• Fixes bugs 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, ,49, 50
• Keyboard strokes improved against different OSes/Virtual environnements
• Progress windows estimate remaining and completion times.
• Holding left mouse button on a dialog control is limited to 20 notifications/s, it was almost impossible to define Real Time Zoom window size with nowadays computer's speed.
• Hex dump now has search capabilities (binary, ASCII caps/no caps, count, wrap around)
• Logging file a bit like log4j. Controlled by [Logging] section and LoggingFlags et LoggingFile entries from VISION.INI.
• New function InGetKeyFromFile in VAPI
• New function CoGetProcessors in VAPI
• New interface Logging and functions LoDoLog and LoGetLogLevel exposed by VAPI
• TT-RAM memory can now be used (automatic selection by VISION upon needs).
• A memory tracker is included and logs allocations/frees/statistics/errors (DEBUG/MEM/INFO/WARNING/ERROR levels)
• Old protection mecanism removed
• If graphic resolution is over 1440x900, True Color wheel is 4 times bigger
• Some hardware capabilities can be masked out to LDVs in VISION.INI, that enables easier testing
• Aranym native NFJPEG is supported (very fast JPEG decoding!)
• Catalog will display most recent images first (before looking at name, format and biplanes). Please note this mandates catalog file to be updated. VISION will propose it automatically and exisitng catalog files will be backup-ed prior to the migration.
• Catalog stability enhanced and longfile name support.
• VISION can now manage several catalogs (main form or icon window).
• Catalog dialog and window icon view are kept in sync for updates/adds/removals.
• Images can be selected from window catalog (with support of control/shift keys); selection can be removed from catalog (DEL key) and image files can be removed also (shift+DEL). Also accessible from a right-click on catalog window
• A keyword can be defined in catalog INI file to select a category (syntax: Path=[keyword])
• Catalog INI file can now be applied to whole catalog (not only before adding images)
• VMSG.RSC has moved to VMSG.TXT to ease translations and limit errors I have done German, Italian and Swedish translations using Google Translate.
• VMSG.TXT files consistency can be checked using chkmsg.prg
• If an issue is detected in VISION.INI (e.g. wrong path), VISION will try to fix it automatically.
• New LDV: BlackHole
• VISION is published under MIT license.
• Known bugs and limitations:
• 51:When an icon in the current number of colors already exists, VISION wrongly tries anyway to free it when exiting. This comes from a very old and fuzzy color icon library and it is way too tricky to solve this comparing to the benefit. Note this error is caught by VISION's allocation tracker and does not lead to any crash nor leak. So live with it. This only happens in 16 colors modes.

4.0e

• VISION gets modular !
  A click with the right mouse button on an image displays a popup menu, giving you the ability to start LDV
  Then you can select the LDV you want, have a look at its details and apply it on an image or a part of it.
  A development kit (in French at the moment but the 'C' source code is something universal...) is also available !
  
• Big changes in user interface
  - Multitasking environments are much better handled
  - Progres windows are moveale and they redraw well...
  - Some dialog boxes are now non-modal :
  . True Color wheel
  . Index selection on the color palette (now his window is freely moveable and resizable)
  . The album -Yepee !-
  . The thumbnail view of the album -Yepee !-
  - A lot of details like you can iconize, move, resize when a modal window is opened
  
• New window : Image Browser
  Sooo cool, this window allows you to display in a very quick way the images in a folder like the ACDSee software on Windows (very nice software !). This window is displayed at startup and gives you acces to the following features :
  - Load image : the image will be displayed and the image list of the same folder will be memorized
  - Previous/Next image : Display the previous or the next image in the folder. You can cancel the loading of an image by typing on the<-- or --> key and then start the load of another image.
  - Edit : Opens a VISION's classic window image, giving you access to modifications
  - Print : Prints the current image
  - Delete : Deletes the image file on disk
  - Zoom : Popup used to change the zoom level of the displayed image
  - Move : If the image cannot be fully displayed in the image browser window, you can move on it by pressing the left mouse button and moving the mouse.
  
• The default category in album idea is extended by an INI file
  You can associate a INI file instead of a default category in order to specify the categories to be set depending on the folder where the image is. This INI file is defined in the information album window and is structured like this :
  [Lookn] --> n is the finder priority (0 is the hightest)
  Path=... --> path and mask, if the file to be addes is contained in this variable, the image will be added with the following catagories :
  Catn=... --> Name of the category n (1,2,3). If this category does not exist, it will be created (take care of the 32 categories limit) . If an error occurs, or if Catn is not defined, the default album category will be used.
  This INI file is very powerful ! If you use to organize images into folders, once you created this INI file, all new files will be added without any need to set up categories image per image !
  
• VA_START protocol handled
  If your desktop (Thing, Magic,...) uses this protocol, you can load another image in VISION without re-starting it again.
  
• Long names can be used
  ! IMPORTANT !
  Depending on the system version (Tos, Mint, Magic...), some system functions does not handle very well long filenames. This can create some errors especially with the batch convert or album features. The long names handling can be removed with the preferences, it replaces the 'scrolling popups" option which wasn't very useful...
  
• A right click on the mouse button into the thumnail album window displays a popup that gives you access to :
  - Image loading
  - Information on image
  - HTML export of the thumnails
  
• Faster : album sort (up to30 times if your album is very big (above 8 Mb) ) !
• You can specify the remove, destroy of sources files and the replacement of existing ones on the batch convertion window
• Filters can be translated into any language (create the language name folder into VISION\FILTRES)
• The progress window shows the global progress when adding images into album or batch convertion.
• You can have a different start and end line style in the shape dialog window
• When using lines or KLines tool, coords are dispalyed in the info bar
• You can start another program by clicking on an image with the right mouse button (in parallel with VISION if a multitasking system is used)
• The palette can be displayed by clicking on an image with the right mouse button
• SplashWindow key added in vision.ini
• DisplayToolBar key added in vision.ini. To display it again, open the preference dialog box
• If VISION does not find the vision.ini file, it gives you the ability to tell it where it is
  
• Bugs fixes 15, 17, 18 et 19

• 256 colors dithering (automatic selection)
• SnapShot function added, activated with '*' and '/' keys on numeric pad:
• JPEG files can be loaded without DSP
• JPEG files can now be generated
• You can divide an image into sub-images and save it (used to generate an array of images in an HTML page)
• Interleaved GIF files can be loaded
• Faster : grey level dithering speed-up by 25 % - 35 %
• Album window is now resizable
• A new popup appears by clicking with the right button on a window and displays functions Restore, Maximiser, Informations, sauve, sauve as and close
• A log file can be activated in order to produce automatically a Slide Show file who contains images loaded with 'Open'
• In 24 bits True Color modes, images are now correctly displayed (some problems still exist...).
• Fixes bugs 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 and 13
• Shareware wait fixed to 15 seconds

• Automatic detection at start-up of the need to use of standard VDI format
• Automatic detection at start-up of True Color plane organization (manual panel has been removed)
• VISION now handles 65K True Color format (still not 24 bits format !)
• Keyboard speed-up (using direction arrows) to move into images or window catalog
• The window catalog is less "modal": except modifications on images, you can do everything (close, move, iconize...)
• All styles (lines, points...) are now saved in VISION.INI
• The right white strip has been removed in Slide-Show
• In .VSS slide-show files, you can insert a comment at the end of a command line
• Fixes bugs #02 and #03
• Shareware wait set to 10 seconds

• Real Time window zoom
• Fastest !
• More compliance with graphics cards (still not perfect...)
• Disk undos up to 99 levels
• Slide-Show linked with catalogue
• Minor bugs fixed

Quicky replaced by version 3.0b