History of Smart Pix Manager Photo and Multimedia Management Software

1	Automatically rotates digital camera photos for correct display
2	Zip files are now natively supported. Browse Zips like normal folders with thumbnail support
3	New dockable tool window displays all information for the current file, including camera and music fields
4	Now supports a much wider range of digital camera Raw photo formats
5	Dicom Medical Imaging format is now natively supported
6	Automatically plays associated sound files of images
7	Added many digital camera (EXIF) fields, including all GPS fields and Windows embedded data
8	Keywords can now be copied and pasted using right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts
9	Full Vista support: Now offers much more Vista specific improvements
10	Significant improvements to styling throughout the software
11	Now provides full support for multiple monitor usage
12	Images can be automatically scrolled simply by hovering the cursor over the display
13	Numerous changes to layout and wording throughout the application to make it easier to use
14	Faster loading of many image formats
15	Improved algorithm for locating relevant multimedia files for media library inclusion

Complete Change List:

• Added: Go up button to folder tree toolbar
• Added: Faster calculation of files without keywords assigned
• Fixed: Now when checking for files without keywords assigned it ignores date keywords
• Added: When hovering over long items in the file info dialog the full text is displayed in a hint box
• Added: Can now edit default keywords for database folders from the right-click menu
• Added: Update database dialog now remembers your settings
• Added: Improved frames included in main installation
• Changed: Now file details hint when hover over thumbnails updates correctly
• Fixed: Motion effects may be used in slideshow disks even if the option is not selected
• Changed: Now truncates long usernames in about box and splash screen
• Added: Improved slideshow tray icon under XP and Vista
• Fixed: Slideshow title page preview screen may be too wide
• Changed: Considered as keyword assigned if keywords are specified in Add to Library wizard
• Fixed: When try to rename PDF or other embedded file it fails because it is locked
• Added: Can navigate the folder tree by clicking first letter of folder name
• Added: When changing folder select mode in Move dialog it automatically highlights the relevant folder control
• Fixed: File Info dialog in MegaView has odd layout in Library tab
• Fixed: Rounding error may occur with large images in the resize dialog
• Fixed: May get misleading error if input the wrong serial number
• Fixed: Some buttons may appear off the form in the Overwrite dialog
• Added: Improved registration system
• Added: Enter serial number function under Help menu
• Fixed: Issues if rate files while rating filter is enabled
• Added: Better warning if read-only because it is located in a read-only folder
• Changed: Now uses Tahoma throughout the UI
• Changed: Office style group boxes and non-bevelled windows
• Fixed: Beeps on start-up
• Added: Save dialogs now always check the selected file extension is used
• Added: Now right-click menus are also themed
• Changed: Removed some unnecessary buttons from Move dialog
• Changed: Thumbnail style is now tied to UI option
• Changed: No longer shows icons for seldom used functions
• Changed: Updated splash graphic
• Changed: Renamed all Database references as Media Library
• Removed: No longer checks for v4 format databases
• Changed: Amalgamated confusing auto-shrink and auto-stretch options
• Added: Improved zoom status icon in status bar
• Added: Status bars are now themed
• Changed: Slideshow now always run full screen
• Changed: Double-clicking screen during slideshow disables the slideshow
• Removed: Show Hover hints option
• Changed: Now saves favorites lists without prompting
• Removed: Thumbnail quality option
• Changed: Now when saving database referenced files it always maintains the existing reference
• Added: Rotate buttons on toolbar if the image editing toolbar is not visible
• Changed: Now always prints at highest quality
• Changed: Improved mouse wheel functionality, zooms the image or optionally navigates the file list
• Fixed: Internet toolbar may not update location when browsing the web
• Added: MPEG-4 Movie File definition
• Changed: MegaView always starts in simplified UI mode
• Changed: Paths in Source Folders dialog are now truncated to fit
• Added: File Info dialog now correctly shows all keyword fields
• Changed: Now adds keywords to IPTC as list rather than comma separated
• Fixed: Current description changes not saved when selecting export to IPTC
• Fixed: Keyword changes may not be saved to IPTC
• Fixed: Date group disappears when manually adding an item to it
• Added: Copy and Paste function in Keywords Right-click menu
• Added: Now fully supports multiple monitors
• Changed: Now never deletes database references in non-confirmed file management functions
• Changed: Email shortcut is now Ctrl+I
• Fixed: Improved styling of grids in File Info
• Fixed: If try to print and have no printer may be unable to close Print dialog
• Fixed: Date keywords may display in right-click menu even if the option is disabled
• Changed: Now when starting a multishow it fills the whole screen
• Changed: No longer highlights the current multishow image by default
• Added: Option to have very long slideshow display times (e.g. in hours)
• Added: "Power Tools" options can be displayed using Ctrl+Shift+0 (Zero)
• Added: When rotating and cropping images the EXIF orientation and thumbnail are updated
• Changed: no longer surface errors on shutdown
• Added: Support for Sony ARW files
• Changed: Now can click outside the selection box to clear your selection
• Added: More border for thumbnail grid
• Fixed: Background color may change when manually rotating images
• Added: Selection grips are now round
• Added: Now shows background through the alpha channel of transparent images
• Added: Preview images now have a soft shadow
• Added: Image color effects dialog is now resizable
• Added: New windows now use same cursor action as main windows
• Added: Enhanced JPEG quality when at 100%
• Added: Improved DICOM compatibility
• Added: improved GIF loading speed
• Added: Improved IPTC compatibility
• Added: improved speed of filtered resampling routines and filtered display
• Added: Now supports LZW compressed TIFF with inverted fill order
• Added: Supports extra channels in TIFF
• Fixed: AV when not enough memory is available to allocate a large bitmap
• Fixed: fixed memory leak loading some RAW formats
• Fixed: Fixed several bugs reading RAW formats
• Fixed: memory leak reading DICOM images (lossless JPEG encoded)
• Fixed: Multilayer PSD cannot be handled correctly by Photoshop
• Fixed: Now image processing preview is correctly displayed at non-standard dpis
• Fixed: Now preview dialog is correctly displayed under Vista
• Fixed: Preview dialog is slow on resizing
• Added: Added ZIP support for TIFFs
• Added: Now TIFF offset values are correctly word aligned
• Fixed: Issue reading alpha channel in GIF files
• Added: Now correctly reads 16 bit gray scale PNG
• Added: Support for Abode-Style deflate compression for TIFF
• Added: Updated Zlib library
• Added: Updated PNG library
• Fixed: IPTC tags in some jpegs not read correctly
• Fixed: Memory leak loading jpegs/tiff with GPS data
• Fixed: Memory leak reading CRW files
• Added: Support for baseline DICOM
• Changed: Demoted less used selection options to sub-menu on image toolbar
• Changed: Improved toolbar titles
• Added: Double-clicking expands sections in Batch Conversion dialog
• Added: Link to set email send size to the screen dimensions
• Changed: Moved fast loading function to Advanced Options
• Fixed: When creating a new favorites file it doesn't clear existing items
• Fixed: May not save some settings if application is closed by windows shutdown
• Changed: Updated log file save folder for Vista
• Changed: Now always ignores temp folders when searching for multimedia
• Changed: If specifying C:\ as a folder to search for multimedia it follows rules for searching whole system
• Added: Better at ignoring non relevant folders when searching for multimedia
• Added: Now includes a background music file
• Removed: Removed a number of irrelevant advice items
• Added: Changes of descriptions to all selected files is now confirmed
• Changed: Simplified Set All functionality of Description tool window
• Fixed: If assign description to file that is not in DB and change to another file, the old file is shown
• Changed: Longer evaluation period
• Changed: Many improvements to layout of main library
• Changed: Many native changes for Vista
• Changed: Much more modern styling
• Changed: Major overhaul of all options
• Added: Full support for GPS fields embedded in digital camera photos
• Added: New EXIF fields: Artist, Title (Windows), Comment (Windows), Author (Windows), Keywords (Windows), Subject (Windows), Rating (Windows)
• Added: Automatically rotates JPEG images for display (using digital camera fields)
• Added: automatically scroll view simply by moving over the main image
• Added: Dicom format is now natively supported
• Changed: Faster loading of many image formats
• Added: Many improvements to zip handling
• Changed: Zip format now natively supported
• Added: Now shows thumbnails of images within zip files
• Added: Automatically plays sound files of the same name as the displayed image
• Added: Support for much wider range of Digital Camera Raw image formats
• Changed: No longer confirms changing of source folders when moving folders
• Fixed: When moving folders with MegaView the descriptions may not be transferred
• Changed: MegaView now does not show favorites mode in Simplified UI mode if it is not being used
• Changed: Favorites folder selector now always shows the current count for the active favorites folder
• Fixed: Video frames viewer may display frames at very small size
• Changed: Improved styling of video frame viewer
• Fixed: Under Vista may get error when upgrading database *
• Changed: No longer blanks image before deleting, renaming and moving files *
• Fixed: Thumbnail display may lock when copying files *

v10.1 Modifications

• Fixed: Cursor movement in Move dialog does not update destination folder
• Fixed: Some issues when using non-standard font sizes
• Changed: Now uses %20 rather than spaces when creating HTML (if force lowercase is enabled)
• Fixed: Ctrl+A does not select text in description box

v10.2 Modifications

• Fixed: Emailing may lock up when sending via Outlook Express
• Fixed: Smart Pix does not clear the IPTC description when the database description is removed
• Fixed: Some status bar items may not show when using large system fonts
• Added: Now remembers the password for all files in a zip
• Added: Animation on close about box
• Fixed: May not refresh database status for a multimedia file after adding folder to the media library
• Fixed: May not be able to see error message when a Find File fails (which disables the window)
• Fixed: Clicking some buttons in the Getting Started dialog may bring up a hidden dialog
• Fixed: May get slow start ups due to network access