GrafX2 Changelog

What's new in GrafX2 SVN1759

• Added 2 irtual keyboards for portable console ports - one to easily enter filenames or text for text tool, another one for all numeric input.
• Magnifier settings for Main page and Spare page are now synchronized, if the images hae same dimensions ( issue 327 )
• Many new Lua functions for scripting
• Improed the color matching formula used in 'Copy to Spare' and 'Recolorize brush'
• Rotating a brush while holding 'Shift' key now snaps to the closest 22.5° multiple)
• Added color cycling animation ( issue 365 ). Animation can be actie een when drawing.
• Paintbrush window can be customized with your own brushes ( issue 345 ). It also highlights the selected one.
• The colorpicker cursor, (in zoomed iew) no longer displays a preiew pixel.
• Fixed the bottom line of pixels in the magnifier: The bottom row can no longer be too thin.
• Redesigned Settings window. Now contains all settings that were only aailable in gfx2.ini
• Safety backups (after a crash or power failure) now remember the original file name and directory.
• File sorting in file selector is case insensitie
• New drawing workflow allowing to use right click as a colorpicker instead of drawing with the secondary color where it makes sense
• Allow skins to redefine the "selected" button graphics
• Real alpha transparent mode. Allows to properly use antialiased-text on a multicolor background
• Copy and paste in the palette using ctrl C/ctrl or right-click sub-menu.
• Cleanup of the palette screen and added a way to input colors in hexadecimal.
• Palette screen : Added a button to tag used colors
• Palette screen : Added a color histogram
• Palette screen : Reducing color count now remoes duplicates
• Palette screen : Added a merge tool
• New shortcuts for brush resize and calling factory scripts directly
• New algorithm for palette sorting
• Support fonts in 'bitmap Font Writer' format.
• Drag-and-dropping a file into Grafx2's window now opens it.
• Drie list (in Load/Sae screen) now has icons for media type: HDD, CD, etc.
• Fixes
• Fix the Saturation slider in HSL mode that would make greyscale colors red ( issue 396 )
• Menu size (depending on UI scale) doesn't change when Pixel Scaler changes, when it's possible ( issue 338 )
• Fix a bug where closing the Magnifier moed the iew to random place ( issue 380 )
• Lua : too many fixes to list
• Fix important bug where resizing an image or using any transformation resets transparent color to zero
• Fix imprecise RGB sliders when RGB scale is lower than 256 ( issue 384 )
• Skin DPaint: Fix the icon 'unslected layer 6'
• Skin DPaint: Fixed the hotspot of the standard mouse cursor, it was not in top left corner.
• Skin Modern: Fix the button for palette scroll arrows
• The image preiew in Load/Sae window now uses a web-safe palette, if the preiewed image has a low color count.
• Fixed the 'Copy to Spare / palette and remap' : It wasn't fully undoable.
• Improed mouse handling. Should fix many cases mouse cursor was choppy or lagging for no reason, taking lots of CPU.
• Modified the method for picking GUI colors in the current palette. This soles many cases where the menu was difficult to read.
• Fix using fullscreen mode with a tablet ( issue 317 ).
• Fixed the format of gfx2.ini, which was sometimes causing the loss of the "scroll up" shortcut.
• Fixed a few typos in Keyboard Shortcuts help.
• Fixed crash on loading PNG24 pictures if they contain transparency data.
• Fixed inaccurate picking of color in the menu palette and improed its ergonomy ( issue 340 )
• The gradient rectangle tool can no longer leae construction lines ( issue 339 )
• Fixed the "Zap unused colors" funtion, in some cases it would affect wrong colors.
• Fixed compilation problem for Linux ( Issue 336 )
• F1 key in settings screen didn't open the right help files
• Better compatibility in the GIF file loader (1bpp GIFs and other things)
• Trying to use a font bigger than 99 and some bitmap fileformats would crash the program
• Keyboard click emulation was broken since 2.1