Giv Changelog

What's new in Giv 0.9.24

Jan 3, 2013
  • This is a minor bugfix release which fixes a bug in the display of binary tiff images.
  • It is also the first release to provide a 64-bit Windows binary installer.

New in Giv 0.9.21 (Jan 8, 2012)

  • This release adds remote control of giv through a JSonRpc protocol.
  • This makes giv suitable for a remote viewer for a running application.
  • There are commands available for changing the image and the vector view of an already running giv, as well as prompting the user to click on a coordinate and retrieving the pixel coordinate.

New in Giv 0.9.19 (Apr 29, 2011)

  • This release contain several small enhancements.
  • The measurement tool now allows dragging the caliper for fine adjustment.
  • The pixel size tool recalculates the distance when toggling between different pixel size modes.
  • The histogram in the contrast tool now shows an indicator of the current gray level when hovering over the image.
  • The TIFF plugin has been extended for floating point and 1-bit images.
  • A PNG (including 16bit) plugin has been added.
  • Alpha transparency for marks may now be toggled on and off.
  • This version also fixes a bug in 64-bit compilation.

New in Giv 0.9.15 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • This version adds several text item enhancements.
  • Text labels may now be resized when zooming in and out, they may be anchored according to 9 anchor points, and they may be given in Pango markup.
  • Internally, giv has now been turned into a widget so that it may easily be embedded into other GTK applications.

New in Giv 0.9.13 (Feb 7, 2009)

  • This release adds exporting of the displayed image and vector annotation to SVG, PDF, postscript, and PNG.
  • It also adds alpha transparency to vector overlay.
  • Pileup keypress events when holding down the space bar has been fixed, so that when the spacebar is let go, the image will no longer change.
  • Other minor bugs have been fixed.
  • The documentation has been updated to reflect new functionality.

New in Giv 0.9.11 (Nov 24, 2008)

  • This is a bugfix version fixing a crash related to gtk-2.14 and or GTK on Windows.

New in Giv 0.9.10 (Oct 28, 2008)

  • This release adds interactive quiver plots. This includes the syntax edition of quiver vectors in the giv file as well as interactively changing the scale of quiver vectors when viewing the data.

New in Giv 0.9.9 (Oct 8, 2008)

  • Fixed bug in info window due to which not all filenames were being displayed in the info window.
  • giv-widget.gob : Fixed bug in info window which caused current file not to be displayed in the info window title.
  • giv-widget.gob : Display comment in info box.
  • giv-widget.gob : Added function to read comments from pnm files.
  • giv-widget.gob : Created callback to handle flip callbacks.
  • GivParser.cc, GivParser.h : Added callback method and parsing for orientation change ($VFLIP, $NOVFLIP, $HFLIP, $NOHFLIP).

New in Giv 0.9.7 (Sep 17, 2008)

  • This version solves several redrawing and flickering problems of previous versions.
  • It also solves a bug in the display of "narrow" marks files.