VH OSC Beta 2.0 Now Available!

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VH OSC Beta 2.0 (2025-02-20)

Beta Update Summary:

This Update adds some more robust features to the OSC chatbox, as well as backend improvements to how OSC settings are saved and handled.

OSC Settings:

*The save location for OSC settings has been moved to "<user>/Documents/My Games/Virtual Handheld/OSC/OscSettings.ouo", which is not to be confused with the "osc_config.txt" in the same folder that is meant to be edited manually but the user.

OSC General:

*The "Enabled" status has been renamed "Active" as OSC can be enabled while not being active (i.e. if there is an error)

OSC Chatbox:

*You must now click the "Apply" button for OSC chatbox settings to be applied

*Message Templates have changed: instead of having a separate template for every window title source, there is now a stepper for choosing where to get the window title from

+You can now choose when the chatbox message gets updated: "Manually Applied" requires the user to press the "Apply" button to update the message. "Chatbox Shown" updates the message when the chatbox is shown (i.e. when the messages start getting sent out). "Loop Time" updates the message every time the chatbox is refreshed, according to the "loopTime" set in the "osc_config.txt" file.

*Preview Chatbox has been split into two separate preview chatboxes: "Current Message" shows the message currently displayed by the chatbox if it's enabled (will be greyed out if it's disabled) and "New Message" shows what will be displayed after the "Apply" button is pressed.

+Added notice text letting you know if there are unapplied changes

+Added support for UTF8 in chatbox messages, meaning emojis and other Unicode in window titles should work now

+Added a gamepad emoji to the start of chatbox messages. This may get replaced later on according to the type(s) of input simulation being used.

Known Issues:

+A random "OSC" folder may appear in your VH install directory. Don't worry, it won't hurt you (probably). Just know that the proper location for OSC config/settings data is "<user>/Documents/My Games/Virtual Handheld/OSC/".