WARNING: Developer releases are not stable versions!
They are intended for experienced users who want to see what's next and who want to help
me finding bugs.
In order to download the latest stable version go here instead.
Release Candidate RC0
February 29th, 2008
 jave_6.0_RC0.zip [3.6MB]
System Requirements
JRE 1.6 or greater installed
What's New
New Features since the last milestone release:
- Added a JRE check at startup in order to report outdated JREs as error. The check is
even JRE 1.1 compatible. So migrating from JavE 5 should be a bit easier.
- New Java Runtime Environment (JRE) requirements: 1.6.0 or greater required to run JavE
(this is mainly because the underlying library disy-commons for the user interface has been updated).
- New image2ascii algorithm "3d" for converting monochrome images to
ASCII Art like this:
______________________________________________
__________________/\\\\\______________________
_______________/\\\\\\\\\\\\__________________
_____________/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_______________
___________/\\\\\\\\\\\\/\\\\\\\\_____________
__________/\\\\\\\\\///\//\\\\\\\\____________
_________/\\\\\\\\\_____/\\\\\\\\\____________
_______/\\\\\\\\\\_____/\\\\\\\\\_____________
______/\\\\\\\\\\___/\\\\\\\\\\\______________
_____\/\\\\\\\\\\/\\\\\\\\\\\\/_______________
_____/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/_________________
____/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//___________________
___\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//______________________
___/\\\\\\\\\\\\\////_________________________
__\/\\\\\\\\\///____________/\\\______________
__\/\\\\\\\\\_____________/\\\\\\\\\__________
__\/\\\\\\\\\________/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_________
__\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\__________
__\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//___________
__\//\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/______________
___\///\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\////________________
_____\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////_____________________
_____\/////////////___________________________
______________________________________________
- The distribution now contains example files for animations in the
/examples/ folder.
The experimental VT100-Viewer can now be accessed via menu
"Animation" > "Open VT Animation".
The VT-Viewer has been included
with JavE for many versions, but it only could have been started from
the command line. You can use it for playing VT (Virtual Terminal,
VT100) animations. There is no editing, conversion or export to other
formats available yet.
Example animations are included in the distribution in the folder
/examples/vt/
- Animation editor: Less important controls can be hidden.
- Animation editor: Added navigation buttons to the toolbar.
- Renamed the "Mix Characters" checkbox to "Merge Characters" to better
reflect its meaning.
- Tweaked user interface a bit (splash screen, about dialog, toolbar buttons, colors, etc).
- Hitting the save button on an animation editor will now save the
animation, not only a single frame. Also: Removed the "Save" and
"Save As..." buttons from the animation menu (since they only
duplicated the ones from the file menu).
- Bugfix: SWF animation export now respects actual frame size.
- Bugfix: Exception caused by double clicking outside the document when
the text tool is active.
- Bugfix: Version check (menu "Help" > "Check for Updates") did not work on some systems.
- Lots of other minor improvements and bugfixes.
More Features can be found in the changes from the previous release 6.0 M7.
Feedback
Your feedback is welcome: Let me know if you find any bugs or inconveniences.
Write to markus@jave.de.
|
