Wespal 0.5.0

Changes in this release

New features

• Out-of-the-box support for Krita (.kra), OpenRaster (.ora), and Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files on Windows and macOS via KImageFormats from KDE Frameworks 6.1.
• Redesigned main window:
  • Added buttons to quickly select or deselect all color ranges.
  • Added a button to generate image path functions for the open image.
  • Added an Edit menu and keyboard shortcuts for easy clipboard access.
  • Added alternative view modes to the original Split mode: Swipe, Onion Skin.
  • Added middle-mouse panning.
  • Added 1600% zoom factor.
• New settings dialog:
  • Added a General settings tab with display-related options.
  • Added option to disable saving the Wespal version number to created PNG files.
  • Merged Color Range and Palette editors into this dialog as separate tab pages.
  • Added an option to the Palette Editor to generate palette colors from the currently open image.
  • Color ranges now take a high-contrast fourth parameter, used in Wespal for displaying color range icons and in Wesnoth for unit/village markers on the minimap (#12).
  • Added options to the Color Range and Palette editors to create new items using Wesnoth built-ins as starting templates. This should allow for easier experimentation without having to manually copy the WML color lists into the From List dialog.
  • Added GIMP Palette (.gpl) export option to the Palette Editor.
• Added Wesnoth color blend (~BLEND) and color shift (~CS) functionality.
• Added Generate Base64 option to the Tools menu.

Bug fixes

• Opening and closing a file persists the file's parent dir as the starting point of a new file Open operation (same session only).
• Saving recolored images persists the chosen dir as the starting point of a new file Save operation (same session only).
• Fixed Palette Editor not displaying any color range icons in the Recolor dropdown on macOS.
• Fixed saved PNGs not including a tEXt chunk with the Wespal version used to generate them as intended.
• Fixed Wespal application icon not being used even after installing on Wayland platforms.
• Added a workaround for increased issues with the KDE Plasma 6 Breeze style when dragging windows from any empty areas is enabled, by disabling dragging from "all" (actually most) areas of the main window instead. A proper fix will come eventually.
• Avoid a potential crash related to drop operations on Wayland.

Other changes

• Windows and macOS versions built against Qt 6.7.0.
• Changed keys for the main window size and preview background settings. Note that this will cause these settings from version 0.4.0 and earlier to be forgotten.
• Made the code/WML snippet dialog a bit less cramped.
• Added CMake ENABLE_BUILTIN_IMAGE_PLUGINS option to enable building the built-in KImageFormats plugins and their QuaZip dependency. Users of platforms where KDE Frameworks 6 is readily available/already installed are discouraged from using this, so it's off by default.
• Fixed CMake SANITIZE option causing link-time errors (meaning yes, I actually tested and used it this time around).
• Implemented unit tests for backend functionality to ensure the recoloring algorithm never breaks silently before a release.

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Wespal 0.4.0

Changes in this release

• New icon.
• Rebranded to Wespal.
• Now requires Qt 6.4 or later, CMake 3.21.1 or later, GCC 7 or later / Clang 5 or later / another C++17-compatible compiler.
• WebP file format enabled where supported.
• XCF image format plugin from KImageFormats is included and enabled for all platforms to avoid depending on KDE Frameworks runtime.
• It is now possible to close the active file without quitting the app.
• Not opening a file on startup no longer causes the app to quit.
• Various changes to make the app feel more native on macOS.
• Color Range Editor:
  • Added a "From List" option to allow copying color values straight from WML.
  • Fixed right side panel still displaying the colors of the deleted range
    after deleting a range.
• Increased Recent Files menu size from 4 to 8.
• New start screen workflow including a more visible display of recently-opened
  files.

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Wesnoth RCX 0.3.0

New in this version:

• Ported to Qt 5 and C++11.
• Added more unit team colors introduced in Wesnoth 1.14 (light red, dark red, light blue, bright green, bright orange, gold).
• Palette Editor: Update palette icon after recoloring.
• Main: Zoom view in/out using Ctrl++ (plus) or Ctrl+- (minus).
• Main: Zoom view in/out using Ctrl+.
• Main: Made it possible for the user to choose any custom color for the preview background.

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