iceWing 0.11 - Changelog

What's new in iceWing 0.11:

October 4th, 2012

· Many more cameras are supported, e.g. GenICam cameras via the aravis library, more V4L2 cameras, and cameras from IDS.
· A GUI for changing different grabber properties on the fly is provided.
· Support for OpenCV 2.x was enhanced.
· Plugins can now register callbacks for all widgets.
· The newest versions of all the dependencies are supported.

What's new in iceWing 0.10:

June 9th, 2009

· New CMake based build system (CMakeLists.txt, cmake/, ...).
· pkg-config support.
· Optionally support GTK V2.x, GTK V1.2 is as well still supported. Assume UTF-8 if GTK V2.x is used.
· Renamed the page 'Other' to 'GrabImage1'.
· Added main menu to the main iceWing window; moved 'Quit' and buttons from the 'Other' page to the menu.
· All main menu entries and most of the image context menu items can be remote controlled.
· The planes, which are rendered in image windows (normally 0 or 0, 1, 2) can be freely changed.
· Changed default color space for the "-sp" option to RGB.
· Added 'Close Window' to the image context menus.
· Draw histogram tips in a different color.
Info Window:
· New layout.
· Display of the 'grab' point in the image windows.
· Possibility to average the color across a square area.
· Support pattern matching for setting widgets.
Extended movie support:
· Added support for writing RAW444, RAW420, FFV1, and MPEG4 encoded video files to the main program and the record plugin.
· Allow reading and writing of RAW444 and RAW420 movies without any external dependencies.
· Expand instead of crop MJPEG's to a size divisible by 16.
· Support saving of PNG (JPEG) images, if the source image has more than 4 (3) planes.
· Added display of the icewing.pdf manual to the help menu.
· Support all Latin-1 glyphs for text rendering.
Enhanced plugins page in the "Plugin info" window:
· List all installed plugins.
· Allow to filter the displayed plugins.
· Show plugin name, arguments, and help message.
· Arguments for new plugin instances can be specified.
· Plugins are searched, and can be installed, additionally at ${ICEWING_PLUGIN_PATH}/plugins/ (colon separated variable) and ~/.icewing/plugins/.
· Possibility to specify plugin dependencies ("ident", "ident()", and "ident(plugs)") for plug_observ_data() and plug_observ_data_remove().
· Added native INET sockets based communication protocol to the remotectrl plugin and the icewing-control program.
· Allow to specify mnemonics ('_'), accelerators (''), and stock icons ('') for menus.
· iceWing option "-d" now only disables the process() function.
· New plugin shmdata to distribute data via shared memory and local sockets to other local processes.
Extended record plugin:
· Support saving of >8bit PPM images.
· Support for new movie encodings RAW444, RAW420, FFV1, and MPEG4.
· Use the second thread for movie saving.
· Allow to save images of different plugins in different movie files.
· Do not parse ".gtkrc" (the GTK lib does it already), but parse "~/.icewing/gtkrc".
· The grabber device options can be changed during runtime.
· New bayer decoding method: Adaptive homogeneity-directed interpolation.
· Stereo decoding for 16 bit mono source images.
· Added new MATRIX VISION impact acquire grabbing driver.
Enhanced firewire driver:
· Support format 7 (partial image grabbing modes).
· Support version 2 of the libdc1394 library.
Enhanced V4L2 driver:
· Support resolutions greater than 768 x 576.
· Support printing / setting the video standard.
· Support more camera properties (control class and ones with none continuous IDs).
· noselect option to work around a zoran kernel driver bug.
· Stereo and bayer decoding.
· Support for the MJPEG pixel format.
· Stereo and bayer decoding for the unicap driver.
· Escape closes most of the dialogs.
· New plugins chapter, new program chapter, and more complete index in the documentation.

Bug fixes:
· Ignore all modifier keys besides shift and control for the page select hotkey.
· Fixed possible deadlock if no hotkey for an option page could be found.
· Fixed option parsing for the alpha camera driver.
· Fixed '-x' for the remotectrl plugin.
· Use the quality setting in the record plugin.
· During saving of movies: Crop/Extend frames to the size of the first frame.
· Fixed possible endless loop during reading of a movie if the movie does not start with image number 1.
· Bayer decoding of images with an odd height.

Incompatible changes:
· Renamed the define DEBUG to IW_DEBUG
· Renamed and slightly changed the defines DEFAULT_WIDTH/HEIGHT to IW_PAL_WIDTH/HEIGHT.

What's new in iceWing 0.10 RC1:

April 23rd, 2009

· Gtk+ 2.x support
· Extended grabber support
· Extended movie support
· CMake based build system
· And many more