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Here is another release! Performed some fixes and added some new features.

Note: Upon adding built-in web browsing, the required code is included in a separate dll and not included all in a single .exe file. Therefore, until this separate file issue is solved, releases will include a zip file containing the .exe and web browser dll (WebView2Loader.dll). Both files need to be extracted into the same folder.

Key Features and Updates

• Multi-Live:
  • Monitored channels limited to 99 unique channels
  • Notifications now can be archived
• Main app:
  • Statusbar has a label indicating beta version (when the version ends in non-zero numbers, e.g. 1.2.3.4 = beta label), and a application version label
  • Added new tab for browser links to the GitHub application releases, stable and all
  • Options moved from within Data section to their own top-level tab, updated layout appearances
  • Tabification to combine [User & Follows] and [In & Out Raids] into respective tabs when the window is a certain width and data becomes hard to read
  • 'Bot->Twitch' tab reorganized layout
  • Twitch Follower bot is more resilient against crashing for internet failures
• Overall fixes:
  • Internal code cleanup and corrected issues causing crashes and hanging (not-closing)
  • Fixed Multi-Live bot will "autostart" (when option is selected) when application starts when "Livemonitor" is also auto started
  • Fixed tabification issue from last development release

Details

Multi-Live bot

• Corrected issue preventing multi-live from 'autostarting' when application starts
• Monitored Channels:
  • Now limit to 99 total-with 1 channel reserved for streamers channel (Twitch API has 100 user limit)
  • Will check and prevent duplicate names added to list via the 'right-click' menu on "User Data->User Follow" tab.
  • Adding a new channel monitor name (right-click menu and double-clicking open area in table) should limit to 99 total names, and will disable when the list reaches this threshold
  • Limited the "Add New User" to the Multi-Live monitored channels to 99 total, to reserve 1 more for the streamer's channel to be part of the monitored channels. The Twitch API limits the monitored live channels to 100 users per data call.
  • Added capability to MultiLive datamanager to load the backup datafile in case the primary file is corrupted.
  • Updated how the service exits when the application closes, under certain conditions caused a deadlock race condition - trying to save the file at the same time waiting for other threads to close.
• Notification archive feature!
  • Alongside "Daily" notification table, added "Summary" table and added an "Archive" tab. Each of these have separate tabs. Also updated the layout width to better show the data (and not be clipped by a fixed width).
  • The 'Archive' tab presents a pull-down box, to initiate the archive operation.
    • When the user clicks it, the data from the "Daily" table is sorted per date and the number of streams counted through, including, the shown date. These items are added to the pull-down box.
    • The User selects an item in the pull-down and clicks "Summarize".
    • The "Summarize" button click starts the archive operation. The algorithm compares the selected date to the live notifications and retrieves all live notifications up to and including the selected date. These live notifications are counted per monitored channel and the latest date is saved to the "Summary" table, either as a new row or added to an existing row.
    • The now summarized data shows the monitored channel, the number of streams performed since monitoring this channel up to the last stream date, up to and including the selected archive date. The user may have deleted some live notifications prior to archive, thereby affecting this total stream count.
    • Added this feature to decrease the multilive datafile size and increase responsiveness when scrolling through data.
    • Doesn't save any statistics about average days between streams nor anything about average stream lengths.
    • Currently, this feature is not automated to run at a certain time. The future automation may include running archive every so many weeks to archive the notifications older than a specific number of months; e.g. every 14 days, archive notifications older than 1 month.

Main bot related:

• Added a new statusbar label to indicate the current running app is beta or a release version. Also, added the current application version number.
• Updated 'Bots->Twitch' layout.
• Updated Follower service to be more resilient to internet outages, previously crashing the application.
• Added a new Option, enabled by default, for the user to specify whether the 'User Data->User Follow' tab should reconfigure the presented data into a tab control. In other words, when the application width becomes too narrow the user and follow data tables get squished and hard to read, and the option moves these tables into selectable tabs to provide more visible room to view the previously squished data.
• Added "StreamData / Raid" data tables for "In/Out" raid into the tabification framework, where a smaller width places both tables into respective tabs and greater than the width shows the data side by side.
• Moved the 'Data->Options' tab to a top level tab, separating application and Twitch level options. Adjusted the option layout appearances.
• Updated the "Options" layout to distinguish bot management of the interface versus output to the streaming channel, added two different boxes of options.
• Added a new tab "GitHub" with sub-tabs showing the stable and all releases webpages. Allowing direct access to the files for updates.
  • Use the version label in the bottom left of statusbar to determine if an update is necessary.
  • This method is preferred over automatic updates, since application updates sometimes have breaking changes and require setting or data updates to prevent data failures.
• Corrected issues found in last stable release and subsequent development releases

Full Changelog: v1.2.6.0...v.1.2.7.0

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