Based on Power++ v2.0 STL, upgraded since Apr-2024.
Click here to see the original source code of version v2.0

Improvements and corrections:

• Fixed a bug that action schedule did not executed correctly sometimes
• Fixed a bug that action history time value is not correct
• Fixed a bug that confirmation message does not show up when switched to desktop
• Redesigned action schedule features and fixed some bugs
• Improved language switching function
• View change log function for Help dialog
• Refactored and updated source code from top to bottom so that everything will work the same

New feature(s):

• Support middle mouse button action
• Allow saving app event logs
• Support Logviewer function to view app event logs
• Reload settings feature
• Allow running with admin privileges at startup
• Allow notifying and canceling schedule
• System background hotkey feature
• Restart with admin privileges feature

Improvements and corrections:

• Improvement: Changed caption of some dialog items
• Improvement: Bypass action confirmation for background hotkey feature
• Fixed a bug that multiple instances of a child dialog can be running at the same time
• Fixed a bug that some dialog item IDs are not displayed in app event logs
• Fixed a bug that some dialog item enable/disable event logs are recorded continuously
• Fixed a bug that action history content is empty or incorrect sometimes
• Fixed a bug that unable to view action log file from notify menu
• Improved HotkeySet function: Data serialization and register/unregister hotkey processing
• Improved hotkey validation: Not allow adding existed system key shortcuts
• Improved logging function: Output data change logs
• Improved trace and debug logging function

New features:

• Power Reminder feature
• Restart application feature
• Support Chinese language interface
• Debug command functions

Improvements and corrections:

• Improvement: Change some default option states
• Improvement: Re-design UI for HotkeySet and LogViewer dialogs
• Improvement: DebugView dialog context-menu
• Improvement: Save layout changes for dialog Grid tables
• Improvement: Save event and history logging output in YAML format
• Improvement: Embed help files and changelog files into executable file
• Adjustment: Write the application event log to one file per month instead of one file per day
• Fixed a bug where unexpected false error messages are sometimes displayed when executing Power Actions
• Fixed a bug where Power Reminder message is not displayed when restarting computer (or after shutdown)
• Fixed a bug where Trace and Debug logging access incorrect folder path when auto-start with Windows
• Fixed a bug where Access denied error when Trace and Debug logging write logs continuously
• Fixed a bug where data loading errors are displayed when launching application for the first time
• Fixed a bug where Notify icon is lost after Windows taskbar crashes and being recreated
• Fixed a bug where feature dialogs are not closed when exitting application via Notify menu
• Fixed a bug where Reminder messages are not closed when exitting application via Notify menu
• Fixed a bug where multiple Reminder messages block each other when displaying
• Refactored and updated source code from top to bottom so that everything will work the same

New feature(s):

• Power Reminder: Message snoozing, RepeatSet and message style customization
• Schedule: Supports Multiple schedule actions
• HotkeySet: Allows using background Hotkeys when the screen is locked

Main window (Collapsed)

Main window (Expanded)

Schedule dialog

HotkeySet dialog

Power Reminder dialog

Reminder message (Dialog Box style)

• Download the source code and open the solution/project file (.sln/.vcxproj) with Visual Studio.
• Recommend building and running with Visual Studio version 2019 or later.
• After compiling and building, run the program by opening the power++.exe executable file

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This repository is open-source and available under the BSD-3-Clause license.