- Added jpeg (or JPEG) as allowable aliases for jpg (or JPG) files
- Added a menu item to show this page
! Bug Fix: Fixed problem with exporting to Excel - the program would crash if a version of Excel other than XP was on the client machine
27 February 2003
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Fixed errors reading EXIF data when some fields were empty.
26 February 2003
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Fixed error 9 that occurred when changing date format when no images present
Changed checkbox on HTML tab to provide a means of removing all picture data from linked-image page output
Added further error traps to help reduce undiagnosed errors
Fixed program's ability to render apostrophes in slideshow comments
Fixed error displaying "Also Available" in linked image pages when there are no other images available
20 February 2003
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- Navigation buttons were added with fixed height and width tags. The program now adds the correct size, or does not specify, if they are gif images (the imagesource library does not handle gif images due to UNISYS copyright).
- Added a checkbox to HTML tab to allow NO linked images to be specified - i.e. for thumbnails ONLY. This has necessitated a change to the template. The text "Click on the thumbnail for a larger version" is now incorporated into the program, and only added if it is needed.
- Added small feature to generate thumbnails for images which do not currently have them. Solves the problem of the message "No thumbnail currently available" appearing.
- When browsing to a new folder containing images, the propgram does not now scan through each image. This speeds up the loading of new folders considerably.
! Fixed error opening zero-length image files
! Fixed array limit of 50 subfolders
! Bug Fix - fixed error in Watermark dialog where program gave error if font size box blanked
! Bug Fix - fixed errors running program on Windows 98/Me, caused by multiple backslashes in filenames
! Bug Fix - Export to Excel gave protection fault if Excel2002 was not available. Now uses Excel9 library.
! Bug fix - possible filename error with \\ instead of \ if the image folder is the root folder of a drive
! Bug Fix - runtime error 9 'subscript out of range' occurred when more than 10 sub-folders were present when creating HTML pages. I've increased the maximum number of sub-folders to 50. Hope this is enough!
! Bug Fix - removed 20 character limitation on the filename used in storing the EXIF data
2.7.1 (4 February 2003)
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- EXIF data can now be exported to Excel
- Custom footer now added to each of the templates. Can contain other macros, since this element is replaced first by ThumbHTML when creating the web pages.
- Dates now update immediately on selection of different date format.
- Added context-sensitive help (when pressing F1) to many elements of the program.
- Added confirm dialog before exit when pressing <Esc>
- Further updates of help file
- Some minor interface tweaks
! Bug Fix - removed 256 character limitation in length of footer.
2.7 (01/02/2003)
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- Redesigned the way the program deals with EXIF data and picture comments.
- Automatically extracts any EXIF data found to a file exifdata.txt.
- User can choose to save all picture information to a file picturedata.txt
- Can now view all EXIF data as you view the images in the program (menu item under 'Tools')
- Program now uses a style sheet for its web pages (photos.css). You can either use a custom style sheet (simple editor provided) or let the program create one from the settings chosen by the user. Tab title changed from 'Colours' to 'Styles'.
- Another big change is that user templates are now provided for each of the three types of web page ThumbHTML provides (Thumbnails, Linked-Images and Slideshow).
- Option provided on Tools menu to regenerate the default templates, if you have messed up!
- Linked to the last point is the fact that edited footers are now redundant, being replaced by the text in the templates.
- Added a link on the Slideshow tab to display the slideshow in the default browser (disabled if the slideshow file is not present in the current folder)
- Help file updated
2.6.2 (18/01/2003)
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- Added a link on the HTML tab to display the web album in the default browser (disabled if an index.htm or index.html file is not present in the current folder)
- Added new ISEffects library to provide improved drop-shadowing. Features include user-specified shadow size, colour, angle and blur.
- Updated ImageSource library function - providing speed increase of approx 30% on filtered resizes.
! Bug Fix: Images which had been modified (and in which the EXIF data had therefore been changed or deleted) sometimes caused the appearance of an error box "5 - invalid procedure call or argument" when creating HTML pages. This has now been fixed.
! Fixed the display of thumbnails on the main tab. Images that had been rotated displayed oddly, and for images where no EXIF data are available, any existing thumbnail is used instead.
! Bug Fix: Problem with file extensions being incorrect case - always converted to lower case after thumbnail is created. This was causing problems when files uploaded to UNIX server.
! Bug fix: slideshow filename extension was not saved correctly (always .htm)
2.6.1 (04/01/2003)
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Added a link to the users' forum.
2.6.0 (01/01/2003)
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New year, new version! There has been a major change to the image processing routines, due to an upgrade in the ImageSource library from version 2.2 to 3.0. This has involved a lot of internal re-writing, and there MAY be new bugs introduced. I have checked for this, but ...!
Other changes:
- A different algorithm for creating drop-shadows has been introduced. A shadow is now created offset by a user-specified amount from the image, with the rest of the background filled in with the currently chosen background colour. The shadow can be blurred a user-specified amount (1-100%) - the default is 75%.
- A more fully-featured editor for the user-footer has been added (see the relevant menu item).
- Additional image-processing features have been added: the ability to create a greyscale image, and to apply a tint (can produce sepia-style images for example), and the ability to apply a sharpening filter (use sparingly, particularly with small images).
- Speeded up display of thumbnails in main screen, and in the Picture Info dialog, by using the thumbnails embedded in the EXIF data of JPG files, whenever available.
- Other cosmetic changes to the front-end designed to make usage more straightforward.
2.5.0 (15/12/2002)
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Major new feature - PROFILES.
The program now allows you to save 'profiles' - i.e. groups of settings that you want to be able to recall later. Included in the profile is the batch file settings and user-defined footer.
This information is saved to files kept in a sub-folder called 'profiles' within the ThumbHTML folder, each using the chosen profile name as the filename.
Profiles can be added, selected and deleted by means of the new 'Profiles' menu item.
General settings (last-used profile, auto-save profile on exit and auto-load last profile on restart) now saved in a NEW ThumbHTML.ini file in the program folder.
2.4.2 (08/12/2002)
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Added ability to choose date format. Default is European, alternative is US format, otherwise you can choose your own format, using the usual placeholder characters of dd,mm,yy etc. (Robert Gusick)
2.4.1 (27/11/2002)
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Fixed EXIF image date to be the date of the original image, rather than date last modified (Eirik Ora)
Fixed crash when trying to access an empty A: drive (Peter van Lune)
Added the ability to choose a background image instead of a background colour (Radu Catina, Georg Reichard, Peter van Lune)
2.4.0 (16/11/2002)
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Fixed bug in reading EXIF data, where picture information did not appear to be extracted from the image. This occurred for filenames > 20 characters. I have now increased the filename field to 30 characters. (Eirik Ora)
Fixed bug in the slideshow applets in which an incorrect backslash '\' was inserted before filenames in the 'root' folder (Eirik Ora)
Fixed bug in which the 'html' part of filenames was missing - this was a bug introduced earlier when I enabled wither .htm or .html extensions!
Fixed bug giving "Error 6, Overflow" caused by the shutter speed element of the EXIF array containing a number > 32767 (hence outside the integer limit) (Ng)
Added a checkbox to allow the use of either .htm or .html for html pages (Martin Briscoll)
Added a checkbox to choose linked images to appear in pop-up windows rather than in the same window (Exec)
Added a checkbox to the HTML tab to allow users to choose whether or not to add links to the full-size images. (Derran)
2.3.2 (14/09/2002)
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Added a 'back' image as well as a 'home' image to the individual html pages so that you can return to the previous thumbnail page, as well as to the index page (thanks to Radu Catina for the suggestion)
Modified the watermark dialog so that when selecting one of the 9 regions in which to place the watermark, the default X and Y offsets change accordingly.
2.3.1 (08/09/2002)
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Fixed bug in which files in the 'main' folder, with file extensions of .jpg, were being referred to within the HTML with an extension of .JPG.
This caused a problem when uploading to UNIX servers where case-sensitivity is an issue. (Thanks to Chris Barrett for pointing this out).
Build 2.3 (03/09/2002)
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New Features:
- Added a text watermarking facility. You can now specify text to overlay on your images, and choose its position, size, colour and transparency. The text can include 'macro' keywords so that, for example, the filename and/or date can be automatically added.
- Added a facility to choose the order in which the images are presented. Formerly, the images were simply presented in the order in which they are automatically sorted (i.e. alphabetically by filename). Now, it is possible to select the order yourself. You can drag and drop thumbnails until they are in the desired order.
- Choose the colours of the various HTML elements within the program. Previously the program let you select the foreground and background colours; other colour elements could be selected by manually editing the ThumbHTML.ini file. The program now provides the ability to select these interactively. These choices are saved when you exit the program.
Build 2.2.2 (27/08/2002)
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Bug Fixes:
Fixed bug reported by Peter Smit in which the case of the HTML filename was incorrect in the navigation link between individual image pages.
Fixed incorrect HTML in the navigation links in the individual-image HTML pages. Superfluous </a> tags were being added when no hyperlink was required (for the first and last images).
Fixed bug giving rise to runtime error 68 (Device unavailable) or 76 (Path not found) on startup. This was caused by the previous folder having been deleted by the user - the program could not then find this when starting up! It now traps this error, gives a warning message, and sets the startup folder as the program folder.
Build 2.2.1 (12/08/2002)
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New Features:
- Added navigation buttons to individual HTML pages to allow users to move directly from one to another without having to return to the thumbnails page. This feature is enabled by default but can be turned off from the HTML tab.
- Added checkboxes to the HTML tab to choose whether or not to add the image number and/or filename to the individual web pages.
- Added a batch resize facility. This allows you to pre-define a set of folders (and image sizes) to be created in a one-click process. The action can be initiated via the 'Batch Process' button and customised via the relevant menu item (see the 'Tools' menu). The details of the settings are stored in 'batch.txt' - a text file located in the ThumbHTML folder
- Modified slideshow facility so that you can optionally choose to add some, all or none of the following: image comments, image date/time, photo details, filenames and image count. These change dynamically along with the image. The choice of photo details is taken from the EXIF choices available via the menu.
- The user can now choose to use the datestamp of the image file, rather than the EXIF or camera data, for the image date/time.
- The user can now choose to add the image count to the slideshow (e.g. 4 of 42).
Bug Fixes:
Fixed bug relating to an incorrectly-specified pixel width for the images in the HTML pages. The 'height' and 'width' tags were being calculated with the assumption of a 10 pixel drop-shadow AND that this was subtracted from the image size (regardless of whether or not a drop-shadow had been requested!). Thanks to Stephen Sann for pointing this out!)
The program incorrectly added backslashes rather than forward slashes to URLs - this has now been corrected
The program now correctly replaces newlines in picture comments with <BR> tags for display in the HTML pages
This has been a pressing need for some time! The program has a menu option which allows you to add comments for your images.
- LINKED IMAGE PAGES
Previously, image thumbnails were linked directly to the 'raw' image. This has now been changed - ThumbHTML generates an additional HTML page for each image, containing image information (see below), and comments, using the selected colour scheme.
- INCLUSION OF IMAGE DATA
Image data, where available, are now included in the linked pages. This information is taken from either the file INFO.TXT, generated automatically by Nikon digital cameras, if it is found in the current folder, or if not, the required picture information is extracted directly from the EXIF header embedded in the JPG images. You can choose which of these EXIF data elements to add using the new option in the Tools menu.
- SLIDESHOW
ThumbHTML now allows you to generate a slideshow of your images. This only works on IE5, IE6 and NS6 and above (but this covers a fair proportion of current browsers in use!). You can select a title, the delay between images and the transition time.
- USER-DEFINABLE COLOURS
In addition to choosing the foreground and background colours by using the colour-picker, it is now possible to specify the ALINK, VLINK and LINK colours, as well as the colours used for photo data, the image date and the footer elements.
- Can choose thumbnails to be formatted in a table, or free-form.
- ThumbHTML can optionally remember the last folder used.
- Settings are saved each time the program closes. Can reset to program defaults if desired.
