What's new in ASCII Generator dotNET 2.0.0
Sep 30, 2011
- Complete rewrite of almost the entire code-base into cleaner, more readable and modular code.
- The conversion process has been optimized at every step, with a big overall speed increase.
- The input image has moved from the main panel into a new widget, plus lots of other UI changes.
- Batch conversion has been completely rewritten with a new and more usable interface.
- The settings form and the whole settings system have been rewritten, and it now automatically saves to a new data file when you press ok.
- Several memory leaks have been fixed, as have all known bugs.
- Added support for handling multiple translation files.
New in ASCII Generator dotNET 0.9.6 Beta (Feb 20, 2008)
- Added a form to preview the color output
- Added menu item to change the position of the image and text frames from horizontal to vertical
- Added automatically choosing the panels orientation layout from the screen size
- Changed main form to access the RichTextBox through an interface
- Moved interfaces into their own namespace
- Fixed being unable to save variable width font conversions as an image
New in ASCII Generator dotNET 0.9.5 (Dec 28, 2007)
- Fixed extra characters being added to colour rtf files in some font sizes
- Added automatic loading of a translation file (translation.?.xml) if one is present
- Added a basic dithering filter to the output
- Changed Ascii filters to implement an interface rather then inheriting a class
- Added specialized interfaces for the filters
- Moved brightness/contrast and levels into one widget
- Improved the levels control
- Stopped brightness/contrast accepting clicks from anything other than the left mouse button
- Stopped brightness/contrast control updating the output twice on reset or image load
- Added new control for dithering level and dithering random level to the text widget
- Added loading and saving the dithering values to the settings file
- Changed text widget to implement the brightness-contrast/levels/dither interfaces
- Changed brightness-contrast widget to implement the brightness-contrast interfaces
- Made main form access the widgets through their interfaces rather then directly
- Moved code development to Visual Studio 2008
- Fixed processing the conversion twice during image load
New in ASCII Generator dotNET 0.9.0 (Oct 9, 2007)
- Improved speed of applying convolution matrix (used in output filters)
- Added saving to an image with colour
- For images with transparency, the transparent area is now black if output was inverted on load
- Changed to no longer prompt to save after saving as an image
- Added colour print and print preview
- Added loading resource strings from an xml file
- Added translation filename to the variables and settings file
- Added form to change some basic settings in the program
- Improved speed of automatically generating ascii ramps
- Moved updating the settings into the Variables class
- Moved processing xml nodes into a new class
- Added saving as a nfo file
- Localized the batch conversion log
- Removed depreciated Hidden property from the widgets
- Moved saving the settings into the Variables class
New in ASCII Generator dotNET 0.6.8 (Jun 2, 2006)
- Added right-click menu items to show a dialog for changing the selection area�s fill and border colours
- Added saving/loading of the selection area fill and border colours from the settings file
- Added confirmation dialog for closing an image
- Added confirm on close to the settings file (default: true)
- Fixed double-click on a selected area loses the selection area
- Changed clicking outside the image to not remove the selection area
- Moved image and text brightness/contrast settings into a sub-category
- Added variables and settings to specify whether to load image and text brightness/contrast and levels from the settings file (default: false)
- Added variables and settings to specify whether to load the output size from the settings file (default: true)