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[November 2021] Inline Text Quotations

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@COM8 COM8 released this 02 Nov 08:06
· 195 commits to master since this release
v.0.37.0.0
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This month has not been too productive in regards to UWPX development since for me the new semester started and required a lot of attention.
Besides that, I added support for inline text quotations and updated the welcome screen animations to WinUI 2.7.
While I was working on adding inline text quotations I noticed, that I was creating a new Task for each chat message highlighting call. This resulted in a lot of overhead for small chat messages. While this might be a good idea for larger chat messages to prevent highlighting occupying a lot of time from the UI-Task, its usually not a good idea for a lot of small messages.
When I removed the task creation I noticed an up to 3x speedup in text rendering and highlighting 🤐.

Since I would like to add support for XEP-0393: Message Styling at some point I will probably change this again in a way, that we create tasks only for larger amounts of text and for everything else, we do it inline.

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Known bugs

  • MUC subject changing leads to an account disconnect #34
  • Removing a chat does not perform cascade deletion #151
  • ListDetailsView looses selection on reorder #166

Changes

  • Added support for inline text quotations
  • Updated welcome dialog animations to WinUI 2.7

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