What's new in komixo maker 0.11
Aug 27, 2010
- skin redesinged from scratch !!
- new icon set used - Fuge Icons
- default font added - komika display tight
- localization (currently only polish, english are supported)
- new object - TextCloud (speech cloud with text field)
- edit panels (frames) mode separated
- comic strip templates has been added
- load images from URL passed as by GET method
- auto-update bug fixed
- boundary box for groups & masks excludes all invisible areas
- stroke thickness for primitives bug fixed
- new way of adding stars/polygons
- group object optimized a bit
- groups/masks that contain non-transformable objects cannot be transformed
- update canvas after transformation matrix paste, identity
- context menu, fixed
- object (selection) properties are updated after change
- lasso selection in transform state, fixed
- zooming, fixed
- idle state buttons are updated after selection changes
- edited textfield looses focus when mouse rolls in, fixed
- some text properties can be set in edit mode (font-face, font-size etc.)
- install new package, fixed
- transformation bugs, after selection changes, fixed
- lasso selection improved
- aspect ratio is saved when SHIFT key is down
- not working lock/visibility switches in objects tree window, fixed
- added object pooling in object/state panels
- bugs in copy/paste fixed
- keyboard shortcuts bug fixed
- selection move while transforming gives wrong results, fixed
- text field properties not refreshing, fixed
- thumbnails in resource basket scaled with smoothing
- draft loading bugs fixed - error in loading draft throws RT exception
- draft loading optimized
- maker is ready for re-branding
- application size reduced
- migration to new signing certificate (desktop only)
New in komixo maker 0.10 (Mar 8, 2010)
- fixed: copy/paste mask bug fixed
- fixed: runtime error in clouds styles
- changed: boundary box for primitives
- canvas dragging in any state
- fixed: transformation engine changes, related zoom bug
- fixed: stroke scaling mode bug
- added: loading resources error alerts
New in komixo maker 0.9 (Mar 8, 2010)
- 'super-panel' - putting objects over and under panels now possible
- objects list (tree)
- 'drop target'
- advanced text (htmlText)
- handling drafts versioning, class versions, etc
- new draft file extensiion - *.kmx
- resources window (basket) - scalable area at the bottom
- canvas history
- new transformation engine
- object options - options window removed, object & class options panel added based on Inkscape
- new way of loading and handling fonts new way of handling packages
- grouping rebuilded
- new masking engine
- UI improved - changed from list to tree
- handling color swatches
- handling webcamera
New in komixo maker 0.8 (Mar 8, 2010)
- changed transformation engine
- ported online (http://online.komixo.com)
- some bugs fixed
New in komixo maker 0.5 (Mar 8, 2010)
- Added: 'In place group editing' groups can be edited on stage. Infinite depth.
- Added: Objects masking
- Added: Text leading and text spacing for text fields
- Added: Keyboard shortcuts
- Added: Drag&Drop images from external applications
- Added: Export to JPG
- Improved: window management
- Improved: Undo/Redo engine
- Fixed: All ColorWindow related bugs
- Fixed: Object list drag&drop bugs
- Fixed: Context menu 'group'/'ungroup' bugs
- Fixed: Additional button occurs, when the same transformation is selected twice
- Fixed: Polygon/Star type change locked when object is eddited
- Fixed: Transformation copy/paste bugs fixed
- Fixed: Drag&Drop images from web browser
- Fixed: Lots of other bugs :)
- Removed: Text options window. All options are now in object options window.
New in komixo maker 0.4 (Mar 8, 2010)
- Added: Undo/Redo functionality
- Added: Drag&Drop images directly form web browser
- Added: Full screen mode available
- Added: Objects can be removed from objects list
- Added: Object selecting lasso
- Added: objects in selection are interpreted as a single objects, can be managed in object options window
- Added: Checking for update at startup
- Added: Now using native menus
- Improved: Transformation manager optimized
- Improved: more color management options added in ColorWindow
- Fixed: Primitives are too small after added to stage
- Fixed: Cloud tail dissapears when stroke=0
- Fixed: mirror flip causes object dissapearing error
- Fixed: Skew transformation bugs
- Fixed: context menu error in transformation mode
- Fixed: When right button pressed over nonactive frame, and some object are selected on any other, error occurs
- Fixed: context menu 'delete' entry missing for LocalText object (t3m)
- Fixed: group/ungroup functionality available from context menu
- Fixed: draft window close button not featured enough
New in komixo maker 0.3 (Mar 8, 2010)
- Added: Adding new frames on sides (left,top,right,bottom)
- Added: Custom cartoon at startup (file start.crtd in application directory) instead of single frame
- Added: Frame options available : frame padding, background color, border color, dimensions
- Added: inactive icons are now marked (grayscaled)
- Added: after exporting png alert is displayed
- Added: Load image from web, added in Basket window.
- Added: 'Open directory' option in Basket window. Loads all images from selected directory.
- Added: Selected frame is now highlighted
- Added: New geometrical primitive - speech cloud. Fully modifiable, can express any emotional state.
- Added: New graphics objects use colors that are currently set (active colors are visible in Tool window)
- Added: Geometrical primitives (rectangle, ellipse/circle, poly/star) can be manipulated (like in Inkscape)
- Added: Objects can be removed from frame using DELETE, BACKSPACE key and ContextMenu item
- Added: Moving objects using keyboard cursors
- Added: Mouse drag start also if mouse was clicked out of any frame. This allows drag objects that are out of the frame.
- Added: File extension indicator in 'Save draft' and' Export PNG'
- Added: Right click (context) menus for frame objects
- Fixed: objects that are out of visible area are moved to (0,0), after paste and when rescaled
- Fixed: closing/removing image pack and info do not work in Images Basket
- Fixed: package objects are not saved when draft is re-saved (opened and written again)
- Fixed: Active color in color window now updates when selection changes
- Fixed: 'paste matrix' throws null error exception
- Fixed: when packages directory is missing, alert is displayed
- Fixed: zoom textfield is updated when zoom changes
- Fixed: all color related bugs (color window updates when selection changed, new objects use selected colors, color math bugs fixed)
- Fixed: objects ungrouping while zoom applied, were additionally scaled
- Improved: Objects transformation engine rebuilded. Objects with registration point other than (0,0) are now be transformed properly.
- Improved: selection marker is drawn for each selected object, and represents its transformation (inkscape style)
New in komixo maker 0.2 (Mar 8, 2010)
- Added: menu items: File ⇒ Open image, File ⇒ Open image pack
- Added: recent drafts submenu
- Added: marking visible windows with accept sign in menu
- Added: loading images using drag&drop
- Changed: File → “Export” item name to “Export to PNG”
- Changed: “Your items” window name to “Images basket”
- Changed: About window tabs → About, Credits, System info
- Improved: objects in basket can be scalled to fit thumbnail, this can be set in 'Preferences'
- Improved: Default draft and basket storing dictionaries are in users document dictionary (My Documents on Windows). This way path is much shorter, because folder name does not include md5 hashed publisher id ( ..\Dane aplikacji\com.cartoonair.6AD13EFDFCBD18C7F612F7D644F749E49E121D93.1)
- Improved: most important (top frame obejcts) are now placed on the top of objects list
- Improved: more intuitive text fields handling: when inserting font you can write straight away, when you choose font tool and click on font object you don't insert new one, but edit existing one
- Optimized: air package file minfied from about 1MB to about 650-700KB
- Fixed: after adding new packages in BasketWindow scroll buttons now updates
- Fixed: fixing file extension for export
- Fixed: in Windows menu item all its subitems slightly moves right
- Fixed: color window - remove Polish texts
- Fixed: object can dissapear from objects list and frame after drag&drop
- Fixed: hangs out during starting when loading fonts (only after starting after installation)
- Fixed: File → Open - hangs out when opening draft (0%) - when compressed
- Fixed: copy do clipboard - objects are copied in order they were selected, but they should be copied in depth order
- Fixed: sliders dont disappear (stroke input control)
- Fixed: ColorWindow: color alpha is not set when selection changes
- Fixed: ColorWindow: no color change after its set using input field
- Fixed: color change error for selection (color management is now event based)
- Fixed: canvas drag: if is in transformation state, transform boundary box is not updated
- Fixed: boundary box of a transformed object is removed
- Removed: File → Save - save draft is enough
- Removed: File → Close - not needed