Version 0.4.0

[birbilis]

Note: ALWAYS DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION FROM [THIS LINK](https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/releases/), AT "ASSETS"

For usage information see release notes of [first release](https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/releases/tag/0.0.1) and see this walk-through video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXp5jUf8cU

Try downloading and opening this story for testing (right click the link and select to Save As a .readcom file):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoomicon/READCOM_Gallery/master/Gallery/Stories/Aesop%20Fables/The%20Tortoise%20and%20the%20Hare/The%20Tortoise%20and%20the%20Hare.readcom
(or you can download the whole Gallery in a .ZIP file, per the instructions at https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_Gallery/)

List of Bug fixes and Enhancements in this version:
https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A0.4.0

The .exe file is compiled for 32-bit Windows (runs on 64-bit Windows too)
The .upx.exe file is the same one, but UPX-compressed (much smaller, might take an instant more to start up and may trigger antivirus false alerts)

For Windows machines with older graphics cards or older graphics drivers with no available driver updates, try holding down SHIFT key when running the application. This will use older Graphics Device Interface (GDI) instead of DirectX on Windows and mention "(Compatibility Mode") on the titlebar of the application.

If you have issues with this version you can try an earlier one,
plus report the issue at https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/issues

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This discussion was created from the release Version 0.4.0.

[birbilis]

this release sports:

1. Light/Dark app theme (manual for now, not autodetecting system setting (*) ) switch
2. support for loading remote stories (if you right click a StoryItem you can give a URL that opens in webbrowser when item is clicked in non-Edit mode - if the URL ends in .readcom it will try to fetch the URL content and load as new story)
   https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/releases/tag/0.4.0

In future version will add a clickable [to load as a remote story] thumbnail of the Hare and the Tortoise story (star)
at the default document that is embedded in the application apart from the READ-COM logo
and also a thumbnail to point to the READ-COM Toolkit (*) ).

Eventually some of the storie(s) - a few / the smaller ones in filesize - will be embedded as fallbacks in the app so that if there's not a remote connection to still be able to load a sample story (*) ).

Also download caching will be available as fallback (not enabled in this version) if there's no network connection so that if you had downloaded a file in the past you'll be able to still load it with network down (*), as long as one didn't clear their temporary files folder.