MB
HWiNFOVSBViewer_0.5.0.0_SC__x86_Portable.zip	Zip archive, x86 architecture, Self-Contained, .NET runtime not required	78.46 MB

Checksums :

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Important

When switching between install types (i.e. x64x86, SC_x64, SC_x86) please uninstall the previous version before installing the current version. Failure to do so may produce unpredictable results. Users of portable versions should replace the entire folder.