Version 0.9: Looks Stylish Even When Dressing Casual

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

The Marcam Windows Installer was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.

Notable improvements:

• Fixed bug where Mac Marcam wouldn't open file properly by double-clicking
  file to start program. (#134)
• Made File->Open Recent paths relative to home directory. (#128)
• Clean up and simplify (remove) some status bar text.
• File Load and Save of .mcm files sped up (about 20%) by doing more in-memory operations.
• More errors are routed to log files for better transparency on crashes.
• Fix bug where window close didn't update internal data structures, resulting in instability. (#144)
• Use progress dialog with File -> Export Image... (#143)
• Optimize by only tracking mouse motion while dragging. (#141)
• Cleaned up text in pre-close "Do you want to save?" query dialog.
• Fixed bug where file was mistakenly thought of as "saved" when it was not.
• Use progress dialog for all image processing tasks.
• Create error dialogs for remaining open/save file errors that don't have one.
• Performance: Implement file cache and advance conversion of image to output file in background.
• Unify handling of preferences.
• (Internal) Automated pylint checks using Jenkins. (#146)
• (Internal) Clean up some event-handling details (make sure all handlers execute via Skip()). (#142)
• (Internal) Upgrade to PyInstaller 3.4, with better support for writing Info.plist. (#137)
• (Internal) Upgrade to Python 3.7. (#138)

Version 0.8: Lots of Fun at Parties

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

The Marcam Windows Installer was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.

Notable improvements:

• "Save file before closing?" dialog now tells you what changed since last save (#113)
• Long tasks now happen smoothly, with Progress dialog window while you wait. (Internal: using threads) (#114)
• New dialogs to set parameters in image processing tasks. (#108)
  • False Color
  • Auto-contrast
• False Color mapping is now over 18x faster (#118).
• Mac: Marcam now has a Window menu to list all open windows and ability to select them from menu. (#107)
• Windows: Double-clicking on a file while Marcam is already open now successfully opens the file.
• Windows: Installer now looks much more modern and polished. (#117)
• Status bar now has a permanent location for Zoom ratio (on the right side).
• Register with OS that .1sc files can be opened by Marcam.
• Register with Windows OS that many image types can be opened with Marcam. (.tif, .jpg, .png)
• Quicker undo/redo for image processing steps. (#103)
• Attempting to open a file that already is open will just raise existing window. (#105)
• Marcam now raises window it's asking you about saving on quitting the application. (#112)
• File->Save is disabled if nothing to save (#121)
• Startup speedups (#106 )
• Mac: Dialogs look more native with no title string.
• Windows: Start Menu: Only app in Start Menu (not folder), and Marcam installed for all users.
• (Internal) Only a single instance of Marcam is allowed to run, others are shut down gracefully and their files opened in main instance.
• (Internal) FrameList to keep track of frames. (#101)

Version 0.7: More Solid, Better Behaved, More Polite

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

The Marcam Windows Installer was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.

Notable improvements:

• Vast improvement of image rendering. Removes occasional image artifacts previously visible. (Issue #90)
• Image processing operations under the Tools menu
  • Invert Image
  • Image False Color
  • Image Auto-contrast (Issue #77)
  • Image Info
• Edit->Undo/Redo now tell you in the menu text what you are about to Undo or Redo (Issue #92)
• Filename now in titlebar of window. (Also right-clickable icon on Mac.) (Issue #82)
• Windows: now knows Marcam handles .mcm files, Marcam file icons on .mcm files in Windows. (Issues #79, #84)
• Windows: remove jitter during zoom
• Windows: improvements in image rendering (using buffered drawing to window)
• Mac: Closing last window keeps app open with no windows, as is typical for a Mac app.
• Dialog boxes handle all errors for file open, save, etc. (Issue #96)
• Menu items disabled appropriately when no image. (Issue #97)
• New Debug Menu (only visible if developer is in Debug mode)
• Dragging while scrolling improved (but not perfect)
• New version of the *.mcm file format. Program still opens legacy files. New files saved in new version.

Version 0.6: More Functionality, More Polish, More Bugfixes

Notable Improvements:

• Toolbar buttons look nicer, and more toolbar buttons.
• Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom Fit: New menu items, new toolbar buttons.
• Copy to Clipboard toolbar button. (Issue #69)
• File->Open Recent now works properly again.
• Now images with an alpha channel (transparency) will display properly in the application. (Issue #73)
• Big fix with rendering should speed up most zooms, and help (a bit) flicker/jitter in Windows.
• Windows: Open Files now defaults to showing all openable files. (Not only one type.) (Issue #70)
• Mac: *.mcm files now properly show the Marcam Document icon.
• Experimental new Tools: Image Info, Image Auto-Contrast.
• Windows: App now has proper icon in titlebar. (Issue #65)
• Bugfix: Window was not totally repainted before, (a few pixels in the corners were missing).
• Bugfix: App used to grow in height each time it was opened/closed.
• Mac: Bugfix: Corner between scrollbars is not repainted properly. (Issue #20)
• Internal build improvements.
• Lots of internal file cleanup.

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

The Marcam Windows Installer was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.

Version 0.5: Copy Marks Total and Windows Bugfixes

Notable Improvements:

• Now Ctrl-C / Cmd-C or pushing the "To Clipboard" toolbar button copies the total number of marks to the clipboard.
• Changed Temporary Zoom to be activated with space bar (instead of Option / Alt key as before). This allows it to function properly on Windows.
• Fixed dragged rubber-band box selection on Windows so it has the correct appearance
• Improved and updated help
• Fixes for Windows icon bugs: #65 and #66
• Fixed: "Save As" now behaves properly (instead of erroneously as "Export Image").

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

Marcam.Installer.exe was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.

Version 0.4: Github release

A "mostly good enough for public consumption" release.

This release has functional macOS and Windows builds that allow manual loading, marking, and saving of images. The application keeps count of how many marks you make in the toolbar.

Marcam inside the dmg file should run on any Mac OS X that is Yosemite (10.10.5) or later.

Marcam.Installer.exe was created on a Windows 10 Home version 1803.