Osiva Release Notes
  ed. Jan 06

  Report bugs and suggestions to kwstork@yahoo.com

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  Version 1.2.15
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  Fixed a bug crashing "Match Area"
  Made entire iconbar active (search for "Fitt's Law" on Web)
  Now hide the iconbar when focus is lost
 
  Hiding the iconbar is motivated by similar behavior in MS
  Word. You can use [Alt]-right-click move utilities (like
  "Window Manager", WM at codeproject.com) to slide menu
  bars up to the screen edge, making the menus much easier
  to hit. In MS Word you can detach the entire menubar and
  snug it up there. Then when you lose focus, the menu bar
  disappears, so you can have another program doing the
  same thing.


  Version 1.2.12
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  Added a "consolidate" dialog, which copies the current
  layout into a new directory. Make sure to create the
  directory first!  The images all get copied to the
  directory you select -- a new one is not created.
  
  You can rotate an image just by grabbing it at the top
  center. There is also a "Rotate All" menu item. I've been
  using Osiva as the first viewer for images directly from
  dig cameras (hence the rotation feature), but this takes
  a *lot* of memory. Osiva keeps everything in RAM.
  
  Interface changes again to make Osiva a more standard
  windows program. There is now a right click context menu,
  but you can enable right click close if you need it. For
  orderly viewing there is now "tile, fit, and replace." Tile
  the images into proof strips using the second iconbar
  icon. Right click on one and select "Fit Screen" from the
  right click menu. Then right click on it again and select
  "Replace Tile."


  Version 1.2.7
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  Reworked "dissolve" so it makes sense. Now the images
  properly burn through the screen instead of the 
  topmost window. Also changed "Distribute" (the [Page
  Down] key) so that the images are left mostly onscreen.
  Dissolve and Distribute now work well together to
  create an interesting slide show.
    

  Version 1.2.3
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  Interface changes in an attempt to make Osiva
  easier to use. Added some tooltips (coded by hand
  because someday I'm going to port this to X11.)
  Added rotation so it might actually be used as a
  first viewer for images from a digital camera. Hid
  the "sink" iconbar button because it was too easy 
  for novice users to lose an image and get confused.
  For the same reason added a "tab" button and a "tile
  screen" button -- to make the images easier to find.
  You can still use the "s" key or shift LEFT CLICK to
  sink the image.
  

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  'a' and 'b' mean 'alpha' and 'beta'
  Versions with a and b in the number have not been
  well tested.

  Version 1.21b1
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  Added frame to frame dissolve during image "flipping."
  Since 1.1.2 added an option for scaling all the images
  in different ways. The best way to use dissolve 
  currently is to "Fit > Exactly" before turning
  dissolve on. Someday I will finish this and base the
  dissolve compositing on the overlapped portions of
  the images.


  Version 1.1.2a
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  Fixed several bugs associated with shell
  integration. Use of 1.1.1 as the default GIF and
  JPG viewer did not work at all in NT/2000/XP.
  Fixed multiple drop on the icon; allowed drop on
  the Icon Bar. Added a menu and some registered
  options. Added image flip (like automatic pressing
  of the TAB key) for "slide shows."

  The registration isn't there yet (it doesn't
  save the options) but the features are there.


  Version 1.1.1
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  Added ability to drag images out of Osiva, using
  the right mouse button or by holding down the ALT
  key. This lets you drag an image into an image
  editor, or to copy and move images using Osiva as
  a staging area.


  Version 1.1
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  Added the Icon Bar.
  First download.com and simtel distribution


  Version 1.0
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  First stable version.
  Not distributed.



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  Goals
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  Sort (tile) by internal image features (patent pending)
  (All with reference to the "current" selected image)
  (ie: "find images sort of like this one")
  ---- Median color
  ---- average correlation coefficient of the RGB histograms
  ---- correlation coefficient of the grayscale histograms
  ---- correlation coefficient of absurdly low res thumbnails 
  ---- the usual wavelet matching criteria (similar to the above)
  To support using the above with huge image sets
  ---- de-cache the images in favor of thumbnails and feature sets
  Image codec plugin interface
  User skins
  Render to video formats
  Detailed saved options
  (The X11 version is totally different)
  (So Linux ports are no longer an _osiva_ goal)