Hourglass 1.15.57

What's new in 1.15.57

Hourglass Changes
Installer
- Adds the Hourglass executable path to the Windows App Paths, so the Hourglass command-line is available out of the box.
WinGet
The Hourglass can be managed with WinGet:
Install
winget source update
winget install -e --id i2van.hourglass
Upgrade
winget source update
winget upgrade i2van.hourglass
Uninstall
winget uninstall -e --id i2van.hourglass
Portable
Ngen Support
Processing the Hourglass with the Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe) speeds up the Hourglass startup.
To run script as an Administrator press Win+X and select the Windows PowerShell (Admin) or Command Prompt (Admin). Copy script full path to the console opened and execute one of the following:
- Generate the Hourglass native image and its dependencies and install in the native image cache:
ngen-Hourglass.bat install
- Delete the native images of the Hourglass and its dependencies from the native image cache:
ngen-Hourglass.bat uninstall
Command-line
- New command pause
- New command resume
- New option --digital-clock-time, -c, /c
- New option --multi-timers, -mt, /mt
- New option --activate-next, -an, /an
- New option --show-trigger-time, -st, /st
- New option --pause-after-loop-timer, -pl, /pl
- New option --start-paused, -sp, /sp
- New option --start-time (date-time or time span, e.g., 2h), -ss, /ss
- New option --order-by-title, -ot, /ot
- New option --minimize-when-expired, -em, /em
- Renamed option --prompt-on-exit to --prompt-on-close
- New option --save-timer-on-closing, -sc, /sc
- New option --reset-expired-timer, -rt, /rt
- New option --copy-config, -cf, /cf
- New option --hide-window-title, -ht, /ht
- New option --hide-from-taskbar, -hw, /hw
- New option --cascade-windows, -cw, /cw
- New option --opacity, -op, /op
See command-line usage for details.
UI
- Uses a Windows Task Dialog instead of a message box (GitHub).
- The Command-line usage dialog can be accessed from the About dialog and vice versa.
- The Command-line usage dialog supports incremental search with match highlighting: press /, Ctrl+F or F3 to open the search bar, Enter/F3 and Shift+Enter/Shift+F3 to navigate matches, Escape to close.
- New Accent theme which uses Windows accent color and updates automatically when the accent color changes. This theme is a default one.
- Enables editing of the timer start time instead of time left.
- A bare unit (e.g., hour, day, week) starts a 1-unit timer without a leading number.
- The Jump List support (disabled by default, see FAQ). …

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