about QM3 Some suggestions

[Gintaras]

ChatGPT:
https://chatgpt.com/share/68639134-3e88-...48373000fe

[Gintaras]

Can you upload the LA installation files to GitHub?

Done.
https://github.com/qgindi/LibreAutomate

If it works well, I'll change the download link in the home page when releasing next LA version.

[Gintaras]

It seems it is blocked in China. Or very slow (timeout error after 2 minutes). Works only in Hong Kong (5 s).
I tested with https://www.websitepulse.com/tools/china-firewall-test and some other. Results:
GitHub: fails.
Cloudflare: worked this morning, but now fails. After several hours works again, but slow (59 s).
LA home page: works (1 s if lucky), but sometimes/somewhere slow (eg 33 s) or fails.
LA setup in LA website: (4 s if lucky), but sometimes/somewhere slow (eg 23 s) or fails.

[Davider]

https://github.com/qgindi/LibreAutomate
If it works well, I'll change the download link in the home page when releasing next LA version.

thank you, Well done, it can be downloaded (github), the speed is very fast, and I am using a dedicated GitHub acceleration line.

[Davider]

When I tried to install version LA1.13 on a new system, it got stuck at the end and wouldn't close. I had to force quit it through Task Manager. This is likely because it couldn't connect to the download resources?

https://i.ibb.co/PKkRLnK/lll.png

[Gintaras]

Does the computer have .NET 9 installed?

[Davider]

Does the computer have .NET 9 installed?

The original system did not have .NET 9 installed. It was likely installed silently by the LA installer. How can I manually install the mini version of the .NET 9 SDK?

[Gintaras]

How can I manually install the mini version of the .NET 9 SDK?

 Why? It is unrelated to this issue. The LA installer installs the Runtime, not SDK.

[Davider]

After a fresh installation of LA, I couldn't use NuGet to install libraries. An error message appeared, roughly indicating that I should download the mini version of .NET 9 SDK

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Recently, something strange has been happening. The QM website is still directly accessible, but the LA website and forums can no longer be accessed in China without a VPN. This wasn’t the case before—previously, no VPN was needed to visit them.

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The GitHub website is accessible in China without a VPN, though sometimes it's unstable. After enabling an accelerator, the access speed becomes acceptable.

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Can the mini version of .NET 9 SDK be downloaded and installed separately on the following page?
https://github.com/qgindi/LibreAutomate/...ag/v1.13.0

[Gintaras]

Probably it is the reason of the LA setup stopping. If .NET not installed, it asks the LA website what is the best .NET version to install.

You should find a way to use the LA website. I can't create workarounds for internet problems in all countries.

[Gintaras]

It seems the Cloudflare CDN IPs were blocked in China. Now I disabled Cloudflare CDN for libreautomate.com. Should work again.

[Davider]

Thank you, everything is working fine now.

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Can the search box in NuGet display real-time search results? Can specified version components be installed? These two features are very useful.
Please see the LP demo below.
https://i.ibb.co/hxhTRDy0/demo.gif

Additionally, the NuGet cache directory path for LP is C:\Users\Administrator.nuget\packages. Can LP and LA share the same path? I've noticed that this directory becomes quite large over time.
Currently, my LP and LA are installed with the same version of the .NET 9 runtime, and the component DLLs downloaded via NuGet are also the same, but they are downloaded repeatedly. (I mainly use the AI assistant in LP to write some common functional code right now.)

[Gintaras]

Can the search box in NuGet display real-time search results?

This feature will not be added.
 

Can specified version components be installed?

Yes.
 

Can LP and LA share the same path?

No. If another program uses a non-standard path, like `C:\Users\Administrator.nuget\packages`, you can replace that folder with a symbolic link to the standard folder `C:\Users\CurrentUser\.nuget\packages`.

[Davider]

Can the search box in NuGet display real-time search results?

 My idea is as follows:
When I need a component for a certain function, I would first enter a keyword. For example, if I’m looking for PDF-related components, after entering the keyword, some PDF-related components would appear in the list below. By clicking on an item, I can view the details of that component on the right side of the list, I think this is a good design. as shown in the figure below.
https://i.ibb.co/v41VGJcn/ppp.png
 
If this functionality is not available, I would have to enter the component’s name precisely, and I wouldn’t be able to know what other components with the same functionality exist.

[Gintaras]

Can LP and LA share the same path?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...he-folders

[Davider]

I'm trying out the open source project below, which can compile .NET8 C# code into a single exe file, and the size is very small. A simple console project that outputs "hello world" generates an exe file of only 1MB in size.

Can this project be used to compile LA script files?
https://github.com/bflattened/bflat

[Gintaras]

Probably incompatible. Uses .NET 8, not 9. Does not support WPF etc (used by Au.dll), NuGet packages. Only for simple console programs.

[Davider]

https://github.com/bflattened/bflat/issues/194

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It looks like it can reference dll files. I rarely create WPF programs. I often use LA to create console or service programs.

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Which version of LA supports .NET8? Is there an archive? I want to try it.
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bflata build myproject.csproj
https://github.com/xiaoyuvax/bflata

[Davider]

I tested using the commands and C# code below, and can successfully generate WinForm window exe files. File size: 13M+, and it can successfully execute on computers without .NET8 runtime installed!

Considering both execution speed and file size, it is well worth it—especially for console or background service programs, where the footprint becomes even smaller.

I haven't found the previous version of LA (that supports .NET8 SDK) yet.
___________________________________________________________________cmd
cd C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App\8.0.3
bflat build main.cs -r System.Windows.Forms.dll -r System.Windows.Forms.Primitives.dll -r System.Drawing.Common.dll -r Accessibility.dll -r Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.dll --ldflags "/subsystem:windows"

___________________________________________________________________main.cs
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

Application.Run(new Form());

[Gintaras]

Which version of LA supports .NET8? Is there an archive? I want to try it.

No archive. Can't build that version from sources too.

[Davider]

I'm trying to copy code from my code editor into a Word document while preserving the syntax highlighting, and I've run into two problems:

1.  `using` statements that span multiple lines in the editor are collapsed into a single line after pasting.
2.  Gray boxes appear in the indented parts of the code. Is it possible to remove them?

Compile and execute C# code from string at run time
Demo: 
https://github.com/ichat001/ichat001.github.io/issues/1

[Gintaras]

OK here. I guess maybe that code contains some non-standard newlines.

[Davider]

Regarding the width of the line number gutter and the shape of the mouse cursor:
In QM, the line number gutter is compact, and the mouse cursor changes to an upward-right pointing shape.
In LA, the line number gutter is too wide, and the mouse cursor does not change shape.
The behavior in QM seems more reasonable.

Demo:
https://i.ibb.co/XxFdssSR/demo.gif

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maybe that code contains some non-standard newlines.

use `\r?\n`

[Gintaras]

The default Scintilla's reverse arrow cursor looks bad in many cases, therefore LA uses standard arrow cursor, like eg in VSCode. After several days you will adapt and will not notice this change. The wider selection margin can contain 3-digit numbers without resizing, and makes easier to select, without accidentally clicking the breakpoints margin.

[Davider]

The left margin of the line number column can remain as it is, but the right margin would be more appropriate if reduced slightly — this is how many code editors handle it.

Linqpad: https://i.ibb.co/jvFt9Q82/linqpad.png
Notepad2: https://i.ibb.co/DgWq1Br4/notepad2.png

[Gintaras]

I don't like when the line number is very near to code. Sometimes distracts. Most other code editors have the folding margin in that space, therefore line numbers are far from code, but I don't like it. Also, actually there is an empty gray margin between numbers and code, reserved for the future.

[Davider]

I have a different feeling — when the line number column is too wide, it becomes a distraction. 

[Davider]

Now, with AI supporting increasingly longer contexts, the quality of generated code is getting higher and higher.  
Today, I tried installing VS Code and various AI code assistants, and the results were impressive, much more convenient to use than LINQPad's AI assistant.  
The functional code generated by AI assistants for RPA process automation already meets the basic needs of most people.  
Looking forward to the addition of LA code assistant functionality soon, thank you.

[Davider]

Feature Suggestion:
When the cursor's insertion point is in the NuGet field of the code, pressing the F12 key:
If the DLL in the field has already been downloaded, open the folder where the DLL is located; otherwise, open the NuGet package installation dialog.
 

Code:

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/*/ r %dll%\Aspose.tools.dll; nuget -\Aspose.Words; /*/ //.

[Davider]

On the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter system, the LA application fails to start. An icon appears in the taskbar’s notification area, but the code editor interface does not display, and the process can only be terminated through Task Manager.

https://i.ibb.co/hxMcpQzF/pic.png

https://sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-dll-win-x64-3500400.zip
I manually downloaded the DLL mentioned above to the LA installation directory, but it still failed.