Hey everyone, happy to say that Image Occlusion Enhanced v1.4.0 is now available on AnkiWeb, bringing native support for Anki 2.1.50 and tackling a number of long-standing bugs and feature-requests (with more to follow in the near future).
If you find any regressions with this release (in particular things not working that did work on 2.1.49), please don’t hesitate to post a bug report, or ping me here directly. Thanks!
The full changelog follows below:
Image Occlusion Enhanced v1.4.0
IMPORTANT: This release is only compatible with Anki 2.1.50 and up. If you are on an earlier Anki release, copying the add-on code on AnkiWeb into Anki will automatically download a compatible version of the add-on for you, so there are no extra steps you have to take. Just be aware that going forward, new features and fixes will likely only be available for Anki 2.1.50 and up.
Still, as of writing this changelog (2022-04-09), unless you have a strong reason to switch to 2.1.50, I would recommend to hold off from upgrading just a tad bit longer until things around the release and add-on support have settled a bit.
Added
- Added support for Anki 2.1.50 and up. Both Qt6 and Qt5 builds are supported. On Apple silicon the add-on now benefits from the performance improvements that Anki’s native Qt6 build provides.
- Added a confirmation prompt when attempting to close the window via Escape when there are unsaved changes present.
Fixed
- Fixed instances of cards being saved to the wrong deck (and thus seemingly going missing).
- Fixed instances of images not being automatically resized to the canvas upon launching IO
Changes
- When creating occlusions from images in the clipboard, the add-on will now follow Anki’s preferences to determine whether to save images as PNG or JPG files (thanks to @zjosua), with JPG being the default. JPG files are smaller and thus make syncs quicker, but come with a small quality penalty. If you prefer using PNG files you can change the add-on’s behavior by heading to Anki’s main preferences under Tools → Preferences and setting the checkmark at “Paste clipboard images as PNG”.
Other changes
- [Development] Reworked project dependency management, making it easier to set Image Occlusion up for development
- Set some of the foundations for potentially adding locale support in the future (thanks to @5hir0kur0 and @Polymehr!)
- Other fixes and improvements thanks to @zjosua, @Arthur-Milchior, @telotortium, and @davidculley