foobar2000: Components Repository

Analog VU Meter Visualisation

By: oops

Implement transparent bitmap extension to the BIN VU meter file specification
Extend render target for GDI-drawing into a texture 2-D resource to implement pseudo-transparency
- Add "Transparent" context menu option
Add screenshot capability
Move panel list and configuration into client
- Implement panel directory memoization for main menu, gestures and COM Automation
- Centralize in-group meter switching to replace mailbox
- Reorganize header inclusions for updated architecture [developer]
Add inertia envelope for audio levels
- Add "Inertia" context menu option
- Set "Inertia" to its default value on context menu "Reset" command
- Default "Inertia" to enabled
- Add "Inertia" and "Level" options to tuning dialog
- Fix double application of "Inertia"
Fix Columns UI fullscreen within Panel Stack Splitter crash
Adjust context menu logic for improved display of enabled and disabled options
Update advanced preferences
- Add console debug output option
- Categorize console messages for debug output
Update hashing and encode/decode functions [developer]
Skip GDI drawing when fullscreen [developer]
Update UnRAR to 7.1.3 [developer]
Update Columns UI SDK to 8.0.0-beta.1 [developer]
Update repository setup and component build scripts
Update preprocessor macros [developer]
Clean up file formatting [developer]
Fix thread pool timer build (not performant) [developer]
Update COM interface definition file
- Extend `IVUMeter` with additional methods
Update README

Supported processor architectures: x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM64, ARM64EC.

Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer