aseprite/NEWS.txt

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NEWS
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0.5
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- Added features-requested by Carl Olsson:
  + better "snap to grid" support for box-like tools (rectangle,
    ellipse, etc.).
  + floating selection now "snap to grid" also.
  + added a subpixel movement for zoomed-cursors in the editor, to
    known where we are inside the pixel.
- Better support for the mouse wheel and middle button in the
  sprite-editor (to scroll and zoom).
- GIF support to save file fully supported by default.
- Fixed compilation with Allegro 4.2.3 SVN (and fixed a bug in Allegro
  with key_shifts).
- Now the full-screen or windowed state is remembered (thanks
  to Manuel De Miguel Moreno to report it).

0.4
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- Removed the console mode.
- Changed Film Editor shortcut: TAB key.
- New feature: Each animation frame has duration.
- New Palette Editor (F4 key).
- Now sprites support multiple palettes: Each frame can has its own
  color palette.
- Added support to load GIF files (by Elias Pschernig).
- Added a combobox to file-selection to handle the bookmarks.
- Added rotation!!!  Now you can scale and rotate what you paste from
  the clipboard.

0.3.1
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- Fixed the creation of session files when an exception (fatal error)
  happens in Windows.
- Added es.po and tips.es files.

0.3
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- Added session manager (if the program crashes the session is saved
  automatically).
- Added a tool to draw text (finally).
- More documentation and tips.
- Improved the frame adding process.
- Fixed important bugs.
- Added a mapgen utility (original code by Johan Halm<6C>n and Anders
  Andersson).
- Spanish language support (now works in Windows too).
- Internal code improved (mainly GUI parts, and functions names).

0.2.4
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- More stable undo: with limit and without the strange
  redo-after-overwrite-undo feature.
- New median filter to despeckle images.
- Updated alternative support to load/save JPEG files with JPGalleg 2.3
  library, thanks to Angelo Mottola for this.
- Fixed problems with non-US keyboards: the Alt key can't be used for
  shortcuts.  Some combinations changes:
  + <~> to <`>             (open film editor)
  + <Ctrl+/> to <?>        (mask by color)
  + <Ctrl+~> to <Ctrl+4>   (close current editor)
- Added Cut, Copy, Paste!
- Added AutoCrop (before known as Trim).

0.2.3
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- Fixed routine to save JPG files.
- Fixed and improved various parts of GUI.

0.2.2
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- Added some documentation to write Lua scripts.
- Film Editor was improved.
- Fixed errors with the graphics cursor, some keyboard problems, and
  various minor bugs.
- New tips with text and images.  This will be very useful for
  beginners.
- Onionskin feature is done.
- Added (optional) ordered dithering to render RGB images in 8 bpp.
- New actions: Merge Down, New Frame, Copy Frame, change Image Type!,
  Load Script File.
- Optimized the drawing speed with tiled mode.

0.2.1
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- Fixed in Windows version: spray and some errors saving file-names in
  the configuration file.
- Added libintl support and the Spanish translation (only for Linux,
  but I have planned make this usable in Windows).
- More undo support: insert/remove layers and mask modifications.
- Filters Convolution Matrix and Color Curve are back.
- Added more basic operations (with undo support): flatten layers,
  duplicate layer, duplicate sprite, horizontal/vertical flip, crop
  frame.
- New .ASE format (in alpha status, please test it!).
- Easy script routines: now are a high-level layer of routines (easy
  to use and understand), and the low-level routine's set (for
  internal or more specific works).
- Removed all the interpolation stuff between key-frames: yes, after
  thinking, this make too hard the animation edition (so the "fancy
  spline interpolation" was removed).
- Optimized the editor's speed in scroll movements.
- The Film Editor is almost done for layers and frames handle.
- Fixed filters using mask with displaced layers.
- Support to apply filters to various frames/layers at the same time.
- Added differents screen layouts in main.jid (see FAQ.txt to see how
  change between them).
- The tool bar is back!

0.2
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- Fixed a lot of bugs.
- Added optional support for JPEG with JPGalleg 2.0 library.
- Added draw mode: Opaque (normal), Glass (transparent), Semi
  (pattern).
- Added brush types: Circle, Square, Line.
- Implemented a fake-palette system to make the GUI usable with any
  sprite palette (mainly to avoid "black-screen" situations when open
  sprites with ugly palettes).
- The palette editor has more improvements (like the possibility to
  move the selection range).
- "menus" file modified a bit.  Some keyboard bindings have change
  (and new ones added), you can see the "docs/QuickHelp.html" file for
  more help.  Anyway, I try to leave the compability in the more used
  commands.
- Full scripting support with Lua-5.0.  Sprites and GUI controllable
  from same scripts, to give you an idea, various of menus actions are
  programmed directly with scripts.
- Complete selection handle (mask regions).  You can select irregular
  areas (add, subtract, intersect, by color), save and load them in
  the .MSK Animator Pro format.
- Multiple editors.  Now you will be able to edit an image with zoom
  and see the results in other editors (updated in real-time).
- New Gfx-core.  All sprite/image/layer/prop/key stuff was
  reprogrammed.  The more big change, was to property/keyframe level
  (the properties can be with lineal or spline interpolation, also,
  have a ending flag to make circular movements or patterns of movement).
- New GUI.  The look and the internal code was reestructured
  completelly, I made a new GUI library: Jinete (rider).

0.1.2
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- New RLE Gaussian Blur effect (from The GIMP source code).
- Blender modes are back!: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay,
  Hard Light, Darken, Lighten, Addition, Subtract, Difference, Hue,
  Saturation, Color, Luminosity.
- Better the GUI look: With colors, this should be less boring :-)
- Added a graphics selection dialog where you can specify any
  resolution (this could be useful for windowed modes).
- Back again to the good-and-peaceful-allegro-like makefiles. Ok, ok,
  the GNU style was the worst change in ASE, but now is fixed :-)
- Removed the .DLL or .so capability for plug-ins. After some weeks of
  thinking, I decide to strip off this feature because is too hard to
  do a good system to attach new plug-ins with the current menu
  implementation. The most user are just "user" and don't will copy
  the plug-in and modify the `menus' to add a new entry with a little
  script-string to call the new plug-in action. Also, this save me a
  lot of headaches :-)
- Added multiple filter application: Now, you can apply effects to
  every layer, to every animation frame, or both.
- Added the "Recent Files" list.
- A complete set of scripts routines to handle paths.
- New selection type: "shrink", to shrink the selection to the current
  layer bitmap bounds.
- New "trim_sprite" action.

0.1.0
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- Removed the `move' tool to displace layers (it was redundant).
- New interface to load Plug-Ins in a dynamic way (DLL, .so).
- Complete new support for JPEG files (RGB/grayscale) load/save:
  athwart the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG Library.
- New actions:
  + trim_layer_bitmap: trim the current layer to the selection bounds.
  + merge_down: to merge the current layer with the next one.
  + make_undo_animation: to make an animation from the undo
    operations (to see all the progression of the graphics).
  + undo_history: to undo/redo various operations.
  + color_curve: to make color conversion effects pixel by pixel.
- Improved the `Color Replace' command (with `tolerance' and `preview').
- A new optimized layer-bar, to handle all the keyframe/properties stuff.
- Various things rewritten to Plug-Ins:
  + file formats,
  + actions for menus (also, now these actions can be used from scripts).
- Replaced the old `color depth' system to the new `image types':
  From now, an image can be: RGB, Grayscale, or Indexed type.
- New ASE Library, with a complete new design to handle:
  images, layers, bitmaps, properties, keyframes, etc.
- Source code to GNU style: with configure.in, Makefile.am, etc.

0.0.7
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- New scripts routines: request(), apply_filter(), load_sprite(),
  and save_sprite().
- Support to load FLI/FLC and to save FLC files. Yes! Now with ASE
  you can make FLC animations with a good compression performance.
- Added the posibility to load/save sequences of bitmaps: like ani00.pcx,
  ani01.pcx, ani02.pcx, etc.
- More undo functionality. I re-wrote the entire `undo' system.
- New rectangular-selection tool: Now you can cut, copy, paste and clear.
- New RLE compression for 8 bpp in .ase files.
- Support to load .ase files of `0.0.6' and `0.0.7 CVS (important stage)':
  I recommend you upgrade all your .ase files to the `0.0.7 release' version.
- New properties for keyframes: now each keyframe has its position and alpha,
  with this you can make animations of objects moving only the keyframes
  (all the intermediate frames will be calculate automatically).
- Now the program remember the configuration (through `ase.cfg').
- Added a new draw-tiled mode.
- New full-screen editing mode. With resizable layer-bar.
- Added an options to draw the previous frame in transparent mode.
- Removed the `background' properties of layers: from now, a layer
  will be transparent (masked-blitting) ever. With this are fixed
  a lot of problems with load/save routines in old versions.
- New `reload_menus' command.

0.0.6
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- I still don't recommend you the .ase format (just for temporary usage):
  there are planes to change it.
- Scripting capability athwart Lua language (http://www.lua.org/):
  now, you can make automatic tasks programming your own scripts
  (included some scripts as example).
- Independent `alpha' (global transparency) and `blender-mode' for
  each layer (like in GIMP and Adobe Photoshop).
- Improved the layer/frame-control:
  Now add/remove/move/copy layer and frames are really-very-easy
  with the new layer-panel (like in Macromedia Flash).
- More easy tool-configuration.
- New drawing tool: real-pencil, with a unique and original algorithm.
- Removed all the use of the Allegro GUI.
- New original (and ugly) GUI look:
  now, the colors are in harmony for the eyes.

0.0.5
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- More facilities to handle colors with different `alpha'.
- New animation control: need test (see `bugs.txt' to report errors).
- Optimized the color-selection dialog: now you can make gammas
  between *four* colors.
- Added a `preview' in the apply-filter dialog.
- New improved gui system (for the users and for the developers).
- New `tile' and `reload' option for the filters.
- New view-tile option in tool-menu (for make tileable patterns).

0.0.4
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- Modificable draw properties:
  thickness, alpha color, spray random factor, and spray radius.
- Undo support for all tools.
- Multiple drawing tools support:
  pixel, pencil, fill, spray, line, rectangle, and ellipse;
- New improved layer control.
- A lot of optimizations in the status bar.
- New duplicate sprite option.
- New session manager, for load and save your work. Other utility of this,
  is if the program crash for any reason, it auto-backups your data.
- Bad news: the old .ase format is incompatible with the new one:
  I recommend you don't save in .ase until the 0.1 release.
- New "visible" property for hide and show the layers.
- New change color-depth function.
- Added a set-gfx-mode option in the system-menu.
- New duplicate layer support.

0.0.3
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- New .ase format (for save the layers).
- More keyboard shorcuts (with a new `keys.txt').
- New layers operations: insert, move and remove.
- RGBA (alpha channel) bitmaps support.
- New filter capability, with some examples of filters.
- An incredible new way to create dialogs (for programmers only).
- More "Windows friendly" text files.
- New optimized status bar.
- New improved look of the GUI.

0.0.2
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- New "infinite" Undo & Redo support.
- Some importants bug fixed.

0.0.1
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- One tool: interactive line.
- Color selection support.
- Poor palette modification capability.