Bump to v3.1.1: tray tooltip 'starting up' could get stuck after first launch

Bug: if v3.1 installed via auto-update on a profile with StartMinimised
on, the tray icon's hover tooltip got stuck at the initial "RemSound -
starting up" string. The snapshot tick was running and SetTooltip was
being called every second with the live state, but Windows shell kept
showing the original cached text on hover. The fix-by-workaround was a
hide-then-re-show cycle which forced the shell to rebuild the icon
registration with the latest NotifyIcon.Text.

Root cause: NotifyIcon.Text values set BEFORE the icon's first
NIM_ADD (i.e. while Visible=false) become the shell's "initial"
tooltip when the icon eventually appears. Subsequent NIM_MODIFY calls
from text changes DO propagate, but the shell tends to keep showing
the original text on hover - presumably a tooltip-cache eviction
quirk. In the resume-after-update-with-StartMinimised flow, the
window briefly shows then BeginInvokes a Minimize that flips
Visible=true before the snapshot timer has had a chance to fire, so
the shell registers with the stale "starting up" string.

Fix: drop the hard-coded "starting up" initial text from the
controller ctor entirely. The controller now takes a Func<string>
buildTooltip callback from MainForm and calls it in Minimize() right
before flipping Visible=true, so the shell's NIM_ADD sees current
live state instead of a stale string. The 1 Hz snapshot tick keeps
working for ongoing live updates while the icon is visible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ednunp
2026-05-28 14:43:06 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
parent 752c12b579
commit aa099eb555
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@@ -622,6 +622,10 @@ public sealed class MainForm : Form
// every time the submenu opens, so newly-loaded profiles appear immediately.
getRecentProfilePaths: () => AppConfig.Load().RecentProfiles,
switchToProfile: path => SwitchToRecentProfile(path),
// Tooltip builder — called once just before the tray icon first becomes visible
// (in Minimize) so the shell's NIM_ADD sees the current live state instead of a
// stale "starting up" string. Subsequent updates ride on the 1 Hz snapshot tick.
buildTooltip: BuildTrayTooltip,
exit: Close);
recordingController = new RecordingController(