Program History

Version 3.3  (May, 1994)
    ¥ Added support for dragging selected portions of images to other applications.
    ¥ Added drag-and-drop support for comments and statistics text.
    ¥ Added the ability to drag folders from the Finder into the Slide Show Options dialog.
    ¥ Progress displays are now updated more frequently.
    ¥ Added support for the Independent JPEG GroupÕs code as an option.
    ¥ Added proportional and non-dog-eared icon styles.
    ¥ Changed the scale AppleScript property to accept integers to set scaling percentage.
    ¥ Removed the file format popup menu when there is no choice of formats available.
    ¥ Added the ability to use the current selection for cropping icons and/or images.
    ¥ Rewrote high quality drawing to be much faster; made very high the new default.
    ¥ Restored the ability to save cropped images.
    ¥ Rewrote the marching ants algorithm to be more visible onscreen.
    ¥ Opening PICTs at something other than 72 dpi now expands them to full size.
    ¥ Removed the unnecessary use of the Time Manager for timing image drawing.
    ¥ Fixed the problem where small image files would be incorrectly reported as invalid.
    ¥ Unresolvable aliases in a slide show folder no longer abort the scan in that folder.
    ¥ Recompiled the JPEGView JFIF Preview into a true fat component.
    ¥ Color startup screens are now displayed properly if a B&W version is present.
    ¥ Revealing part of a window during two-pass color reduction no longer aborts it.
    ¥ You are no longer asked to insert a disk if the last slide show was on a removable drive.
    ¥ The internal patch for QuickTime with virtual memory has been improved immensely.
    ¥ Scaling large images down to icon size should no longer leave occasional black bands.

Version 3.2  (March, 1994)
    ¥ Added support for TIFF baseline and LZW-compressed images.
    ¥ Added support for BMP images, compressed and uncompressed.
    ¥ Added support for MacPaint and Startup Screen images.
    ¥ Added rudimentary printing support.
    ¥ Added copying to the clipboard as a (memory-intensive) option.
    ¥ The last slide in a single-pass user-controlled slide show is now displayed.
    ¥ Cleaned up code for reversing within the slide show to work better.
    ¥ Re-enabled high quality drawing; JPEGView 3.1 always drew in very high quality.
    ¥ Colors are now restored when hiding the slide show.
    ¥ Hiding the slide show no longer crashes the machine.
    ¥ Better system checking for clean exits on 68000-class machines.
    ¥ Changed compiler options to work around Gatekeeper Aid conflict.
    ¥ Loosened up GIF decoding slightly to work with GIFs from some broken encoders.
    ¥ Fixed crash when reducing 16-bit color pictures.
    ¥ Real aliases are now stored for the slide show folder.
    ¥ Incorporated the QuickTime VM extension directly into JPEGView.
    ¥ Added the ability to save any image in its own format with previews and icons.
    ¥ Menubar area now gets updated instantly when toggling the menubar.
    ¥ Lots of internal changes and cleanup for the PowerPC.
    ¥ Improved floating window handling.

Version 3.1  (December, 1993)
    ¥ Added the ability to work in the background when saving and drawing images.
    ¥ Redesigned the preferences and slide show options dialogs, making them modeless.
    ¥ Added a progress dialog and the option to cancel while scanning for slide show images.
    ¥ Added the slide show controls floating window, allowing point-and-click control.
    ¥ Added the ability to back up in the slide show, and the new Òpause and hideÓ feature.
    ¥ Recoded the drawing functions to fix incorrect displays on mixed color/grayscale systems.
    ¥ Fixed a bug that would crash the slide show under EvenBetterBusError.
    ¥ Fixed the bug that prevented the ÒRepeat last slide showÓ preference from working.
    ¥ Coded around the conflict with Connectix PowerBook Utilities.
    ¥ Sped up saving when creating both previews and icons for an image.
    ¥ Added the ability to save and recognize color reduction for JFIF images.
    ¥ Added support for multiple-image/animated GIF files and for GIF89 comments.
    ¥ Added better recognition of variant PICT formats.
    ¥ Added automatic width control of the comments window.

Version 3.0  (September, 1993)
    ¥ Full AppleEvent support, providing scripting and recording with AppleScript. 
    ¥ Improved custom dithering, with user-selectable quality settings.
    ¥ Statistics window now floats above others and has a zoom box.
    ¥ Added support for reading and displaying comments from JPEG and PICT images. 
    ¥ Slide shows can now render the next image offscreen before display.
    ¥ Displaying filenames is supported in slide shows.
    ¥ An indicator of slide show progress has been added.
    ¥ Added extended balloon help for nearly everything.
    ¥ Interrupting the slide show now gives you options to continue, end, or change options.
    ¥ Custom icons can now be created when saving images.
    ¥ Time is now given to background applications during decompression.
    ¥ Selections can be made and tracked in full-screen windows.
    ¥ Select screen area works more precisely.
    ¥ User-resizing is possible now by dragging the lower-right corner of an image. 
    ¥ Added the ability to customize the use of offscreen bitmaps.
    ¥ Added a sparse pattern of dots to indicate pending slow updates.
    ¥ Added decompression time to the Statistics floating window.
    ¥ A simple new Colors floating window has been added.
    ¥ Moved cropping functions to the Edit menu.
    ¥ Fixed the bug that would occasionally cause Out Of Memory errors.
    ¥ Fixed the problems with offscreen bitmaps containing black areas.
    ¥ Added custom spinning cursors for long operations.
    ¥ Made the restoration of colors after closing the last image an option.
    ¥ Removed the distinction between JFIF and JPEG file typing.
    ¥ Moved all strings out of the code and into resources.
    ¥ Single-character keyboard shortcuts have been added for alerts and dialogs.
    ¥ Dialogs and alerts now appear centered on the monitor which currently has the mouse pointer.
    ¥ The preferences and slide show dialogs are now movable.
    ¥ Error messages and alerts have become a little more user-friendly.
    ¥ The progress dialogs now tell you which image is being worked on.
    ¥ The help text is now stored in a compressed format.
    ¥ Measures are explicitly taken to prevent screen savers from taking over during a slide show.
    ¥ JFIF previews are now supported via the JPEGView JFIF Preview extension.
    ¥ JFIF previews can now be compressed.
    ¥ ÒAutomatically Fix File TypesÓ option now works better under A/UX.
    ¥ Temporary memory is now used in some situations.
    ¥ The Help window can now be sized and zoomed.
    ¥ Dithering is now always on by default, unless you uncheck the preferences item Òdither reduced color imagesÓ.
    ¥ Color accuracy problems when copying from offscreen buffers are gone.
    ¥ YouÕre not allowed to start the slide show until youÕve selected a valid folder.
    ¥ Changed the About box.

Version 2.0  (November, 1992)
    ¥ Extensively cleaned up and reorganized the Version 1.1 code.
    ¥ Added the Colors menu, allowing color palette selection.
    ¥ Added a dithering option that works.
    ¥ Added an IJG-based color reduction scheme for 8 and 4 bit systems.
    ¥ Improved the workings of offscreen bitmaps.
    ¥ Fixed full screen windows to include the corners of all monitors.
    ¥ Reorganized and expanded the Statistics window.
    ¥ Added identification of IJG-produced JFIFs, with estimates for the quality.
    ¥ Added identification of banding in PICT images.
    ¥ Added fast GIF decoding and viewing capabilities.
    ¥ Fixed problems with the progress percentage; added scaling indicator.
    ¥ Added options to automatically scan and fix file types within JPEGView.
    ¥ Added support for non-JFIF JPEG images, and identification of Adobe JPEGs.
    ¥ Reworked and reorganized the preferences options.
    ¥ Added support for many new preferences relating to the new features.
    ¥ Broke the on-line help into several sections and added a modeless interface.
    ¥ Improved slide show to handle color reduction during pauses between slides.
    ¥ Fixed much of the flakiness in handling large uncompressed PICT images.
    ¥ Added the ability to load and save custom palettes in PICT images.
    ¥ Removed support for compression of PICTs.
    ¥ Added select screen area option.
    ¥ Added the ability to drag the active selection rectangle.
    ¥ Modified offscreen bitmap handling to do long updates only after 5 seconds idle time.
    ¥ Fixed dialog handling to allow quick updates behind dialog boxes.
    ¥ Added the Import option.
    ¥ Added the ability to detect QuickTime-created JFIFs.
    ¥ Provided stronger support for PICTs at resolutions other than 72 dpi.

Version 1.1  (July, 1992)
    ¥ Added support for the automatic Slide Show.
    ¥ Added Next and Previous items to the Windows menu.
    ¥ Added options for specifying startup actions.
    ¥ Added the ability to select PICT as the default output file format.
    ¥ Added a warning option when the offscreen bitmap cannot be created.
    ¥ Added support for opening any image in a full screen window automatically.
    ¥ Changed the way files are saved to prevent data loss when an error occurs.
    ¥ Fixed a bug that caused the wrong image to sometimes be displayed in full screen.
    ¥ Fixed the problem that led to occasional crashes on startup.
    ¥ Put to rest the remaining problems with Open-Wide.

Version 1.0  (June, 1992)
    ¥ Rewrote I/O routines to handle file identification and conversions more cleanly.
    ¥ Added the ability to open any type of PICT.
    ¥ Added rudimentary JPEG compression options for uncompressed PICTs.
    ¥ Added support for opening and saving compressed PICT0 resources.
    ¥ Added rudimentary support for specifying JPEG compression quality in Preferences.
    ¥ Added the ability to produce thumbnail sketches in JFIF files.
    ¥ Added full screen support, and options for automatically using it.
    ¥ Added explicit support for multiple monitors.
    ¥ Added View menu, and options for cropping, uncropping, zooming, and rescaling.
    ¥ Added Statistics window and options for controlling it.
    ¥ Added creation of offscreen bitmaps for faster window updates.
    ¥ Made the Help dialog bigger and better, and redesigned the About box.
    ¥ Added Balloon Help.
    ¥ Fixed a conflict with the Open-Wide control panel.
    ¥ Improved memory management.

Version 0.9  (March, 1992)
    ¥ Initial release.