IconPainter Bug fixes & Changes history
Changes in Version 1.0
Fixed - Custom grid square size would produce error when software restarted
Fixed - Drag outside the grid would sometimes produce an error
New - Added new IEButton version with sliding tooltips
New - Added simple background shadow option on all lines and shapes.
New - Ability to draw directly on image so product is also image editor (major enhancement).
New - Took out 'create' menu - replaced with buttons.
New - Made move buttons repeating if held down (also custom dimension buttons).
New - Added fast gradient shading method to overcome large image slowness.
New - Support for Windows ICO format (all sizes), CUR, BMP and non-patent GIF.
New - Image resized when grid resized.
New - Simplified menu bar, took out options accessed by buttons except for file menu.
New - Added buttons for erase, resize and grid square.
New - Added image processing functions.
Changes in Version 1.1
Fixed - Some main menu repaints didn't occur when they should have.
New - Added test of Java version in case of attempt to run with less than 1.2.
New - Added Cut/Copy/Paste.
New - Added background repaint option to effects menu.
Fixed - Closing some dialogs didn't repaint the screen afterwards.
Fixed - Opening new icon didn't always clear the grid first.
Changes in Version 1.2
Fixed - Flood filling on a pixel that is already the target color gives an infinite loop.
Fixed - Changing the font type didn't automatically redraw text.
Fixed - Status message doesn't change after flood-filling and some other ops.
Fixed - The custom grid square size produced a fatal error when applied.
New - Much better shadowing
New - Buttonize, Fuzz filter
New - Full support for the Microsoft ANI format.
Changes in version 1.3
Fixed - Help box didn't stay open while using product
Fixed - Unable to cut image from bmp file
Fixed - Cutting out an image had one pixel error in both height and width
New - JFileChooser replaced with rewrite with faster thumbnailing & less bugs
New - PNG support added based on Java Advanced Imaging library
New - PICT read only support based on Apple's QuickTime for Java
New - More flood-fill options with added checks to avoid out of memory condition
Changes in version 1.4
Fixed - Opened files subsequently saved became the wrong file type (1.3 only bug).
Changes in version 1.5
Fixed - PNG open/save wouldn't function with the JAI 1.0 release because of package renaming
Changes in version 1.6
Fixed - The full list of available fonts did not display correctly
Changes in version 1.7
Fixed - The palette save/load used Swing file chooser instead of EquitySoft chooser
Fixed - The font chooser didn't display the pre-1.2 fonts correctly
New - Background and second color choosable from an image pixel in the current image
Changes in version 1.8
New - RGB value of current pixel under cursor now appears under the image
New - Expanded palette in toolbar to 44 colors
New - Added gray scale palette option and dropped web safe palette
Fixed - Sometimes clicking a pixel in an image to get the color wouldn't work
Changes in version 1.9
New - Added full support for the XBM and XPM file formats
New - A clipping region can be set for all drawing operations
New - The splash image can be turned off by registered users
New - Recent file list in File menu made longer
New - Definitions of polygon shapes can be saved to files and drawn when needed
New - On resizing the image the current contents can remain the same or can also be resized
New - A crop function added
Fixed - After reading in a GIF file the internal Java image cache wasn't flushed
Changes in version 2.0
New - The current color can be specified in Hex
New - The image can be flipped horizontally or vertically
Changes in version 2.1
Fixed - Problems reading XPM file colors where color name follows the color's hex value
New - Any section of an image can be repeated as a tile across the image
New - Painting can be done with an image texture instead of a color. The texture can be any image.
New - The image center can now be indicated with two crossed lines
Changes in version 2.2
Fixed - The XPM decoder would trip up if comments appeared randomly in an XPM file
Fixed - When saving to an existing ICO or CUR file no dialog to confirm an overwrite appears
Fixed - Tooltips changed to run correctly with Linux
New - TIFF reading and writing using the codec in the Java Advanced Imaging extension
New - New image file chooser that can show all the images in a directory at once
Changes in version 2.3
Fixed - Some problems running with Java 1.3 VM
Changes in version 2.4
Fixed - Some problems with flushing the image cache
Changes in version 2.5
Fixed - Selecting a directory in the choosers now requires a double click
Fixed - IconPainter remembers the last open from and saved to directories separately
Changes in version 2.6
New - Added WBMP support
Fixed - Full PNG support using Java 1.3 or above
Changes in version 2.7
New - Added palette of all unique colors in image to the color counting function
Changes in version 2.8
New - Added screen capture