What's new in vokoscreenNG 4.1.0
Apr 1, 2024
- Windows: Window recording added
- Windows: Redistributable removed, only required files are included
- Windows: New screenmanager
- Linux: Changed all Q_OS_LINUX to Q_OS_UNIX
- Windows: Switching from gdiscreencapsrc to d3d11screencapturesrc
- Windows: Added GIF
- Windows: Switching from MINGW to MSVC
- Qt: Minimum version 6.6.0
- Wayland: Added Snapshot
- Wayland: Simple camera support based on pipewire
- Linux: Logo adapted for Flatpak
- GUI: Better display when moving the mouse over the pushbuttons
- Wayland: Logo adapted for Flatpak
- Wayland: All existing settings will now be saved
- Readme: Adapted to the latest version
- Camera: Frameless works not under Linux Desktop MATE
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 4.0.0 (Jan 3, 2024)
- Halo: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
- ShowClick: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
- Pro-file: Delete not needed lrelease stuff
- Area: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
- Wayland: Area position/size wrong on Wayland with scaling
- Wayland: Area better display when the screen is scaled
- Wayland: GUI revised
- Log: Source code has been revised
- Locale: After close the GUI the tmpdir was not removed
- Systray: Segfault on startup [GNOME/X11]
- Qt: Change from Qt5 to Qt6
- Camera: Reading and setting the video formats
- Camera: Multiple cameras simultaneously
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.8.0 (Oct 5, 2023)
- Wayland: GUI revised
- Player: The Windows version now includes all video and audio codecs
- Folderdialog: For linux new written. For Windows nativ
- Filedialog: For Linux revised. For Windows nativ
- Player: New written based on Gstreamer
- Camera: Under Windows circle and ellipse better antialiasing
- GUI: Dark mode added
- Area: No hiding the handles with start timer
- Windows: Openh264 changed to version 2.3.0
- Windows: GStreamer changed to version 1.22.5
- Windows: Many source code changes for Gstreamer 1.22.5 and openh264 2.3.0
- Language: Can now be changed in the GUI
- GIF: Added as a new format(Linux only). Requires package gstreamer-plugins-rs
- File-Format: Muxer, codec, suffix outsourced to a separate class
- Snapshot: Changed the constructor parameter
- Snapshot: After restoring, the GUI was always behind existing windows
- Magnifier: Flickering on some KDE desktop effects
- SpezialSlider: If range changed, value shows outside circle
- Codec: For better understanding, "Quality" has been changed to "Compress" and given an icon
New in vokoscreenNG 3.7.0 (Jul 4, 2023)
- Magnifier: Can now magnify 2x to 4x
- ShowClick and Halo will be disabled when capturing a window
- Qt6: The camera module has been rewritten and is ready
- Camera: Rename member cameraWindow to vkCameraWindow
- Onlinehelp: Was broken on some systems with the linux installer, missing openSSL-3
- Area: Compatible with Mate Desktop
- Pro-file: Add camera-qt6.pri and player-qt6.pri
- Player: Better hint for the decoder in the player
- GlobalShortcut: Adjustment to Qt6
- Network: Adjustment to Qt6
- ComboBoxVideoCodec: Wrong signal
- SpezialSlider: SliderX264 and sliderLimitOfFreeDiskSpace insert on wrong index
- Halo: Big handle change to small handle
- ImageFromTabs: Added rounded corner
- WASAPI: Has not worked
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.6.0 (Apr 2, 2023)
- QvkVersion: Qt6 compatibility. QRegExp replaced
- QvkHelp: Qt6 compatibility. QRegExp replaced
- Pro-file: Qt6 compatibility. Delete x11extra
- QvkMainWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11info stuff
- Halo: Qt6 compatibility. Back to version 3.3.0 and delete QX11info stuff
- QvkAnimateWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
- QvkSystrayAlternativeWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
- QvkCountdownWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
- Pro-file: Add Qt6 compatibility
- Readme.md: Delete Windows 32 bit stuff
- Transifex: Switch to the new cli client
- Systray: Qt showMessage replaced
- Snapshot: Area wait before record
- Log: Add Button open folder
- Pulseaudio: Add audioresample
- WASAPI: Record more as one devices
- Magnifier: Rectangle as default
- Magnifier: Icons created in css
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.5.0 (Jan 2, 2023)
- Pulseaudio: Added two audio channels for monitor, if more as one devices are selected.
- Windows: Multi-screen detection revised
- GUI: Added screen osd
- Snapshot: Open Folder in the Snapshot tab now only opens the Pictures folder
- Cisco: Note changed when downloading
- Magnifying: Shows which screen it is on
- Snapshot: GUI can be hidden.
- Snapshot: New icon
- GUI: CornerWidget revised
- GUI: Colors adjusted, audio, area, etc.
- SpezialCheckBox: Pictures moved to picture folder
- Magnifier: Added circle and elipse
- openh264: Added test for profile
- Codec: x264 removed from Flatpak for legal reasons
- GUI: Variable from separator in extra line
- GUI: Removed video and audio mimetype
- Radiobutton: Added hover and disabled
- Checkbox: Added hover and disabled
- Area: Color matched
- Player: Buttons color matched
- Area: Keyboard control was broken
- SpizalSlider: Added pressed and hover
- GUI: Window selection cursor color matched
- GUI: Camera icons have been color matched
- GUI: Accept-icon color matched
- SystrayAlternative: Added Snapshot
- Snapshot: Added new info window in systray
- GST_DEBUG_LEVEL: If level is not set, an empty file is created
- GUI: Adjusted the layout of the audio devices
- Snapshot: Added more information to log
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.4.0 (Sep 27, 2022)
- UI: New Checkbox created in CSS
- GUI: New Radiobutton created in CSS
- GUI: Slider completely rebuilt in CSS and bug fixed
- GUI: All QMessage icons replaced with custom icons
- Log: User friendly GStreamer debugging to a file
- QvkRegionChoise: Removed QX11Info stuff
- QvkWinInfo: Class QX11Info replaced
- Halo: Changed from a small window to a transparent full screen
- GUI: Add dialog if no codec found
- Log: Removed email report
- Magnifier: Rebuilt from scratch for multiscreen
- Windows: Screens detected by name instead of index
- Camera: Busy window redesigned
- Camera: New feature circle
- Camera: New feature ellipse
- GUI: Icons in sidebar changed from 72x72 to 40x40
- Log: Version query, fprintf output replaced by qDebug
- GUI: German "STRG" key and space before "Start / Stop"
- GUI: PushButton folder opens the video or the picture folder, depending on the last action
- Snapshot: Added as new feature
- GUI: Better integration whether video folder exists and has write permissions
- Systray: In the Flatpak it is not closed
- Translation: Updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.3.0 (Jun 27, 2022)
- GUI: Added dialog if have no write access
- Log: Add install path
- GUI: ShowClick insert in a tab
- ShowClick: If switched on under Gnome, the vokoscreenNG window is not closed
- ShowClick: If switched on under Gnome, no folder is opened in file manager by double-clicking
- Log: From now on only the fixed style "Fusion" will be shown
- Halo: Inner circle slider moved to second place
- Systray-Alternative: Show shortcut in menu
- Systray-Alternative: Camera, Magnifier, Showclick and Halo added to the menu
- Desktop: The path was stored absolutely in the desktop file
- Installer-Linux: An old installed version no longer needs to be uninstalled
- Log: Detects when Windows is running in a virtual environment
- Systray: Show shortcut in menu. Only if the desktop supports it
- GUI: New icons, start-, stop-, pause.png
- Camera: New feature zoom
- Camera: New feature stepless resizing
- Camera: New feature move frameless window
- Area: New mouse pointers
- Translation: updated
New in vokoscreenNG 3.2.0 (Apr 4, 2022)
- DirectSound: Information if no devices were found
- WASAPI: Information if no devices were found
- Halo: Set new hole value
- Openh264: If network does not exist, the sidebar is not displayed
- Pulseaudio: Third party software loses keyboard focus
- Shortcuts: Did not work correctly, STRG changed to CTRL
- Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.20.0
- Log: File name adjusted
- Player: Showed filename and path in the title bar instead of just the filename
- Log: New code to write in file
- Log: Detects when Linux is running in a virtual environment
- Log: Added timestamp
- Player: File open dialog lost path when reopened
- Pulseaudio: Better sound recording when multiple recording devices are selected
- Pulseaudio: Added readable device name to volume control
- Pulseaudio: Message in audio tab if no Pulseaudio server found
- Translation: updated
- SRC: Mail address changed in all files
New in vokoscreenNG 3.1.0 (Jan 3, 2022)
- Windows: Usr-share-local-icon folder removed from the installer
- Cisco: Progress indicator added to the download dialog
- GUI: The Help button has been removed from the title bar of the Player, VideoPath and Cisco-License dialog
- Cisco: Added a close button to the licence dialog box
- Translation: Added Esperanto, Danish, Vietnamese
- Videopath: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
- Player: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
- GUI: Download link changed
- Log: Kernel version added
- GUI: Fusion is now the style for all operating systems
- GUI: vokoscreenNG create his own images from all tabs
- Information: Display audio codec set or not set
- Camera: Removed workaround for a Qt bug
- Systray: Camera, Magnifier, Showclick and Halo added to the menu
- GUI: Global keyboard shortcuts can be changed
- Magnifier: Added tooltip for global shortcut
- Camera Linux: The camera window is now also displayed over a full screen window
- Camera: Settings dialog out side from screen
- Windows: Changed Qt to 5.15.2
- Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.18.5
- Windows: Change to 64-bit, the 32 bit version has been discontinued
- Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 4.0.1 to 4.2.0
- Qt: Required >= 5.14
- GUI: New sidebar
- Systray-Alternative: Better look without compositer
- Systray-Alternative: Version information added in menu
- Systray-Alternative: Hide from taskbar
- Systray: Change from system-icons to own icons
- Countdown: Better look without compositer
- Countdown: Hide from taskbar
- License dialog: Close button added
- Countdown: Added cancel button
- Systray-Alternative: Change from system-icons to own icons
- Recording window: Better integration "mouse over activates window"
- Camera: Combobox resolution was not deactivated if no camera was found
- Audio: Better hint if no audio recording device was found
- Area: Mouse pointers now look the same on all operating systems
- Wayland: Experimental support
- Log: Added QLoggingCategory::defaultCategory, fault in Fedora 34
- GUI: Class for icons deleted
- Systray: Version information added in menu
- Mouse: New feature halo
- Mouse: New feature showclick
- GUI: All icons revised in tabs
New in vokoscreenNG 3.0.9 (Dec 18, 2021)
- penh264: Renamed to H.264
- VP8: Add slider for quality
- Settings: Video and audio codec were not set correctly from the settings.
- Wayland: Add wayland-client.h
- Onlinehelp: Tmp dir was not removed
- GUI: The on/off switch for the systray was not deactivated during the recording.
- Gui: Restore window, after it has been minimized.
- Screen Manager: Small changes.
- GUI: All dropdown combo boxes no longer show the content shortened if the content is too long.
- Area: Selected button is better highlighted.
- Log: Information about Pulseaudio version.
- openh264: Set usage-type from screen to camera. Remove num-slices and max-slice-size.
- Camera: When enlarging the camera window, with a small camera resolution, now a better picture.
- GUI: Always started at position 0.0
- Audio: Remove AAC, legally disputed license.
- Area: At the end of the recording, the buttons is displayed in the frame.
- Countdown: Appears now on the same screen as the area.
- VAAPI: Remove support. Reason: Package discrepancy between the many Linux distributions.
- Wayland: Under wayland the GUI is now hide. It comes only a dialog this says, wayland is not supported.
- Windows: Remove video codec x264, legally disputed license.
- Windows: Automatic download of the openh264 codec from cisco.
- Windows: Incorrect capture if second screen is the primary screen.
New in vokoscreenNG 3.0.8 (Dec 18, 2021)
- x264: Unneeded presets removed
- Area: Removed predefined areas. Reason: Not intuitiv, design is broken and Recording error.
- vaapih264enc: Add h264parse
- Camera: Combobox for resolution added in the dialog window
- FPS: Limited to the vertical refresh rate of the screen in Hz
- Log: Count CPU
- Camera: Resolution could not be changed during camera playback.
- Language: Add Arabic, Greek(Greece), Thai(Thailand), Serbian
- Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 3.2.2 to 4.0.1
New in vokoscreenNG 3.0.7 (Dec 5, 2021)
- Magnifier: Magnifier now on all screens. Reason: Magnifier show only on the primare screen
- Audio: Devices are now detect directly by Pulseaudio. Reason: The monitoring of the devices under GStreamer 1.16.x is broken.
- Camera: Resolutions is now read out. Reason: Fixed resolution 640x480 is not supported by all cameras.
- Log: Files are now kept in unlimited numbers
- Log: More information about Videopath