WindowTop

[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.20.0​

May 24, 2023

• New features:
• Picture in Picture (PiP) - Implemented a new feature to allow cropping of a region from the PiP view (#133)!
• You can now select a sub-region to show by clicking on the "CROP" button
• And finally, click on the V button!
• When a region is selected, you will also see an indication about it while interacting with the window
• Improvements:
• Picture in Picture (PiP) - Added option to enable the mouse-interact mode by default for predefined apps:
• In the PiP settings, we added the following button
• The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear
• Added hotkey to enable crop mode
• Implemented option to open the shrink context menu by right-clicking on the title bar:
• You can now right-click on the PIP title bar
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app
• Fixed some exceptions bugs (bugs that you see the blue window with the scary error)
• Bugfixes in settings
• Improve the stability of the Anchors when auto-move is enabled. Sometimes the anchors stopped automatically moving away from text/image, and now it should recover for such failures more
• Changes:
• The PiP icon changed

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.20.2​

Bugfixes​

• Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app
• Fixed some exceptions bugs (bugs that you see the blue window with the scary error)
• Bugfixes in settings
• Improve the stability of the Anchors when auto-move is enabled. Sometimes the anchors stopped automatically moving away from text/image, and now it should recover for such failures more
• (v5.20.1, MS Store version only) Fixed an issue that the button "Purchase or Login (Microsoft Store)" changed to "Purchase (Microsoft Store)" (translation revert by mistake)
• v5.20.2 - Fixed: Always On Top AOT (red) borderline does not adjust the size with window when resizing horizontally or vertically (
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Changes​

• The PiP icon changed to

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.21.0​

June 28, 2023

• New features:
• Option - Do not apply "Always on top" to maximized window (#303)
• Bugfixes:
• [Opacity + Always on Top] The border around a window with AOT and Opacity enabled, should have same opacity applied (#299)

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.21.1​

• Fixed (v5.21.1): Default PIP Size (Picture-in-Picture) doesn't change default PIP size (
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• Fixed (v5.21.1): Small bug in PIP that when disabling live-preview and enabling interact mode with read mode, the PIP generates a preview for the mouse.
• Changed (v5.21.1): Allow to set default PIP size to up to 400% instead of a maximum of 200%

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.21.2​

September 4, 2023

• Fixed (5.21.1): Default PIP Size (Picture-in-Picture) doesn't change default PIP size (#310)
• Fixed (5.21.1): Small bug in PIP that when disabling live-preview and enabling interact mode with read mode, the PIP generates a preview for the mouse.
• Changed (v5.21.1): Allow to set default PIP size to up to 400% instead of a maximum of 200%
• Fixed (5.21.2): Invisible windows appeared when saving the configuration for some programs with Always-on-Top (#315)
• Fixed (5.21.2): Fixed issue with 30 days trial that some users complained that the trial ended before it started

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.0​

September 20, 2023

• New features:
• Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode
• Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
• Improvements:
• Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
• Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
• You can configure it from settings under PiP & Crop tab
• Global exception handler - added more information in the error window
• Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
• The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
• When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
• The app will display any hotkey already used by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
• Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
• Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
• DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
• Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
• Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
• Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
• Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
• Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
• Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
• Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
• Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
• Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
• Code optimization that may improve performance
• Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
• Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
• Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
• Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
• Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
• Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
• Changes:
• [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
• [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
• [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
• [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
• Localizations:
• Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
• Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
• Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.1​

September 28, 2023

• Fixed Toolbar problem on Notepad++ with Dspellcheck pluggin #326
• Fixed bug in toolbar settings that when disabling the toolbar, the hotkeys controls also disabled
• Fixed bug that the app freezing for 25 seconds when enabling the toolbar
• Fixed slow performance issue in the settings window

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.2​

September 28, 2023

• Fixed regression from 5.22.1 that the settings UI freezes after the computer wakes up from sleep. The regression was caused by the fix Fixed slow performance issue in the settings window.

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.3​

We are happy to introduce the updated version of the crop feature.
Now, it is possible to crop a window directly without first putting it in PiP (Picture in Picture) mode.

• You can even interact with the crop view using your mouse and keyboard.
• You can update and modify the crop region on the fly via the native window or directly from the PiP view
• You can also use a shortcut key to toggle crop and modify it (not shown in the video)

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.4​

We are happy to introduce the updated version of the crop feature.
Now, it is possible to crop a window directly without first putting it in PiP (Picture in Picture) mode.

• You can even interact with the crop view using your mouse and keyboard.
• You can update and modify the crop region on the fly via the native window or directly from the PiP view
• You can also use a shortcut key to toggle crop and modify it (not shown in the video)

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.5​

November 17, 2023

• Major updates (from v5.22.0):
• New features:
• Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
• Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
• Improvements:
• Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
• Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
• Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
• Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
• DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
• Localizations:
• New! Japanese localization (available from 5.22.5)
• New! Turkish localization (available from 5.22.5)
• Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
• Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
• Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)
• Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
• Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
• Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
• Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
• Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
• Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
• Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
• Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
• Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
• Code optimization that may improve performance
• Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
• Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
• Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
• Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
• Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
• Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
• Changes:
• [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
• [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
• [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
• [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop v5.22.6

February 5, 2024

• New features:
• Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
• Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
• Improvements:
• Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
• Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
• You can configure it from settings under PiP & Crop tab
• Global exception handler - added more information in the error window
• Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
• The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
• When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
• The app will display any hotkey already used by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
• Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
• Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
• DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
• Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
• Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
• Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
• Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
• Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
• Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
• Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
• Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
• Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
• Code optimization that may improve performance
• Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
• Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
• Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
• Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
• Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
• Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
• Changes:
• [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
• [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
• [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
• [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
• [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
• Localizations:
• New! Japanese localization (available from 5.22.5)
• New! Turkish localization (available from 5.22.5)
• New! Polish localization (available from 5.22.6)

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop v5.22.7

What's new?​

We are happy to introduce the updated version of the crop feature.
Now, it is possible to crop a window directly without first putting it in PiP (Picture in Picture) mode.

• You can even interact with the crop view using your mouse and keyboard.
• You can update and modify the crop region on the fly via the native window or directly from the PiP view
• You can also use a shortcut key to toggle crop and modify it (not shown in the video)

See the following short video:

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[Camel1965]

WindowTop 5.22.8 ​

Fixed: Having trouble with start up by admin privileges (#351)

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