Brenda History:
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v 2.00 March 3, 1995
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New distribution:  complete install disk.  Brenda20.zip
All files necessary for installation and use.

LOOK FOR BRENDA * THE BATCH RENDERER ON THE CD-ROM INCLUDED WITH
Photoshop 3 Filters & Effects BY NEW RIDERS PUBLISHING.

Fixed another major oversight that prevented users from specifiying 
the number of colors for palette creation from selected files.  
Brenda always supported specifying # colors; but I put in the
wrong combo-box and didn't realize it wouldn't let you type in
a custom value.  Fixed.

Also now aborts processing if you selected create palette, but 
then cancelled the name palette file requester.

Cosmetic improvements in all type-in string fields.

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PROGRAMMER'S PREROGATIVE
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After using Brenda, myself, I decided I didn't like being bothered for
Destination every time I picked a new set of source images.  So, I made
sure that you always get prompted for destination on startup, but then 
destination remains fixed until you explicitly change it.  

If this bothers anybody, let me know.  Otherwise, that's the way it works
now.

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Features Pending (for v. ???):
Ability to load Windows .PAL resources (whatever they are..)
Possibly to load other types of palette dataform (unspecified).

Media Architects assures me that the format interpretation library on 
which Brenda is based should be able to load .PAL resources already.

Although I have asked repeatedly around cyberspace, I can't get any 
reliable information on what .PAL resources are, nor samples to test 
with.  

JASC (PaintShop Pro) Palettes -- saved with the .PAL suffix -- don't load
and can't be used.

PC Paintbrush Palettes -- saved with the .PAL suffix -- don't load and 
can't be used.

Don't know if either of these types is the same or different from MS Windows
.PAL.  

REQUEST:
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Anybody with information on what it is a Windows .PAL; with a shareable program
to actually make, save, load, edit, use them; and/or sample .PAL files please 
drop them in my e-mail box.  


WORKAROUND:
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As always, the best workaround is to make a .BMP file containing the required 
.PAL color set (using whatever program it is that lets you specify a .PAL
in the first place) and use that image for Brenda's Load Palette input.


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Known Bugs:
None reported as of March 3, 1995.



v 1.01 February 15, 1995
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Bug Fix #1.  
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Fixed Major oversight that prevented Brenda from creating a single
palette from palettized source pictures!

Fixed cosmetic bug that prevented the Show Preview toggle from
actually working.

Added 2 levels of error trapping to Load Palette routine.  Brenda
will now gracefully refuse JPEG images as palettes and file types 
it doesn't know (see known bugs).

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SETUP.EXE
At least one user reported that SETUP.EXE wouldn't work.  This is because the 
VBRUN300.DLL (which SETUP.EXE requires) was compressed for the distribution
disk.  This problem will be fixed for the next full distribution (which now
may require TWO floppy disks for this simple reason!)

Temporary WorkAround -- Using a DOS command line, type:

c> A:\expand A:\VBRUN300.DL_ C:\WINDOWS\VBRUN300.DLL <return>

SETUP.EXE will then work for you.

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Unknown Bugs:
You tell me.



v 1.0  January 7, 1995
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First release version of Brenda * The Batch Renderer completed