| 6Jul2010 |
2.8.003 |
Corrected occasional crash. |
| 4Jul2010 |
2.8.002 |
Improved Help file. |
| 27Jun2010 |
2.8.000 |
Upgraded
imaging support library to speed up image display. |
| 11Jun2010 |
2.7.013 |
Enabled
some new functionality that has been beta tested for several months.
- Browse folder and edit images
- Folder Correspondence
- Rename multiple files
Please
see the Help file.
Speeded
up selecting a category containing a lot of photo records.
|
| 6Jun2010 |
2.7.011 |
Now
put message up when can't find the path in the drop-down on adding a
new image using wizard.
Improved Category selection logic.
We now store search criteria as a memo of the search results
category and use that to display at the top of Thumb view where it
says "Results". We now remember search criteria in the cfg
file.
Search Any field didn't include title.
If a record hasn't got an image (not just missing), we display text
from the Title and Description instead of a thumbnail.
Tightened up moving a category, when one of the parents is My
Categories.
Improved Find category to search for a category whose name
"contains" the search argument. Find again starts from
where it left off, unless the argument was changed. Successive
categories found will be in sequence of how they are displayed
normally in the tree.
Corrected inserting a symbol into Title on EdPic.
Apply cropborders to thumbnails created
by createthumb.
Got tree search going in Edit dialog using Ctrl-F and F3.
Can now choose a photo to use as the "remembered one" for
Edit dialog. It's the first one selected in List or Thumb View.
Implemented "Resume" button on catalog
wizard, enabled after user has gone through the wizard once. Next
time he can complete the whole wizard by just clicking the Resume
button, applying all the same settings as last time.
Changed EditMemo so that pressing Enter
does a new line instead of having to do Control-Enter.
Improved management of keyboard focus on Edit dialog.
In Edit dialog, when you come back from Viewing the image, sets
focus to the field that was the current one just before clicking the
View button.
An external disk plugged in while CataMalin
is running didn't get recognised.
Rationalised the way the Tree View opens/closes categories. Now we
keep track of which items are expanded/collapsed
and whether the children are made visible, regardless of whether
they have been scolled out of view.
Minor improvements and corrections.
|
| 14Nov2009 |
2.6.022 |
Minor improvements and corrections. |
| 20Sep2009 |
2.6.018 |
New option in Find Missing Files to skip hidden files/folders.
The Originals folders are now created as Hidden. |
| 19Sep2009 |
2.6.017 |
When you select one or more photo records in Thumb or List view, we now indicate which Categories this/these belong to by making the Categories Bold in the Tree view.
Minor improvements. |
| 31Aug2009 |
2.6.015 |
Minor improvements. |
| 23Aug2009 |
2.6.014 |
Enhanced portability of database to enable distribution on a disk or usb key.
Enhanced parsing of MakerNote data. Now finds Nikon/Canon ISO setting more reliably when this is buried in the MakerNote.
Renamed references to Film Speed to ISO Speed.
Added "megapixels" column available for List View. Also searchable.
Can now Search on width, height and depth. |
| 5Jul2009 |
2.6.011 |
During a Show you can now assign current photo to Categories.
New option to save original photo to sub-folder when making edits.
Title is now a drop-down box when editing photo record, remembering the last few Titles values used.
When Renaming files, those that exist in the currently-open database will have their records updated to the new names.
Added Owner to List view columns allowed and to autosets.
Improvements to migrate from earlier database versions.
Improvements to handling of Customers/Contacts/Owners and to Memos.
Improvements to indexing by date. |
| 24May2009 |
2.6.008 |
Minor improvements and
corrections. |
| 3 May 2009 |
2.6.004 |
Improved re-use of deleted records thereby reducing growth of database size.
New option for saving modified image files: keeps a copy of the original in a folder within the folder where the image is. This retains the original file name but also retains the original file unchanged.
Making a combination with a Category only fetched those that weren't in a child category belonging to the Category. |
| 22Feb2009 |
2.6.003 |
Enlarged text fields for photo title and category name, added an optional "memo" attached to a category.
This requires upgrading any existing database(s), although we retain
a copy of the existing one with a slightly different name.
Warning message when you try to add a category that already exists with a different parent. You can still use the same name under different "parent" categories.
Improved and simplified handling of auto-move/rename/copy when cataloging.
Some minor improvements. |
| 23Jan2009 |
2.5.018 |
Introduced linkage between Camera and the associated type and film size.
When you select a known camera, we look up a table to find if it has a specified Type and/or Size, then set those fields accordingly.
Improved parsing of Make and Model, combining without repetition and in Title Case.
Properties (Cameras) now sorts the combo box list.
New Categories MRU list optionally on-screen with EdPic. Click on one of these to
select in the dialog's Tree. We add to the MRU list when user selects/unselects
a category.
Improved inexact matching of filenames containing a number, and those containing
significant substrings in common. If we find an exact match, then we get rid of any inexact matches for that file name.
Can now View multiple images at once. These view windows are independent and
run as though they are separate applications - switch between them using Alt-Tab.
Improved redraw of the Category tree.
New Preference to open a category when you select it, default is true.
Corrected an occasional problem that occurred when moving a lot of categories
around.
Improved speed of displaying thumbnails. |
| 27Dec2008 |
2.5.016 |
Corrected Search where Exact and Not equal were wrong way round. |
| 24Dec2008 |
2.5.015 |
Added flexibility for
captions.
Improved start-up time.
Corrected displayed image dimensions.
Heading of List and Thumbs now shows name of selected
Category/Combination.
Corrected crash when editing hundreds of records together. |
| 23Nov2008 |
2.5.012 |
Fixed an out-of-memory error
when doing a Show or hundreds of photos on a large memory machine. |
| 22Nov2008 |
2.5.011 |
Can now specify names of scanners found in EXIF data that should be ignored in favor of a user-defined camera name.
Provided editable settings for no of MRU items, including file make, type, size, speed, camera, storage, tech. You can edit these MRU lists too.
Special characters bar now working again.
Catalog Wizard now allows user to select MRU path for images.
Optional small icon on thumb view in each thumb's margin to show quality rating.
Can use F5 to do a Show from Thumbs and List.
Now have an extra _System category for the current/last combination, like Search Results.
Finding missing files (inexact) now matches where numbers have same value but with different leading zeroes.
Speeded up loading/displaying images.
Can view image full screen when editing a photo record.
Button to show/hide special characters panel when editing a photo record.
Option in Rename Files to resequence a set of file names.
Fixed occasional crash when making a large number of changes to the organization of Categories. |
| 20 Aug 2008 |
2.5.008 |
When you select just one photo
or a contiguous set for a slide show, this will just be the initial
view and you can now view those beyond the selection.
Search now allows searching on Keywords. |
| 20 Jul 2008 |
2.5.007 |
Corrected error in comparing
thumbnail dates. |
| 12 Jul 2008 |
2.5.006 |
New "Browse images in
folder" feature to view/edit images not yet catalogued.
New bulk Renaming feature.
New Edit Image feature for simple edits.
Some performance improvements in start-up and shut-down.
Stability/reliability improvements. |
| 15 Mar 2008 |
2.5.000 |
Reads IPTC data (title, description, keywords, ...)
Keyword handling, mapping to Categories.
Get data from RAW files (EXIF, Thumb)
Option to make a JPEG copy of a RAW for quicker use in Shows.
Now we handle more RAW formats.
Title edit popup during Show.
Can open an image with your image editor without having a copy made, e.g. for printing.
Double-click on a record now opens it full screen Show instead of opening its record for editing.
Add Image wizard now lists files in the wizard panel instead of a separate dialog.
Cropping black border of thumbnails is now controlled by a Preference.
More toolbar buttons.
More options for system categories under Dates.
More tooltips.
Improved indexing
Improved window sizing.
Improved saving of Preferences.
Improved display stability of Tree, Thumbs, List and Show (sort/seq, which categories open).
Faster Express cataloging.
Stability/reliability improvements. |
| 12 Nov 2007 |
2.4.045 |
Many reliability improvements.
Can now target a specific folder when finding missing image files.
Upgraded external image handling library.
Upgraded database indexing. |
| 15 May 2007 |
2.4.043 |
When editing a photo record,
you initially get a summary of the categories it belongs to instead
of the whole tree with sparse ticks in it. Click on the tree panel
to show the whole thing.
The List View now displays the categories in a consistent sequence.
Some Date Preferences were duplicated.
Some items were "remembered" from record edits when they
should not have been. |
| 4 May 2007 |
2.4.042 |
Fixed a bug in delete/remove record from subset (where Quality LEQ some value).
Move Folder Reference didn't display moved folders correctly.
Editing common fields got categories wrong: it Set all categories selected for all records selected, regardless of which had been selected for just a subset of records.
Editing common fields didn't recognize changed selection of combo boxes.
Selection (photos) is now retained when switching between List and Thumb view.
List view now can display all categories of a photo in the
Categories column.
On completion of Move Folder Reference, we now re-check Missing
Files and refresh the view.
Increased the log file size to 200KB. |
| 2 Apr 2007 |
2.4.041 |
Upgrade caused some previous
settings to be lost; now they will remain.
These included recognized file types, Extract Sets and Catalog Sets. |
| 30 Mar 2007 |
2.4.040 |
Fixed bug in delete/remove
record from subset (where Quality LEQ some value). |
| 21 Mar 2007 |
2.4.039 |
New system-maintained Category "Unrated" containing images you
haven't yet assigned a quality rating.
New "sets" of parameters for adding images to the catalog,
so you can maintain two or more strategies for cataloging (e.g. digicam / scanned).
Enhanced Extract for images
destined for a PDA.
Added some more EXIF tags defined in EXIF Spec 2.2.
Improved remembering of scroll position.
Improved menu handling after a Show.
Improved remembering of window size/position.
New installer, offering on-demand auto-update from our web site via
the Start Menu. |
| 26Feb2007 |
2.4.038 |
New
Preference to ignore EXIF data when adding new images, for those
originating from a scanner where the EXIF data is not relevant.
Indicates
non-visible selected categories in edit dialog.
Automatically
refreshes thumbnails based on image date-time and size.
Adjusting
image dates now available in thumbnail view.
When
adding new images, the Prev button now saves any edits.
Properties
dialog now has tabs that show database data as well as EXIF data and
thumbnail.
Improved
updating of category member counts displayed in tree view.
Improved
database reorganization.
Fixed
error in deselecting categories in some circumstances.
Deleting a
photo from the database and then adding it again sometimes didn't
work properly.
Improved
accuracy of automatic date category membership changes. |
| 28Dec2006 |
2.4.037 |
When a photo record is
edited, all deselections of categories now take effect properly. |
| 17Dec2006 |
2.4.036 |
Fixed errors related to:
delete images from database, exporting wrong image size,
multiple-record edits. |
| 7Nov2006 |
2.4.035 |
Fixed occasional crash
related to "progress bar".
Now limits the size of a thumbnail
image coming from EXIF data in the image file. |
| 29Oct2006 |
2.4.034 |
Shows number of photos in
each Category in Tree.
Corrected changing a renaming scheme.
Fixed internal error in some common functions.
Corrected some minor bugs. |
| 15 Oct 2006 |
2.4.033 |
New Memo text feature.
Record copyright Owner.
Fixed error when cataloging images in the root of a disk or CD. |
| 16 Sep 2006 |
2.4.031 |
New Export/Import facility
that can be used with a spreadsheet.
When cataloging a photo record, Skip still saved a record.
Bug fixes: Date Preferences with no database open; empty image file
showed ".jpg"; Date Printed in List View was wrongly
formatted. |
| 30 Aug
2006 |
2.4.030 |
Fixed bug: in Combinations
mode clicking on My Categories caused an error. |
| 29 Aug
2006 |
2.4.029 |
Search now has date picker.
New feature in
List View to adjust dates and times.
Changed default
auto-renaming scheme to not include id.
Now automatically
populates Unclassified category.
Can now set up a choice of image
editing programs to call. |
| 31 Jul
2006 |
2.4.028 |
Improved
Help. |
| 23 Jul 2006 |
2.4.027 |
Released.
More toolbar buttons, and quality selection drop-downs.
Can create Wallpaper.
Can view category's pictures without those of its children.
Launch image editor and use updated image file.
Named sets of settings for Extract dialog.
Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes. |
| 2 May
2006 |
2.4.024 |
Added GIF
support.
Improved handling of window resizing.
Improved photo
record data field error handling.
If Properties for a
non-existent image file is invoked, the image now joins the
"Missing" category.
Corrected bug when searching for missing
images. |
| 12 Mar 2006 |
2.4.023 |
Fixed bug related to .jpg
on the end of generated file name being missed out. Automatically
set to .jpg next time record edited. |
| 11 Mar 2006 |
2.4.022 |
Didn't hide image(s) from
Thumb view. |
| 22 Jan 2006 |
2.4.021 |
Changed menu item "Catalog Images" to "Add Images to
Catalog", as it seems more intuitive.
Corrections: records not always redisplayed when changing view;
Slide Show sequence was sometimes different from List/Thumb
sequence.
Date-time picker updated only the date taken.
Unknown file extension: "my mistake" had no effect. |
| 18 Jan
2006 |
2.4.020 |
Speed-up of List View.
Corrected problems
with large thumbnail images and with rotating an image during
cataloging. |
| 3 Jan
2006 |
2.4.018 |
Corrected potential error in List View. |
| 18 Dec 2005 |
2.4.017 |
Corrected handling of missing files.
Improved List view to follow normal Microsoft
standards.
Removed sorting from the Category menu for List and Thumb. Sorting is achieved
more easily and flexibly using the List view and clicking a column heading.
Text display buffer used in Move Folder wasn't big enough.
Output dimensions of thumbnails were incorrect when black borders were
cropped.
Some maintainability and reliability
improvements. |
| 27 Sep 2005 |
2.4.016 |
Now has a
function to find mis-filed image files. |
| 3 Sep 2005 |
2.4.015 |
Better handling of Nikon raw images.
Dates can now have time as well.
Added some right-click Properties and Thumbnails.
Replaced date calendar pop-up with standard one.
Better handling of CD's and read-only files/folders.
New system category Missing, containing those photos whose image file is
no longer where it was thought to be.
The EXIF thumbnail from some cameras had a big black border which we now
crop.
Several small bugs fixed, including
another one in TIFF, film strip, vertical scrollbars, field sets. |
| 4 Aug 2005 |
2.4.014 |
Added new function to edit common fields of
multiple records at once.
Several small bug fixes, including some TIFF
handling, file selection, and Combination
Mode. |
| 31 May 2005 |
2.4.013 |
Corrected error
in importing data. |
| 29 May 2005 |
2.4.012 |
Corrected
file selection in cataloguing.
New feature:
Move selected photos.
Improvements
and corrections to List view.
Corrections
to Make Thumbnails activity (for missing ones).
Sometimes
photo orientation was not picked up from EXIF data.
Replaced the Setup program so you can choose
where to put CataMalin in the Start
Menu. |
| 26 Apr 2005 |
2.4.010 |
Corrected a
bug that caused a hang if searching for a path.
Fixed a
disappearing vertical scrollbar.
Improved
Move Folder - now it's Move Folder Reference.
Some other minor bugs
fixed. |
| 23 Apr 2005 |
2.4.009 |
Corrected
sharing violation on moving an image.
First time
now remembers recently used files afterwards.
Memory release function during Show no longer
hangs on small memory systems. |
| 17 Apr 2005 |
2.4.008 |
Improved
file selection in wizard.
Import and
Export bugs fixed.
Corrections for fetching image(s) from an
unmounted CD. |
| 11 Apr 2005 |
2.4.007 |
Retain
position and selection after editing a record.
Keep more than one session in log file. |
| 20 Mar 2005 |
2.4.006 |
Initial public beta release |
| 30 Aug 2003 |
2.0 |
Major upgrade |
| 16 Jun 2001 |
0.1 |
Initial prototype |
