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Release Candidate RC1
May 12th, 2008
 jave_6.0_RC1.zip [3.8MB]
System Requirements
JRE 1.6 or greater installed
What's New
New Features since the last milestone release:
- When starting up JavE, there is now a "Quick Start" dialog for choosing one of the popular
features of JavE.
- Updated the FIGlet fonts library to version 4.0
- Improved and extended preferences dialog (menu "View" > "Preferences...")
- Improved behavior when dropping a selection outside the document bounds:
- By default, on text editors the document is being resized automatically
- By default, on animation editors the document is not being resized automatically
- This can be adjusted independently for text and animation editor in the preferences dialog
(menu "View" > "Preferences...")
- When auto resize is enabled for animations, the resize operation will now resize all frames,
in order to have the frames properly aligned.
- Improved Mac Os X integration. Many thanks to Zak for testing!
- From the 3d renderer (menu "Special" > "Render 3d") animations are directly opened in the
animation editor.
- Updated the program icon to have colors (like the JavE logo)
- JavE now supports Drag'n'Drop for opening files. Just drop a file on the application to open it.
- When opening an image file instead of opening the image2ascii converter the user is now
asked what to do: Image2Ascii Conversion, Camelizer or Using the image as Watermark
- Fixed inconsistency in file dialogs for images: Now every file chooser offers the same set
of image formats.
- Brushed up the camelizer dialog.
- In the animation export wizard the initial output file is filled in automatically.
- JavE now uses the new Splash-Screen functionality in Java SE 6 in order to show the splash
screen much earlier.
- Brushed up the Image2Ascii conversion dialog a bit.
- Opening the Image2Ascii converter for the first time automatically opens the file chooser
for choosing the image file.
- The color scheme settings (Menu "View" > "Color") are now respected in the Image2Ascii converter.
- The color scheme settings (Menu "View" > "Color") are now remembered when restarting JavE.
- Moved button for tool options dialog to the status bar. When closing the dialog, you will
see a little animation to help remembering, where the dialog can be reactivated.
- Bugfix: "Convert 'Making Of' to Animation" caused an error when the document had not yet been
edited.
- Bugfix: The tool "Freehand Algorithmic" broke from M7 to RC0.
- Lots of other minor improvements and bugfixes.
More Features can be found in the changes from the previous release 6.0 RC0.
Feedback
Your feedback is welcome: Let me know if you find any bugs or inconveniences.
Write to markus@jave.de.
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