ImageBrowser Release Notes

• Fixed a crash in thumbnail generation.

• Added slideshow. Displays a slideshow, using the Finders slideshow mechanism, using the selected images.
• Added a menu item to capture the current frame of the viewed movie as the thumbnail.
• Reworked movie viewing and fixed problem with first movie sometimes not being correct size.
• Fixed/improved drag and drop, and updating of the list after dragging to some other application.
• Fixed problem where the info for the last image viewed showed up in a tooltip when viewing a movie.

• Fixed issue with window losing focus after file rename.
• Added option to batch rename to use preserve existing file extensions, if any.

• Now a Universal Binary application that runs natively on PPC and Intel Macs.
• Fixed file count display in toolbar.
• Improved thumbnail refresh after creating thumbnails.
• Now tells the OS what image types it supports, allowing you to assign it as a default app for image files.

• Fixed alias support.
• Movie initial zoom can now be less than 1.0, to allow movies to appear smaller than the original size.
• Fixed splitter resize issue.
• Other small fixes.

• REQUIRES OS X 10.4.x
• Improved metadata display. Should show the same metadata as preview.
• support for Aliases
• Improvements to batch rename.
• Refreshing the file list remembers the last viewed image.

Version 2.2.3

• Fix bugs and memory leaks.

Version 2.2.2

• Fix bug with view mode (Actual or Ft To Window) not being remembered.
• Hide zoom percentage when viewing PDFs in Fit To Window mode, because it is not correct.

Version 2.2.1

• Improvements to window layout system. Splitter positions and view types are remembered and restored, and the path for each window is also restored.
• Holding Shift and scrolling the mouse wheel in an image view zooms the image in/out.
• Fixed bug with first view window opening with the wrong size, if the image is wider than it is high.

Version 2.2.0

• Added Window layouts. A collection of list windows can be saved with a name, and later when that name is chosen from the layout menu, the windows are positioned where they were when they were saved.
• Added option to save thumbnails in a user-configurable directory.
• Added '<' and ">' keys as alternatives to the up and down arrow keys.
• Fixed bug with first view window opening with the wrong size.
• When adding a new folder, if the folder already exists the panel is not closed so you can enter a different folder name.

• Added menu command to add a Spotlight/Finder comment to all selected files.
• Changed getting/setting of Spotlight/Finder comments to a direct call, rather than using AppleScript. It is now hugely faster.
• Hides files that have their invisible bit set, if ImageBrowser is set to hide hidden files.
• If the icon is clicked and no windows are open, a new list window is opened.
• Display percentage size of displayed image in toolbar status information.
• Added keyboard scrolling in floating image view windows. Home goes to top of image, End to bottom, Page Up and Down move by a large amount. Arrow keys move by smaller amounts. Combine arrows with Option or Shift to change scroll amount.
• You can now drop an image onto a folder in the same image list as the image to move the image to that folder.
• Fixed problem where directory with the focus after the app started wasn't previewed.
• Added option to warn if an action will open too many viewer windows, or info windows.
• Fixed display of file names containing control characters.

• Added command to resize images and send via email.
• Added Edit toolbar item which allows the currently selected images to be sent to an application chosen from a list of image editors. The editor list can be configured in the preferences dialog.
• Added option to stop looking for a folder preview image if the search takes too long. This makes navigating faster.
• Added option to enable or disable renaming of items by double-clicking their labels in the file list.
• Added option to let vertical drags in the file list start a drag and drop operation rather than extending the selection.
• Option to play movies and sounds automatically when selected.
• Added default zoom for movies.
• Added start and stop movies using space bar.
• Added an option control whether Finder can see the Thumbnail folders. If enabled, the folders are hidden by naming them with a period (.Thumbnails) otherwise they are not hidden (Thumbnails).
• Image List drawing optimisations.
• Fixed problem with thumbnail when image has wrong embedded DPI.
• Re-organised the preferences dialog.
• Improvements to drag and drop between ImageBrowser windows, and between ImageBrowser and Finder.
• Redesigned the Get Info dialog. Metadata (EXIF) description and Finder Comment are now in separate tabs. Finder comment is no longer loaded automatically because using AppleScript dramatically slowed down the display of the window. There is now a button to retrieve the Finder comment instead.
• Added basic file information (Name, size, dimensions) into tooltip when cursor hovers over an image. Can be disabled in preferences.
• New option to not display any thumbnail or icon in the file list.
• Gave the multiple file rename functionality its own menu 'Batch Rename' to make it clear that it exists. Selecting multiple items and selecting Rename still shows the multiple file rename box.

• Added key combos Cmd-Up to go to parent directory and Cmd-Down to go into selected directory.
• Added Parent button for toolbar.
• Removed Parent item from image list.
• Added option to allow delete key to move selected items to trash.
• Reads additional file metadata in Get Info dialog.
• Added editable metadata description field to Get info dialog so that the description can be changed. IMPORTANT: OS X can only read metadata from a small number of formats (TIFF, JPEG, PSD, ?) and can only write to an even smaller number of formats (JPEG, TIFF).
• Added option to hide the folders that Finder hides in the root of the file system (/dev, /etc, ...)

• Added option to control how file names are displayed if they are too long to fit in the list display cell. Names can be truncated, with ellipsis, at the front, end or middle.
• Converted strings to resources to make localisation easier.

• File list can now be arranged by Name, Size, Creation Date or Modified Date. Arrangement can be changed through the View menu, or popup button on the toolbar (add in via the Customize Toolbar menu item).
• Parent entry in file list is no longer editable.
• When selected, directory label is now shown in white so it is easier to see against the highlight colour.
• Fixed small memory leaks.

• Fix memory leaks.

• Add viewing of PDF files, EPS files and Illustrator files that are PDF compatible. Note that rotating one of these files will rasterize the image.
• Menu and toolbar items for next and previous pages in PDFs.
• Add option to set the image background to a colour, or transparent.
• Add option to enable animating on appropriate images e.g. animated gifs. (10.3 or later only).
• Reorganized preferences loading to be more robust.
• Fix crash on Info dialog.

• Hopefully a real fix for the crash at startup!

• Hopefully a fix for the crash at startup.

• Basic support for audio files by defining audio file extensions in preferences dialog.
• Navigating up from root (/) takes you to /Volumes so you can select a different volume to browse.
• Floating viewer windows should stay clear of the dock.
• Configurable Movie file types list. Entries can be extensions or 4-character type codes in single quotes e.g. 'MPEG'.
• Option to disable delete confirmation dialogs.
• Option for smoothing (filtering) of thumbnails.

• MOVIE viewing!
• Actual Size and Fit To Window toolbar buttons.
• Uses file types as well as extension to determine file type when showing in list.
• Option to set the view mode of new floating view windows.
• Faster folder preview.
• Options for movie previews.

• Scroll image by dragging with the mouse.
• Bookmarks now handle tilde in path.
• First 10 bookmarks get key equivalents for keys Cmd-1, Cmd-2, ... Cmd-0.
• Rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise menu Items and toolbar buttons.
• Improved menu and toolbar validation.
• File comment (from Finder Get Info) viewing/editing in info dialog.
• Cut, Copy and Paste key equivalents now work when editing filenames.
• 'Proportional' display mode changed to 'Fit to Window'.
• Zoom in and out toolbar items.
• Option to turn folder preview on or off.
• Zoom fixed for 'Fit to Window' display mode.
• Application now has Help.
• Thumbnails are now made on a white background, which makes images with transparent images look better in the list.

• Configurable Zoom amount.
• Copy as well as move when dragging and dropping.
• Optionally create a thumbnail when an image is viewed.
• 'Edit with Default Application' menu command.
• A couple of small fixes and tweaks.

• Initial release