[Pimp-announce] ANN: PIMP Version 0.8.1 Released

[Phil Edwards]

The latest release of PIMP is finally available for download from:

http://www.linux2000.com/pimp.html

The main feature of this release is that the code has been migrated to
PythyonCard 0.8 and wxPython 2.5. This means that those downloading the
Linux version must also upgrade to the latest versions of both
PythonCard and wxPython. 

Other new features include the ability to generate an ISO image of an
album which will autorun when inserted into a Windows PC and a simple
image search function on the 'Image' menu. See the changelog below for
full details.

PIMP is essentially complete as far as my requirements are concerned. I
will make further releases under version number 0.9.x for the rest of
this year as and when bugs are reported to me. Sometime during January
2006, version 1.0 of PIMP will then be released and this will
effectively mark the end of the PIMP development effort.

Changelog:
    - Fix a long pathname bug when building ISO images under Windows.
      Grrr.....
    - Fixed some problems with buttons being wrongly disabled when
      starting the album editor
    - changed some of the icons to ones that look better under Windows
      XP
    - Fix bug in filter edit dialog. AND/OR components were not being
      set correctly due to the code still using the '.selected' property
      from PythonCard pre-0.8
    - Ripped out some print statements left over from previous debug
      sessions
    - Fixed an exception in the album editor if you pressed the delete
      album button and then clicked Cancel in the album select dialog
    - Icon for ISO image creation tollbar button was missing from the
      distribution file
    - Advanced prefs dialog was displaying the wrong default options
      when running PIMP for the first time
    - add option to build a cd ISO image without re-generating the album first
    - fix bug in album code which was generating a row of empty table cells
      in certain cases
    - amended album code to leave out page links if there is only one
      page of images
    - fixed a bug in the date search implementation on Windows
    - slide show was throwing a segfault under Linux if you quit out
      with a slide show running, due to not stopping the wxTimer
      first
    - fixed a bug (path error) when creating an ISO image of an album 
      under Windows
    - image resolution field on the main window was set to the wrong size
    - image display now sizes properly in full screen mode on Windows
    - fix bug with database being created with the wrong version number
      when running PIMP for the first time
    - some of the directory dialogs in prefs where missing a 'new directory'
      button
    - added a workaround for some really crap behaviour in the ConfigParser
      getboolean() method which was causing an exception when PIMP was
      run for the first time
    - cosmetic fixes to some of the button sizes
    - fixed bug in filter edit dialog where filter list was not
      being displayed properly on exit from the dialog
    - all prefs dialog help text moved out of the code and into
      the resource files to help with internationalisation
    - fix bug in new image viewer with private images
    - added imageFinder child window
    - album generator converted to a template based system, rather than
      having the HTML in the code
    - fixed bug in album generator which caused page links to be rendered
      incorrectly
    - prefs dialogs amended to allow for checkBox components now being
      True/False instead of 1/0
    - prefs dialogs changed to use wx.MessageDialog for help texts instead
      of the Pythoncard component
    - lots and lots of changes for migration to Pythoncard-0.8 and wxPython
      2.5
    - fix bug in prefs dialog where some stored options were not being
      displayed properly
    - progress dialog when building an album now shows elapsed time and
      estimated time
    - Added a credit for Ruben in the help-->about dialog, I think he
      deserves it!
    - fix problem with internal image viewer on wx2.5, wxTimer initialisation
      was throwing an exception. Thanks to Ruben for the fix!
    - fix bug in advanced prefs with wx2.5, options were being lost even
      when OK'ing out of the dialog. Thanks to Ruben for the fix!
    - added short pathname fix to external image viewer code, thanks to
      Ruben for the fix!
    - added code to generate ISO image of an album, added shellexe.exe to
      manifest.in
    - removed the 'apply' button from the filter selection dialog
    - modified the filter selection dialog so the selected filter is
      applied automatically
    - slideshow code had a minor bug where it wasn't picking up the right
      set of images if a filter was applied in the main window