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IcoFX Portable Edition Changelog

What's new in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.8.1

Oct 21, 2022
  • [Fixed] Certain jpeg files were not opened at full size
  • Removed Shape Editor dialog

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.8.0 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Custom svg based shapes tool
  • Color swatches and color picker to the color selection dialog
  • [Fixed] Loading of icons containing grayscale png files
  • [Fixed] High DPI issues in the message and search bar
  • [Fixed] Certain jpeg files could not be opened
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.7.1 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • [Fixed] Colorize was not working in the Icon Mixer
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.7 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • New color selection dialog
  • Added "Paste HTML Color" menu item to the color dialog
  • Added "Save a Copy" menu item
  • Layer selection is part of the undo history
  • [Fixed] Startup issue on Windows XP
  • [Fixed] File association issues
  • [Fixed] Install issue for non admin users
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.6.1 (Sep 8, 2021)

  • [Fixed] Startup issues due to a missing DLL on some systems

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.6 (Sep 7, 2021)

  • IconMixer for easy toolbar icon creation
  • Support for web picture files (webp)
  • Optional 'Convert to icon' context menu in Windows Explorer
  • Added an Open Folder button to the Batch Result dialog
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.5.1 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • [Fixed] Not maximized correctly when started with paremeters
  • Bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.5 (Feb 2, 2021)

  • Amoled user interface
  • Added percentage to resize window
  • Added interpolation mode to resize window
  • "No To All" option on the save dialog
  • Holding the Esc key will abort open/extract
  • Option to add padding when importing from SVG
  • [Fixed] History was not saved in some cases after using the color picker tool
  • Enhancements and bug fixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.4 (Apr 14, 2020)

  • Fluent icon theme
  • Sleep command in the Script dialog (Business license)
  • [Fixed] History was not saved after using the color picker tool
  • [Fixed] Unwanted image artefacts on semitransparent images
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.3 (Jan 20, 2019)

  • Dark user interface
  • Light user interface
  • Monochrome (simple) icon theme
  • White balance dialog
  • Corner rounding dialog
  • Touch support for tablets
  • Option to add icofx to Windows explorer's context menu
  • Option to hide brush preview
  • Brazilian Portuguese language
  • [Fixed] Panels were not saved into workspace in some special cases
  • [Fixed] Saving icon libraries with many icons was slow
  • [Fixed] addResource script command issue with paths containing space
  • [Fixed] Transparent border around opaque images when resized
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.2.1 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • Fixed issues in the Welcome window
  • Added missing translations
  • Fixed High DPI issues (incorrect scaling in some cases)
  • [Fixed] Crash when the theme was not found or loaded incorrectly
  • [Fixed] Crash when setting the UI to full screen
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.2 (Aug 7, 2018)

  • High DPI support
  • Create Mobile Icon dialog (Business license)
  • Command to create mobile icon in the Script dialog (Business license)
  • Added recent files to the Run Script windows
  • Option to show/hide the tool thumbnail in the cursor
  • Improved file association under Windows 10
  • Improved the color picker tool
  • Ability to open 16x15 toolbar image strips
  • [Fixed] Batch Extract dialog not working
  • [Fixed] In some cases the Canvas Resize resized also the image
  • [Fixed] Crash when opening an inexistent script file
  • [Fixed] Local toolbar was visible even if it was disabled
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.1 (Sep 12, 2017)

  • New panel docking engine
  • Document tabs can be rearranged
  • Ctrl+Tab shortcut to select next document
  • Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcut to select previous documnet
  • Icofx script editor (Business license)
  • New welcome window
  • [Fixed] Additional scaling issues on high DPI monitors
  • [Fixed] Folder icon customization issues
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.0.3 (Apr 13, 2017)

  • [Fixed] Scaling issues on high DPI monitors on Windows 7

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.0.2 (Apr 11, 2017)

  • [Fixed] Scaling issues on high DPI monitors on older Windows versions

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.0.1 (Apr 4, 2017)

  • Android icons are saved to mipmap folders drawable of drawable
  • [Fixed] Advanced Import dialog is not working in some cases
  • [Fixed] Crash when opening more than 30 files
  • Minor bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 3.0 (Apr 4, 2017)

  • Import form SVG files
  • Text styles
  • Search box for quick command execution
  • Record image adjustments and effects to "actions" and play them back later
  • Batch process images to quickly apply actions (Business license)
  • Option to combine images with similar names to icons
  • Batch combine images to icons dialog (Business license)
  • "Replace Image" menu option
  • Option to show/hide ruler on the canvas
  • Full support for the lates Mac icon (icns) format
  • "Recent Colors" popup menu
  • Global color picker
  • One click automatic updates
  • Full screen menu item
  • Reworked shortcut engine
  • Added shortcut for previous/next/first/last brush
  • Pan/Zoom the canvas using the mouse wheel and the Shift/Ctrl keys
  • Font preview for the font selection combobox of the text tool
  • Added quick access to set the checker color in the popup menu of the canvas
  • Option in popupmenu to allow reordering of styles, gradients, brushes and swatches
  • Popup menu for the undo button containing undo history
  • Recent files show a preview
  • Option to show image previews in the Windows taskbar
  • Replaced "Delete More Images" with "Image Manager" window to make reordering easier
  • Sidebar thumbnail size can be changed via popup menu
  • Exe/Dll/Icl/Cul files can be dragged to the resource editor to open
  • [Fixed] Crash when opening an icon with invalid ICONDIR entry
  • [Fixed] Crash when batch creating icons from invalid/corrupted image files
  • [Fixed] Saturation and Brightness sliders on "Replace Color" dialog
  • Removed "Properties" window
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.13 (Apr 25, 2016)

  • Changing layer visibility will not select the layer
  • Saved images are also added to the recent files list
  • [Fixed] Could not draw equilateral shapes using shift when zoom < 100%
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.12.1 (Oct 4, 2015)

  • Version 2.12.1 was released to fix a crash during undo operation

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.12 (Sep 29, 2015)

  • Fixed sized selections
  • Deselect button for the selection tools
  • Frame number in the sidebar for animations
  • Images are NOT saved in reverse order anymore since the 768x768 size was dropped
  • Windows icons will not contain 512x512 and 768x768 images by default
  • [Fixed] Image was sometimes not rendered
  • [Fixed] When importing icons the preview was not visible after 220 items
  • [Fixed] Could not select animation frames if there were more than 200 frames
  • [Fixed] Cursors with multiple images had incorrect hot spot in batch process
  • [Fixed] Del key was not working right after exitting quick mask mode
  • Enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.11 (May 13, 2015)

  • Alt + [ and Alt + ] shortcuts to decrease/increase brush size
  • Copy Merged menu item to copy all the layers
  • Delete will not drop the selection in images, toolbar images and animated cursors
  • Duplicate image will duplicate also the selection
  • Images are saved in reverse order inside icons so that the thumbnail will look good in Windows Explorer
  • [Fixed] Cannot change/replace icons in resource editor
  • [Fixed] Some shortcut links were not dereferenced correctly
  • [Fixed] Custom image size could not be larger than 512 in the "Image Size" dialog
  • [Fixed] Files with multilple extensions (ex. icon.my.ico) were not correctly exported to images
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.10 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Added 192x192 (xxxhdpi) size to Android icons dialog (Business license)
  • Option to add a background and/or foreground image when batch creating icons (Business license)
  • Added option to set the dpi of saved png and jpg images
  • Option to open link or icon of shortcut (*.lnk) files
  • Open icons from url files
  • JPG images are autorotated based on the EXIF data
  • Improved text tool
  • [Fixed] Shortcut links were not dereferenced correctly if they were pointing to a 64 bit file
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.9 (Oct 22, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Support for Windows 10 icons with resolution of 768x768
  • Image size increased to 1024x1024
  • Option to resize/crop the loaded selection if larger than the image
  • Added start menu tile for IcoFX
  • New colored simple interface icon set
  • Image object size increased to 1024x1024
  • [Fixed] Occasional crash when closing IcoFX with multiple opened icons
  • [Fixed] Flickering at undo and redo
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.8 (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Support for png and bmp toolbar strip images (Business/Site license)
  • Icon compression indicator on the sidebar
  • Icon compression button on the local toolbar for easier toggle
  • Simplified Chinese translation
  • One frame gif files are saved with a global palette and minimal bit count
  • [Fixed] Crash at trimming icons when the new size already existed
  • [Fixed] Undo was not working correctly sometimes if the tool was selected using keyboard shortcuts
  • [Fixed] Icons with 1 bit png image were not opened correctly
  • Minor enhancements and bug fixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.7 (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Enhanced crop tool
  • Replace Color dialog
  • Replace Pixels dialog
  • Trim dialog
  • Corner radius can be configured for the rounded rectangle tool
  • Option to reverse gradient for the gradient and shape tools
  • Option to add helper lines to the grid
  • The delete key will delete a selection
  • [Fixed] Image was not visible after open when windows were not maximized
  • [Fixed] Angle gradient had transparent pixels under Windows 8
  • [Fixed] Occasional crash when exiting the application
  • Minor enhancements and bug fixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.6 (Sep 23, 2014)

  • Align buttons to the Move tool
  • Bevel dialog
  • Support for animated png files (apng)
  • Shadow dialog can create inner shadows
  • Added 144x144 (xxhdpi) size to Android icons dialog (Business license)
  • Added recent files to the resource editor windows
  • Gaussian blur dialog
  • Option to use optimized palette for 4 bit images
  • The "Batch Create Images" dialog can create images from IFX files (Business license)
  • Removed gif frame extraction dialog. File is opened instead.
  • Improved saving/loading of gif files
  • Improved the portability of the application
  • [Fixed] Cancel button of the text tool was not working
  • [Fixed] Occasional crash when adding a new 8 bit image to the icon
  • [Fixed] Occasional crash when restoring maximized windows
  • [Fixed] Batch extraction was hard to cancel
  • [Fixed] Maximized windows sometimes remained empty after closing a tab
  • New file extension icons
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.5 (Jun 4, 2013)

  • New simple interface icon set
  • Image objects for easy icon creation
  • "Create Android Icon From Image" dialog
  • "Create iOS Icon From Image" dialog
  • Option to apply effect/filters on all layers/images of an image/icon
  • Undo/redo on all images of an icon (Shift+Ctrl+Z)
  • Option to set the thumbnail background color of the Explorer panel
  • Option to automatically detect if the palette should be changed or not
  • Option to sharpen the images during batch process
  • Ctrl + drag from the Explorer panel to the sidebar will open the image as a selection
  • Layers can be rearranged in the sidebar
  • Easier opening/saving of small image files
  • Enhanced the "Welcome" window
  • Enhanced the "Create Icon Form Image" dialogs:
  • Preview for the image formats
  • Option to sharpen the images after resize
  • Dialog will remember its settings
  • [Fixed] Corrupted history when resizeing animations
  • [Fixed] Crash when deleting icon images containing a selection
  • [Fixed] Crash when undoing a cropped image containing a selection
  • [Fixed] Open dialog froze occasinally on some system
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.4 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • Curves window for image adjustments
  • Levels window for image adjustments
  • Color selection on the Tools panel
  • History for selections and quick mask
  • History for layer properties
  • Xpm file format can be associated to IcoFX
  • Explorer panel supports vertical/horizontal layout depending on size
  • [Fixed] The Explorer panel opened slowly folders that contained large
  • zip fies containing many compressed files
  • [Fixed] Crashed sometimes if copy was pressed in quick mask mode
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.3.1 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • Support for XPM file format (X icons)
  • [Fixed] Portable version was not working
  • [Fixed] Fill crashing when filling selected area
  • [Fixed] Crashed when opening locked files from the welcome window
  • Minor enhancements and bugfixes

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.2.1 (Apr 18, 2012)

  • [Fixed] Some dll files were not recognized by the resource editor

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.2 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • "Icon Customization" dialog
  • Support for 1024x1024 Macintosh icons
  • Animated preview for ani files
  • Font settings for the Snapshot dialog
  • Drag & drop support for the batch process dialogs
  • Italian translation
  • [Fixed] Path was reset in explorer panel when undocked
  • [Fixed] Error 1400 on some systems
  • [Fixed] Crashed on some systems when an image was pasted
  • [Fixed] Crashed when batch processing more than 2000 files
  • [Fixed] Memory leak in "Batch Create Icons or Cursors" dialog
  • [Fixed] Selection was not dropped when an image was deleted
  • from an icon
  • [Fixed] Minimal value for animation frame rate was to low
  • [Fixed] Maximized duplicated image was not refreshed
  • [Fixed] Some texts were not translated at language change
  • Minor enhancements

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.1 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • "Add Noise" dialog
  • Option to have fixed zoom
  • Show message if cannot subtract from selection
  • [Fixed] Reinstall/uninstall while IcoFX is running was not successfull
  • [Fixed] Image was not refreshed correctly when drawing with some tools at the border of an image
  • [Fixed] IcoFX crashed if a file was opened from the Explorer panel and the panel was on a different monitor
  • [Fixed] Flickering during window maximizing
  • Improved brush resizing algorithm
  • Simplified installer
  • Minor enhancements
  • Removed "Download Language" dialog

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.0.1 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • [Fixed] - IcoFX was not correctly installed if the user was not logged in as an administrator

New in IcoFX Portable Edition 2.0 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • Enhanced editor:
  • full antialiasing
  • layer based images
  • blending modes
  • soft selection
  • quick mask
  • multicolor gradients
  • brushes
  • support for tiff files
  • enhanced brightness and contrast algorithm
  • hue and saturation can work on a given color range
  • hue and saturation window can be used to colorize
  • Interface changes:
  • customizable workspaces
  • customizable shortcuts
  • history panel
  • swatches panel
  • brushes panel
  • gradinet panel
  • layers panel
  • image adjustment windows have real time preview
  • New tools:
  • ellipse selection
  • lasso selection
  • magic wand
  • curves
  • gradient
  • color eraser
  • custom shape
  • Enhanced tools:
  • brush: custom brushes, airbrush
  • line: different line styles are available
  • rectangle, ellipse: different gradient fill modes
  • text: can have custom angle
  • Most tools support different blending modes
  • Blur/Brightness: configurable hardness
  • Icon related:
  • IcoFX can now create/edit static and animated cursors
  • full support for Macintosh icons up to 512x512
  • Extract from 16 bit resource files under Windows Vista and 7
  • Convert 16 bit icl files to 32 bit using the resource editor