[From Kenny Song] HUGE update to RescoViewer. Impressive improvements to an already excellent photo viewer.
Product history
Version 2.40.2 | Aug-05-2006
For those, who took part in the beta testing, the final release was further optimized (mainly app size and loading of large images) and contains a few rather marginal fixes and improvements.
Visual changes:
* Nicer GUI
* Multi-line report mode
* Splitter drag:
The sensitive area (distinctly marked) was reduced to minimize conflicts with scrollbars.
Application control:
* In one-panel mode you can temporarily open the tree via left arrow, switch to another folder and close the tree via right arrow.
* New icon state - "focused" introduced. This allows multiselection handling with 5way.
* New customizable HW key "Long center button" (Key Options dialog). Can be used for example for opening of the context menu.
* Long tap on the shift indicator (vertical arrow in the title bar) opens menu with select options.
New settings:
* General options: Start in Fullscreen (HiRes+)
* General options: "Disable Double Tap (Viewer)"
* View options: Added "Initial position" for loaded images
New standard categories:
* All (all images on the card or built-in drive),
* Unfiled (all images that were not assigned to some category)
Contents of these categories is dynamic, i.e. evaluated each time the folder is opened. Hence, the loading is slower - but it is non-blocking (i.e. can be interrupted at any time).
Optimizations:
* Folder loading 2x faster
* Large folders: Dramatical improvement in case of sorting by size or date
* Huge folders with up to 30000 images supported (stress tests for 17000 images done)
* Loading of large images on NVFS devices substantially improved. (Avoided unrealistic memory requests that may force very long delays in NVFS.)
* Categories are much faster. However, categories with more than 1000 items do not show file size/date as collecting of these attributes can take too long.
* Albums can have more images (30000)
Other News:
* Image histogram (available from the context menu of an opened image)
* BMP loader supports more formats
* Albums can have more images (30000)
* If you don't have Pocket Tunes, you still can play music during slideshow if your handheld has built-in mp3 player.
Custom slideshow:
Slideshow generalization, where you can mix-up images, songs and text in various ways.
Custom slideshow is treated as an album (a tree node!) and can be copied to another location or to Favorites. Unlike an album, Custom slideshow contains image links, i.e. original images must exist.
Custom slideshow can be created on a card only and all image/audio files must be located on the same card.
* Creation
Select folder, then Main menu > Custom Slideshow. (To include only some images, use multiselection.)
* Image attributes
Every image has own attributes: Duration, effect, text notes, audio. Use multiselection to change an attribute for several images at once.
* Image order
To move an image use the up/down icons or drag-drop.
* Text notes
You can add text to any image. In slideshow, the text will be written over the image.
* Adding images
Use CopyTo or drag-drop. Slideshow can contain links to any folder.
* Text frames
Press the T icon to add a text slide. Can contain any text that fits one screen.
* Audio
You can use one song for the whole slideshow, or use the song for a group of images, or show the image while the song plays.
* Audio engine/formats:
You must have either Pocket Tunes (prefered) or built-in Palm player Supported formats: mp3, m3u, ogg, wma, wav (depending on the engine used)
Removed support for:
* Old SplashPhoto v3.xx images. (New SplashPhoto format is supported.)
* Phototake camera
Reason: Decreasing application size through elimination of seldom used software.
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