Miscellaneous
Added two misc options to allow the View Logs feature and/or Custom Triggers to receive the original log line instead of one modified by plugins or having the timestamp removed. -- The Custom Triggers tab & Spell Timers page will try to remember node expansion when rebuilding the list. When removing a Custom Trigger/Spell Timer(Alt-R), it will try to select an adjacent node. -- For some Linux users, their version of the CLR gets confused by an app.config section which prevents web requests from completing. If ACT detects this, it will create a notification with an option to modify the app.config to remove this offending config section. -- Some instances of n have been replaced with Environment.NewLine in text generation.

Miscellaneous UI / API
ButtonPainted and CheckboxButtonPainted margin/padding logic now more closely matches their WinForms counterparts. Slightly altered some of the color blending methods these types of controls use.

Plugins / API
Exposed Color.ToAdjustedColor() extension method to alter a given color according to ACT's UI settings or other arbitrary values. Exposed Color.MixWith() extension method to mix one color with another by a percentage. -- Fixed some cases where ACT's custom controls would not work in designer mode without a parented form(like when designing a UserControl). -- LogLineEventArgs.originalLogLine will now have the same value in OnLogLineRead as it did in BeforeLogLineRead. -- TraySliderAdd() should properly run on the UI thread like the docs state.

Miscellaneous Fixes
Tab controls are now limited to one row of tabs... when there is not enough space to show the tab collection, there will be a scrolling control.
Fixed an issue where sometimes a minimized ACT window would still be shown by Windows as a blank window that could be restored.
Added another method to try moving ACT's main window into an active screen if it finds itself outside of all screens. This will also hopefully fix some issues with outside influences trying to minimize ACT with ACT already using the -minimize flag.
Fixed an issue with scrollbar shaders preventing ACT from starting maximized. Fixed an issue with scrollbar shaders appearing on the primary screen when ACT gets put outside of all active screens and minimized. Fixed an issue with scrollbar shaders appearing in Alt-Tab when ACT is minimized to tray.
Fixed an issue with starting ACT maximized then switching to another application before loading was complete.

Plugins / API
UnZip() will now extract the archive fully to temp and test destination file locks before moving files to the final destination in order to avoid partial extractions.

Hotfix
This hotfix is primarily to address a couple reports that the main tab control could throw an error and stop drawing at startup. -- Additionally, maximizing ACT should no longer make it forget its restored position/size.

As a side note: Be sure to read the change logs for the large update yesterday.

Minimum OS Requirements Changed
.NET Framework 4.7(or greater) is required which makes Windows 7 the minimum usable OS. While .NET Framework 4.7 has no end-of-support date published by Microsoft, it is recommended to have 4.8 or 4.8.1 installed. The installer and update package will warn you if 4.7 was not detected. -- Windows 7/8 is missing modern ciphers to enable secure downloads, so while update checking may work, most downloads will not.

UI / Theming / DPI Scaling
Most tab controls and buttons have been replaced with themeable versions. As a reminder, you may change the colors in the Options tab or Startup Wizard. -- ACT is now specifically DPI aware. Several UIs have been rebuilt to accommodate; graph rendering was fixed and raster icons have been replaced. -- Added experimental scrollbar shaders to the Main tab TreeView and data grid with config in the Main User Interface page in Options. The dark theme presets will also enable them, when reapplied.

Miscellaneous
Base memory usage will be lower for those with large HistoryDatabases. -- When ACT is in portable mode, it will store some config settings with relative paths so ACT's folder may be moved more easily. -- If you previously used the ACT Clipboard Sharer application, you will need a new version from the ZIP archive. -- Logitech G15/G19 LCD support was removed from ACT and put into a separate plugin, available now. -- Fixed table cells showing an error when data grid luminosity offset was too low. -- For update checks, if there are TLS errors on older Windows versions(<10), it will fallback to an insecure method. Downloads will not be made insecurely and will prompt manual browser downloads.

Plugins API
Added FormActMain.ActColorSettings to retrieve user-set colors and subscribe to changes. Added a FormActMain.ActLifecycleChanged event for the various stages of ACT starting up and beginning to shut down. Added a FormActMain.DpiScale property to determine ACT's DPI scaling. ACT no longer comes with or uses ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib, GammaJul.LgLcd or Trinet.Core.IO.Ntfs. Added a property to get ACT's default text export format and exposed methods to add/remove a text export format from ACT's UI. Added a method to query ACT's Selective Parsing mode setting.

Theme/UI Changes
More configuration options have been added to the Color and Font Settings section. Many UI elements have been slightly altered to allow for flexibility in other color schemes. Most/all tables in ACT have been rebuilt to allow for inverted color schemes. As they are no longer painted by default Microsoft methods, they will look a bit different. The Data Grid Items colors section will affect these tables. (Most colors in the main table and log viewer are defined in plugins and do not offer a UI to change them.) ACT will use the Invert Luminance, Luminance Offset and Saturation Offset settings to alter these external colors to allow them to better fit dark themes. The main Color and Font Settings page and the Startup Wizard have buttons for resetting all colors at once and for applying some sample colors for a dark theme. (I'm not a graphics designer, so feel free to export and share some color settings from ACT) Color pickers in ACT now save custom colors that are defined in the dialog.

Custom Triggers
Custom Trigger category restricting no longer requires an exact match with the current zone. The current zone name now must only contain the category text and is no longer case-sensitive.

Localization
The structure of many UI elements has changed. This affects the control path used for UI localization.

Miscellaneous
Fixed MinHit/MaxHit columns not showing zero on some tables when there is no data. -- Getting plugin lists for the Startup Wizard or Get Plugins Wizard should be faster. -- The TimeLine window/feature should be more compatible with numbers larger than Int32. -- If another window takes focus during ACT's loading process, the main ACT window will try to appear below all other windows at the end.

MiniParse Text Exports
For text exports(clipboard, MiniWindow, OverlayPlugin), {duration} or {DURATION} is usually calculated as EndTime-StartTime. A new setting in Data Correction -> Miscellaneous allows for the EndTime to be replaced by LastEstimatedTime while in-combat. This will have the effect of showing the encounter duration in text exports increasing even when no new data is coming in. Internally, the encounter duration calculation has not changed, so EncDPS calculations will not be affected.

Sound / Text To Speech
TTS sent though ACT now has some rate limiting to avoid custom triggers or plugins causing a crash in Microsoft's OneCore TTS Engine implementation of SAPI. This limiting can only take effect if using ACT's TTS() method and any 3rd party implementation may still crash ACT if it behaves badly and overruns their own similar TTS implementation. The default TTS method has been changed to direct SAPI. -- The WMP API now has a setting to force sound through the UI thread, or not. The WMP API now also has some rate limiting implemented.

Custom Triggers
ACT should more often reassess the active custom triggers necessary when changing zones, changing log files, etc. This is for custom triggers that are restricted to certain zone names.

Screenshot Button
A new button has been added to the corner of ACT which will take a screenshot of ACT's main window for the clipboard or to save as a PNG. This is mostly useful for pasting/posting into other applications(Discord, forums).

Miscellaneous
Fixed the output for AttackType.MaxHit when all values are zero. You may now customize the text that appears in ACT's main window titlebar, found in the Miscellaneous section. The force GCCollection option no longer opens a TraySlider. Fixed the MiniParse Window's close button handler, again.

As a warning, the next version of ACT may require v4.7.2 or v4.8 of the .NET Framework.

Incremental Caching
Previously ACT would cache calculated values as long as nothing was added to a specific part. But ongoing complex encounters would often require recalculation and requesting the data often would lead to high CPU usage. ACT will now create an incremental cache of base level calculations to reduce the amount of work required for each successive request for data. This will not be a huge difference, but it is at least measurable. You may mostly disable the newer method of caching by using the option in the Miscellaneous settings page of the Options tab.

Multiple Running Copies
ACT will now warn if it detects another copy of ACT running. You may skip the check by adding -skipmutex to the commandline parameters. You may block new instances by adding -onlyone; not compatible with -skipmutex. If you wish for the warning to stay consistent, either close the new instance and reuse the older instance or close all instances and restart ACT. Continuing with the new copy that made the warning is not advised as future copies will not detect that one.

Miscellaneous
Fewer colors are hard-coded and instead use system defined colors. ACT will bypass using internal webbrowser controls in WINE since they do not render at all and may cause problems. The Relative Time column will now discard unused decimal point places. The Death Report will now use damage suffixes like the main tab graphs. Some misc window size fixes for changes after Windows 11. Some new ODBC hacks. Fixed some default SQL export variables. The Lookup By Combatant window now gracefully handles cells that cause errors. Fixed restarts of the Custom Trigger engine.

Internal Changes
Adding data to encounters is being split from the log parsing threads. The most obvious effect of this is that log parsing may use up to 1-2 cores instead of only one. Typically you will only see this much saturation during log file imports, but there may be situations where live log parsing could potentially benefit from this depending on your setup/plugins.

TTS - Text to Speech
The TTS options have been split out into a different configuration page. You may now choose direct SAPI as a TTS method, though the volume scale will be different. You may now add custom find/replace corrections to change how the TTS engine sees certain words or phrases. This is to correct how the TTS engine pronounces things. There is a textbox/button to test these settings or to test TTS in general.

Miscellaneous
Added RelativeTime column to the bottom level table that shows the time since the encounter began. When importing a log, the progress bar will no longer marquee animate while waiting for user input. Internally one of the form names has changed, which may cause a config warning. If the Custom Trigger thread crashes, it will now automatically restart, but also dump the queue that crashed it. TraySliders, aka notifications, will use a different location calculation method that may work for more multi-monitor layouts. The Death Report should now be compatible with fractional seconds. The -minimize flag will now affect the ActLoader form that shows the progress, but it is now incompatible with shortcuts that minimize it otherwise.

Plugins/API
Added FormActMain.AfterCombatActionDataLock property, used to pause data being added to encounters. The purpose of this is more efficient calculation of large encounters that may be changing while being calculated. UncachedFileSave() no longer writes if the destination file already has that content(unless you use the overload method to force it). The FormEncounterLogs class now has a LogTypeToColorMapping property. This can be used so that the View Logs window colors different log lines to specific colors based on the LogLineEventArgs.detectedType. If EncounterData.SetAllies() is called, automatic ally detection will be disabled for that encounter. Setting it to null/empty will re-enable.

Requirements
ACT now requires v4.6 of the .NET Framework instead of only complaining about not having it. For other plugins, it's recommended that you have v4.8 just in case.

Miscellaneous
Fixed the Open File dialog not filtering game logs correctly. Added a warning about missing/corrupted app.config files. Open log files are checked for new data more often(10ms).

Plugins/API
The modified ListView control used by ACT is now marked public, named ListViewNoFlicker; if used correctly, it bypasses unnecessary repaints that cause flickering on large updates. Downloaded plugin ZIPs are now kept in the temp folder instead of the Plugins folder. Added PluginGetGithubApi() to get the backing GitHub API JSON for the plugin(not rate limited).

Localization Part 4
Localization strings have been added for the internal strings of the Import/Export & Options panels.

Miscellaneous
Reattached the closing handler for the Spell Timer Options panel.

Localization Part 3
Most internal strings have been added for secondary windows. Remaining items include internal strings for Options/Import/Export sections and some more complex cases.

Miscellaneous
Startup Wizard and Get Plugins windows now have progress bars for some operations and downloads. ACT no longer warns when 1000 lines behind in Custom Trigger parsing; instead warns when CT/normal parsing has been behind for 10 consecutive seconds. History Database imports now ignore filenames and only use LastWriteTime sorting to find a file to import. Custom Trigger zone matching is a little more robust. Some more error handing in the Spell Timer render loop. Added a link to the classic Control Panel applet for TTS in Sound settings. Renamed labels of the "Scratch Encounter" to "Custom Encounter".

Plugins/API
Added UncachedFileSave() which can be used to help avoid empty(null) config files when the host computer crashes.

Localization Part 2
More internal strings are being added to the ActLocalization class. -exportcontroltext now exports an XML file for the InternalStrings collection in addition to the *.cs file. Only one of these is necessary to use. GitHub will be updated with the new strings.

Plugins/API
Added TraySliderAdd() method as a quick way to create a thread-safe, OK button, TraySlider. Plugin version checks will use a slightly different implementation server-side. As a reminder, version info is updated once per 3 minutes.

Localization Part 1a
More internal strings are being added to the ActLocalization class as an ongoing process over the next few versions. EQ2 English parser related localization strings are being marked depreciated and should be changed/replaced in a relevant parsing plugin, rather than having a parsing plugin reference ActLocalization for these strings. The EQ2 English parsing plugin will be updated to have all of these strings and should be used as the primary reference for changing these strings. -exportcontroltext will now export a basic plugin instead of just raw C# localization updates.

Localization Part 1b
A Localization folder in the GitHub repository has been added. The "en-US" folder will contain ACT's default exports for the most recent version and GitHub's versioning capabilities can be used to see which strings were added/removed/changed. Those wishing to contribute a different language should create a new folder named after the locale, with the same files, and create a pull request.

Plugins/API
Added a RestartACT() method to prompt the user to allow ACT to restart. Added DamageTypeDataOutgoingPowerReplenish, DamageTypeDataOutgoingPowerDamage and DamageTypeDataOutgoingCures fields to CombatantData to allow localization of data links for associated properties.

Miscellaneous
More TLS fixes added to app.config. ACT should no longer save an empty configuration if ActLoader is closed very early in initialization. If scanning for zone name takes longer than 10 seconds, ACT will offer to skip it. Added a -delay commandline switch to delay ACT's loading by 5 seconds. ACT will create a notification warning about unknown assemblies in ACT's folder and duplicate named plugins enabled. (Both of these things may cause major runtime issues if you do it by mistake)

Notifications
Added a Notifications tab for longer term storage of ACT messages or messages that don't need to interrupt the user. Most TraySlider alerts will create a notification here and can be respawned using a Show button in the notification. Some MessageBoxes were converted to TraySliders or notification-only.

Miscellaneous
Added a View Assemblies button to the Plugin Listing tab to display all assemblies loaded by ACT for support/debugging purposes. ACT will respond to Windows shutdown requests in more cases... if Windows tries to close a plugin created window, ACT still won't know about it.

Plugins/API
Added a PluginCornerControlAdd() method to add a button/etc to the Plugin Listing tab. Added a NotificationAdd() method to add an entry to the Notification tab with an optional callback for clicking Show. The TraySlider class has an opt-out property for creating a notification.

Startup/Shutdown
Fixed an incorrect message saying the config settings file was corrupt when it did not exist. ACT will attempt to bypass Windows write caching when saving config settings to hopefully prevent corruption when the system loses power or unexpectedly reboots and the cached write is not flushed to disk. The loading screen now describes in more detail what is happening during InitACT.

Plugins/API
Added CornerControlAdd() & CornerControlRemove() methods to properly add an arbitrary button/checkbox to the upper-right corner of ACT's window.

ACT Portable
Added a -portable command line switch to ACT. This will cause ACT to use its current folder instead of %APPDATA% or %TEMP%. If a plugin has a hardcoded or configurable external path, this switch will not prevent the plugin from using it.

Plugins
The Plugins tab will now be shown in the logical load order. Each plugin panel will have up/down buttons to re-order the plugin in the load order for the next ACT run. Added a detection of "blocked" plugins and added a user message attempting to describe the problem/solution if the exception reaches ACT.

Plugin API
Plugins can change the plugin load order and refresh the GUI. PluginGetRemoteDateUtc has been modified in ACT and on the web server to be more accurate. Added a TemporaryFolder & InitActDone property. Added website-side integration for Github repositories including plugin update checking/downloads.

Miscellaneous
Modified the Startup Wizard to have a smoother experience when using FFXIV. Font size configuration values will be ignored when over 200pt. (This is to avoid issues with changing OS regions between ACT runs causing font sizes 100x of normal.  IE 8,25 âž¡ 825)

• EverQuest II
• Old plugins should still function to at least some degree
• The EQ2 English plugin will be updated immediately with the others following
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Old plugins will probably not work
• Immediately download the update released today
• The Secret World
• Immediately download the update.