Three related fixes after the notes feature landed:
Config location: build_and_deploy.ps1 wipes its target directory before
every deploy, and app_dir() had just been pointed at that same directory
-- so every rebuild silently deleted the user's config and the app
rebuilt it empty from the board, losing all notes. Config now lives in
%APPDATA%\VersaPadViewer (roaming), separate from the install dir, and
the build script additionally rescues any versapad_config*.json it finds
in the target so legacy installs survive an upgrade.
Window chrome: hide the title bar (plain Tk overrideredirect, no ctypes
window manipulation) and move the mode checkboxes up next to the title,
which reclaims two full rows of header height that the taller note cards
had eaten. Removing the title bar also removes the resize borders, so
add a grip -- anchored with place() to the window corner rather than
packed after the content, which would push it out of view exactly when
the window is too small and the grip is needed. Default geometry grown
to fit the taller cards, and empty encoder note lines are no longer
rendered at all.
Note truncation: the note area was a fixed 34px and cut longer notes
mid-word; it now takes the remaining card height.
Cherry-picked commits from Julian Appel's dev/jappel branch changed the
default deploy target to $projectDir\dist\VersaPadViewer. Revert just
that to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VersaPadViewer, which is where the actually
installed/running instance on this machine lives -- switching would
orphan the existing install and any shortcuts pointing at it. Document
the cherry-pick provenance and what was deliberately left out
(.mcp.json's hardcoded path, the docs/ tree) in AGENTS.md.
pip install of pyinstaller/pystray/pillow was a separate manual step the
README only mentioned in prose, so the script silently died on missing
packages -- especially bad on Explorer double-click, where the window
closes before any error is visible. Consolidate all dependencies into
requirements.txt (also used by README's plain "pip install -r" flow), have
the script install it itself, wrap the whole build in try/catch with
exit-code checks after every native call, and pause on both success and
failure unless -NoPause is passed.
Also move the build output from %LOCALAPPDATA% into dist/ next to the
script, so it's easy to find and matches the already-gitignored dist/ entry.
(cherry picked from commit 13c3745479)
Minimizing or closing hides the window instead of leaving a taskbar
entry; only "Beenden" in the tray right-click menu really exits. Tray
callbacks route through a queue instead of touching Tk directly from
pystray's thread (same pattern as the earlier serial-thread fix).
Also fixes the build script: PyInstaller failed on the network share
while copying Tcl/Tk tzdata (path-length issue), so building now
happens in a local temp copy instead of directly on Z:.
Adds an info button that explains the MCP server's available tools.
Avoids the cmd.exe flash from double-clicking run_desktop.bat and
gives a proper double-click .exe like VersaGUI.exe. Must be deployed
locally (%LOCALAPPDATA%) -- Windows silently refuses to load the
_internal DLLs when the .exe sits on the Z: network share, no error
shown. build_and_deploy.ps1 handles build + local copy in one step.
