Have almost integrated the new CCD, AMD and NVIDIA
libraries into DIsplayMagician. The CCD library is working
fine. The AMD library is partially completed, but is awaiting
some help from AMD, as it appears one of their driver functions
is broken (or at least incorrectly documented). The NVIDIA
library is currently still under development, but I've still copied
it across so that I could work on the additional profile objects
that need to be prepared in order for this to work.
As I am waiting on a response from AMD, the plan is now that
I will swap over to an NVIDIA based video card in my test machines
and I will start work on the NVIDIA library. The NVIDIA library seems
straight forward compared to AMD, so that hopefully won't take too
long to do. Once that library is compete, I'll test it within NVIDIAInfo
application until its working, and then I'll port it back over to
DisplayMagician. That will then let me complete the last bits of the
integration so that I can complete the last of the NVIDIA tests.
Hopefully by the time all this happens I will have heard back from
AMD and I will be able to continue work with that section of code.
Added some basic CCD library functionality
to be able to set Windows displays directly
from the code. This will enable future native
HDR support through windows, as well as
allow positioning and screen setup to work
better through here than via the AMD driver.
Will still need to work on AMD Eyefinity support
once this is completed.
AMD Profile applying task now correctly reports
a true result when the AMDLibrary reports the
profile has been successfully applied.
Now all the scaffolding is complete, and an AMD
profile can be created, saved, loaded from a JSON file
and then an application of that AMD profile can be
tried.
Now comes the difficult part. I need to test out which
bits of the AMD ADL SDK I need to grab/store/load in
order to actually make the screen layouts change. And
then once that works with separate screens, I need to
add code to undertstand and recognise AMD Eyefinity
screen setups, and to make them able to be used.
This is going to take some time :/.
Now works with single screens and similar
so that they show correctly on the page without
being hidden by foreground stuff. Still might
make the DisplayView larger if it makes sense.
Have managed to get a working displayview
for AMD (not working in spanned mode) and
currently playing with the colours and layout.
Once I have something locked in, I'll troubleshoot
the ProfileDisplay file writing.
Trying to figure out a video card agnostic way
of generating the display icons fo both standard
and spanned displays. Still trying to figure out
exactly which AMD ADL calls I need to make to
get all the information I need. It is NOT very well
documented. It's actually really annoying! AMD
need to do better.
Decided that the DisplayProfile changes would
have to be breaking changes if I was going to
add HDR support, and be able to handle adding
future video cards from different manufacturers.
This all requires a change to the DisplayProfile
format. So now this is going to use a file called
DisplayProfiles_2.0.json rather than a file called
DisplayProfiles_1.0.json. This is because the
profiles will need to be generated again from
scratch, as they will all be completely different
to the format in DisplayProfiles_1.0.json.
DisplayMagician can now handle it if a gamelibrary
is removed, or if you use a shortcut config file from
later version of DisplayMagician with an earlier version
of the DisplayMagician application. It will simply ignore
the incompatible shortcut, and it won't be able to be
edited or used.
This fixes the stupid '"Pass arguments to Program"
not retaining checkbox check bug' error that some
how passed my testing! Fixes#19.
Really sorry to everyone for missing this as I really
did do some extensive testing (or so I thought) but
it looks like I'll need to do another release!
Added initial GOG library support.
Also refactored the GameLibraries so that
they also start the game themselves, as
each library is different in how it starts the
game. This is the simplest way to handle that.
Added Epic game library support based
on the awesome work by Josef Nemec in
his software Playnite. I just transposed his
hard work into DisplayMagician and made
it all work! Thanks to Josef!
Also fixed up some little bugs in the way the
derived Game classes work with the base class
for some of the propoerties. Now fixed.
Changed the process stopping logic
to make it more relable, and also make it
much more likely to actually stop the
programs even if they do things like
launch other programs and stop themselves
Added more helpful instructions
Added a link to the Example Start Programs
settings on the wiki by clicking on a button
in the ShortcutForm itself.
Added helpful MessageBox telling people
they need to select a Game Shortcut in order
to run, edit, delete or save it. Also included
text about the mouse right-click menu.
Clarified text on the StartProgramControl.
Any start program that is started then
tries to doubly make sure that the program
is also closed. Now checks for something to
close in the following order:
- tries to close the process it opened
- if that was closed it tries to find any child
processes started by the original process in
case it was a 'launcher' process
- If there are no children with the same parent
process then it just tries to close all processes
with the same name as the one it opened.
That final close also is a forced kill, as I've found
programs like SimHub resist closing....
This fixes an edge case where a start program
is already running and DM would skip starting
any additional start programs. Fixes#18.
Also fixed an issue with it trying to stop start
programs processes that were already stopped
by the user or by some other process. It now
logs the fact this wasn't done as it was already
closed.
Fixed the Game Shortcut hotkeys so that
they work properly. Some late code changes
yesterday broke them :(. Sorry for the
inconvenience!
Also stopped the annoying 'bing' everytime
the notification toasts were created by
DisplayMagician when it did things. They are
now silent except for the ones that actually
require your attention, which should stop it
all being quite so jarring.
The startPrograms UI would error when someone tried
to remove an unsaved startprogram from the FLP.
This has now been resolved.
Also managed to update a warning in the logs when
a program starts and the original exe is a loader that
loads another exe then closes itself. I've provided that
warning in the log file now.
DisplayMagician wasn't working when
installed due to missing files in the setup
build file list. This has been corrected and
an installation works fine now.
Also changed the Audio exceptions during
RunShortcut to Error level rather than Warn.
AutoUpdater now works more reliably
as it now propoerly maps the JSON to
the objects that AutoUpdater expects
when retrieving the JSON from the
download server.
Added a help button that opens the
DisplayMagician Wiki. I feel like there
are so many functions and features
available in DisplayMagician that I need
to write some help and guidance on how
to use it.
This changes the start program to default
to closing the start program when the main
application closes. I believe this will be the
most common way to do things.
Can now add a '--debug' or a
'--trace' option to the DisplayMagician
to force it to generate a TRACE log for that
session only. Once you close the application
it will go back to the normal logging level
set within the Settings Window.
Managed to break some logic when trying to
add robustness.... effectively doing the
opposite of what I was trying to do :/. Now
*should* be fixed, but we shall see with more
testing.
This code now will cope with incorrectly
formatted icons, and will simply ignore
them and move on to the next one.
This also fixes a game ILV adaptor error
which was causing argumentnullexceptions
Changed to use a single bitmap generator
to try and simplify and standardise the way
that images are extracted from the games.
Have tried to use every method to extract
icons from icon files and from exes, but it's
still not quite right :(
Currently struggling with the fact that
the smaller game icons don't get extracted
properly, and that they end up tucked into
the top left of the 256x256 bitmap at
32x32 size... so really tiny. Need to find a
fix for this so it always returns a 256x256,
and attempts to grow the 32x32 icons into
256x256 icons.
This is almost working. I'm struggling with
the icons loaded from various icon files which
are coming in really small rather than the large
size they should be. The .Net Icon constructor
isn't making an Icon the size I requested, so I may
need to change something else.
Can now create new start programs. Still
isn't saving and loading the start programs
into the shortcuts properly, and still loads
empty start programs which we need to
filter out.
Lots of improvements to make still
but the basic UI is working as it should.
Big thanks to @teawithcookies for the
tip to set DragDropEffects to Move in
order to make DragDrop method fire!
That took me 20 mins to figure out...
Drag and drop finally works! But there is
no feedback, and no animation and no
cursor control. And the page still doesn't
actually save the information, and it can't
have new start programs added to it yet.
It's fair to say there is still a lot to do :/
The panel successfully has the usercontrols
put into it, but it doesn't reorganise the rest
of the usercontrols when one is deleted up
to head of the list. I've done some research
and the internet tells me to move from a panel
container to a FlowLayoutPanel or a
TableLayoutPanel to get the automatic redrawing
functionality. It's apparently far easier to swap
than to write the redrawing code yourself.
So thats the plan for later this week.
First attempt at using a customer User
Control to make it easier to create dynamic
list of start programs to kick off before the
main program is started.
I already have the ability within the data model
to store and track multiple start programs... the
difficulty is in making the WninForms UI handle
a dynamic number of start programs. This is the
basic construction of it, but it needs a LOT of UI
work.
Managed to add the Hotkey list
that shows the user the entire list
of hotkeys across the application.
Also allows you to delete them all!
This function is now complete, and
is all working based on my testing.
Yay! Managed to get all the hotkey
logic working so all types of hotkeys
work fine. Next step is getting the
list of dynamic hotkeys populated
from the Display Profiles and the
Game Shortcuts, and then hooking up
the Clear All Hotkeys button so that it
clears the dynamic hotkeys too!
In this first working hotkey scenario
the DisplayProfiles and Shortcuts can
be run from Hotkey. I now need to add
the ability to run the mainfor, display profile
config page, and the shortcut library itself.
And of course add the items to the settings
window so they can be changed.
This iwas a stupid mistake. I forgot to change
the Uplay library references when I copied them
to nmake the OriginLibrary. This caused issues
as they cross pollinated, breaking both :(.
OriginLibrary wasn't added to the validity
checking, so no Origin games would work.
Also added a LOAD more trace logging with the
Origin library so I can see from the logs what's
happening. Also updated the version to 1.0.5.1.
And finally, removed unneeded validityrefresh
from the base ShortcutItem constructor as it
is refreshed later anyway. Should speed up
object creation a little.
Managed to get the hotkeys for
the DisplayProfiles and the Game
Shortccuts to work ok. Still needs
polish for the HotKeyForm, and I
need a way to set the MainWindow,
DisplayProfileWindow and
ShortcutWindow Hotkeys
Completed the Shortcut and Display Profile
hotkey UI interface to a satisfactory level.
The hotkey settings are stored with the
profile JSON for profiles, and with the
shortcut JSON for shortcuts. This means
they load correctly and are remembered
between runs of DisplayMagician.
Next step is to actually register the Hotkeys
so they work, and then allow them to be
replaced or removed when they are changed.
At this point, we now have a hotkey form
that can generate hotkeys, and we have a way
of passing it some text to make it obvious which
hotkey we are setting. Additonally we can get
the set hotkey back.
Next steps are to store the hotkeys with the
display profiles and the game shortcuts, and
to load them as we load the files in.
This form will show when the user wants
to set a hotkey for a display profile or for
a shortcut. This will not be used for the
setting the main window, or shortcut library
hotkey...those will be set in the settings
window.
Added new 'Wait until an alternative
game executable is closed before continuing"
option to the game library part of the
ShortcutForm. This will allow people to
only change display/audio if a different
exe is closed from the game itself.
Closes#9
Have updated the loading and storing of the
alternative game exe monitoring and created
the user interface for it.
Need to next:
- create a file selection dialog
- have the file selected result in the name
being extracted into the text file
- actually set up the RunShortcut to use
the alternative monitoring if set
Have fixed the mistake I made with the
Parallel.Invoke actions where I accidentally
kept adding the SteamLibrary 3 times!
This now works well, and as a bonus the
game libraries are now thread safe!
Moving the IsRunning code for the game
libraries to the library itself, rather than having
it within the ShortcutRepository.RunShortcut
function. This should make it easier to modify
each game library detection code to understand
when it is running.
The program compiles and pulls
origin game data into the application.
The steam refactor didnt work as there
are 3x entries for each game being loaded
and I need to see why!
Need to also test that the new Origin
shortcuts are being loaded and saved correctly
and that the RunShortcut works now it's had
a massive refactor.
Moved from basic static class to proper thread
safe singleton pattern for the GameLibrary to
simplify the code in ShortcutRepository.
Still only halfway through that ShortcutRepository
code refactor :(
The Task finds the origin games and
returns them. Just need to add the logic
to actually use the returned data to
populate the game library, as well as
use the game library in the shortcuts
as well as actually run the new library too!
This is the first attempt at fixing the shortcut
library drawing issue. When the app is frozen
waiting for some games/apps to finish, the
ImageListView refreshes, but doesn't refresh
with any icons, so it all looks a bit pants.
This is my first attempt at fixing that.
Reworked the Uplay and Steam game
detection to make them more reliable.
Found a couple of logic errors that were
causing issues with process detection.
Also moved away from accessing
process.MainModule as it was causing
exceptions. Now just using process name
as it is simple and fast.
This time I know it works as I have checked
games are found even if saved in different
folders on different drives, and even when
Ubiconnect is installed in a non-default
location. It even copes when games are
uninstalled and their remnants are left in
registry.
Updated Uplay library scanning to work
properly, but it requires access to
the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE reg key,
which only works with adrministrative
rights. I really don't want to need that,
so I'll be trying to find an alternative way
to get the information I need from the file
system.
Modified some logic so that the audio device
volume and capture device volume will still
be applied even if the current device is selected.
Previous logic incorrectly would only change the
volume if the audio device was also changed.
Volume is always evaluated even if the audio
device doesn't have to change (unless don't
change audio device or don't change capture
device are selected).
Logic for determining the shortcut icon
name was flawed, and wouldn't work. Moved
to a new icon naming scheme using shortcut
UUID to make it simpler to update. Icon is written
every time that the shortcut is saved.
Added more robustness and error checks
to handle AudioSwitcher not being able to
detect chipsets, and to cope with situations
with no active audio or capture devices.
Should be much more robust as it also
handles exceptions better, and has better
error logging.
Steam library processing was missing the
default steam library. This meant that only
people with additional steam libraries were
detecting games. This has been fixed now.
Added in some more TRACE logging for
Steam and for Uplay libraries.
Both Steam and Uplay library logic would error
when the library was installed, but didn't have
any installed games. Thanks to @joeymanson23
for the report. Fixes#4.
Adds a LOT more logging to the Steam and Uplay
libraries to allow for remote troubleshooting via
the log file, especially if the logging settings are
set to TRACE.
Also fixed the long standing issue for being able
to install two copies of DisplayMagician of the
same version. Now the installer will prevent that
from happening!
If there was a problem with applying
a displayprofile, then the exception
would stop the ApplyProfile window
from being closed. And as it was set
to top most window, the user wouldnt
be able to make any changes and would
have to reboot their computer. I have
added an X button up to top right of the
screen to allow people to close the window
when there is a problem.
DisplayProfile updates after a profile
switch properly. The UI wasn't reflecting
the proper changes after a profile change
made from the DisplayProfile page, but
now it does.
This change was to separate 'Equals'
(which checks for exactly the same) with
'Possible' (which checks that the connected
displays are available to use. Should make
the profile comparison a lot more accurate.
Fixed the Profile.Equals logic so that it
could detect the difference between
Surround and non-Surround triple screen
configurations. Now seems to work fine.
Also adjusted the ProfileAdapter so that
the profile imagelistview works correctly.
Moved to using the UUID rather than the
name to allow users to change the name
without affecting the UUID. That was a
change I should have made AGES ago.
Relaxed the profile matching logic to
use my looser displayidentifier logic
as it is more likely that connections to
a display is changed rather thant the
display paths, resolution or anything like
that. Will use this as an experiment to
see if it works or not.
Also fixed the shortcut renaming errors
by searching for the UUID, not the shortcut
name which is the pretty much the way
I should have done it in the first place!
Added the ability for user to only start a
program if it hasn't been started yet. This
is for things like SimHub that should
already be started by Windows when the
PC first boots.
Also corrects a bug that ignored the autoname
property so that it overwrote the suggested
filename when saving a shortcut.
ImageListView was too keen when a shortcut was
renamed and it tried updating ShortcutLibraryForm
straight away when it reutned, even before we had
a chance to update the data to ILV uses to populate
itself. The fix was to stop ILV being so keen, and to
suspend ILV from doing redraws until we had a
chance to refresh the UI. Problem solved.
Added a button to save a profile shortcut
to the Windows desktop. This will enable
people to quickly change to another display
configuration if they want to using a desktop
display. This will work even if they are unable
to get admin rights to install the background
popup menu.
Fixed the logic for profile selection on
shortcuts so that the profile is either
selected or not based on its existence
or whether the profile is valid to use now
or whether the shortcut is new.
Updated styling of the profile selector in the
shortcut editing form. It now looks the same
as the others. There is now a slightly annoying
problem where clicking elsewhere in the form
deselects the imagelistview selection, but that
is a small thing to worry about later.
It was erroring when loading games into
a blank shortcut screen. This was stopping
us being able to select any games at all.
Fixed another problem with Shortcut.IsValid
causing exception when loading a profle
that no longer existed. It now will correctly
report that the shortcut is isvalid.
Fixed the profiles selection so it doesn't change
when you swap screens. Made the 'View
current display' button refresh the profile validity
too, so that a user now only has to change their
display settings in Windows and then swap back
DisplayMagician and click the View Current Display
button and the profiles will be updated.
Highlighting colours and structure changed
to work better with the ILV structure. Next step
is to add the ability to visually show invalid
shortcuts to notify when a shortcut won't
work.
Added a messagebox to warn the user
when they try to run an invalid shortcut.
It now asks the user if they really want to
do it, or it directly opens the 'edit' window
for if they want to fix things now.
Combined DisplayMagicianShared logging into
the main log file to simplify log reporting for the
future. Also started adding info and debug
statements to the program to make the debug
level log work well for troubleshooting. This is
going to take a LONG time to complete, but will
be worth it in the end.
Changed some misanchored UI
elements so that they will move correctly
when the UI windows are resized. Also
fixed a mistake that meant the 'Create
Shortcut' message wasn't hidden
when it should be.
UplayLibrary was erroring when run without
Uplay installed. Needed to tweak it so that
DisplayMagician will work without Uplay
library or Steam library installed.
Found issue where the IsRunning process
checks were breaking because they were
being running before the steam process
had a chance to create the process. This
meant the information wasn't aviailable for
the SteamGame.IsRunning function to
inspect. Fixed by adding in a 0.5 sec delay.
Toasts working for minimised start (allows use to
open the application) and for minimised close
(allows user to open the application or exit the
application).
Installer works, but there are a few issues with it.
- It doesn't register the DesktopBackground COM server
- It doesn't create a start menu shortcut with the AUMID
- It doesn't check for .Net Framework 4.8 or later
- It doesn't try to install .Net Framework 4.8 or later if not there
- It doesn't have any customised backgrounds...
- It doesn't ask to run DisplayMagician when install is finished
