Posts Tagged ‘Unicode’

FuturixImager “Splash” α4

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

I missed my deadline by one hour – but at least I made it in the end ;-)

New features:

  • Reworked plug-in system with major performance optimisations, plug-in caching, and future-proof plug-in interfaces
  • Several plug-ins from 5.9.4 were ported to the new plug-in system (they will be available separately in the final release, but right now I put them all into the main installer – which is rather large because of this)

Download now (2.79 MB)

Coming up:
I’m planning to release final Alpha by the end of the week – it will be the last version with changes aimed at plug-in developers, after that I will start releasing Beta versions with new interesting features (finally!).

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FuturixImager “Splash” α2

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Second alpha version of Unicode-enabled FuturixImager is now available :-)

Download now (1.3 mb)

New features:

  • Many bug-fixes in Unicode support
  • Added support for media keyboard keys, mouse wheel click, and side mouse buttons
  • Restored functionality of “Info” dialog

Known issues are the same as with Alpha 1 (no plug-ins available, etc). Please note that this is a very early preview of the next release of FuturixImager – it lacks many features that are expected of a normal image viewer and undoubtedly has a lot of bugs (but that is the point of alpha and beta releases, isn’t it?).
The next update (aka Alpha 3) will be available by the end of the week.

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FuturixImager “Splash” α1

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

First preview release of Unicode-enabled FuturixImager is now available :-)
I decided to release it under the codename “Splash” – mostly because I’m undecided about the version number for this release.

Download now (1.3 mb)

New features:

  • FuturixImager now supports Unicode
  • Major speed improvements
  • List of recently opened files rewritten (plus it now also appears in context menu)

Known issues:

  • No plug-ins, themes, or translations are currently available for this preview; the ones from earlier versions will not work with the preview…
  • “Info” dialog is mostly broken (no EXIF information displayed, no histogram)
  • “Open” dialog no longer shows thumbnail quick preview (in the future releases thumbnails will be shown in file browser)
  • This preview will co-exist with older versions and shouldn’t affect them at all (just make sure you are installing it to the different folder)

The next update (aka Alpha 2) will follow early next week – I’m going to release previews often.
Have fun! :-D

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Unicode is go!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I’ve just completed first working build of FuturixImager with Unicode support! Some minor stuff is broken, but the core works perfectly – I just opened image with Russian file-name on OS without Russian locale activated. Woo-hoo! :-D

Update:
You can expect first public preview within a week :-)

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