v1.1.0-Beta Release of the PowerShell Compact-Archive Tool #37
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Information about this Release:
This beta release focuses on the improvements and enhancements provided in 1.1.0. An overview of changes: Windows Installer, Startup Splash Screen, Windows 10 Notifications using BurntToast, GUI for some interactions, and Clean Ups!
Features in this Release:
Enhancements:
PowerShell Compact-Archive Tool now includes an installer! With the installer, the environment will be generated for the user within the Windows scheme. Thus, the user can be able to execute PSCAT seamlessly directly from their Start Menu. Further, the user can also be able to uninstall the program as well - if needed.
Added Graphical User Interfaces into operations that could greatly help the user to configure and drive the program, or simply - to help break down the intimidation factor just a bit more. Thus, now, when wanting to find a directory or a specific file, a Select File or Select Folder Browser will now be available to the user. And, confirmation message boxes will also be presented to the user as well for deemed necessary circumstances. All GUIs are default from Windows' graphical library, so any GUI presented to the user - the user is already familiarized with the interface.
Added a new startup splash screen. When PSCAT is loading at startup, the user will now be presented with a splash screen that provides: the author's name, program's title, program's version, license, as well as the PowerShell Core version being used within the environment.
PowerShell Compact-Archive Tool now supports, BurntToast notifications. Thus, now it is possible to provide a visual notification using Windows 10 Toast notifications! This can be extremely useful for the user to know when a project had been compiled successfully or if an issue had arisen during the operation.
PSCAT allows the ability for the user to perform a Clean Up operation using one of two modes: Clean Up and Deep Clean Up. Clean Up operation expunges the following: Log Files and Compiled Builds, while the Deep Clean Up operation removes: Log Files, Compiled Builds, and User Configuration. This feature incorporates Program Modes: 0 = Normal Mode, 1 = Clean Up Mode, and 2 = Deep Clean Up Mode.
Added "About PowerShell Compact-Archive Tool" within the Main Menu. This will allow the user to view the program's basic information, such as: contributors, copyright, license, version, download website address, and other information that could be useful.
Changes:
Removed the ability for the user to configure the Multithreaded capabilities from the 7Zip Setup Menu. Instead, 7Zip will use its default functionalities. Automatically, 7Zip will use Multithreaded capabilities if the host system can support it.
Disallowed the ability for the user to configure the audible notifications. Every application has the ability to alert the user through multiple sources - including audible. With that, I believe that PSCAT should alert the user regardless. Further, it is quite unnatural for a program to alert the user - without some sort of a audible notification.
Globalized variables will be properly discarded once PSCAT had been closed. This will only benefit those that use PowerShell through their end-to-end daily drive. Otherwise, previously, the global variables - after PSCAT had been closed, would linger on until the PowerShell session had been terminated.
Applied more notices that the program uses the GPLv3 License.
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