0.2.0-beta.11

Another release with a few performance gains and bugs fixed.

✨ Improved

• The performance of the guider window should be improved. The component was running the code to update the image parameters multiple times every image, instead of only doing it when a new image loads or the configuration changes. Restricting the changes to guiderConfig.config gets rid of the extra re-renders.
• Do not show actors with keys_ in the log window actor selector.

🔧 Fixed

• useKeywords now stores the received keyword as keyword_name and actor.keyword_name. This is a consequence of being able to specify keywords from different actors. It's convenient for deconstructing to just refer to { keyword }, but if two keywords with the same name from different actors are tracked at the same time, that would cause a problem.
• Related to the previous change, the tracking of running macros in HAL was using the incorrect keyword.

0.2.0-beta.10

Hotfix for two issues:

• The preload banner was not appearing in HAL because the keyword jaeger.design_preloaded was not being tracked.
• An infinite re-render loop was happening in MacroStageSelect because one of the callbacks was not memoised.

0.2.0-beta.9

This release includes a couple major performance improvements. Overall, the log window should feel a bit smoother. There are still some issues with the last line sometimes being partially hidden (or not fully scrolled).

🚀 New

• Added an Auto option for the go to field stage in HAL. The option is not active by default. To enable it, go to Preferences - HAL - Use auto mode. After that, the dropdown menu in the go to field stage will have an Auto setting that will call hal goto-field --auto. When the auto mode is enabled, the Fix alt/az checkbox is replaced with Hartmann (probably we should remove the Fix alt/az completely). If Hartmann is selected, the auto mode will also take a hartmann. Be careful with that option on cloned designs.
• Added a button to the log window header to scroll to bottom.

✨ Improved

• Message buffering now happens on the main process side. Replies are stored in a buffer in TronConnection and every 500ms are emitted (as a single list) to all the subscribed loggers. The log window now expects to receive a list of replies, filters them, and passed them to Virtuoso. There is no buffering on the renderer side. Changing the configuration produces an instantaneous re-render of the replies (there is no 500ms delay).
• The actor selector menu button was asking the main process for a list of actors every 30ms (😞), which kept the log window renderer process using a decent amount of CPU time even when completely idle. This is changed to a request every second. That's still a lot, and probably it should be refactored into something that emits an event only when a new actor has been seen.
• Stopped using use-elapsed-time for counters. It seems that even if one only wants and update every second, the package triggers a re-render every few ms. Our use-cases are simple enough that a useEffect with a setInterval is enough.

🔧 Fixed

• Fix IOSSwitch thumb colour on hover.

⚙️ Engineering

• Added a usePrevious hook to quickly wrap values in a useRef.

0.2.0-beta.8

✨ Improved

• Reopen main window on dock click.
• Introduce a delay between each JS9 frame.
• By default, reload the guider window every 20 minutes. This should help with memory use buildup. Time between reloads can be adjusted or disabled in Preferences.
• Added menu option to reload focused window.

0.2.0-beta.7

✨ Improved

• When the Snapshots window opens, all the configurations seen since the moment of connection are now available.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed opening snapshots in browser that had stopped working due to sandboxing.

⚙️ Engineering

• Replaced most calls to useKeywords with a single context at the top of the window tree. This reduces the number of event listeners. useKeywords now accepts a list of keywords in the form <actor>.<keyword>.

0.2.0-beta.6

✨ Improved

• Improved style of the focus monitor plot.
• Better scrollbar aesthetics when they are always shown.

🔧 Fixed

• Fix isRunning never setting status as idle in CommandWrapper.

0.2.0-beta.5

✨ Improved

• HAL command buttons now track the status of the macro even if the command has not been started in that window.
• Issue hal status --full when HAL window finishes loading.

⚙️ Engineering

• Add useKeywordValue hook.
• Add useIsMacroRunning hook.
• Increase viewport 500 pixels.

0.2.0-beta.4

🚀 New

• Add option to wrap text in log window.

⚙️ Engineering

• Moved elapsed timer in MainStatus to its own component to avoid expensive re-renders of the entire window.
• Removed timeout when handling the buffer in the log window. It didn't seem to do much for CPU use and it was sometimes slow.
• Remove some cases of duplicate code that were replaced with useConnectionStatus.
• Pass received arguments to the handler function in useEventListener.
• Optionally remove all listeners in useEventListener. In cases where the same channel is listened by several components in a window, removing all listeners causes issues.
• Use unique-names-generator to generate user names.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0-beta.3...v0.2.0-beta.4

0.2.0-beta.3

🚀 New

• Added menu option to clear logs.
• Added useEventListener hook.
• Added Log Window and Guider preferences with options to set the maximum number of log lines to keep and the path to xpaset.

✨ Improved

• Temporarily fixed the GitHub publishing workflow by making it delete the draft release before uploading assets.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed the macro stepper status.
• Prevent unnecessary listeners for tron connection status.

0.2.0-beta.2

This version re-enables the auto-updater, and this time it seems it restarts the applications and updates it correctly. For now there is not checking for new versions on a timer, only when the Check for updates ... menu is called. If a new version is found a notification offers to download and restart, or cancel. The new version is now downloaded until the user agrees to restart.

The auto-updates uses channels and allows for pre-releases. The current channel is beta, which is controlled by the updateChannel user configuration option. Currently it's not possible to change the channel in Preferences.