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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)
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