1) The QuickTime video digitizer settings can now be saved using Record Preferences.
2) DICOM and ACR/NEMA files with headers larger than 4096 bytes can now be imported.
3) A bug was fixed that sometimes caused 'Analyze Particles' to fail if the monitor was not in 256 color mode.
4) A bug was fixed that caused the wand tool to fail when clicking inside an object touching the right edge of the image.
5) If the mouse is over an active frequency domain (FFT) window, its location is now displayed in polar coordinates. The angle is expressed in degrees (°), while the radius is expressed in either pixels per cycle (p/c) or, if a spatial scale calibration has been made using Set Scale, in [units] per cycle (e.g. mm/c).
6) Capturing of images from QuickTime compatible digitizers now works correctly when the grayscale map has been modified or when the number of reserved LUT entries is non-zero.
7) A bug was fixed that caused the 'Time Stamp' option of the 'Make Movie' command' to fail when the monitor was not set to 256 colors.
8) Support was added for the PCI versions of the Scion LG-3 and VG-5 frame grabber cards. Both cards can capture 30 full size frames per second to system RAM.
9) A checkbox for selecting "S-Video" input was added to the QuickTime video digitizer version of the Video Control dialog box.
10) Support for user-defined functions was added to the macro language.
11) A function ('GetPath') was added to the macro language for fetching various file paths. It has three variations:
1) GetPath('window') - returns the folder path (e.g. 'HD500:Images:')
of the current current image or text window. Returns an empty string if
no window is open or the current window has no file associated it.
2) GetPath('startup') - returns the path of the folder from which
NIH Image was started.
3) GetPath('pref') - returns the path of the Preferences folder in
the System Folder.
The 'File Paths Demo' macro in 'Input/Output Macros' demonstrates how to use
these functions.
12) A command was added to the macro language for getting information about files. It has the form:
GetFileInfo(FullPath, FileType, FileSize)
where 'FullPath' is a string containing a path name (e.g. 'HD500:Images:image01'). GetFileInfo returns the file type ('TIFF', 'PICT', 'TEXT' etc) in the string variable 'FileType' and the file size in bytes in the integer variable 'FileSize'. If the file isn't found, 'FileType' is set to an empty string and 'FileSize' is set to -1. See the 'File Paths Demo' macro in 'Input/Output Macros' for an example of how to use GetFileInfo.
13) A macro command was added for selecting tools from the tool palette It has the form "SelecTool(tool)", where tool is one of: 'magnifier', 'grabber', 'pencil', 'eraser', 'brush', 'drawline', 'paintbucket', 'profile', 'wand', 'angletool', 'rectangle', 'oval', 'polygon', 'freehand', 'straightline', 'freeline', 'segmentline', 'lut', 'text', 'spraycan', 'picker' or 'crosshair'.
14) A "Desktop Friendly" option was added to Preferences that eliminates annoying desktop color changes when the monitor is set to 256 colors but reduces the number of colors available for displaying images.
15) The PPC version of NIH Image now runs up to 12% faster due to better code optimization in the Metrowerks Codewarrior 8 PPC compiler.
16) A bug was fixed that caused the Make Montage command to draw a border around the entire composite image when the "Borders" option was not checked. This was a problem when creating movie strips for use with the Rotator (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/Java/Rotator/) Java applet.
