|
Date |
Version |
Description
of Changes |
|
01/01/2000 |
2000.1 |
Introduced 122 transition effects
between slides. |
| 05/01/2000 |
2000.2 |
Fixed bug in autorun.inf file and
corrected runtime bug. |
| 08/25/2000 |
2000.3 |
Introduced Screen Saver program
as part of package. Introduced the Installation producer as
part of the package. The screen saver program also has 122
transition effects but operates as an operating system screen
saver. The Installation Producer creates a custom Slide Show
and Screen Saver installation program that can be shared with
family and friends. |
| 12/15/2000 |
2000.4 |
Added the ability to turn transitions
off for both the screen saver and slide show. Introduced several
new command line switches that allow better control of the
slide show program when used on CD-ROM's. Fixed a few bugs. |
| 02/15/2001 |
2001.1 |
Added several new features. MP3
and wave files can be played with the slide show. Program now
includes an Autorun Producer that makes the process of creating
CD-ROM's easier. CD-ROM slide shows that you create will not
display the Shareware notice if created with Autorun Producer.
Large images can now be shrunk to fit the screen. Your slide
show can start with a menu of folders from which to choose.
There is also a new popup menu item where a new folder can
be selected. Fixed a few bugs. |
| 03/01/2001 |
2001.2 |
Fixed a bug introduced in 2001.1
in the Installation Producer. Added multiple command line features
to the Installation Producer. |
| 03/23/2001 |
2001.3 |
An entire new program and function
was added with the inclusion Digital Wallpaper Slide Show.
This program allows your desktop wallpaper to act as a slide
show. Features include transparent icons, hidden icons, sound
on wallpaper changes, alphabetical or random slide order, center,
stretch, tile and shrink modes. The Slide Show program has
been improved so that the each time the screen saver is started,
it begins with the last image loaded. A bug in the Autorun
Producer relating to icons was corrected. |
| 05/15/2001 |
2001.4 |
New features added to Slide Show include: 1) Random Images,
2) File Name Titles, 3) Searching sub-folders is now optional.
New features added to Screen Saver include: 1) Random Images,
2) File Name Titles, 3) Searching sub-folders is now optional.
New features added to Wallpaper Changer include: 1) Random
Images, 3) Searching sub-folders is now optional.
Slide Show and Screen Saver were both optimized for speed.
Slide Show may now be operated manually moving forward and
backward through the images using the arrow keys. Several
bugs were fixed. The Installation Producer now saves .Mp3
files to SETUP.EXE. Autorun Producer produced error messages
for some computer configurations. This has been repaired.
Digital Photo Slide Show now includes a photo resizer. This
utility allows you to optimize the size of the photos you
share with friends for common screen sizes. This is especially
helpful for newer digital cameras that produce 3+ mega pixel
images. Large images are difficult for some systems to display.
This utility resizes the images to fit the specified screen
resolution, thus speeding the slide show. |
| 07/01/2001 |
2001.5 |
Fixed a bug in the screen saver introduced with the caption
feature added in 2000.4. Added WinAmp support when playing
music. WinAmp will be used (if available) when the Windows
mp3 codec is not found. WinAmp - Copyright and Trademark
Nullsoft.
|
| 08/01/2001 |
2001.6 |
Fixed a bug in the WinAmp support. Base graphics routines
have been changed. The software now uses ImageEn image processing
components by Hyrix Technologies. This change will pave the
way for more supported image types and additional features. |
| 08/09/2001 |
2001.7 |
Fixed a bug the found its way into
the Installation Producer. Added an entirely new program that
creates slides shows that can be viewed within a web browser. |
| 09/01/2001 |
2001.8 |
Slide Show changes: Fixed a bug that occurred when the program
was stopped in the middle of a transition. Added a close
button in the upper right hand corner to be consistent with
the Windows interface. Added a button to return to the folder
menu. Added documentation for the shortcut arrow keys used
to control the slide show manually from the keyboard. Added
the Escape key as a short cut to exit the program. Fixed
a bug in the Installation Producer to correctly set parameters
for the screen saver.
|
| 10/26/2001 |
2001.9 |
Installation changes: The installation routine now
allows an option for partial installation of the program.
Specific components may be installed or the entire suite
of tools may be installed. There is also an option to make
Digital Photo Screen Saver the default system screen saver. Slide
Show changes: The folder window now appears when ever
the slide show is automatically stopped with a "The
End.jpg" file. Music is also stopped. When the users
selects a new folder and clicks OK the slide show starts
automatically. The folder window now includes a favorites
combo box selector which provides quick links to image folders
previously displayed. If the exit button is clicked or the
escape button is clicked, the slide show now pauses. If the
user elects not to exit the slide show, it is returned to
play mode. The music portion of the slide show was playing
the second song in alphabetical order. This has been changed
so that the first song in alphabetical order is played first.
Several short-cut hot-keys have been added. These are displayed
when you right-click on an image. Wallpaper Slide Show
changes: The program now includes an assistant window
that appears if the user has not selected a folder of photos
to display. This should prevent users from displaying the
default images as their desktop background unless they want
to do so. Installation Producer changes: A Range Check
Error was produced when an invalid picture folder was selected.
This has been fixed. Screen Saver changes: A bug crept
in the prevented editing the screen saver image folder. This
has been corrected. |
| 11/10/2001 |
2001.10 |
Slide Show changes: An error message when using the
menu option with Autorun Producer has been fixed. Support
for the uncompressed TIFF image format has been added. The
task bar was visible when not set to auto-hide. Code has
been added to make sure the task bar is not visible when
a slide show is being displayed. Wallpaper Slide Show
changes: Support for the uncompressed TIFF image format
has been added. Installation Producer changes: Support
for the uncompressed TIFF image format has been added. Screen
Saver changes: Support for the uncompressed TIFF image
format has been added. Photo Resizer changes: Support
for the uncompressed TIFF image format has been added. Autorun
Producer changes: an error message displayed on some
configurations has be fixed. |
| 12/20/2001 |
2001.11 |
New Program: This suite
of photo sharing tools now includes Control Center which makes
it easy for computer novices to access and understand all aspects
of the seven different programs that make up Digital Photo
Slide Show. Slide Show changes: Eliminated a harmless
error that occurred on start up with Windows NT and non-administrative
privileges. Major
Update: Music files are now played with Microsoft
Windows Media Player. Thus, the software requires version 6.4
or greater of Windows Media Player to be installed to play
music files. As a result of this upgrade, Slide Show now supports
.wav, .Mp3, .wma and .mid files. Web Slide Show: fixed
a bug in which "\" were used rather than "/".
Since there was user confusion about the use of templates in
Web Slide Show, that option has been removed. Templates can
still be used but are not a changeable option in the user interface.
The interface has also been changed so that there are only
two tabs, one for a thumbnail grid and another for a web slide
show. Screen Saver changes: Screen Saver now uses an
entirely different set of transitions that will also be ported
to Slide Show in the future. This will pave the way for more
options with respect to transitions. Installation
Producer: Added support for .wav, .wma and .mid music files. Installation
Changes: Control Center may be launched at the end of the
installation. |
| 3/10/2002 |
2002.1 |
Digital Photo Resizer: was
updated so that it can process images in sub-folders making
it easy to resize your entire slide show in one step. Jpeg
compression options were also added. Installation Producer:
was updated to fix a bug that occurred on some systems preventing
a full compile of setup.exe. Web Slide Show had interface
improvements to remove the confusion caused by template options.
Background and text color options were also added. A page title
option was added. Jpeg compression options were added. Web
Slide Show now searches for files recursively in all sub-folders.
Program hints were upgraded in content and style. Wallpaper
Changer: The "Start with Windows" feature default
was changed to off. It will "Start with Windows" when
that check box is checked. Further, this feature now works
correctly with Windows 98 which was a problem in the past.
There was a problem with settings longer than 60 minutes which
was resolved. The maximum time between changes was increased
to 720 minutes (12 hours). The wallpaper changer had some problems
displaying wallpaper with a few systems when the shrink setting
was off. This has been resolved. Finally, there was a problem
with with some systems that caused an unwanted change to the
desktop background pattern. This has also been resolved. Program
hints were upgraded in content and style. Autorun Producer: An
error that occurred on a few Windows 98 systems was resolved.
Program hints were upgraded in content and style. Installation: The
installation program now gives a warning if Wallpaper Slide
Show is running during installation or uninstallation. You
must exit Wallpaper Slide show before installing or uninstalling
the software. Slide Show: A change was made so that
a message about the lack of Windows Media Player support is
displayed as a last resort. Internal .Mp3 player support is
attempted first. Screen Saver: An error that occurred
under unusual circumstances showing "list index out of
bounds" was resolved. A bug that crept in with the last
version that prevented editing the source directory was resolved. |
| 5/03/2002 |
2002.2 |
Slide Show: New transition
technology was ported to Slide Show. Transitions are smoother
and display the same on all computers regardless of CPU performance.
Movie files are now supported in slide show. These include
.mpg, .mpeg and .avi files. Several configuration options were
added pertaining to video support. Slide Show uses Microsoft
Windows ActiveX Media Player to display movies. Thus, Media
Player version 6.4 or higher is required. Windows 2000, ME
and XP are shipped with this support. Windows 95 and 98 may
require an update. If the correct version of media player is
not found Slide Show will direct the user to the appropriate
download site to obtain the current version of Media Player.
If you distribute the Microsoft Media Player installer (mp71.exe)
with your slide show CD-ROM, Slide Show will prompt the user
to install media player. Default transitions for a slide show
may now be selected. Web Slide Show: Now you can set
the maximum number of rows per page for the thumbnail view.
If there are too many thumbnail images to fit on a single page,
then multiple thumbnail pages will be created with a single
index page that links to each thumbnail page. The full view
page also include links to the next and prior images. Autorun
Producer: Default transitions for an entire slide show
may be selected. Autorun producer now creates DSS.INI which
controls transitions and other features of the slide show.
A new button has been added that starts Windows Explorer to
display the files created with Autorun Producer. Screen
Saver: Transitions were revised so that only the image
area is involved in the transition rather than the entire screen.
Movies were NOT added to screen saver. Control Center: The
opening transition screen was removed because of difficulties
caused with certain video drivers. The buttons were also changed. Installation
Producer: The function remains the same but it has been
ported to a wizard format that moves the user through pages
of questions and creates a custom setup.exe program that contains
the user's slide show. Installation: The installation
program now provides an option for desktop icons. This feature
was formerly automatic. |
| 6/01/2002 |
2002.3 |
Slide Show: This version
represents a significant upgrade in features. Slide Show now
supports captions for individual photos. Each caption can have
its own transition, transition duration, background color,
font color, border and translucency. In addition each photo
can have individual settings including its own transitions,
transition duration, and photo duration. Control Center: Added
Stretch Graphic as a slide show option that can be controlled
within Control Center. |
| 6/23/2002 |
2002.4 |
Slide Show: This version
changed a few button graphics and the menu folder button is
now available in the royalty free version. A few minor changes
include the fact the when the menu folder is displayed, the
current slide show folder is displayed in the folder tree.
If the photo properties button or default transitions buttons
are clicked during a CD-ROM slide show, a notice is displayed
the these options cannot be changed because the CD-ROM is read
only. Captions now support multiple paragraphs. Most importantly,
the documentation has been updated. |
| 7/7/2002 |
2002.5 |
Slide Show: Some very helpful
features were added in this version. A new Print Dialog button
has been added to the tool bar so that you can print your images
directly from Slide Show. Simply click the Print button to
print your photos. Fifteen new transitions have been added
bringing the total to 135. The new transitions include a Cool
3D roll transition, water fall and several interlaced transitions.
Captions now support different fonts. Finally, two new rotate
buttons have been added to the tool bar. You can rotate your
images directly from Slide Show. An error that occurred on
systems with an invalid printer configuration has been resolved |
| 9/05/2002 |
2002.6 |
Slide Show: Eliminated a harmless and occasional "Out
of Bounds" error message. Eliminated a division by zero
error that resulted from corrupted jpeg files. Added GIF and PNG file
format support. Slide Show now supports the following formats:
- Image Types: .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, png, & .gif
- Video Types: .mpg, .mpeg, & .avi
Added a delete button to the photo caption/properties window.
Music may now be turn on, off or on the the next song with
each individual photo from the photo caption/properties window. Resizer:
Made the border of the main window resizable. Autorun
Producer: Added control over mpeg and avi video display.
DSS.INI now includes complete configuration information so
that CD produced with Autorun Producer is not required to
autorun to function properly and can be run optionally from
Windows Explorer. Web Slide Show: Added a "Cancel" button
to optionally interrupt the image resizing process. Web Slide
Show now uses a fast linear resampling method that produces
better looking reduced images and thumbnails. |
| 11/15/2002 |
2002.7 |
Autorun Producer: Fixed bug that crept in with version
2002.6 relating to creation of dss.ini settings. Made the
window border sizable for large font support. Added a "Pause
at The End" option so that the slide show can be paused
at the end of the slide show without showing the folder menu. Slide
Show: Random display of images does not repeat an image
until all the images have been displayed at least once. Updated
the method for detection of Windows Media Player to detect
version 7 and 9 more reliably. Further, there is no notice
regarding the absence of Windows Media Player unless it is
necessary to play video or music. Fixed folder menu so that
images are displayed starting with first image after a new
folder is selected. "The End.jpg" is no longer
necessary to show the Folder Menu at the end of the slide
show. Added a "Pause at The End" option to configuration
window. The Photo Properties window now retains the options
selected for the previous photo and applies those to each
future photo property until modified by the user. Image rotation
is now lossless.
PC Slide Show now includes a Thumbnail
Photo Finder. Viewing a slide show but want
to skip to a particular image? Click the thumbnail viewer
icon and select the thumbnail of the image you want to
view and click OK. The slide show automatically skips
to that image.
Web Slide Show: Added the option to show file names
in the Thumbnail View. Digital Photo Resizer: Now
includes a resampling option that allows for different algorithms
during the resizing process. Resampling filters include:
None - Fastest, Fast Linear, Lanczos - Slowest. Also included
GIF and PNG support. Fixed error that was displayed if no
compatible images were found. Control Center: Removed
Show Folder option because it is redundant. |
| 01/31/2003 |
2003.1 |
Web Slide Show: Now offers
three different resampling filters that determine the quality
of the resized images. Now includes a home page link to return
users to your home page. |
| 05/21/2003 |
2003.2 |
PC Slide Show: Added a feature
that allows putting the original full size images on a CD that
will not be displayed by the slide show. To take advantage
of this feature simply place the images that you do NOT want
displayed in "\Originals" folder on the CD-ROM.
All images in this folder will be ignored by the slide show.
A few of the Circle transitions displayed undesirable artifacts
and this has been resolved. Fixed a bug that caused the trial
version to expire when run on Windows 2000 without administrative
privileges. PC Slide Show can now be dynamic. Slides can be
added to the slide show as it is running simply by copying
a new file to the folder being displayed. Each time the slide
show loops the newest set of files are read. Fixed a bug that
caused the background music to repeat the first song under
certain circumstances. Fixed the transition speeds of fast,
medium and slow alpha blend transitions. Wallpaper
Slide Show: Message is displayed if active desktop
mode is interfering with display of wallpaper. Documentation: The
format of the documentation was revised so it is much easier
to print. Web Slide Show: Fixed an error that
occurred if the Template Tab is active when the start button
is clicked. |
| 09/20/2003 |
2003.3 |
PC Slide Show: New
exception handling routines were added that help diagnose rare
bugs that appear under unusual circumstances. A problem with
dual monitors has been fixed. Slide Show now stores DSS.INI
in the current users application folder rather than the Windows
folder. This enables use on Windows XP for users with restricted
privileges. The timing mechanism in PC Slide Show was entirely
rewritten. It should be easier to time presentations more accurately
and consistently across different computers. The speed of each
PC and the Speed of the media being used should no longer result
in varying delays in the display of images. Synchronization
to music will be more accurate. The maximum delay between two
images is now 3600 seconds or one hour. You can now play a
particular audio file with each image, thus allowing audio
annotations of your photos. The thumbnail preview was totally
rewritten. It is much faster and more usable. Adds support
for .WMV video files. The slide show can be advanced manually
with a Left-Click of the mouse. Web Slide Show: Can
change Wallpaper even when Active Desktop is on. |
| 09/06/2004 |
2004.1 |
Digital Photo Explorer:
Now you can display and edit exif jpeg data. You can
even set the copyright exif field for multiple photos at once.
The resizer functions now includes the option of including
a soft shadow yielding a rich 3D look to your photographs.
Emailing photos is now a snap. In one step photos can be resized,
given a soft shadow and emailed as simple attachments or embeded
in HTML email messages. Supports 19 of the most common image
file types and 39 different file extensions. Web Slide
Show: Thumbnails and images produced with Web Slide
Show remove all Exif data so the images are much small and
reduce bandwidth usage. |
| 09/18/2004 |
2004.2 |
Digital Photo Explorer:
Image information screen allows editing of Image Description
exif field. All file formats can now have the appropriate file
extensions associated with DPE so that double clicking on the
files from Windows Explorer results in the file being viewed
with Digital Photo Explorer. |
| 11/22/2004 |
2004.3 |
Digital Photo Explorer:
Added batch edit exif copyright information. You can add your
copyright to hundreds of photos with a few keystrokes. |
| 1/23/2005 |
2005.1 |
Digital Photo Explorer:
DPE Incorporates all suite functions. You can access PC Slide
Show, Web Slide Show, Screen Saver Slide Show, Installation
Producer, Autorun Producer, Wallpaper Slide Show, and Photo
Resizer from an intuitive interface similar to Microsoft Windows
Explorer. DPE now loads faster due to dynamic loading of program
windows. Thumbnail mode now loads all images into the cache
without the necessity of scrolling through the images. The
status of the cache loading process is displayed in a progress
bar in the lower left corner of the status bar. DPE is one
of the fastest thumbnail viewers available at any price. While
viewing photos in thumbnail mode with detailed hint mode active,
exif information is displayed in a hint when the mouse is scrolled
over the thumbnail. |
| 5/25/2005 |
2005.2 |
Digital Photo Explorer: Adds
support for several RAW file types for various camera manufacturers
including Minolta, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, Leica,
Sony and Sigma. Also adds support for various other image
formats. Supports bulk conversion of one file type to another.
All of the Digital Photo Slide Show programs can now be executed
from Digital Photo Explorer. The program help is now in Microsoft
.chm format. |
| 5/01/2006 |
2006.1 |
Digital
Photo Wallpaper:
New Features:
-Raw file support for Minolta, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji, Leica, Sony
and Sigma.
-Save and restore desktop icon postions
-Transparent icons
-Hide desktop icons
-Change colors of desktop, icon text and icon backgroud |
| 2/08/2008 |
2008.1 |
Digital Photo Slide Show: Added support for Windows Vista and Wireless presenters. |
