revision history of IconEdit Pro...

Version 6.02:

• New feature: While cutting icons from bitmaps in the open dialog an enlarged view is shown
• Bugfix: It wasn't possible to use a startup palette

Version 6.01:

• The size of the editor and the open dialog window can be save (Menu: Special/Options)
• Bugfix: Icons couldn't be extracted correctly from icon resources

Version 6.0:

• New feature: Complete new drawing eingine
• New feature: Scripts for automating tasks
• New feature: Rectangular gradation
• New feature: Pattern filling
• New feature: Read/Save Unix icons (.XPM)
• The shadow function now also uses the opacity setting (you can create transparent shadows)
• The editor and the open dialog can now be resized
• The pen can now be larger than one pixel
• When extracting the colors from the current icon you now can sort them
• The open dialog now includes the '*.*' filter to check various files for icons
• When extracting an icon from an EXE/DLL the mask is extracted too
• You can now reduce the colors at any time (Menu: Colors/Reduce Colors)
• The color palette isn't set back anymore when an icon is opened
• The chosen fontsize in the text dialog stays the same when changing the font
• Bugfix: Extracting more than one icon from an EXE/DLL files didn't work
• Bugfix: An icon was saved as a bitmap when the extension wasn't '.ico' (e.g. '.Ico', '.ICO')
• Bugfix: Icons with sizes from 17 to 20 and 48 to 51 pixels weren't saved corretly
• Bugfix: Moving a frame of an animation up or down didn't work correctly
• Bugfix: It wasn't passible to create white text
• Bugfix: When the colors of an icon were reduced to 256 and the icon contained transparent pixels the program still showed 257 colors
• Bugfix: Icons weren't save correctly when the system used a different color than black for '3D-Objects'
• Bugfix: The icon wasn't saved when the target file was write protected
• Bugfix: When working with a color dept of 32 bit the bugreport program didn't work
  

Version 5.01:

• New feature: Extract Colors
• Added 'Show animation panel at startup' to the options dialog
• The list of the recent files now doesn't show duplicates
• If the color for the '3D Objects' (Properties of Display) wasn't 'gray', some weird color effects happened
• Bugfix: If 'EXE, DLL..' was chosen in the open dialog the program crashed when an EXE or DLL was chosen for the second time
• Some other small changes/improvements/bugfixes
  

Version 5.0:

• IconEdit Pro now includes a new tool called 'IconWizard' which allows you to change all system icons and all icon related settings
• New drawing tool: Clone
• New feature: Shift
• New feature: Conical filling
• New feature: Convert to Grayscale
• New feature: 'Perfect' Circle/Line
• Undo Button in the horizontal toolbar (right-click -> Undo Selection)
• New Status Bar
• Tips & Tricks in the new help
• The colors of an icon are counted permanently (you can turn this off)
• The hotspot can be set equal for all frames of an animation
• A double-click on an icon in the editor copies it to the actual frame of an animation
• A double-click on a frame of an animation copies it to the editor
• The directory when saving an animation will be recognised
• A double-click on an icon in the open dialog immediately opens the editor with this icon
• Bugfix: Some icons where only opened black
• Bugfix: The last directory in the open dialog wasn't set correctly
• Bugfix: Cursors weren't displayed correctly in the open dialog
• Bugfix: In the 16-color mode the opacity setting wasn't set back to '100'
• Some other small changes/improvements/bugfixes
  

Version 4.01:

• Bugfix: On some computers IconEdit Pro crashed with the error message 'System Error &h80004005[-2147467259]' on startup.
  This was not an error of IconEdit Pro but of Visual Basic.
• IconEdit Pro can now read Magic Desk icons
• Bugfix: The link 'Help/World Wide Web/What's the newest version?' didn't work
• Bugfix: When an icon was passed to IconEdit Pro via command line, the big display wasn't updated
• Bugfix: When an icon was passed to IconEdit Pro via command line, the name of the icon wasn't shown in the title bar
• Bugfix: When an icon was passed to IconEdit Pro via command line, the color of the icon wasn't set correctly
  

Version 4.0:

• New feature: Icons can be created in variable sizes from 8x8 to 64x64 pixel.
• The opacity/transparency setting now also works if you move or paste something
• You can now run the program in English or German
• A new animation frame can be inserted at the beginning or the end of the animation
• Frames of an animation can be moved up or down in the animation
• You can specify if you want to move/copy/paste with or without transparency
• In the open dialog you can display JPG and GIF pictures
• The menu 'File' shows a history of the last four files
• 4 Undo levels (with the 'Space' key)
• You can now start with the animation panel open
• 'Print' from the open dialog now also prints the directory name
• If you exit IconEdit Pro the question reads 'Do you want to save the icon now?'
• The open and save dialog always opens the last directory
• From the menu 'Help' you can invoke your Web browser with some IconEdit Pro related sites
• The helpfile is now a standard Windows helpfile
• In the help there is a Q&A section
• Bugfix: A doubleclick on an *.ico file now really invokes IconEdit Pro with the chosen icon
• Bugfix: When you drew on an icon and dragged the mouse pointer over the edges of the drawing area, the program crashed when you pressed the right mouse button
• Bugfix: Sometimes an error #9 occurred when inserting a new frame to an animation
• Bugfix: In the Info window sometimes an 'a' or 'z' was added to registered names
• Bugfix: If a marked region was moved over the margins of an icon and antialiasing was chosen, the program crashed
• Bugfix: The 'X' and 'Y' indicators in version 3.5 where mixed up
• Bugfix: When starting IconEdit Pro in truecolor mode sometimes the error #340 occurred
• Some further small bugfixes
  

Version 3.5:

• New feature: Now you can create animated cursors!
• New feature: You can save icons as cursors
• New feature: You can save icons as bitmap
• The design of the toolbars has changed
• The keyboard shortcuts have changed
• When you click on the 'Save-Symbol' (second on the left) the 'Save-As-Dialog' appears
• Bugfix: When clicking on 'Load Pal' and then on 'Cancel' an error message appeared'
• Bugfix: When the 'Spray Tool' was used before a color region was set, the program crashed
• Bugfix: On some printers the icons where printed too small or too large and even sometimes on top of each other
• Bugfix: The Open-Dialog often showed non icon files.
• Bugfix: When a resource with less than five icons was loaded in the Resource-Editor, the program crashed when you clicked on an empty entry
• Bugfix: When an opened folder was deleted and then tried to open again, the program crashed
• Bugfix: There was an empty entry in the 'Font Section' of the 'Text Tool'. When you clicked on it, the program crashed
  

Version 3.0:

• Bugfix: When the big display in the Resource Editor was clicked without a resource loaded the program crashed.
• New feature: Now you can register online!
• I am sure that when you check out this new version you will not find any differences to the previous version.
  But there is one major difference: SPEED !!!
  
  

  Function	How many times faster?
  Changing of the 'Screen Color' (this was a real pain in the a..)	about 20 times !!!
  Brighten/Saturation	4 times
  Contrast	4 times
  Raise/Inset	4 times
  Invert	4 times
  Opacity	3,5 times
  Rotate	3,5 times
  Linear/Radial Gradation	3 times
  Shadow	3 times
  Change to x Colors	3 times
  Paste	3 times
  Antialias	2 times
  Count Colors	2 times
  Flip	1,5 times
  Save Icon	1,5 times

   

Version 2.52:

• The style of the buttons is now more Windows 95 like.
• The program suddenly needs (I really don't know why) the file 'MSVCRT.DLL' which is now included.
  

Version 2.51:

• New feature: Any marked region can be resized to 32x32 or 16x16 pixels
• Bugfix: When running in truecolor mode this error message appeared: 'Unexpected Error: Code 6'
  

Version 2.5:

• At first sight not very much has changed to justifiable the jump from version 2.4 to version 2.5. But now the program works when 'large fonts' are used (Control Panel/Display/Settings/Font Size).
  The program doesn't look much different but it was a lot of work to accomplish this!
  But I still recomend 'small fonts'.

  Furthermore the following has been changed/added:

• New feature: An option dialog has been added. There you can turn the animations of the buttons and the tool tips on or off. You can also define which color palette will be loaded when the program starts.
• Bugfix: 'IconEdit Pro' now also works with Windows NT.
• Bugfix: When some text at the end of the German help file was marked, the program crashed.
• Bugfix: When text was inserted and something had been marked before, the marking of this text wasn't correct.
• Bugfix: When icons were dragged on the big display of the Resources Editor to add them to an icon resource, these icons were added twice.
  

Version 2.4:

• New feature: You can now define the opacity for each drawing tool.
• New feature: You can now define the opacity for each drawing tool.
• New feature: Spray (with or without gradation)
• New feature: All icons from an EXE- or DLL-file can be extracted at once.
• New feature: The function 'Invert' now only inverts pixel which are drawn with normal color (not background color).
• New feature: You can define 'IconEdit Pro' as your default icon editor. Just assign the ending 'ICO' to 'IconEdit Pro' and then when you double-click on an icon in the Explorer IconEdit Pro will come up with the selected icon.
• Bugfix: The program crashed when the 'Enter-Key' was pressed in the Open Dialog.
• Bugfix: When no icon was selected in the 'Print Dialog' but 'Print Icons' was clicked nevertheless the program crashed.
• All new texts in this help are printed in blue color.
  

Version 2.3:

• New feature: If you choose 'BMP/RLE' in the Open-Dialog a new button with the caption 'Insert from clipboard' appears. With this button you can insert the contents of the Windows clipboard and then cut icons from it just like from a normal bitmap.
• The Setup/Uninstall and the runtime files are now completely in English.
• Bugfix: Sometimes there came an overflow message in the beginning.
• Bugfix: The program crashed when an invalid icon was chosen in the Open-Dialog.
• Bugfix: The program crashed when a drive which was not available was chosen.
• Bugfix: After deleting icons from an iconresource in the Resource-Editor the buttons and displays were not set back.
  

Version 2.21:

• If a tooltip is shown you don't have to wait the whole time again before the tooltip of an other button pops up.
• Bugfix: The icons 'Save (16x16)' and 'Print' were mixed.
• Bugfix: 'Take whole picture' in the Open-Dialog wasn't working correctly.
  

Version 2.2:

• Added Tooltips to the Editor
• Bugfix: The program couldn’t start when there was not printer installed.
• Bugfix: In freehand mode points where connected but the resulting lines where not drawn in the icon mask.
  

Version 2.1:

• New feature: Raise/Inset
• Shorter loading time
• Points will be connected in freehand mode
• Bugfix: When clicking with the right mouse button on the drawing area, the right color was chosen but not displayed (16-color-mode only).
• Bugfix: Printing didn’t work, neither in the editor nor in the open dialog.
• Bugfix: The text function did only work with black color.
• Bugfix: Setup wasn’t able to create a temporary file.
  

Version 2.0:

• 32 Bit version for Windows 95
• Saving in different sizes (32x32 and 16x16 pixel)
• Creating and editing of Iconresources
• Radial and free rotateable linear gradations
• Antialiasing
• Brightness/Saturation control
• Contrast control
• Invert
• Insert Text
• 3 Undo levels
• Animated buttons for the special effects
• A lot of further improvements
  

Version 1.0:

• First version for Windows 3.x