Bugfixes:
* Viewer:
o Possible future PureBasic (4.40) compatibility issue fixed
* Converter:
o FreeSize was activated in Pentagon Overscan mode, Thats bad, very bad!
o SAM/ATM HQ Modes: By calculating a bad Blue value, incorrect quantisation (was worse than in BMP2SCR EXP)
o After setting 65 levels-matrix and changing to some monochrome modes, a crash occurs
o Multitech/Timex HiColour mode crash if Channel values are equal in the same RGB Channel [Andrew Owen]
o FastFinder sometimes gets the wrong position after fit width/fit height, etc, if position was not at 0,0.
o Superview: switching to grid display can lock the program
o right click on Object manager item swapped to the converter window.
o Palette options: 3 Colour GreyTV middle colour was not live-connected
o crash occurs if greyTV error diffusion was selected as first mode
* Disc Master:
o DSK/IMG +D sector loading routine was reading incorrect data from disc side 2, so conversion IMG to MGT was wrong
o Disc Sector Hex monitor sectors changed from 0 to 9, which was wrong, now corrected to 1 to 10.
o Crash was possible if selected a file with extension of pictures (like IMG), which was no picture.
o Crash was possible if tried to load pictures from defect disc images.
o DiscSector Viewer could crash at program exit
o TRD Containers show now correct size of free bytes, depending on the format of disc
o MGT Containers: No alternate brightness of lines was done.
o If files are hidden or deleted in containers and not displayed, they will load wrong (screen$ display, File Info).
o Decoding for SAM Mode 4 FLASH Images was never working
o If present directory was removed before Retro-X restarts, it can cause some mess.
* Various:
o Somehow the Tooltip for JPG Quality trackbar was broken
o Save As... did sometime not allow compression in compressable Spectrum modes
o Possible gadgets conflict in Save As... Requester fixed
o changing a 24 bit palette entry in palette requester was not possible.
* Painter:
o In Win98 the Painter does not display mess anymore with some antic graphics cards.
o Option for selecting the whole screen was not working.
o It won't happen often, but ocassionaly Painter crashes at entering point
o Selection was not staying in character mode
Changes:
* Converter:
o Minimum window size defined
o Selected Area: Inversion changed to selection frame in all modes.
o Redraw speed of Screens improved due to change the selection inversion to selection frame border.
o SAM Mode 3 redraw speed improved by 10%
o Sinclair QL hires redraw speed improved by circa 30%
o Sinclair QL Lowres Interlace redraw speed improved by 10%
o higher selection resolution for Hires Images. Now the smallest selectable screen part is not 16x8 but 8x4 pixel
o circa 15% redraw speedup with MSX Screen 7 and 8
o MSX Screen 2/4 redraw speeded up a little bit (8%)
o MSX Screen 5 redraw speed improved by 5%
o Display of selection size now in last panel, because it was erasing the Palette calculation mode display
* Various:
o Ported to PB 4.30 Beta 4. Fixed some incompatibility issues
o Preparations for PB 4.40
o Various Tweaks to save memory and optimise speed
o replaced the old paypal link with a new one (should work now)
o Ctrl is now Strg in german language version.
o Superview now bigger, uses the screen much better.
* Painter:
o Drawing of Textures/Brush in Fill/Brush options changed from image to poked image (over 20 times faster now)
o Attribute colour display in Colour palette shows now the current cursor colour again
o Grid works again
o Spectrum and QL mode: the current ink and paper colour displayers are now in status bar, and not anymore in the Palette
o Spectrum modes FLASH improved, not complete screen but only flashing squares updated [Claus Jahn]
o Removed Dual Zoom and Full Zoom from menue, as they are currently not working anyway.
o Right click on "Selection" icon does now nothing, the "Selections" options are now in "Selection"->"Manipulate selection", Right click on "Selection" icon will be later used to define the selection mode.
o Painter Undo Buffer size increased to 8 Mb as SAM Freesize pictures 160x150 chars big crashed the painter
* Disc Master:
o Creating of new Disc Container rewritten, can now create in source or destination directory.
o Removed inactive File sorting tab because there is now a new file sorting added.
* Viewer:
o recoded a possible future incompatibility issue with PureBasic version 4.40
* Retro Tracker:
o Small Layout change requested [By zxTunes]
Additions:
* Converter:
o Object Manager readded again, now with poked image technology for higher speeds.
o Colour Error diffusion: two-Pass error diffusion added (first pass determines attibute)
o Timex Hicolour/Multitech and IFLI Colour error diffusion in 2-Pass calculation mode.
o C64 Hires Colour 2-Pass error diffusion.
o Tandy CoCo3 HScreen2 modes, no saving and no icon with the logo yet [Requested by James McKay].
o Spectrum GreyTV Palettes: 4 Colours Redish/ 5 Colour Bluish modes, which works well with colour TV.
o Spectrum/Timex MLT Modes added: Scanlines RGBK/Scanlines RGB: Solid, Midtone, ordered dither [Based on a idea by Fikee]
o Spare screen added
* XIDE:
o Area for command help (Using Sinclair Font) below output console.
* Viewer
o Conversion of RXA Animation now possible to continuous memory stream too
* Painter:
o Genlock re-added again
o If Frame is defined and frame mode is selected, the frame stays visible
o Spectrum IFLI Mode added again to the painter.
o SAM Coupé Mode 4 and similar (Atari ST, Pentagon 4BPP, ATM) screens added again to the painter.
o Sprinter 2000 Lowres mode readded painter
o Sinclair QL Lowres and Hires modes works again.
o MSX Screen 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 works again
o Mask Buffer should work now with all supported modes.
o Automask works again
o Frame Operations "Clear Area" and "Clear any but area" works again
o RoundedBox with Right Mouse button
o Timex Hires Monochrome mode
o SAM Coupé Mode 3 works again.
o C64 Hires mode works again
o Amstrad CPC all modes supported.
o Atari ST Lowres, Midres and Hires support
o Acorn Electron Mode 0, 1, 2 and 4 added
o Atari XL/XE Gr8 Mode added
o Displaying of C64 Lowres and C64 Hires FLI images, but no drawing and no genlock
o Spare screen added. You can swap beween these spare screen and normal screen
o Painting using Pixels from Spare screen (if in same screen mode), so you can now use it to "convert" screen areas with different values using spare (Note: use same Palette on both screens).
o MirroringH and MirroringV added to some non-attribute mode selections.
o MirroringH and MirroringH works now in Spectrum Attr-modes and uses attribute resampling, so any selection size allowed (kills any FLASH by the way).
o Pixel and Attribute Inversion works now again in all Spectrum modes (For Selection use Grid snap [with Shift key]).
o Attribute optimisation should now work again
* Various:
o PayPal donate button in "Info" and "Tools" should work now correctly, and graphicaly improved (please test it very often) ;-)
o Save as ASM for Spectrum Images added (ez80 way, TASM. TniASM and Generic ASM)
o Tools: "Visit Retro-X Homepage" activated.
o Screen "Save As ..." requester: If a file already exists, the background of PC filename textbox turns red.
o Save As... for Multitech offers now SCR format directly.
* Disc Master:
o Reading of Spectrum +D IMG containers
o UniDos displays now Subdir and Create entrys
o Integrity check added for complete +D mgt/img containers with tripplechecks: int. header, sec. count and bitmap pos.
o Function to search for filenames in MGT/IMG +D Containers using regular expressions. See http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt for list.
o Menu entry "Fdrawcmd version" displays the version number of Fdrawcmd driver (I hope, I can use it to read +D discs)
o Picture files (Spectrum/SAM screens) in containers now also as preview.
o MGT/IMG Images can now be loaded to destination, and screens can be displayed from destination too
o Double Click on disc image changes now also in to the container panel.
o Loading of Screens from TRD containers works now
o Support for TRD containers with not standartised sizes.
o Disc Info works now with TRD images, shows the format and name of the disc
o Advanced file sorter for IMG/MGT and TRD Containers.
o TRD and TAP Containers can now be created too (If file exists, discname input box turns red!)
o Source PC File: Deleting File now activated in popup menu
o File information for files in IMG Containers added
o directory of MBD Images can be displayed now (not fully working yet)
o Reading of some compressed screens should be possible now (does not always work correctly).
o Reading OPD Opus disc Image directory (only 720 Kb) works now, screens can be loaded too [Thanks to Helge Keller for the help].
o Deleting, undeleting and Case change in IMG containers is now possible.
o Settings for serial data transfer added, in preparation to add this feature soon.
o File Cutting for PC files
* Palette Editor
o 24-Bit Palettes: "Fixed Grey levels Palette" added
o Amiga OCS Palette entrys can be modified now
o Atari ST and MSX2 Palette entrys can be modified now.
o Amiga Palette now with displaying Amiga colour Hex value.
o PopUp menu function "Spread" spreads palette from first checked colour to actual selected.
