Smart Layers Panel

Fixed

• ·**The panel no longer works in the background.** It used to read the whole document every half second — hidden behind another tab, while a document was being closed, while a dialog was open, even with no document at all. Now it stops completely when it is not on screen, keeps still while a document is closing or switching and while InDesign shows a dialog, and otherwise asks only a handful of cheap questions, reading everything only when something has moved or every two seconds. On a 150-layer catalogue that is the difference between a sixth of a processor core and almost nothing — and far fewer calls into InDesign at exactly the moments it least wants them.
• ·The panel listens to InDesign now (document closing, opening, switching, selection changing, quitting) instead of guessing from a timer.
• ·A plain text log, `smart-layers.log`, records what the panel did and how long it took; Settings shows where it is. If InDesign ever goes down, the last lines say what the panel was doing at the time.

Changed

• ·**The trial is now a free licence key.** Instead of fourteen days counted from the first start, you get a free trial key from Gumroad and paste it into the same box a purchased key goes into. The days are counted from your trial purchase, so reinstalling the plugin, moving to another computer or clearing its data no longer adds days — and no longer takes any away either.
• ·Without a key the panel shows the layer list no more: Settings, the manual and the Licence window stay open, and the commands that change the document ask for a key.
• ·**Licence…** now offers *Get a free 14-day trial* as well as *Buy the full version*, and thanks you once, in the window, after a purchase.

Added

• ·Layers that hold only guides now say so. Instead of a nought the row shows how many guides are on the layer, marked with a g — `4g`.
• ·Clicking the colour bar of such a layer selects all its guides on the spread you are looking at, the way the Layers panel selects objects.
• ·A 14-day trial and a licence. Everything is on during the trial; afterwards the layer list, the filter, the selection, the eye and the padlock keep working, and the commands that change the document ask for a licence.
• ·**Licence…** in the panel menu shows how much trial is left and takes a Gumroad key. One key activates your other computers and the AutoHotkey palette as well, and a confirmed licence keeps working for 30 days without internet.

Changed

• ·Deleting a layer with no objects but with guides on it now says so before it goes ahead.

Changed

• ·A locked layer's padlock is now orange, so locked layers stand out. Before, it was only a little brighter than an unlocked one and easy to miss. The orange follows InDesign's interface brightness: brighter on the dark settings, deeper on the light ones.

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