Next version will have some nice improvements

October 3, 2008, 19:05

Yes, it's been two months since I promised the next version will be much faster. Rest assured it is. But I am not releasing yet since I want to fix some issues this has created and further improve other things such as the speed of brush painting. Anyway since the current release expires in 30 days, I'll definitely release the new one within that timeframe :-) Among the main changes to come:

Filter rendering on large images will be much faster
PDF and Text rendering will be much faster
Threading will be much more efficient (and safer): this means opening 20 documents at once won't feel so risky and processor intensive anymore
The inspector now supports mathematical expressions (e.g you can type 120+32 in a position or scale field, and actually even much more complex math expressions)
A nicer color picker (eventually faster on large images too but this is not done yet)
Resizing canvas will respect the positionf of various non bitmap items (text, pdf, filter)
And quite a load of bugfixes (which you can always read about on bugs.chocoflop.com if you happen to care).

So when will it be ready? When it's ready (or at worst within 27 days of this post).

5 responses to this post

Cool. Many new features.

I hope not you have some sparetime too! :-)

October 3, 2008, 22:52 | Simon Strandgaard

dcraw now supports the LX3.. is there any easy way to update dcraw in Chocoflop. Tried replacing dcraw within the contents :)

October 6, 2008, 19:05 | Jim

I filed a bug to update dcraw when I can. Actually yes, replacing the dcrawU file in the package should work. Doesn't it?

Not that I have any idea what LX3 stands for though :-)

October 10, 2008, 22:46 | Santiago Lema

Actually if you want the new binary now you can get them here. Just replacing dcrawU in the applicaiton package should do it.

http://www.insflug.org/raw/

I'll include this one in the next release. I also note there are a few options int the current build (chocoflop usees 8.40 and this is 8.88). I filed a bug to review them and eventually add them to the GUI.

October 10, 2008, 23:01 | Santiago Lema

Thanks! I will try. LX-3 is he new Panasonic which is getting great reviews. Replacing with 8.88 did not work even though 8.88 does support the LX-3 raw format *.RW2. Any other ideas wil be explored

Thanks again for your response ..... Jim

October 13, 2008, 04:54 | Jim

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