Icon Collector Graphics Editor: Revision History

• 'Visit Great Owl Software Home Page' and 'Visit Product Registration Page' menu items added to Help menu.
• Bug fix so image files are overwritten in the desired file format. The old behavior was to overwrite files using the file's existing format.

• MAJOR: Includes editing support for 24-bit images.
• 'Area' tool allows areas to be moved in 'transparency' mode.
• Added 'Copy' and 'Paste' menu items to the 'Edit' menu.
• Bug fix so 256-color Windows .ICO files are saved correctly.
• Bug fix so read-only files can be opened.
• Introduction of new editing tools for registered users.

• Added 'Next Image' and 'Previous Image' menu items to the 'View' menu.
• Added 'Drag and drop' support for use with the Windows Explorer or File Manager.
• 'Screen Capture' tool enhancement to allow 24-bit images to be captured and cstomized color palette to be created.
• Bug fix so that cursor hotspot is remembered after loading a cursor file.
• Introduction of new editing tools for registered users.

• MAJOR: Includes support for editing multiple image files at the same time.
• Caption bar of the editor now displays the filename of the selected image file.
• Added 'Previous Image File' and 'Next Image File' menu items to the 'File' menu to allow selection of an image file.
• Enhancement to 'Undo/Redo' so that each image remembers the last 25 undo/redo operations that have been performed on the image.
• Added 'Options' menu item to the 'Tools' menu to allow image sizes to be defined by the user.
• Enhancement so that there is smoother repainting of the toolbar when the editor window is resized.
• Enhancement so that there is better field layout handling when editing a large image.
• Enhancement to the 'Area' Tool so that it remembers the 'Paste' mode between sessions.
• Bug fix to the 'Nudge' functions so that the horizontal extent of the 'nudge' area is limited by the image's width (and not the height).
• Bug fix so that the 'file list' menu items found in the 'File' menu are numbered at startup.
• Bug fix to the 'Area' tool so that the editor window can be resized when it is the selected tool.
• Bug fix so that the link used by the 'Product Registration Page' is to a valid URL.

• Added 'Send Mail Feature Request' to the 'Help' menu.
• Added 'Send Mail Bug Report' to the 'Help' menu.
• Bug fix so that transparent and inverse colors are properly drawn onto the image when using a non-standard color palette.  Standard color palettes are those in which the first color entry is 'black' and the last is 'white'.
• Bug fix to the installation program so that 'Add/Remove Programs' can be used to uninstall the program.

Version 3.00 Revision 5A:

• Enhancement to the .EXE/.DLL file viewer so that icons can be extracted from files used by Windows 95/98/NT (32-bit). The old code only allowed icons to be extracted from files used by Windows 3.X (16-bit).
• Bug fix to ‘Send Mail Feature Request’ and ‘Send Mail Bug Report’ commands so that they would work with computer systems that do not support ‘Extended MAPI’.

• Added ‘Configure Palette’ command so that an image’s color information can be manipulated. Manipulations include such features as the ability to reduce the number of colors used to display the image, reordering of the colors so that they are ordered from ‘most popular’ to ‘least popular’, and color gradation.
• Added ‘Save Color Palette’ command so that color information can be saved.
• Added ‘Load Color Palette’ command so that color information can be retrieved.
• Added two new panels to the status bar that display the current pen selections.
• Bug fix to the ‘Draw Text’ tool so that resource leak does not occur.
• Bug fix to file chooser (used by file ‘Open’ and ‘Save’ commands) so that the filter string used by the ‘All image files’ file type is constructed properly.
• Enhancement so that a nicer ‘placeholder’ icon is used when the image is too large to display in the workspace area.

• Added ‘Color‘ and ‘Convert‘ menus to provide access to new commands.
• Added ‘Configure Palette’, ‘Load Color Palette’, and ‘Save Color Palette‘ commands to the ‘Color’ menu.
• Added ‘Set Screen Color‘ command to the ‘Color’ menu so that the user can configure the color to use for the transparent portions of the image.
• Added ‘Set Inverse Color‘ command to the ‘Color’ menu so that the user can configure the color to use for the transparent portions of the image that is the inverse of the screen.
• Added ‘Convert Size‘ command to the ‘Convert’ menu so that the user can quickly change the size of the image.
• Added commands to the ‘Convert’ menu so that the user can quickly change the image to have 2 colors, 16 colors, 256 colors, or to be a ‘true color ‘image.
• Added ‘Other’ page to the ‘Options‘ command in the ‘Tools’ menu that allows the user to specify whether the splash screen is displayed and whether the last loaded image should be reloaded.
• Added file support for being able to read JPEG images.
• Added new ‘Antialiasing’ tool.
• Added new ‘Brightness/Contrast’ tool.
• Bug fix so that 24-bit Windows .ICO files will load properly.
• Enhancement to ‘Screen’ and ‘Inverse’ representation boxes so that they can be double clicked in order to set the screen and inverse colors.
• Enhancement to ‘Add Image‘ command so that the user can specify whether the new image should be blank or a copy of the current image (with or without stretching).
• Enhancement to ‘Add Image’ command by removing restriction that forced an image to have a unique width, height, and depth.
• Enhancement to file saving so that a success message is displayed after being saved.
• Enhancement to file saving so that the user is prompted with an option to save the current image if saving multiple images is not allowed by the saved file format.
• Enhancement to file opening so that an error message is displayed if the file can not be found.
• Enhancement so that the pen selection is remembered between sessions.

• Added new ‘Import Image‘ tool.
• Added file support to read Amiga ILBM image files.
• Added file support to read Macintosh image files.
• Added file support to read OS/2 icon image files.
• Added file support to read and write X BitMap image files.
• Added file support to read and write X PixMap image files.
• Added ‘File Types’ page to the ‘Options’ dialog that allows you to select the file formats that you use.
• Added ‘Tool Key Bindings’ page to the ‘Options’ dialog that allows you to quickly activate tools by associating them with hot keys.
• Bug fix so that the ‘Inject Icon‘ tool does not attempt to inject an icon when the ‘Cancel’ button is chosen.
• Bug fix to the ‘Open’ command so that the dialog that asks for the file name does not return an error code when an error does not occur. This fixes the problem in which an image file can be selected but can not be opened.
• Enhancement to the color conversion commands (2 Colors, 16 Colors, 256 Colors, and True Color) so that a palette can be selected for the new image and error diffusion can be used to generate higher quality images.
• Enhancement to the ‘Add Image’ command so that the new image can be created from the selected area of the current image.
• Enhancement to the ‘Convert Size’ command so that the new image can be created from the selected area of the current image.
• Enhancement to the ‘Load Color Palette’ and the ‘Save Color Palette’ commands so that they support the JASC palette files used by JASC’s ‘
  Paint Shop Pro’.
• Moved the ‘Previous Image File‘ and the ‘Next Image File’ commands from the ‘File’ menu to the ‘View’ menu.

• Added compatibility with Microsoft Windows NT (tested with NT Workstation 4.0).
• Added picture list that displays all images contained within the selected image file.
• Enhancement to the 'Flood Fill' tool to support gradient flood filling (horizontal, vertical, conical).
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.

Version 3.00 Revision 9A:

• Bug Fix to the installation program so that the installation will continue if edit fields (user name, company name, registration code) are empty.
• Bug fix to the ‘Area’ tool so that it does not crash when a file is being opened.
• Bug fix to the ‘Area’ tool so that its selected area remains visible after switching from one image to the next.
• Enhancement to the ‘Area’ tool so that the tool is switched to the ‘No area yet selected’ mode after cutting or copying an area to the clipboard.
• Enhancement to the ‘Screen Capture’ tool so that it immediately enters ‘capture’ mode when the tool is selected.

Version 3.00 Revision 9B:

• Bug Fix to the ‘Windows Metafile’ (*.wmf) file viewer so that it no longer reports error messages when it is unable to validate a file as being a metafile.
• Enhancement to the ‘Windows Cursor’ (*.cur) file viewer so that it is able to read cursor files that contain 24-bit images.

• Bug fix to the following tools so that they do not draw onto the image when opening a file by double-clicking on the filename from the ‘Open’ dialog: Pencil, Brush, Line, and Text.
• Bug fix to the Spray tool so that it does generate a fault when it is selected.
• Enhancement so that help text is displayed in the status bar when menu items are selected.
• Enhancement to the ‘restricted feature’ dialog so that you can press a button to launch your web browser and visit the ‘Great Owl Software’ web site to learn more information about the feature.
• Change to the Save and Save As commands so that status information is displayed in the status bar after the operation is complete instead of a message box that requires user intervention to dismiss.

• Added ‘Convert to Button‘ tool to the installation program.
• Enhancement to support registration codes that are not associated with user names.
• Enhancement to the ‘About’ command so that registration information can be edited by holding the SHIFT key while choosing the command.

• MAJOR: Added View as Icon List program mode.
• MAJOR: Added Opacity setting.
• Added ‘New image set command.
• Added ‘Close All command.
• Added ‘Clear Image command.
• Added an option to the ‘Options’ dialog that allows the default image size and depth to be set.
• Added an option to the ‘Options’ to display the RGB values for the pixel under the cursor in the status bar.
• Bug fix so that images are added at the end of the list instead of the beginning. This fixes the problem where images are listed in reverse order from their layout in their image file.
• Bug fix to DLL file saving so that the DLL file does not have to preexist in order to be saved.
• Bug fix to the XBM and XPM file format viewers so that images with long filenames are saved properly and so that the file can be read when the “unsigned” keyword is not present.
• Bug fix to the XPM file format viewer so that transparent pixels are preserved and not converted into a non-transparent color when an image is saved.
• Enhancement to the XBM file format viewer so that images are saved with transparent pixels represented by the color that most closely matches the screen representation color.
• Enhancement to the XBM file format viewer so that images can be saved with newline <CR> or newline/linefeed <CRLF> characters.
• Enhancement to the JPEG file format viewer so that it supports file saving.
• Enhancement to the JPEG file format viewer so that the quality factor can be set when saving an image.
• Enhancement to the Change Pixels from 'A' to 'B' tool so that it works with true color images.
• Enhancement to the image list so that right-clicking on it will display a menu of the most useful commands.
• Enhancement to the Ellipse tools so that the setting that defines whether the ellipse is drawn by a bounding rectangle or a center point is remembered between sessions.
• Enhancement to the Copy to Clipboard command so that a status message is displayed in the status bar after being used.
• Enhancement to the Delete Image command so it is bound to the Ctrl + D key.
• Enhancement to the Delete Image command so that it displays a prompt to make sure you really want to remove an image. You can skip the display of the prompt by choosing the command with the SHIFT key down.
• Enhancement to the Convert Size command to provide an option that would append rows and columns to the current image size.
• Enhancement for ‘Screen’ and ‘Inverse’ pen selection so that an error message is displayed in the status bar when the pen can not be selected.
• Enhancement so that the maximum image size is now 400 (width) x 400 (height) instead of 300 x 300.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.

• Added new ‘Montage‘ tool.
• Added an option to the Options dialog to specify whether a new icon is transparent or filled with the background color (Pen B).
• Added an option to the Options dialog to specify whether the Paste from Clipboard command stretches the clipboard image over the image/selected area or switches to the Area tool and activates the ‘Paste Area’ command.
• Added an option to the Options dialog to specify whether clipboard bitmaps are to be considered opaque or whether transparency can be determined by looking at the bitmap’s edge pixels.
• Added an option to the Options dialog to specify whether the Send Mail Feature Request and Send Mail Bug Report commands should be disabled.
• Added an option to the Options dialog to specify whether the ‘Are you sure you want to quit’ message prompt is displayed when exiting from the program.
• Bug fix to file manager so that it is able to determine a file’s type when its name do not contain an extension.
• Bug fix to the Macintosh file format viewer so that its header does require the ‘name’ value to be ‘Icon\d’.
• Bug fix to Copy to Clipboard command so that the image copied to the clipboard does not contain effects caused by the selected tool.
• Bug fix to the way the selected area is drawn by the Area tool.
• Enhancement to the Paste from Clipboard command so that it is able to work with device-dependent bitmaps.
• Enhancement to the Area tool so that the selected area can be copied and dragged by holding down the Ctrl key.
• Enhancement to the Options dialog so it is bound to the Ctrl + T key.
• Enhancement to Next Image File command so it is bound to the Ctrl + Tab key (the old key binding remains in effect).
• Enhancement to Previous Image File command so it is bound to the Ctrl + Shift + Tab key (the old key binding remains in effect).
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.

• Removed the 'Send Mail Feature Request' and the 'Send Mail Bug Report' commands.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.