What's new in IconShop 1.20 Alpha
Jun 1, 2007
- New features
- Added "True-color with alpha channel" as a preferable format.
- Added Export to TIFF file.
- A mask gets created during import for image file formats that don't define one or that don't support an alpha channel.
- Added options to determine how IconShop should handle alpha channel information.
- Added support for JPEG, WMF and EMF images.
- Added TIFF import based on libtiff 3.56 Beta 2. TIFF files with alpha channel are now supported.
- Source icons or images containing alpha information result in correct Windows XP icons with alpha channel.
- Added support for MacOS X 'huge' 48 x 48 icons and 128 x 128 thumbnail icons.
- Added a tool to join two icons.
- Added a tool to combine two icon images.
- Added a tool to find icons by name.
- Added accelerator keys to more menu items.
- Added an option to ignore alpha channel information during the conversion of 32-bit Mac icons.
- Improvements
- IconShop doesn't prompt to insert a disk anymore when selecting the floppy drive in the Browser.
- When putting an icon image on the clipboard, the name of the icon is also put on it.
- IconShop should now handle corrupt icon libraries better. If you have an icon library which can't be read, let me know.
- Moved all export commands to 1 menu item "Export as ..."
- Copying an icon to the clipboard will put a bitmap on the clipboard with the transparent pixels replaced with the Transparent Export color.
- Expanded Import options for transparent color handling.
- Optimized decompression of Macintosh icons.
- IconShop has been tested on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
- IconShop detects its 'dirty' state better.
- Bug fixes
- Fixed a number of resource leaks in the Browser.
- Fixed a bug that ignored white as a transparent color.
- Fixed a number of bugs in the conversion of XPM bitmaps.
- Fixed a blue shift bug in 128 x 128 x 32 icons.
- Fixed a bug that caused the horizontal splitter to become unreachable when dragged too far up.
- Fixed a palette problem with the export of icons as bitmaps.
- Fixed a bug which prevented the toolbar from updating correctly when all icons were dragged between windows.
- Fixed a bug that caused the menu bar to use a different font than the menu font.
- Fixed a bug that caused the first icon becoming selected when another icon was deleted that caused an image format to be deleted.
- Fixed a bug that could causes exporting of icons to fail.
- Fixed a bug that caused TIFF and XPM files not to be shown in the File Open dialog when the Bitmaps filter was selected.