Eagle Mode Changelog

What's new in Eagle Mode 0.96.1

Jul 6, 2023
  • Added select and copy functions to the plain text viewer.
  • Added select and copy functions to the PDF viewer.

New in Eagle Mode 0.96.0 (Jan 5, 2023)

  • Added emStocks - a plugin for stock watchlists.
  • Added undo/redo functions to editable text fields.
  • Extended the graphics API to paint Bezier curves, arrows, and dashes.
  • Added support for showing ICO files which are PNG compressed.
  • Revised the emListBox API: Now the items have names.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.95.2 (Jul 12, 2022)

  • Fixed DPI scaling on Windows.
  • Fixed changing of only letter case when renaming files on Windows.
  • Fixed useless re-rendering in emPdf.
  • Allowed to trigger radio boxes and check boxes by clicking on the text.
  • Adjusted some dialog sizes as well as click and expansion size thresholds to modern screen resolutions.
  • Updated emLKC to kernel 5.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.95.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • Added a viewer for WebP image files.
  • Fixed focus problems with XWayland.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.95.0 (Aug 20, 2020)

  • Added some interpolation algorithms for the zooming into photos, videos, icons and other images. Now the user can choose (in the preferences) from: Area Sampling, Bilinear, Bicubic, Lanczos, and Adaptive.
  • Accelerated graphics display by making use of the AVX2 CPU extension.
  • Extended the graphics API by a texture class which allows more flexible filling of figures with colors and images.
  • Ported the audio/video player to Windows, based on the VLC library.
  • Switched from Xine to VLC also for other OSes because some tests showed that VLC is more crash-resistant against randomly corrupted files and thereby most likely more secure.
  • Ported the archive viewer to Windows.
  • Completely removed support for outdated archive file formats to improve security and simplify maintenance: Goodbye to arc, arj, lha, rar, and zoo.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.94.2 (Oct 27, 2019)

  • Fixed some security issues concerning the reading of corrupt image files.
  • Fixed keyboard focus loss after dialog closing in certain situations on X11.
  • Minor fixes

New in Eagle Mode 0.94.1 (Apr 6, 2019)

  • Improved video performance on multi-core CPUs a little.
  • Prohibited starting up after failure in creating initial bookmarks.
  • Reviewed and improved various details concerning protection against unwanted file system changes.
  • Colorized file manager command execution messages on Windows 10.

New in Eagle Mode 0.94 (Dec 23, 2018)

  • Extended the internal font, mainly by Cyrillic and Greek characters.
  • Improved character code page support.
  • Added Clang support (compile command: perl make.pl build compiler=clang).
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.93.2 (Jul 27, 2018)

  • Ported PDF, SVG, and PS viewers to Windows.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.93.1 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Adapted minimally to new OS versions.
  • Ported time zones feature to Windows.

New in Eagle Mode 0.93.0 (Apr 30, 2017)

  • Added autoplay function: Slideshow of picture files and playback of multiple audio/video files.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.92.0 (Jan 7, 2017)

  • Parallelized painting for improved graphics performance on multi-core CPUs.
  • Changed many virtual API methods to "const" (required for the above point, compiling old user code may fail, sorry, please adapt)
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.91.0 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • Fixed behavior on virtual desktops with multiple monitors.
  • Added saving and restoring of window geometry.
  • On X11, the fullscreen mode now goes via the window manager instead of switching to override-redirect mode.
  • On Windows, in the virtual cosmos, replaced all the static disk drive items and the home dir item by a single file system item which dynamically lists all available drives.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.90.0 (Apr 1, 2016)

  • Added lots of icons to the control panel and gave it a new layout.
  • Reworked the graphic design of the toolkit elements (buttons, etc.).
  • Added new file manager themes: Glass, Card/*, and Night. Removed the Cloud theme.
  • Minor improvements and fixes.
  • (For making the new graphics in this version, I learned and used Blender 2.76. Great tool!)

New in Eagle Mode 0.89.1 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Fixed shortcuts for Windows systems where wsf files are not associated with wscript.
  • Multi-user installation of start menu and desktop icons on Windows.
  • Improved resolution of built-in font.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.89.0 (May 12, 2015)

  • Added new API classes: emListBox, emFileSelectionBox, emFileDialog, and emAnything.
  • Removed method emPanel::EnableAutoExpansion() (it's always "enabled" now).
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.88.0 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Replaced API class emTiling by more specialized classes: emLinearLayout, emRasterLayout, and emPackLayout.
  • Accordingly replaced emGroup by emLinearGroup, emRasterGroup, and emPackGroup.
  • Fixed cropping of video frames.
  • Fixed launch feedback.
  • Improved input processing on slow machines.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.87.0 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • Bug fix: The view often zoomed away unexpectedly from alternative file content panels (since version 0.86.0).
  • Reorganized the toolkit classes, renamed all "emTk*" to "em*".
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.86.0 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Added kinetic effects (inertia and friction) to zooming and scrolling by mouse and keyboard.
  • Added a magnetism which zooms and scrolls automatically for showing a content full-sized. (It gets active after zooming or scrolling by mouse, when a content is not to far from being shown full-sized.)
  • Added an acceleration effect to zooming by mouse wheel.
  • Added animations for logical position changes by keys and bookmarks.
  • Adapted emLKC to kernel 3.16 and higher.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.85.0 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Fixed some bugs of the PDF viewer.
  • Adapted to Debian 7.
  • Adapted to xine-lib 1.2x.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.84.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Fixed keyboard inquiry with some X input methods.
  • Fixed occasional delay of starting to play audio and video files.
  • Adjusted emLKC to kernel 3.1.1 and higher.
  • Made the user configuration directory configurable with the environment variable EM_USER_CONFIG_DIR.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.82.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added auto mark option to emNetwalk.
  • Made audio and video player more persistent.
  • Added support for large files on most 32-bit systems.
  • Fixed crash on Windows.
  • Fixed failing of file manager commands by extended file name characters on Windows.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.81.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added UTF-16 support to the plain text file viewer.
  • Removed color space reduction from graphics functions.
  • Changed the colors of control panels and dialogs.
  • Added a theme interface and some themes for directory entry panels.
  • Added an autosave function for the file manager view settings.
  • Added display of a wait cursor while main thread is blocked.
  • Extended emTreeDump by attributes for commands and files.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.80.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added the Dig Mode option to emNetwalk. It makes the game more difficult.
  • Redesigned the graphics of emNetwalk.

New in Eagle Mode 0.79.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added another puzzle game: emNetwalk
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.78.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added support for new archive file types: lzma, xz, tar.lzma, tar.xz.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Eagle Mode 0.77.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added document: Advanced Configuration
  • Added document: C++ API Tutorial
  • Added document: C++ API Reference
  • Added document: Make System
  • Fixed a temp file leak on Windows.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.76.0 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Added file manager commands for Windows.
  • Added cosmos and plugin configurations for Windows.
  • Extended the make system by a pack command for creating installation packages (deb, rpm, setup.exe...).
  • Video player: hide mouse pointer and disable screensaver.
  • Minor fixes and improvements.

New in Eagle Mode 0.75.1 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • Implemented the freedesktop.org startup notification protocol (client side).
  • Fixed some minor bugs.