EzImage Patch Notes: March 04, 2008

Changes/Additions:

-Added the file name as a field entry for Slide Attributes accessible during manual
 slideshow playback using the F1 key. By changing the text in this field, you may
 now rename image files during slideshow playback on the fly.

-Added a thumbnail preview option to the File Rename dialog window. This
 allows you to see a sample of each image, useful when renaming many files
 at one time. The thumbnail option is disabled by default. A full screen
 preview option has also been added, using either the View button or a
 double click on the thumb image.

-Added a Favorites menu to both the Image Preview Browser and the
 Thumbnail Browser. This menu allows you to create a list of favorite
 paths where images are stored. The favorites list is convenient when
 switching the browser between multiple paths without the need to use the
 folder tree navigator. Each path list is separate and can contain up to
 100 path names.

-Image depths greater than 32 bits per pixel are supported for display in
 the thumbnail browser, image list editor, and preview browser. You can
 also copy these images to the clipboard or load them into EzImage for
 editing, BUT they will be converted down to normal 8 bit per channel
 format (i.e. a 16-bit per pixel RGB format will be downsampled into
 8-bit per pixel RGB format).

-A new tool has been added to the Tools menu called Image File Finder. This
 tool allows you to locate images by size, date, pattern, type, width,
 height, bit depth, and print resolution. Options are available to create
 an image list, path list, or delimited text file from the search results.

-An option has been added to the Help menu called File Type Associations.
 This option allows you to bind all supported image formats (with the
 exception of Photoshop PSD) to EzImage. This means that when you double
 click on an image file in another application such as Windows Explorer
 for example, EzImage will be launched and open the image file. Note that
 images will not be loaded if EzImage is currently in script playback or
 record modes.

 This option also allows you to remove the EzImage association and restore
 it back to the prior application(s) that controlled the file types.

-The Paste menu command now checks to see if both a DIB format image and a
 floater exist in the Clipboard, and displays a dialog box allowing you to
 choose which format to paste.

-The New Image menu command now recognizes the presence of a floating
 image when a DIB format image is NOT present in the Clipboard. If only
 a floater is present, the option to set Clipboard as a source format
 for a new image is now enabled with the proper width and height of the
 floater. However, the image must still be manually pasted using the
 Paste menu command.

-The Edit->Clear command was modified to work much faster on very
 large images.

-Image grabber now associates the right mouse button (during drag)
 to pan the image window 10 times the rate of the left mouse
 button. In addition, the SPACE shortcut key now zooms the image
 to fit the window (this is the same action as View->Fit Image
 to Window).

-For pencil, paintbrush, and eraser tools, holding down SHIFT will lock
 the brush movement in the horizontal direction only. Hold down CTRL to
 lock the movement in a vertical direction.

-The Sample Color tool in the Tools Palette and the Image Comparison
 tool have been modified to improve performance when used with the
 selection area Sample Size. The method of operation had not been
 changed.

-Final versions of popup help and application help files put into
 place.

-Minor adjustments were made to incorrect help topic descriptions. As
 of this date, the help topic system is being finalized and there may
 be further adjustments.

-When scanning images using the batch file scan method, the floating
 palette windows (i.e. Tools, Scripts, Info) will be hidden to avoid
 overlapping with the software that was provided with your scanner.
 Palette windows are "stay on top", meaning that they normally sit
 in front of most application windows.

-When scanning images directly into EzImage as new image windows
 using the normal File->Begin Image Scan menu option, the application
 will be minimized while the scanning software is active. Once again,
 this is to prevent window interference between the scanning software
 and the EzImage floating palettes. When the scan is complete, the
 EzImage will automatically be restored, along with the floating
 palette windows.

-For all new images that were created outside of a normal file load process
 (scanned images, duplicated images, selection separations, images from
 the New menu option), the prior file save path was not being 'memorized',
 which is important for saving these types of images in quantity. The way
 files are saved (using Save As only) is as follows:

 If the image refers to a file that already exists on disk (i.e. was loaded
 using the Open command) then the Save As will default to the path that the
 original file is located.

 If the Common Folder Save option is enabled in the application preferences
 (Options II), then all new images will be saved to the specified common
 folder.

 If the common folder option is not checked, then images will be saved to the
 same path as the previous image file save.

Fixes:

- Corrected the AutoTrim Function as it was not using the "Ignore Minimum Size for
  width & height

- Help hints for foreground/background color swap and reset in the Tools
 palette were incorrect.

-File rename using Name Only and Extension Only modes was not working
 properly.

-Cursor key movement within the Image List editor would stop responding to
 keyboard input after using full screen image previews.

-Recent Files and Recent Floaters menu shortcuts placed on the
 Scripts palette did not function properly.

-Playback of Hue and Saturation commands in a script file would
 cause a script to stop if no range restriction was in place.

-The Solarize effect uses a threshold setting, which is an intensity
 cutoff value at which colors are inverted. This is how it is
 documented in the help system. The label that was in the dialog window
 showed 'Cell Size'. This is a cosmetic fix that changed the label to
 the proper wording and does not affect the operation in any way.

-When embedding a SAVE command in a script file, the original file
 reference was not being changed on playback if the image was saved
 under a different format/name/location.

-Minor adjustments to some dialog windows to accommodate Large Fonts
 users.

-The compression quality setting was not being applied when extracting
 FlashPix images using the Multi-page Extraction tool.

-When converting images that have been tagged as Icon/Cursor format
 (using the Import Icon/Cursor feature or the Set Icon/Cursor Set
 Window option) to RGB, Indexed, or Gray Scale format, the tag that
 identifies the window as an icon or cursor will be removed.

-Path list additions from the Path List Editor would only save to
 file, not to the memory resident list.

-Any tools that allow an image to pan using the cursor keys would
 cause the auto-centering of the image to be lost when only one
 scroll bar is present (horizontal or vertical, but not both).

-Cursor keys when attempting to move selections or pan the image
 window would sometimes fail to respond to a keyboard press.

-The ability to save a selection to a brush from a gray scale image
 was missing. This has been added.

-The Reselect method was not always referring to the correct "prior"
 region selection when attempting to restore it.

-Saving floater images that are created from alpha channels, text or
 shape tools to a file would fail on some versions of Windows.

-Floaters rendered from shapes or text using an indexed color image
 as the source would not preserve the color palette when the floater
 was saved in .FLT format.

-Removed shortcut keys from the color palette window popup menu when
 the palette was in edit mode, as this would conflict with the EzImage
 main menu shortcuts.

-Batch file scan with some scanning software would cause the floating
 palettes to disappear.

-The new image command using 'Other Color' on RGB format images would
 not always correctly fill the background color.

-Thumbnail browser popup menus (right click) did not work properly for the
 following menu choices:

 Sorting order
 Thumbnail creation options

-Image preview browser popup menus (right click) did not work properly for the
 following menu choices:

 Sorting order
 Selecting All, None, Inverse

-Slideshow editor popup menus (right click) did not work properly for the
 following menu choices:

 Items in the Save As submenu

-Font size and name changes in general preference would not work properly
 for assigning a new name and size to the following items:

 Thumbnail image labels
 Slideshow text/path/file labels
 Tooltip text

-Preferences would not properly assign the Photo CD size selection option
 (Next Largest or Next Smallest image).

-Sortation indicator in status bar of the thumbnail browser did not
 update all the time.

-An option was allowed to create a new thumbnail database while in full browse
 mode. This is not a permitted option and has been removed.

-Thumbnail browser properties while using the Full Browse mode would not
 work.

-Sortation indicator in status bar of the preview browser did not
 update all the time.