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You can use the .zip version of the version you want to try out. After extracting the zip, it is a self-contained directory with the main program/libraries, and a special sub-directory named "AppData". This "AppData" directory contains all the preferences, the log, and any other files that would otherwise be shared machine-wide.

In this case you can have as many versions in parallel as you want, they will always work within their own directory and not interfere with each other. You could even copy this entire directory to a USB drive and use it on a different machine. This kind of approach is sometimes called "portable" version.

In the installed version (.exe), the "AppData" directory points to something like "C:\Users\joan\AppData\Roaming\Kinovea".

I committed a fix, it should respect the original proportion of the tool now.

Note that the scaling reference is hard coded at the moment. There is a virtual 800x600 canvas that the custom tool is assumed to be drawn on to, and when adding the tool it will be upscaled or down-scaled depending on the size of the target video. So for example if the initial point list covers half of this virtual canvas, they will also cover half of the image when the tool is added. This should probably be something controlled directly within the tool XML.

Yes you are right, the format was updated, although the old format should still work for the most part.
It was indeed not possible for an object to be controlled by multiple options.

For documentation, the old page was painful to maintain. What I would like to do instead is have a "sample" tool with a collection of everything possible and many comments in the XML. This tool would be available in the menu as any other so you could experiment with it directly to find the appropriate object and mechanism, and then copy-paste the relevant parts.

For text distance, it is the distance to the center of the label, in pixels. The rectangular area covered by the text is first measured, based on the text itself and font size, and then the center of that rectangle is placed at the textDistance value, along the bisector of the angle.

Yes if you subtract the points (end - start) then you should be able to use the atan2 function to get an angle relative to the x-axis. I think Excel has such a function.

Hi,
This will be fixed in the next version with support for rotation directly in the capture screen. Recorded videos will then be saved with the corresponding rotation flag, so when opening them on the playback side they will be automatically oriented correctly.

There is an auto-rotate based on the metadata of the video file. At the moment the files captured from the capture screen don't have this flag because rotation wasn't supported there but in the next version the procedure will be to orient the image in the capture screen to make it upright (using the same Image > Image rotation menu), and this will make it store the correct rotation flag in the captured videos.