SimilarImages - CHANGELOG

Version: 2007.03b1-2008.04

Version: 2006.03-2007.03b1

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Movies support (thru DirectShow codecs)
New croppy algorithm that will improve match quality for cropped/border-added images drastically.
SQLite cache backend
Thread-Pool for analysis image loader.
Compare Images-Dialog leaking thumbnail images
Date-label hidden (non-theme)
Doubleclicking will open files in fullmode as well
Fixed EInvalidPointer exceptions occuring in Drive Reassignment dialogs.
Fixed a bug affecting multiprocessor system that caused a lot of "threads didn't circle" warnings by rewriting the implementation.
Minor bugfixes (as always).
Searching Progress normalized
Small GDI leaks
Some memory leaks (that only occured in special/exotic cases).
AMD Performance Library
Cache purging refined
Compare Images-Dialog adjustments
GflSDK 2.67
New XML loader (wrapper to expat)
Now takes NumberOfProcessors into account (still overrideable by tweaks)
Refined Cache Reassignment dialog (purger)
core.dll built with Visual Studio 2005 (Profile Guided optimized) to speed up the mission critical routines.
less memory usage
v2 LangMan

Version: 0.9.5-2006.03

True Multi-User Support due to using Windows Profile (AppData)
(Create "SimImages.local" file in Installation folder, to circumvent this).
Display bug (Box Captions truncated when Windows Visual Style uses bold font)
Errors in processing threads will a) abort the process and b) leave the app in a better state.
LUA (least-privileged user account) support... You might run SimilarImages in Restricted User mode.
New version naming (this one might be considered 1.0)
Actually is Year.Month.

Version: 0.9.4-0.9.5

Bug that prevented "Delete Broken Files" from working
(incl. improvements for skin/themeablity thru third-party programs like windowblinds)
Help File not available from Help menu also installed
Hiding thumbs-line whenEVER thumbcount drops below 2
Info-Text refreshing too often
LangMan stripped to much whitespace from strings
Multi-Threading issue (polling already finished threads cause Wait-Functions always to return and and - therefore - update code always to execute)
Purging Cache returns wrong totals
Real and correct utf-8 of lang file
Some more or less small memory leaks
Thumbs that are not needed anyway (eg. because they are hidden) aren't loaded anymore.
UnInstaller not deleteing all files that should
GUI Improvements
Removed some redunant code
Removed some unnecessary code that affects startup times (which was contained in GUI-Library)
Selection code (thumbs/internal)
Fixes bad bug from previous alphas/betas where left pairs where not displayed after some pics got auto-deleted. (minor-bug, since no damage, only less results displayed)

Version: 0.9.3-0.9.4

Version: 0.9.2-0.9.3

... and fixed regressions arising from this upgrade
Found a "race condition" in my thread queue code which especially seemed to affect Win9x users.
Should be removed now ;)
Exclusive search much faster now (affects also Inclusive Search)
consumes some more memory
Threw out XPMenu component (incompatiblities all over)
Thumbnails displayed just when more than 2 files in set (CMP Dialog)
Upgrade to GflSDK 2.40

Version: 0.9.1-0.9.2

Polish translation
Thx to Iluvatar
"Bad" images wouldn't break the analysis progress.
From now on they will simply "time out".
Some anti-virus crapwarez reported this changelog contained viruses.
This was/is NOT true.
But I worked around it anyway :p
Some external and/or third-party components got updated.

Version: 0.9-0.9.1

This is generally an "optimize and bug-hunt" version
Broken files can be delete on-the-fly.
First multi-threading code. (Analysis is multi-threaded)
Help File
Selector for some pre-defined threshold values
Some "tweaks" (See Help)
Some code that should improve results for scans.
(different Scans usually have different parameters like Contrast, Brightness ...)
Crashes when displaying small files (<900 bytes)
Inserting a folder to list now removes subfolders of it from the list
A lot of stuff from the Cache-Handling was rewritten
Cache System changed to run smoother and more stable
Code Optimizations
DirectProcess mode obsolete/incompatible, hence gone
Multi-Threading for search-alogrithms initated
Rewrote huge part of the languages manager.
Some Icons (thx to NovaStream)
Threading / Thread Exception Handling
UI improvements

Version: 0.8-0.9

Abort in Read Directories-Mode
Context-Menu for Folder list
Fullsize-Viewer
Multi-Selection support for Folder list
Not-A-Match Database
Control dis/enabling
Display errors after maximizing/restoring main window
Seems I finally fixed that obscure painting error in the statusbar.
Simply redirected and disable some Windows Messages :?
External Components
Internal File Processors
Move (Swap) Routines
Purge System
Threaded FileExecution
Windows Context Menu wrapper class

Version: 0.6-0.8

Version: 0.5-0.6

Version: 0.4-0.5

Version: 0.3-0.4

Algorithm that should "normalize" two datasets.
Auto-delete 0-Files option which will apply the SAO rule on files with Comparision 0
Due to a bug introduced in 0.3 "Delete both files" didnt work.
Now its working correctly.
Fixed small bug causing AV sometimes when cached data was used.
Minor bugfixes and optimizations in NextMatch routine.
Fine-tuned algorithms

Version: 0.2-0.3

"Last modified" to Compare Images-Dialog
Abort button to Statusbar (for aborting analyze Progress)
FastStep>> button which lets you easily step over image series like caps (identified by filename).
Keyboard shortcuts for Compare Images-Dialog (see Hints)
Language Support (conact me if you would like to support the developement by submitting new languages)
Last resultset is stored till you process another folderlist.
Means: You dont have to reanalyze the last result anymore
Previous Button
Reset Button for threshold
Semi-Automatic Deletion
This CHANGELOG
Filesize coloring now works on byte not KB
Minor bugfixes
Will not show already removed files any longer
Better value coloring in Compare Images-Dialog
Faster pair-search while inclusive searching.
File will be sorted by folder/name previous to analyzing.
GUI layout changes (like a bigger threshold bar)

>> EOF

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