ThumbHTML - version history: ---------------------------- 2.4.1 (27/11/2002) ------------------ Fixed EXIF image date to be the date of the original image, rather than date last modified (Eirik Ora) Fixed crash when trying to access an empty A: drive (Peter van Lune) Added the ability to choose a background image instead of a background colour (Radu Catina, Georg Reichard, Peter van Lune) 2.4.0 (16/11/2002) ------------------ Fixed bug in reading EXIF data, where picture information did not appear to be extracted from the image. This occurred for filenames > 20 characters. I have now increased the filename field to 30 characters. (Eirik Ora) Fixed bug in the slideshow applets in which an incorrect backslash '\' was inserted before filenames in the 'root' folder (Eirik Ora) Fixed bug in which the 'html' part of filenames was missing - this was a bug introduced earlier when I enabled wither .htm or .html extensions! Fixed bug giving "Error 6, Overflow" caused by the shutter speed element of the EXIF array containing a number > 32767 (hence outside the integer limit) (Ng) Added a checkbox to allow the use of either .htm or .html for html pages (Martin Briscoll) Added a checkbox to choose linked images to appear in pop-up windows rather than in the same window (Exec) Added a checkbox to the HTML tab to allow users to choose whether or not to add links to the full-size images. (Derran) 2.3.2 (14/09/2002) ------------------ Added a 'back' image as well as a 'home' image to the individual html pages so that you can return to the previous thumbnail page, as well as to the index page (thanks to Radu Catina for the suggestion) Modified the watermark dialog so that when selecting one of the 9 regions in which to place the watermark, the default X and Y offsets change accordingly. 2.3.1 (08/09/2002) ------------------ Fixed bug in which files in the 'main' folder, with file extensions of .jpg, were being referred to within the HTML with an extension of .JPG. This caused a problem when uploading to UNIX servers where case-sensitivity is an issue. (Thanks to Chris Barrett for pointing this out). Build 2.3 (03/09/2002) ---------------------- New Features: - Added a text watermarking facility. You can now specify text to overlay on your images, and choose its position, size, colour and transparency. The text can include 'macro' keywords so that, for example, the filename and/or date can be automatically added. - Added a facility to choose the order in which the images are presented. Foremerly, the images were simply presented in the order in which they are automatically sorted (i.e. alphabetically by filename). Now, it is possible to select the order yourself. You can drag and drop thumbnails until they are in the desired order. - Choose the colours of the various HTML elements within the program. Previously the program let you select the foreground and background colours; other colour elements could be selected by manually editing the ThumbHTML.ini file. The program now provides the ability to select these interactively. These choices are saved when you exit the program. Build 2.2.2 (27/08/2002) ------------------------ Bug Fixes: Fixed bug reported by Peter Smit in which the case of the HTML filename was incorrect in the navigation link between individual image pages. Fixed incorrect HTML in the navigation links in the individual-image HTML pages. Superfluous tags were being added when no hyperlink was required (for the first and last images). Fixed bug giving rise to runtime error 68 (Device unavailable) or 76 (Path not found) on startup. This was caused by the previous folder having been deleted by the user - the program could not then find this when starting up! It now traps this error, gives a warning message, and sets the startup folder as the program folder. Build 2.2.1 (12/08/2002) ------------------------ New Features: - Added navigation buttons to individual HTML pages to allow users to move directly from one to another without having to return to the thumbnails page. This feature is enabled by default but can be turned off from the HTML tab. - Added checkboxes to the HTML tab to choose whether or not to add the image number and/or filename to the individual web pages. - Added a batch resize facility. This allows you to pre-define a set of folders (and image sizes) to be created in a one-click process. The action can be initiated via the 'Batch Process' button and customised via the relevant menu item (see the 'Tools' menu). The details of the settings are stored in 'batch.txt' - a text file located in the ThumbHTML folder - Modified slideshow facility so that you can optionally choose to add some, all or none of the following: image comments, image date/time, photo details, filenames and image count. These change dynamically along with the image. The choice of photo details is taken from the EXIF choices available via the menu. - The user can now choose to use the datestamp of the image file, rather than the EXIF or camera data, for the image date/time. - The user can now choose to add the image count to the slideshow (e.g. 4 of 42). Bug Fixes: Fixed bug relating to an incorrectly-specified pixel width for the images in the HTML pages. The 'height' and 'width' tags were being calculated with the assumption of a 10 pixel drop-shadow AND that this was subtracted from the image size (regardless of whether or not a drop-shadow had been requested!). Thanks to Stephen Sann for pointing this out!) The program incorrectly added backslashes rather than forward slashes to URLs - this has now been corrected The program now correctly replaces newlines in picture comments with
tags for display in the HTML pages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 2.1: June 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ADD COMMENTS TO IMAGES This has been a pressing need for some time! The program has a menu option which allows you to add comments for your images. - LINKED IMAGE PAGES Previously, image thumbnails were linked directly to the 'raw' image. This has now been changed - ThumbHTML generates an additional HTML page for each image, containing image information (see below), and comments, using the selected colour scheme. - INCLUSION OF IMAGE DATA Image data, where available, are now included in the linked pages. This information is taken from either the file INFO.TXT, generated automatically by Nikon digital cameras, if it is found in the current folder, or if not, the required picture information is extracted directly from the EXIF header embedded in the JPG images. You can choose which of these EXIF data elements to add using the new option in the Tools menu. - SLIDESHOW ThumbHTML now allows you to generate a slideshow of your images. This only works on IE5, IE6 and NS6 and above (but this covers a fair proportion of current browsers in use!). You can select a title, the delay between images and the transition time. - USER-DEFINABLE COLOURS In addition to choosing the foreground and background colours by using the colour-picker, it is now possible to specify the ALINK, VLINK and LINK colours, as well as the colours used for photo data, the image date and the footer elements. - Can choose thumbnails to be formatted in a table, or free-form. - ThumbHTML can optionally remember the last folder used. - Settings are saved each time the program closes. Can reset to program defaults if desired. - You can add a user-defined footer to each page.