4.0.3

[ccseer]

🙏 Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and shared suggestions — you rock! <3

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🛠 Bug Fixes

1. Fixed an issue where clicking links in the update window didn’t open them.
2. Fixed compatibility issues with some versions of PhotoShop.
3. Fixed the bug where clicking ✔ after changing a plugin’s file extension had no effect.
4. Fixed a rare issue where the interface showed a completely white, empty window.
5. Fixed a crash when retrieving file properties.
6. vc runtime DLLs are back!!! 🎉

🧩 Process Communication

• Added new IPC (inter-process communication) messages:
  1. Get the currently previewed file path
  2. Get the current Seer version
  3. Check whether file tracking is enabled
  4. See: https://github.com/ccseer/Seer-sdk

⚙️ user.ini Enhancements

window_size for each module

• Set preview size individually: [0.01, 0.95]
• Final preview size is between the program’s minimum hardcoded size and "Max preview size" in Settings > Advanced.
• Example: for the Text module, if you set [Text] window_size=0.9, Seer will always use 0.9 * screen size instead of calculating it based on content and font size.

📝 Text Module

• Added custom_theme option in user.ini
• Try fancy themes from this thread: Custom Code Highlighting Color #460

📁 Folder Module

• Local folder previews now follow system settings on whether to show hidden files.
• Fixed issues with certain file types (like .vhd) not previewing correctly when multiple previewers are available (e.g. archive & text).

🖼 Image Module

• Fixed issue where image thumbnails had a pure black background.

🧾 Markdown Updates

1. Full emoji support!
   Converts :heart: :smile: :+1: into real emojis.
2. KaTeX support for math formulas
   • Requires font resources, so Seer will make CSS network requests each time.

🔍 Everything 1.5a Support

• Full preview support for Everything 1.5a (no need for filename/path in first columns).
• Still requires Seer to run with equal or higher privileges.

🗂 XYplorer & Directory Opus

• Improved support:
  1. Faster response – no longer saves temp files just to pass data.
  2. Thanks to https://github.com/WKenX for the contribution!

📜 Script Previews

1. Fixed EPUB script not working.
2. Updated ipynb script to version 1.1.0.
3. Scripts repo: https://github.com/ccseer/Seer-Scripts/tree/main/preview

[matcls]

Thank you for the update.
With this update, the Seer shortcut (space) stops working if keyboard-capturing programs such as Kanata or InputLeap (Synergy) are running at the same time as seer. Version 4.0.1 does work with them.

[ccseer]

Open user.ini, under Text, set accept_injected_trigger=true

[ccseer]

https://github.com/ccseer/Seer/wiki/5.-User-ini

[matcls]

That worked; thanks!

[ccseer]

moving this option to Settings - Advanced in next release

[ccseer]

4.0.4 - Microsoft Store version only

• Fixed a rare crash when reading EXIF data from certain JPG files.

[callofbeauty28]

Thank you for the update! Being able to specify the window size when opening images has definitely improved usability.
By the way, would it be possible to scale images beyond their original resolution within Seer's window?
It would be amazing if small images could dynamically scale so that the longer side fits the window size.
In any case, I really appreciate you taking the time to consider my request! <3

[ccseer]

Thank you for the update! Being able to specify the window size when opening images has definitely improved usability. By the way, would it be possible to scale images beyond their original resolution within Seer's window? It would be amazing if small images could dynamically scale so that the longer side fits the window size. In any case, I really appreciate you taking the time to consider my request! <3

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