v0.1.0.12-alpha

What's Changed

• Action Button Updated: the Symbol property to automatically Invalidate() (repaint) the button when the value changes on click/slide open/close. (6d4ed3d)
• Added Action Button: Autohide + Slide Close/Open (f73f670)
• Added RoundedButton Class for Button Border Radius (386ec56)

Installation

1. Download BoBar-0.1.0.12-alpha-win-x64.zip from the assets below
2. Extract the ZIP file to your desired location
3. Run BoBar.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or later
• .NET 10.0 Desktop Runtime

Usage Tips

• First time users: Right-click the tray icon to access settings
• Add shortcuts: Drag & drop .exe or .lnk files onto BoBar
• Move toolbar: Hold Ctrl and drag any button
• Customize: Right-click > Settings to edit, reorder, or remove items

Documentation

• Full Changelog
• README
• Compare Changes

v0.1.0.11-alpha

What's Changed

• Simplify release notes format and increment to v0.1.0.11-alpha (d099287)

Installation

1. Download BoBar-0.1.0.11-alpha-win-x64.zip from the assets below
2. Extract the ZIP file to your desired location
3. Run BoBar.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or later
• .NET 10.0 Desktop Runtime

Usage Tips

• First time users: Right-click the tray icon to access settings
• Add shortcuts: Drag & drop .exe or .lnk files onto BoBar
• Move toolbar: Hold Ctrl and drag any button
• Customize: Right-click > Settings to edit, reorder, or remove items

Documentation

• Full Changelog
• README
• Compare Changes

v0.1.0.3-alpha

BoBar v0.1.0.3-alpha

Installation

1. Download BoBar-0.1.0.3-alpha-win-x64.zip
2. Extract the ZIP file
3. Run BoBar.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or later
• .NET 10.0 Runtime (Desktop Runtime)

What's New

See README.md for full changelog.

bobar-win-x64-v0.1.0.2-alpha-require-net-10

BoBar v0.1.0.2-alpha

BoBar is a customizable application launcher bar for Windows.

⚠️ Requirements

This release requires .NET 10 Desktop Runtime to be installed:

• Download .NET 10 Desktop Runtime

📦 Installation

1. Download bobar-win-x64-v0.1.0.2-alpha-require-net-10.zip
2. Extract to any folder
3. Run BoBar.exe

✨ Features

• Customizable launcher bar for quick access to applications
• Drag & drop executable files and shortcuts to add items
• High-quality icon extraction with native resolution support
• Snap-to-edge positioning
• System tray integration
• Dark/Light theme support
• Lightweight and fast

🔄 Changes in v0.1.0.2-alpha

🎨 Major Icon Extraction Improvements

• Native icon extraction from PE resources - Extracts icons directly from executable files without Windows scaling
• Multi-resolution icon support - Properly detects and uses the highest quality icon available (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 256x256)
• Enhanced color depth preservation - Maintains 32-bit ARGB format with full alpha channel transparency
• Intelligent upscaling - Uses high-quality bicubic interpolation to scale icons to 256x256 canvas
• Centered icon placement - Icons are properly centered on transparent background
• Multiple extraction fallbacks - Tries PE resources, system icon cache, and ExtractIconEx for maximum compatibility
• Shortcut icon support - .lnk files now use the same high-quality extraction as .exe files

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed icons appearing small and not filling the PNG canvas
• Fixed low color quality when upscaling icons
• Fixed black backgrounds on icons (now properly transparent)
• Fixed array bounds errors in icon extraction
• Improved handling of executables with non-standard icon resource IDs

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Direct PE file resource reading for raw icon data
• ICO file format parsing and reconstruction
• Native icon size detection to avoid Windows upscaling
• High-quality rendering with SourceCopy compositing mode
• Support for both PNG-embedded and DIB-format icons

🐛 Known Issues

• Some executables with unusual icon formats may still fall back to lower quality extraction
• This is an early alpha release - please report any issues on the Issues page

📝 Upgrading from v0.1.0.1-alpha

To get the improved icon quality:

1. Delete cached icons from %AppData%\BoBar\Icons\
2. Remove and re-add existing launch items to extract icons with the new method

👨‍💻 Developer

Created by bbbjames

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Repository: github.com/bbbjames/BoBar

bobar-win-x64-v0.1.0.1-alpha-require-net-10

BoBar v0.1.0.1-alpha

BoBar is a customizable application launcher bar for Windows.

⚠️ Requirements

This release requires .NET 10 Desktop Runtime to be installed:

• Download .NET 10 Desktop Runtime

📦 Installation

1. Download bobar-win-x64-v0.1.0.1-alpha-require-net-10.zip
2. Extract to any folder
3. Run BoBar.exe

✨ Features

• Customizable launcher bar for quick access to applications
• Drag & drop executable files to add shortcuts
• Snap-to-edge positioning
• System tray integration
• Lightweight and fast

🔄 Changes in v0.1.0.1-alpha

• shortcut (.Lnk) file support
• file-scoped namespaces (C# 10+)
• working directory added (start-in)
• bottom margin to match top margin (when snapping to top or bottom of screen)

🐛 Known Issues

This is an early alpha release. Please report any issues on the Issues page.

👨‍💻 Developer

Created by bbbjames

bobar-win-x64-v0.1-alpha-require-net-10

BoBar v0.1-alpha

BoBar is a customizable application launcher bar for Windows.

⚠️ Requirements

This release requires .NET 10 Desktop Runtime to be installed:

• Download .NET 10 Desktop Runtime

📦 Installation

1. Download bobar-win-x64-v0.1-alpha-require-net-10.zip
2. Extract to any folder
3. Run BoBar.exe

✨ Features

• Customizable launcher bar for quick access to applications
• Drag & drop executable files to add shortcuts
• Snap-to-edge positioning
• System tray integration
• Lightweight and fast

🐛 Known Issues

This is an early alpha release. Please report any issues on the Issues page.

👨‍💻 Developer

Created by bbbjames