AnimatedGif

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:
Add compatibility for Big Sur (at least starting with 11.5.2) for both architectures, Intel-64 and M1. This release should still run from OSX 10.10 until macOS 10.14 for Intel-64. The background mode is now disabled when Big Sur is detected since it is not supported by Apple, but it still work on macOS 10.14 or earlier OS versions.

Catalina (10.15) ist still not officially supported since I have no system with this OS to test and so it is not known to me if Apple ever fix the Sandbox for screensavers a little bit as they did for later versions of Big Sur.

Includes fixes for:
#63

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

Add more time options (seconds, minutes, hours, a day and never) for the change interval of GIFs. The former minute slider element is replaced by an popup button, see #56.

Includes fixes for:
#56

No fix was needed for:
#54 and #55

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

• Add support of different frame delay times in GIFs, see #50

• Add generation of mipmaps in metal render, see #51

• Optimisation of 3x3 tiles rendering, see #52

• Optimisation of the load into memory option, see #53

• Fix wrong alpha blending in metal render, see #48

• Fix multiple change timers in preview mode, see #49

Includes fixes for:
#48, #49, #50, #51, #52 and #53

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

• Add support for Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG or PNG) starting with OSX 10.10
  (a silent fix for older systems like 10.9 was added to this release)

• Change behaviour of About window and Open Files dialog:

  • when one of those windows is opening they become now the key window, means they have the input focus and not the configure panel in the system preferences as before
  • when one of those windows loose focus and later they are re-opening form the configure panel they will become the key window again

• Add Code Signing (Self-signed certificate -> means the macOS gatekeeper will still not pass it without user allowance, but is possible to check if AnimatedGif is still consistent and unchanged)

Includes fixes for:
#46 and #47

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

• AnimatedGif now supports Metal (API) for hardware-accelerated rendering (see enhancement #43). When running AnimatedGif always tries to start Metal as first choice for rendering. Only if this fails like on older macOS versions(older than 10.11) or nor supported Macs(usually older than Mid 2012) it tries to use OpenGL as before.
• Fix issue #44 where GIFs with high fps rate were lagging when screensaver was in background mode.
  Readme updated and add more pictures.

Includes fixes for:
#43 and #44

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

• Add requested feature #21 „Tiled GIFs“.
• Add requested feature #20 „GIF Overflow“.
• Add an indication message when no GIF file was found.
• Add Localisation for some forgotten text labels.
• Fix text color of license text in About window for dark mode.
• Fix the crash when a folder is selected that is not empty, but contains no GIF files, see #40.

Includes fixes for:
#20, #21 and #40

For more information about AnimatedGif please look at the readme page:
https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/blob/master/README.md

Changes:

• Add an about window to show the MIT license.
• Add two workarounds(#37 and #39) for compatibility with macOS Mojave 10.14.
• Add new uninstall tools for automatic uninstallation that also help in case of the „saver window“ issue (#38).

Includes fixes for:
#37, #38 and #39

- This is an old release. The latest release can be found here:

https://github.com/Waitsnake/AnimatedGif/releases/latest/

Changes:

• Feature Request: Time between random gif changes can now be set to the special value "never" for no changes during the screensaver runs. Only stopping and restarting the screensaver will randomly select a new GIF from the directory as long as this value is active.

Includes fixes for:
#36

Changes:

• No new features. Just two bugfixes for High Sierra.

Includes fixes for:
#33 #35

Changes:

• AnimatedGif has a new option on the preference panel to select an image filter. There is a blur filter for nature gifs and a sharp filter to enjoy pixel art.

Includes fixes for:
#32

Changes:

• The position of the screensaver window in background mode is moved a bit upwards so that the coordinate origin is below the menu bar. This will move the content of the screensaver a bit upwards. But the menu bar itself ignores the content of this window below the menu bar when creating the transparency effect (at least with El Capitan 10.11 where I test it) and shows the background picture anyway. Sorry but this transparency behaviour can only changed by Apple itself.

Includes fixes for:
#31

Changes:

• A workaround for the not working live wallpaper (background mode) under High Sierra (10.13) was added.

Includes fixes for:
#28 #30
Won't fix:
#29

Changes:

• The version number of the release is now visible in the configuration panel.

Includes fixes for:
#25 and #27

No fix was needed for:
#24

Won't fix:
#26

Changes:

• The preview in preference panel for option "keep image original size" is now more realistic scaled.

Includes fixes for:
#23

Changes:

• Preference panel for Japanese is slightly changed.

Includes fixes for:
#22

Changes:

• The confusing GUI element for file/directory mode is removed.

• The OSX file dialog has now a different behaviour and opens one level above the last selected file/directory to see more of the directory structure which should make it easier to navigate to an other file/directory.

• The slider for manual selecting of fps is now extended to 60 fps (old 30 fps).

Includes fixes for:
#18 and #19

Changes:

• New Feature: randomly showing GIF files from an directory

• It is now possible to select s directory instead of only a single file. If this directory includes GIF files they are randomly played each time the screensaver starts. There is also a configurable timer from 1 to 30 minutes in the options sections to define an interval when the screensaver automatically changes the GIF randomly during running.

Includes fixes for:
#11 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17

No fix was needed for:
#10

Changes:

• Background mode was not working after an clean install of OSX (see issue #9 )

Includes fixes for:
#9

First release of AnimatedGif screensaver

Includes fixes for:
#2 #3 #5 #6 #7

No fix was needed for:
#1 #8

Won't fix(OS issue):
#4