Change Log

Version 0.96.3

• Reworked and released the Open Street Map viewer.
• Adapted to new OS versions.
• Added new API classes: emJob, emJobQueue, emOwnPtr, emOwnArrayPtr, emOwnPtrArray, and emRefTarget.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.96.2

• Fixed character encoding of PDF selection on non-UTF-8 systems.
• Fixed occasional segmentation fault in PDF viewer.
• Allowed to open URLs in PDF documents.
• Released the HMI demo.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.96.1

• Added select and copy functions to the plain text viewer.
• Added select and copy functions to the PDF viewer.

Version 0.96.0

• Added emStocks - a plugin for stock watchlists.
• Added undo/redo functions to editable text fields.
• Extended the graphics API to paint Bezier curves, arrows, and dashes.
• Added support for showing ICO files which are PNG compressed.
• Revised the emListBox API: Now the items have names.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.95.2

• Fixed DPI scaling on Windows.
• Fixed changing of only letter case when renaming files on Windows.
• Fixed useless re-rendering in emPdf.
• Allowed to trigger radio boxes and check boxes by clicking on the text.
• Adjusted some dialog sizes as well as click and expansion size thresholds to modern screen resolutions.
• Updated emLKC to kernel 5.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.95.1

• Added a viewer for WebP image files.
• Fixed focus problems with XWayland.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.95.0

• Added some interpolation algorithms for the zooming into photos, videos, icons and other images. Now the user can choose (in the preferences) from: Area Sampling, Bilinear, Bicubic, Lanczos, and Adaptive.
• Accelerated graphics display by making use of the AVX2 CPU extension.
• Extended the graphics API by a texture class which allows more flexible filling of figures with colors and images.
• Ported the audio/video player to Windows, based on the VLC library.
• Switched from Xine to VLC also for other OSes because some tests showed that VLC is more crash-resistant against randomly corrupted files and thereby most likely more secure.
• Ported the archive viewer to Windows.
• Completely removed support for outdated archive file formats to improve security and simplify maintenance: Goodbye to arc, arj, lha, rar, and zoo.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.94.2

• Fixed some security issues concerning the reading of corrupt image files.
• Fixed keyboard focus loss after dialog closing in certain situations on X11.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.94.1

• Improved video performance on multi-core CPUs a little.
• Prohibited starting up after failure in creating initial bookmarks.
• Reviewed and improved various details concerning protection against unwanted file system changes.
• Colorized file manager command execution messages on Windows 10.

Version 0.94.0

• Extended the internal font, mainly by Cyrillic and Greek characters.
• Improved character code page support.
• Added Clang support (compile command: perl make.pl build compiler=clang).
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.93.2

• Ported PDF, SVG, and PS viewers to Windows.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.93.1

• Adapted minimally to new OS versions.
• Ported time zones feature to Windows.

Version 0.93.0

• Added autoplay function: Slideshow of picture files and playback of multiple audio/video files.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.92.0

• Parallelized painting for improved graphics performance on multi-core CPUs.
• Changed many virtual API methods to "const" (required for the above point, compiling old user code may fail, sorry, please adapt)
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.91.0

• Fixed behavior on virtual desktops with multiple monitors.
• Added saving and restoring of window geometry.
• On X11, the fullscreen mode now goes via the window manager instead of switching to override-redirect mode.
• On Windows, in the virtual cosmos, replaced all the static disk drive items and the home dir item by a single file system item which dynamically lists all available drives.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.90.0

• Added lots of icons to the control panel and gave it a new layout.
• Reworked the graphic design of the toolkit elements (buttons, etc.).
• Added new file manager themes: Glass, Card/*, and Night. Removed the Cloud theme.
• Minor improvements and fixes.
• (For making the new graphics in this version, I learned and used Blender 2.76. Great tool!)

Version 0.89.2

• Added API class emAvlTreeSet.
• Moved emAvlTreeMap into an own header file.
• Fixed the StrictRaster option of emRasterLayout.
• Fixed configuration loading for minimum forward compatibility with the upcoming "design" version 0.90.0 (running <=0.89.1 after running 0.90.0 may crash).
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.89.1

• Fixed shortcuts for Windows systems where wsf files are not associated with wscript.
• Multi-user installation of start menu and desktop icons on Windows.
• Improved resolution of built-in font.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.89.0

• Added new API classes: emListBox, emFileSelectionBox, emFileDialog, and emAnything.
• Removed method emPanel::EnableAutoExpansion() (it's always "enabled" now).
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.88.0

• Replaced API class emTiling by more specialized classes: emLinearLayout, emRasterLayout, and emPackLayout.
• Accordingly replaced emGroup by emLinearGroup, emRasterGroup, and emPackGroup.
• Fixed cropping of video frames.
• Fixed launch feedback.
• Improved input processing on slow machines.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.87.0

• Bug fix: The view often zoomed away unexpectedly from alternative file content panels (since version 0.86.0).
• Reorganized the toolkit classes, renamed all "emTk*" to "em*".
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.86.0

• Added kinetic effects (inertia and friction) to zooming and scrolling by mouse and keyboard.
• Added a magnetism which zooms and scrolls automatically for showing a content full-sized. (It gets active after zooming or scrolling by mouse, when a content is not to far from being shown full-sized.)
• Added an acceleration effect to zooming by mouse wheel.
• Added animations for logical position changes by keys and bookmarks.
• Adapted emLKC to kernel 3.16 and higher.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.85.0

• Fixed some bugs of the PDF viewer.
• Adapted to Debian 7.
• Adapted to xine-lib 1.2x.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.84.0

• Fixed keyboard inquiry with some X input methods.
• Fixed occasional delay of starting to play audio and video files.
• Adjusted emLKC to kernel 3.1.1 and higher.
• Made the user configuration directory configurable with the environment variable EM_USER_CONFIG_DIR.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.83.0

• Added a better PDF viewer (but not on Windows).
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.82.0

• Added auto mark option to emNetwalk.
• Made audio and video player more persistent.
• Added support for large files on most 32-bit systems.
• Fixed crash on Windows.
• Fixed failing of file manager commands by extended file name characters on Windows.
• Worked around failure of select function on OpenSolaris.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.81.0

• Added UTF-16 support to the plain text file viewer.
• Removed color space reduction from graphics functions.
• Changed the colors of control panels and dialogs.
• Added a theme interface and some themes for directory entry panels.
• Added an autosave function for the file manager view settings.
• Added display of a wait cursor while main thread is blocked.
• Extended emTreeDump by attributes for commands and files.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.80.0

• Added the Dig Mode option to emNetwalk. It makes the game more difficult.
• Redesigned the graphics of emNetwalk.

Version 0.79.0

• Added another puzzle game: emNetwalk
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.78.0

• Added a better SVG image file viewer (but not on Windows).
• Added support for new archive file types: lzma, xz, tar.lzma, tar.xz.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.77.0

• Added document: Advanced Configuration
• Added document: C++ API Tutorial
• Added document: C++ API Reference
• Added document: Make System
• Fixed a temp file leak on Windows.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.76.0

• Added file manager commands for Windows.
• Added cosmos and plugin configurations for Windows.
• Extended the make system by a pack command for creating installation packages (deb, rpm, setup.exe...).
• Video player: hide mouse pointer and disable screensaver.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.75.1

• Implemented the freedesktop.org startup notification protocol (client side).
• Fixed some minor bugs.

Version 0.75.0

• Added emLKC which is a Linux Kernel Configurator based on Eagle Mode (see $EM_DIR/res/emLKC/README or find it in the virtual cosmos).

Version 0.74.0

• Made the built-in font extensible (see $EM_DIR/res/emCore/font/README).
• Added some more characters to the built-in font, mainly Latin ones.

Version 0.73.0

• Extended emCore by a programming interface for multi-threading.
• Made all functions and classes thread-reentrant.

Version 0.72.1

• Adapted to Mac OS X 10.5.

Version 0.72.0

• Removed dependencies from libXext, libXxf86vm, and their header files, in order to make the installation easier. The shared libraries of these are now accessed dynamically at run-time when available.
• Added support for creating and viewing ISO files.
• Improved the loading of configurations, so that it is allowed that the user copies certain directories from host config to user config in order to modify them there.
• Rewrote unicc. Now it's a framework with plugin modules, it got support for parallel compilation, and it got able to handle Windows resource files.
• Minor fixes and improvements.

Version 0.71.0

• Added full multi-line support to class emTkTextField, so that the unfinished class emTkMlTextField could be removed now.
• Added simple keyboard control to class emTkScalarField.
• Minor fixes.

Version 0.70.1

• Workaround for the problem that Eagle Mode sometimes exited with "FATAL ERROR: XGrabKeyboard failed" when running on Compiz Fusion.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 0.70.0

• First stable release.