Pano2VR - Changelog

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2.3

2.3.1

• Added Window 64bit and Mac Cocoa builds
• Signed Windows installers
• Flash export: You can add your link in the Flash context menu (only with a company license)
• Translations added/updated (Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Farsi)
• Output folders are created if they don't exist
• Default output for empty projects is now the Documents folder
• Better handling of large images in "Trial" mode
• Bugfix: Flash: Mininal FoV works again
• Bugfix: Patch Tool: Patches for 8 bit images are now fully opaque

2.3.0

• Setting to disable Undo in the Skin editor
• New SPi-V engine
• Mac OS X Sheets disabled, because of problems with Snow Leopard
• Bugfix: Tiled TIFF images with 256 px tiles
• Bugfix: Point hotspots with different FoV mode
• Bugfix: Area Hotspots don't work correct on flat images

2.3 beta 6

• Switch back to Qt 4.5.3 because of OpenGL errors in Windows (thx Hopki)
• Bugfix: Flat images work now correct with hotspots (thx^2 Hopki)
• Bugfix: Flat images show sometimes a thin black line (thx^3 Hopki)
• Bugfix: Skin: Endless loop (loop=0) changed volume (thx^4 Hopki)
• Change of cylindrical FoV in viewing parameters works now faster

2.3 beta 5

• Flat (non distorted) images as input type and Flash output
• Flash 9 export: 4 different field of view modes (vFoV, hFoV, dFoV, Max) read more
• Support for tiled TIFFs as produced by PTStitcherNG
• New faster memory management for large images (~GPixel)
• Skin: Hand cursor as option per element
• Skin: Placeholders work also in value fields
• Cylindrical Horizontal FoV now also in "Viewing Parameters" window
• Update to Nokias Qt 4.6.0 which should be faster.
• Bugfix: Sound: Some bugs with looping fixed
• Bugfix: Odd PNG bug (smaller sized images are hidden) work around implemented
• Bugfix: Flash HTML "externalize" fixed
• Bugfix: Skin: Loading bar/OnLoaded works correct with external images

2.3 beta 4

• Sound: External *.mp3 files
• Bugfix: Skin editor could not be launched from the Flash settings page
• Bugfix: Patch Tool ignore the image gamma

2.3 beta 3

• Settings: New option to ignore the Flash tile size limit. Use it at your own risk.
• Bugfix: Skin editor crashed sometimes when launched from the menu
• Bugfix: JPEG Slider was disable in export and convert

2.3 beta 2

• Read/Write OpenEXR and Radiance .HDR files
• Skin: Images can be stored as JPEGs
• Skin: "Start auto rotation" excepts a speed parameter
• Skin editor: Visible and tree state are stored in the Skin file
• Skin editor: Nonmodal dialog from the "Tools" menu, you can keep the skin editor open while recreating the output
• Sound: Better sound handling in tours, background sound keeps playing
• Bugfix Sound: more sample rates should work
• Bugfix: Gamma correction for remapping was disabled, image quality should be improved
• Bugfix Flash API: vr.cleanup() should work again
• Some smaller changes and bug fixes all over

2.3 beta 1

• Background, directional and effect sound within the panorama (Flash 9/10 only!)
• Effect sounds in the Skin
• Sound controls within the Skin (Play/Pause/Stop, change volume)
• Improved tree view within the Skin editor (hide elements, fold/unfold)
• Improved drag & drop in the Skin editor with auto scrolling on the edges
• Invert mouse wheel direction
• Invert mouse control direction (for touch screens)
• Skin: Start/Stop auto rotation action
• "*" hotspot proxy to match all hotspots
• Skin: UTF-8 support for setText action
• Skin: Mouse X/Y as modifier value
• Conversion keeps ICC profiles in TIFF files
• Updated to Qt 4.5.1 library - This breaks older HTML templates. You need to check now for "true" instead of true if you use checkboxes
• Crash bug in conversion fixed.

2.2

2.2.3

• TIFF 32 bit support fixed
• User data placeholders in output file name
• Current position naming in patch tool fixed

2.2.2

• Skins: visibility and alpha=0 fix
• Fast QTVR to Flash conversion is working again
• Skin: Placeholders work in "move to"
• Locked window (file not exists with "insert") in Patch tool
• several translations updated

2.2.1

• Added word wrap checkbox for hotspots
• Start width selectable for hotspot autosize
• Proper encoding for user data, links and HTML should work again
• Settings for position name in patch and width/Pi factor for output
• Pano2QTVRs .*pqp file parser to convert old projects
• Skins: visibility and alpha are now independent again
• Bug fix for transforming cylindrical panos to cube faces
• Skins work now also in containers and are positioned correctly

2.2.0

• Flash 9:Multiple domain locks: Use a list of domains separated with spaces
• Skin: hide with alpha=0
• video panorama fixed
• dynamic user data: The user data changes with the next panorama
• slide controller fixed
• hotspot position for embed panoramas fixed
• conversion from strips to equi with hotspots fixed

2.2 beta 4

• exchanged the debug Flash file with release file

2.2 beta 3

• Flash 9/10: Domain lock + expiration date
• Skin: "On Init" action trigger, "Change Text" action
• Skin: Prefix "%" to address ALL elements with the same ID (for example to hide all hotspots)
• Skin: Change/Set/Toggle position allow a reference ID instead of a position
• Skin Editor: Extra tab for actions + scroll bars in the properties window
• Skin Editor: "Splitter" between tree and editor to create more space, if needed
• Automatic check for updates
• Bug fix: Background color in "transformation" works again

version has been pulled back

2.2 beta2

• Internal link to cylindrical panoramas should now work correctly
• "Wobble" effect in Flash 10 fixed
• Usage of the default view for internal linked panoramas
• Skin: "Mouse leave" event is called on hotspot destruction
• Skin editor: Better handling of the active element
• Actionscript: Cleanup should work (only if there is no skin!)
• The mask is again applied correctly
• Hotspot URL has been called also for custom hotspots
• Mac: Values haven't been always saved in the point hotspot window
• Skin: change angle action
• Internal cursor used for panorama links with area hotspots
• "don't process output" option in batch processing
• Flash: Setting "Disable scroll wheel"

2.2 beta

• Flash 10 export
• Inline hotspots
• Point hotspots
• Extended Skins. New properties like angle and several new actions
• Skin editor: Point hotspot template
• Hotspot proxies

2.1

2.1.1

• first beta for Flash 10 export
• Proxy icons in Mac OS X
• "Recent files" in Skin editor
• Norwegian translation
• Bug in viewing parameters for partial panos fixed
• Bug with undo in Skin editor fixed

2.1.0

• Memory leak fixed
• "Save project file" also in batch window
• Dutch translation
• Trolltechs Qt 4.4.2

2.1 beta4

• many bug fixes for droplets
• better performance with larger files
• bugfix for transformations on 16bit images on multi core processors
• updated translations
• template for javascript interface fixed
• fixed p2q_embed_object.js (v 2.2)

2.1 beta3

• Flash 8 export fixed
• File extension also recognized as upper case
• Focus fixed for error dialog if the progress bar visible
• “Save as default” ignores the input file name
• Italian translation
• 64bit Linux version added

2.1 beta2

• Export for cylindrical Flash panoramas fixed
• Drag & Drop on Pano2VR.app for Mac OS X fixed
• Fixed SPi-V and QuickTime HTML templates

2.1 beta

• Patch tool (There is already a tutorial available for it)
• Virtually no image size limits (the 2GB TIFF file size is the only limit)
• Externalize images and skin (create a player with external images)
• Javascript interface
• RDF meta data in the SWF
• Using version of the Trolltech Qt 4.4 framework

2.0 release

2.0.2

• Korean translation
• Bug: Color subsampling now turned off again for strips
• Bug: Border for video transformation was missing
• "Outputbox" created immediately to fix the Drag&Drop bug also for the initial window on Mac OS X 10.5.

2.0.1

• Persian,Swedish and Turkish translation
• Numbers are displayed in the systems localized format
• Application runs now also with right to left/bidirectional languages
• Droplets use the defined input format
• Blackman/sinc and Blackman/Bessel filter work again
• Skin editor: Minor changes for copy & paste and undo
• Flash 9 API:Cursor images gets removed with cleanup call

2.0.0

• French, Spanish and Japanese translation
• saving window size/position for hotspot editor
• Droplet on Mac OS X save now the script within the bundle
• bugfix: Hotspot file names names for automatic cube faces
• bugfix: "Out of memory" check for output transformation
• bugfix: Mouse down image in skin not working
• bugfix: saving window position and size skin editor on Mac OS X

2.0 beta

2.0 beta7a

• Russian translation
• Context menu for fixed window sizes in viewing parameters
• Skin modifiers: factor and offset range expanded
• Bug: Skin editor, undo buffer race condition after 100 operations lead to crash
• Bug: "Move To" in the Skin used the CPU even after stopped moving

2.0 beta7

• Improved skins and skin editor with new elements, actions, modifiers, and loading elements
• Subtiles for Flash 9 export
• User interface in German and simplified Chinese
• Change text for "Thumbnail/Remapping" to "Transformation"
• Added DevalVR as option for the QuickTime HTML export
• Bug: slightly overlapping cube faces in Flash 9 removed
• Bug: Hotspot files with cube faces have been ignored

2.0 beta6b

• bug converting 16/32 bit TIFF cubefaces to equirectangular

2.0 beta6a

• Flash 9 API: vr.pano.setWindowSize/Pos was not working

2.0 beta6

• 16bit/float(32bit) TIFF support for remapping
• Save deflate compressed TIFFs (option in settings)
• Flash 9: custom mouse cursors
• Flash 9: Changeable text & background color for hotspot lables
• Flash 9: option to disable mouse/keyboard

2.0 beta5a

• removed duplicate line Flash HTML template
• fixed encoding for the ° sign

2.0 beta5

• HTML templates (templates for QTVR, Flash, SPi-V)
• new anchor control
• option to disable cross mode for hotspot editor
• option to disable anti aliasing
• cube face export in remapping

2.0 beta4b

• Fullscreen button disabled until the movie is fully downloaded to avoid a Flash plugin bug
• Preload bar is now again above the loading image
• PanoVideo: Frame only updated if the video input has changed
• Skin files can now be compressed with DEFLATE (=standard ZIP files)

2.0 beta4a

• focus got sometimes lost for Flash 9 panoramas so they didn't react to keyboard input

2.0 beta4

• fixed partial cylinders in Flash 8/9
• fixed bug in the skin editor tree view
• Drag & Drop in the skin editor is now working in Mac OS 10.5/Leopard
• Droplets are now accepting folders
• fixed error reading QTVRs without at cufa atom
• new batch mode in "Tools/Batch Processing" as a workaround for limited Windows (Vista) Drag & Drop
• video parameter in HTML to "inject" panoramic video
• fixed bug for HTML in hotspot text
• additional actions in skin editor (default view, video functions)

2.0 beta3

• yet another fix for the Hotspot editor on Mac OS X - PPC
• new callback functions onRollOverQtHotspot,onRollOutQtHotspot
• addHotspot working in AS3
• protection Flag for QuickTime
• Flash 9 panorama XML controllable
• Skin editor + skins for Flash 9 panoramas
• Hand cursor for hotspots in Flash 9
• added FlashVars for pan, tilt and fov to Flash 9 panoramas

2.0 beta2c

• color field from beta2a introduced a bug for Flash 9/preview track

2.0 beta2b

• bug with cylindrical QuickTime panoramas fixed

2.0 beta2a

• QuickTime autorotation bug
• added color for preview track "none"

2.0 beta2

• additional "Reset FoV" button in viewing limits
• cylindrical panoramas
• final fix hotspot editor on Mac-PPC
• Holodeck for thumbnail
• Preloader for Flash8/9 with image and anchor
• changed mode for automatic anti aliasing (thumbnail)
• quality setting for each cube tile
• optimal tilesize - hint
• setting for width/pi
• size field for Flash hotspot text
• file size in output box
• setting for Output: "ask overwrite" and "auto create"

2.0 beta1b

• Fixed QTVR preview order, preview didn't show up
• Mac PPC: Hotspot editor didn't worked

2.0 beta1a

• typo mercator projection
• fixed crash bug while remapping with certain image sizes
• Thumbnail output: disabled "height" value changes with "width" value
• Mac: dmg in different compression format, compatible to Mac OS X 1.3.9
• Win: Installer shows new logos
• Win: Update to QT 4.3.1 DLLs
• Cancel during remapping didn't canceled the file creation
• Mac: Version number in Info.plist

2.0 beta1

• initial release