September 17th, 2010· The installer was removed to make it portable for U disk.
· A private jre is bundled to avoid jre installation and auto updates.
April 13th, 2010· A bug in maple's filedialog under 64bit WinXp was fixed.
· It can generate an YUV (raw, uncompressed) video now.
· Video creation speed was greatly increased by using native io and threading.
· CPU usage of the slideshow applet was reduced.
· An synchronization error that may cause random auto-stop was fixed.
· Some rarely-used functions were removed due to quality issue.
· Doc was refined.
April 5th, 2010· The FileDialog supports Vista-style and Unicode filename now
· The built-in filters were redesigned
· The built-in transition effects were rewritten completely
· Continurity was greatly improved by merging Kenburns effect and transition effects
· Motion-blur was added into Kenburns effect
· Menu labels and warning info were refined for clarity
· A new Kenburns animation (overshoot) was implemented
· The default delay and transition duration were shortened to make the slideshow more energetic
· The default fps was set to 25fps to reduce CPU Usage
· The slideshow's startup time was shorten about 3.0 seconds by utilizing object serialization (lyric,xml) and lazy class loading (fontmetrics)
· A memory leak issue caused by threading error in slideshow applet was fixed.
· An image/mp3 synchronization issue in the beginning of slideshow applet was fixed
· The CPU Usage was greatly reduced by using bilinear interpolation to replace bicubic interpolation
· Doc was refined
· To faciliate using other encoders, it will convert mp3 to wav file at the beginning of video creation
· Some rarely-used functions were disabled or removed
· J2SE6 update 19 installer is bundled in this release
February 26th, 2010· It can generate a single slideshow file now
· The splash screen was refined
· A minor bug in internal clock was fixed
· The startup time of java applet has been shorten about 1 second
· The rippledissolve transtion effect was optimized
· The lake (water ripple) animation effect was implemented finally
· The disintegrate transiton effect was refined
· The bundled jre has been changed to Jre 6 update 18
· The documentation was refined
· Menu labels were modified for clarity
February 15th, 2010· The caption function on slideshow was refined.
· A bug in color setting was fixed.
· Support for documentary-style subtitle was added.
· The function for adding timestamps to song lyric was simplified.
· A bug in thumbnail selection of slideshow was fixed.
· All Transition effects were refined.
· The volume control for audio was finally implemented.
February 8th, 2010· The rendering artifact in scrolling applet was solved.
· The text caption was enhanced. Multiple lines caption are supported now.
· The undo function was enhanced.
· The deflicker filter was enhanced.
· Optimization for Youtube.
· Optimization for other low-resolution web video sharing sites.
· The doc was refined.
· The encoding scripts were refined.
· A minor bug in xml parsing was fixed.
· The image file dialog selects Thumbnail as the default viewmode now.
· The rippledissolve transition effect was improved.
· The cpu usage was reduced.
· The kenburns effect was more smooth now.
January 10th, 2010· A bug in the native filedialog was fixed.
· Some minor bugs were fixed.
· Documentation was refined.
September 28th, 2009· A native Windows file dialog was implemented with JNI.
· New icons and a toolbar were implemented.
· The Fullscreen mode was greatly improved.
· A bug in the song lyric editor is fixed.
· The generated slideshow applet can work in Google chrome now.
· Subtitle was improved.
· The slideshow applet was set to be unfocusable to avoid browser error.
· The slideshow applet was set to be unfocusable to avoid browser error.
· The display error of a scrolling applet in browser was partially solved.
· Several errors related with Maple slideshow under Vista were fixed.
· Some bugs related to Jtattoo lookandfeel were fixed.
· The installation procedure was refined.
· The slideshow frame was set to be modal.
· messy code was removed.
July 23rd, 2009· A bug in video creation was fixed.
· Several minor bugfixes in the GUI. .
· Transition setting was improved.
· A bug in the song lyric editor is fixed.
· Documentation was revised.
· A bug in image/mp3 synchronization was fixed.
July 2nd, 2009· The code was optimized to avoid random pause and garbage collection.
· A bug in image/mp3 synchronization was fixed.
· A bug in the "pause" screen was fixed.
· Several major bugfixes in the slideshow applet's destructor.
· Initialization code was optimized to make the program more responsive.
· Applet deployment was improved.
· A bug in splash screen is fixed.
June 23rd, 2009· File association in Windows was added.
· An error in zoom slider and alpha slider was fixed.
· An error in photo montage was fixed.
· Applet deployment was improved.
· Several errors in documentation and warning messages were corrected.
· Several bugs in incremental building were fixed.
March 23rd, 2009· Mnemonic keys were added to menu items.
· The Input dialog was improved.
· Some classes were renamed.
· A bug in import of animation was fixed.
· The interface of BufferedAnimation for import of animation was defined.
· A bug in progress monitor is fixed.
· Doc was revised.
· A new demo was made.
· The broken link of CNET's mp3 download was removed from menu.
· The English spell checker was removed.
· The preview pane was replaced with preview window with fullscreen support.
· An mp3 timing bug was fixed.
· To speed up file operations, the latest visited folders will be remembered in the config file.
· Undo function was added.
· The option of unsynchronized Image and mp3 was provided.
· A bug in frame jumping was fixed.
· User can play a single frame directly from menu for tuing or tesing now.
March 23rd, 2009· Mnemonic keys were added to menu items.
· The Input dialog was improved.
· Some classes were renamed.
· A bug in import of animation was fixed.
· The interface of BufferedAnimation for import of animation was defined.
· A bug in progress monitor is fixed.
· Doc was revised.
· A new demo was made.
· The broken link of CNET's mp3 download was removed from menu.
· The English spell checker was removed.
· The preview pane was replaced with preview window with fullscreen support.
· An mp3 timing bug was fixed.
· To speed up file operations, the latest visited folders will be remembered in the config file.
· Undo function was added.
· The option of unsynchronized Image and mp3 was provided.
· A bug in frame jumping was fixed.
· User can play a single frame directly from menu for tuing or tesing now.
March 17th, 2009· Fog animation was added.
· A bug in image enhancement was fixed.
· A bug in file chooser was fixed.
· A bug in slideshow's splash screen was fixed.
· An image/music synchronization bug was fixed.
· Support for JRain component was added. External animations such as a short video clip can be converted and imported now.
· The grids of "rule of thirds" and "golden section" were added in layout panel.
· Gui layout was tuned for Nimbus lookandfeel and Latin charcaters.
· Doc was revised.
· A bug in lyric display for high-resolution slideshows (e.g. 1024x768) was fixed.
· A bug in launching slideshow from Maple was fixed.
· Menu labels were simplified.
· Mnemonic keys in Menu of Maple slideshow player were added.
February 20th, 2009· Ripple-dissolve, whiteflash, pacing wipe and several displacement transitions were added.
· The default Lookandfeel has been changed to "Macwin".
· GUI layout and menu items were redesigned.
· Awt components were replaced with lightweight Swing components.
· A new logo was made.
· Integration with system tray was implemented.
· The new rendering hint "GASP" in J2SE 6 was applied to improve text rendering of True-type fonts.
· The GUI interface for Kenburns animation design was implemented.
· The GUI has been tuned for Linux/Gnome.
· Image caching was improved.
· Double-buffering in slideshow applet was enhanced.
· Better synchronization of image/mp3/lrc was implemented.
· The speed of slideshow generating was improved with incremental building.
· The built-in gadget for making synchronized song lyric file was enhanced.
· Unnecessary files will be shrinked when exporting slideshow applet.
· Applet deployment was simplified, and all files are packaged into one jar file now.
· The java logo during loading phase was replaced with a progress wheel.
· The slideshow applet can work without jlayer now.
· A serious bug in Fullscreen/Window switching was fixed.
· A timing bug in transition was fixed.
· Language support for Portuguese and simplified Chinese has been added.
· documentation has been rewritten.
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