Version History ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ForceVision 3.35 Final Release Added: - image caching support - ! experimental support for multi-monitor systems - support for Abode Photoshop PSD - support for JIF file format (JPEG) - support for XIF file format (TIFF) - support TIFF YCbCr images - support for auto-orientation of image according to EXIF - folders history to the 'Copy to Folder' and 'Move to Folder' dialogs Improved: - new file will be loaded when it is selected in Explorer and ForceVision has already run - now it is possible to paste WMF/EMF metafile format - window placement algorithm both for one monitor and multi-monitor systems - maximized status of the windows now will be implemented on the next program start - minor enhances for better file system supporting - if Delay Filtering is on then rendering filter will affects only after image showing - optimizations for faster and smoother browsing - performance increased in folders with big quantity of images - thumbnails' rendering performance increased - current folder now is always indicated in the folders tree - default folder is set to the My Pictures - ForceVision now fully compatible with Clear Type technology Fixed: - very slow animation of GIF - animated GIFs handling - fixed memory fragmentation reading JPEG thumbnails - fixed bug writing TIFF 8 bit paletted images - fixed bug writing PS (PostScript) files - some actions performed by keys are synchronized - selection area did not disappear after Crop - issues in program translation - selection did not disappear after loading next image - file copy procedure - Slide-Show stops after the first image - Actual Size zoom mode now works properly - selected file was not opened when current folder contains many files and Thumbnails is used - found bugs ForceVision 3.32.3 Added: - included Czech language - included Polish language ForceVision 3.32.2 Added: - included Croatian language Improved: - quality of thumbnails rendering Fixed: - found bugs ForceVision 3.32.1 Added: - included German language Fixed: - image resolution were determined uncorrectly after Undo \ Redo - found bugs ForceVision 3.32 Final Release Fixed: - bug with zooming after Rotate / Flip - bug with zoom value after Undo - found bugs ForceVision 3.32 Release Candidate 2 Improved: - optimized PNG loading (memory optimization) Fixed: - bug loadind ICO and CUR files - absent text in Options dialog - found bugs ForceVision 3.32 Release Candidate 1 Improved: - zoom factor step was changed for better zooming - now it is possible to zoom-in and zoom-out manually even with locked zoom - ForceVision's logo was redesigned Fixed: - fixed found bugs ForceVision 3.32 Beta 4 Added: - Next Image and Previous Image function to the Viewer's pop-up menu Improved: - Viewer's pop-up menu was redesigned Fixed: - bug which occured message "Cannot open file ''''" - wrong behaviour of zoom modes - Sepia color effect was not undoable - In Options, two branches at tail of Zoom mode were not displayed - zoom mode was not applied from Options dialog - fixed found bugs ForceVision 3.32 Beta 3 Added: - Fit width and Fit Height functions - Sepia color effect - copy/paste with alpha channel Improved: - start speed enhanced - interface was improved - optimizations for better support of scanners - optimized Contrast function - main menu was reorgonized - multilanguage support was totally rewritten (may be buggy in Beta) Fixed: - fixed bug loading some RAWs - help file was not opened in some cases - fixed found bugs ForceVision 3.31 Beta 2: Fixed: - bug in loading of small files - file specified as a parameter wasn't opened at program's start - files selection routines - thumbnails' size was wrong after applying options - found bugs to increase stability ForceVision 3.31 Beta 1: Enhanced: - navigation speed: now you can select file to load while another file is being loaded - thumbnails' appearance: * external border around thumbnails * smaller font is used to display image resolution and color depth Fixed: - several memory leaks - found bugs ForceVision 3.3 Final Release: Added: - Add Folder to Favorites item to file's pop-up menu - selection over List and Thumbnails mode from the file's pop-up menu Enhanced: - file navigation routines - Automatic Left-Side and Right-Side layouts are more accurate now - remember last used resample filter in resize dialog Fixed: - loading file with File-Load menu - loading BMP with alpha-channel - adding folder to Favorites from folder's pop-up menu - found bugs ForceVision 3.3 Release Candidate 2: Changed: - now cursor keys are used to scroll image in Viewer Fixed: - Access Violation error after click on empty space of Thumbnail Panel and trying to load next image - the first thumbnail were corrupted in some cases - selecting thumbnails with Ctrl key - applying options results in extra added thumbnails - found bugs ForceVision 3.3 Release Candidate 1: Added: - Russian language returned after series of Beta version - hotkeys for file selection functions Enhanced: - greatly improved options applying speed Fixed: - Hourglass and empty folder bug - strange behaviour of Thumbnails after multiply mode changeovers and folders selections - high CPU load with not animated GIFs - Invert File Selection bug - found bugs ForceVision 3.3 Beta 5: Added: - Select All Files menu item - Clear File Selection menu item - Invert File Selection menu item - now all thumbnails will be loaded automatically Enhanced: - Thumbnail and List mode changeover speed - current file will be always visible in the List or Thumbnails - some speed improvements for thumbnails creation Fixed: - bug with selecting one of the thumbnail from earlier selected group of thumbnails - some bugs with animated GIF - images were not loaded when List mode was used in Details style - double click on blank space around thumbnails now will not start Full-Screen ForceVision 3.3 Beta 4: Added: - thumbnail selection with right mouse button - Paste menu item to the files and thumbnails pop-up menus Fixed: - file selection lost after Move and Copy to Folder dialogs - update file information in Status Bar and caption region of Viewer window after Crop or Resize functions - losting file associations ForceVision 3.3 Beta 3: Added: - support for multi-selection for List and Thumbnails mode - pop-up menu for file management for List and Thumbnails mode (copy, cut, paste, properties and others) - pop-up menu for folder management for Folders tree (copy, cut, paste, create new folder, Add to Favorites and others) - dialogs Copy and Move files to specified folder (also you can choose on of the Favorites) - huge number of options for out formats in Batched Format Conversion - Favorites folders manager - now you can assign names to the favorite folders (for more handy access) - Random transition effect option for normal browsing and Slide-Show - support for converting files from different sources (folders, disks) - convertion process now will be displayed in new window - now it is possible to create and delete folders in dialogs of folder selection Improved: - Batched Format Conversion engine and window are totally revised and greatly improved - now file conversion runs in separate thread - user interface in Options window - Viewer window now will get focus automatically for better mouse interrupt - temporary files now created in temporary system fodler - intial folder of Save and Open dialogs now will be stored Fixed: - file sequence in List and Thumbnails mode synchronized - files associations assigning for users without Administrator rights - setting Custom thumbnails size in some cases results in checking Small, Standard, or Large size - ESC starts Full-Screen mode - attempt to load corrupted file results in that malfunction: all other files will not be loaded - after turning-off Full-Screen Viewer's caption display "0x0x24b" if there was no image loaded - Slide-Show finised incorrectly in Thumbnails mode ForceVision 3.10.4: Enhanced: - file associations assignment Fixed: - I/O error 103 were still executed in some cases - file's information in some cases did not correspond to the loaded image - found bugs ForceVision 3.10.3: Fixed: - I\O error 103 message at the start - found bugs ForceVision 3.10.2: Added: - now image resolution and color information is displayed under thumbnails Enhanced: - RAW formats loading speed (loading halfsize) - optimized memory use - several minor enhancements Fixed: - when program starts the first image were loaded twice - bug in 3.10.1: didn't store Favorites list - thumbnails' sizes were incorrect - found bugs ForceVision 3.10.1: Enhanced: - Navigator panel moved to the bottom of Browser window - better response of Navigator panel to a mousewheel Fixed: - Hourglass cursor bug - loading\saving options (Note: first start of ForceVision 3.10.1 will reset all options to defaults) - found bugs ForceVision 3.10: Added: - now you can scroll image with Ctrl key pressed even if another selection mode was selected - selection menu button to the ToolBar - zoom menu button to the ToolBar - crop menu item to the image popupmenu - now alpha channel is saved also with LZW compression Enhanced: - now Status bar displays true color information about image (not internal ForceVision format) - now Navigator window will work even if Viewer window is hidden - now you can navigate through images with mousewheel and focused Navigator panel - mouse wheel will zoom image if Ctrl key is pressed - mouse middle button enables Full-Screen mode - Full-Screen start\stop speed was greatly improved - now it is possible to change zoom ratio in any zoom mode - Viewer window will be shown automatically when Slide-Show starts - Viewer window will be shown automatically when program starts with parameter - the images in thumbnails are resampled only if it is greater than thumbnail size - added shortcuts to the buttons hints on ToolBar's Fixed: - animated GIF caused problems in viewing of certain file types in some cases - image winking while loading new image, when old image has zoom different from 100% - forcing Full-Screen with hidden Viewer window cause an error - now forcing Full-Screen will not result in zoom ratio lost - zoom ratio was always displayed at 100% after Full-Screen - loading image specified as parameter on the program start - zoom ratio is now displayed correctly when mousewheel in use - the first file in a folder was not opened when ForceVision starts - the first file was not opened, when choose new folder - Status bar was not updated after image was pasted - bug loading interlaced PNG - tiff, cannot read palettes with values from 0 to 255 - bug loading compressed TGA - found bugs (!) The License Agreement has been updated. ForceVision 3.08: Added: - an option to exit ForceVision via Esc key Enhanced: - now you can navigate through images with mousewheel - if Shift key ot Middle mouse button is pressed then mousewheel will zoom the image - load/save folder is remembered for current session - filetype detection algorithm Fixed: - small bug in Safe dialog - found bugs ForceVision 3.07: Added: - adjustable Delay Open feature for fast browsing - Viewer window can be hidden via border's close icon - Browser window can be maximized via border's maximaze icon - Install: now you can choose do you want to assign ForceVision to the supported formats - Install: now you can choose do you want to install QuickLunch and Desktop icon Enhanced: - remember last choice of selection - main menu was optimized Changed: - 'Copy' and 'Copy Selection' actions join in 'Copy' action - 'Paste' and 'Paste Selection' actions join in 'Paste' action - Tools window removed - rotate Left and Rotate Right buttons placed on ToolBar - zoom window now on the ToolBar - slightly changed ToolBar - slightly changed Options window - appearance of the progress bar Fixed: - Full-Screen did not start via Enter key when Browser had focus - applying options in some cases result in 'freezed' application - help did not run via F1 hot-key - Home and End buttons now work correctly - Viewer window now remebmer it's last state - bug with file association detection - Uninstall: now deletes ForceVision's file associations - found bugs ForceVision 3.06.1: Added: - support for Spanish - support for French - support for Polish - support for Ukrainian Fixed: - found bugs ForceVision 3.06: Improved: - highly increased speed of turning on/off Full-Screen mode - indication of current Zoom mode in Viewer and Tools - added Ctrl+D hot-key for clear current selection Fixed: - saving from Viewer window - bug in Save As dialog - menu Selection: check-mark doesn't disappear when choose other - Full-Screen keeps clicked status after exit from it - Slide-show keeps clicked status when Slide show reaches the end of folder ForceVision 3.05: Added: - TIFF: now alpha channel is supported for writing (only uncompressed or PackBits compression) - supported real RAW files - PDF: supported LZW compression - read 48 bit CMYK (converting it to 24 bit CMYK) - PPM format: supported read/write 48 bit (RGB, 16-bit per channel) - Slide-Show indication Improved: - performance increased up to 10-25% - enhanced RAW quality - if folder doesn't contain any images, current image and it's information will be removed from Viewer - Navigator's background now equal to Viewer's background - new Setup Changed: - menu was rewised completely - ToolBar, main and context menus were redesigned - hot-keys - language now selecting from Options menu - standard thumbnails sizes Fixed: - setup bug that lead to incorrect set of wallpaper - double-click and Enter now will not execute new instance of ForceVision - ToolBar and Status Bar were dislpayed after Full-Screen - selecting filetype in Save As - reading black/white TGA - reading Olympus E1 RAWs - reading compressed PCX files - writing PDF files (memory leak) - many founded bugs ForceVision 3.04: Added: - supported RGB 48 bit (16 bit per channel) pixel format - supported several RAW camera formats: CRW, CR2, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, ORF, MRW, SRF - TIFF: now it is possible to save (not jpeg compressed) and load with 48bit native format (ie48RGB) - TIFF: now it is possible load images with SamplesPerPixel=2 and with LZW compression - BMP: now supports 32 bit with alpha channel (read/write) - TGA: now can read images with 256 colors palette + alpha channel - now printing supports all pixel formats - read image from URL Fixed: - ICO and CUR file association now not in use - uninstall didn't delete Charset.txt - found bugs ForceVision 3.02: Added: navigator panel 26 new image transitions! controls' hints english language help Improved: performance increased (up to 50% in some cases) Changed: quit hotkey: Ctrl+Q Fixed: CompuServe Bitmap (GIF) were absent in the Open dialog Next and Previous Image buttons using bug found bugs ForceVision 3.01: Fixed: - Animated GIF opening bug - Found bugs ForceVision 3.0: Added: - DCX format support - Image resampling - Crop selection - Clipboard support (copy/paste image and selection) - Drag and Drop support - Details style to List-mode - Language modules support - Upper case option to Format Converting - Shutting off screensaver when in Slide-show mode - ForceVision Help (Russian) - German language by Henri Rehulka Improved: - Active folder is displayed when save modified file - Navigation and Viewer windows snap to edge of screen Changed: - Russian language: now using translation by Aleksandr Tim Fixed: - Navigation's bugs - Converting to g3n, g3f, tga, targa, vda, icb, vst, and pix bug - Uninstall - Found bugs ForceVision 2.75: Added: alpha-channel support for batched format converting Added: converting output formats g3n and g3f Added: status bar which contains information about opened file and fulfilment of the filter Improved: performance increased (up to 100% in some cases) Improved: increased performance of the Balanced rendering at the price of quality Improved: increased quality of the Quality rendering without performance lost Improved: main menu Improved: thumbnail's interface Improved: new design of the buttons on the tool bar Improved: new icons for file associations Fixed: files list was empty Fixed: files were not opened when used files list Fixed: transitions were used incorrect Fixed: browser window was got out from the screen scope at 800x600 at the first start Fixed: file is not opened when navigate to another folder Fixed: bug at Converting window at low screen resolutions Fixed: appearance "???"-symbols at the menu at the start Fixed: found bugs ForceVision also runs under Windows NT4(SP6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- deja vu Picture Viewer has been renamed to ForceVision since version 2.75 --------------------------------------------------------------------------