Changes

Version 2.3.5
2005-07-10

Enhancements

• Closes info dialog, if project changes, and if another info dialog for the same project is opened.

Fixes

• Fixed broken rendering of IFF ANIM animations that have more than one palette.

Version 2.3.4
2005-07-10

Enhancements

• Made info dialog non-modal.
• Previous/Next does now properly determine the sequence of files for files that have numbers in their name.
• Upgraded to Quaqua Look and Feel 3.1.2.
• Struct viewer shows the the size and offset of a chunk in hex.

Fixes

• Did several fixes in the IFF ANIM player.
• IFF ANIM player directly generates 24 bit RGB animations if this matches the screen configuration.
• Changing the "Show Parsed Structures" option now takes immediate effect in the struct viewer.

Version 2.2
2005-01-23

Enhancements

• IFF ANIM Player determines Jiffies depending on screen mode. This improves frame rate fidelity with animations running on non-NTSC monitors.

Upgrades

• Upgraded Quaqua Look and Feel from 2.6 to 2.8.

Version 2.1
2005-01-22

Enhancements

• Struct viewer for Microsoft Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) added.
• "Play Wrapup Frames" option added to IFF ANIM Player, to play back the two last frames of bogus animation files, which do not have proper wrapup images at the end of the video track.

Bug Fixes

• Changes of the pixel aspect options of an image are now shown immediately.

Version 2.0.1
2005-01-06

Bug Fixes

• Use the system specific look and feel instead of the cross platform look and feel.

Version 2.0
2005-01-05

Enhancements

• New user interface with screen menu bar on Mac OS X.
• Support for MP3 added by including the MP3Plugin for the Java Media Framework.
• Added an option for choosing the interpolation algorithm for images and IFF Animations.

Upgrades

• QuickTime for Java from 3.0 to 6.1.
• JavaBeans Activation Framework from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
• Quaqua Look And Feel from 2.0 to 2.7.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some bugs causing the application to hang when loading an IFF Animation or a QuickTime movie.

Version 1.3.7
2003-10-05

Upgrade

• Improved appearance and usability of file chooser on Mac OS X.

Version 1.3.6
2003-05-14

Upgrade

• Java Media Framework from 2.1.1c to 2.1.1e

Bug Fix

• PDFViewer did not work on non-Macintosh systems because MultiShow shipped without MRJToolkitStubs.zip.

Version 1.3.5
2003-05-12

Bug Fix

• FileChooser did work on Mac OS X only.

Version 1.3.4
2003-05-04

Upgrades:

• Java Media Framework from 2.1 to 2.1.1c
• Java Advanced Imaging API from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1

New Viewers:

• Adobe Acrobat Viewer JavaBean 1.1 for PDF files
• ZIP Viewer

Enhanced Viewers:

• ANIM Video Viewers supports now Amiga Animations with sound encoded using ANIM+SLA or ANIM+ANFI.
• QuickTime Struct viewer decodes now compressed movie headers.
• IFF Struct viewer decodes now SCTL and ANFI chunks.

General changes:

• Bugfixes and workarounds for QuickTime for Java and Java Media Framework implemented to make MultiShow work on Mac OS X.
• QuickTime Struct and IFF Struct viewer: The annoying rectangle at the start of the documentation text does not appear anymore.
• Find feature for Text Viewers added.
• Plain Text Viewer supports now multiple character encodings.
• Accelerator keys for 'Open next' and 'Open Previous' menu items changed.
• Support for JDK 1.1 dropped.
  

Version 1.2
2001-01-01

Removed Viewers:

• Adobe Acrobat Viewer JavaBean 0.8 for PDF files removed because of memory leaks.

Version 1.2 beta
2000-10-08

Upgrades:

• Java Media Framework from 2.0 to 2.1
• Java Advanced Imaging API from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2

New Viewers:

• Adobe Acrobat Viewer JavaBean 0.8 for PDF files
• QuickTime for Java for improved support of video and audio
• QuickTime Struct for display of QuickTime file structure and atoms
• IFF Struct for display of IFF file structure and chunks
• Menu structure complies now to Apple HUI Guidelines on Macintosh and to Java LAF Guidelines on all other platforms.

Version 1.1.1
1999-12-12

Upgrades:

• Java Media Framework from 1.1 to 2.0

Version 1.0
1999-10-23

General changes:

• The user interface is now built with Swing instead of AWT.
• Java Media Framework incorporated.
• Java Advanced Imaging API incorporated.
• Lots of new datatypes are supported know.

Version 0.3.1
1999-04-25

General changes:

• Better support of bogus Java VM's:
  Allways use 8 bits per pixel for ILBM images with IndexColorModel.

Version 0.3
1999-04-11

General changes:

• MultiShow supports now files of type IFF ANIM.
• MultiShow uses now the JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) 1.0.1 to determine the type of a file.
• The user interface has been reduced for this release (no scroll bar support, no full screen support).
• Support for IFF CAT and IFF LIST has been removed for this release.

Version 0.2
1999-02-07

General changes:

• The File dialog shows now the name of the Application "MultiShow".
• Displays a message when an image can not be loaded.
• The frame will be 400x300 pixels wide when opened with "scrollbars" switched on. (In v0.1 the frame was 0 x 0 pixels on Windows).
• Waits till the image has been loaded completely before showing it (avoid flickering on Windows).
• Screen size was not computed correctly.

Version 0.1
1999-02-02

• First release.

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