What's new in BeeRef 0.3.3
May 7, 2024
- ADDED:
- Moving the window from within BeeRef now changes to a diffent cursor from the default arrow cursor.
- Added a color sampler which can copy colors from images to the clipboard in hex format (Images -> Sample Color)
- Added notification when attempting to paste from an empty or unusable clipboard
- Added panning via scrollwheel:
- ** Scroll wheel + Shift + Ctrl: pan vertically
- ** Scroll wheel + Shift: pan horizontally
- Make mouse and mouse wheel controls configurable (Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse)
- FIXED:
- Fixed a crash when pressing the keyboard shortcut for New Scene while in the process of doing a rubberband selection.
- The checkmark of the menu entry Images -> Grayscale is now updating correctly depending on the selected images.
- Removed black line under marching ants outline of crop mode, which would scale with the image and get potentially very thick.
- Fixed a crash when importing images with unsupported exif orientation info
- Fixed threading issue when importing images (causing potential hangs/weird behaviour)
- Fixed an intermittent crash when invoking New Scene
- Fixed bee files hanging on to disk space of deleted images (issue #99)
- Fixed Drag @ Drop from pinterest feed (by Randommist)
- Fixed pasted items being inserted behind existing items
New in BeeRef 0.3.3 Alpha (Apr 28, 2024)
- Known issues:
- On Linux that's running Wayland < 1.19.91, starting BeeRef results in an undefined symbol: wl_proxy_marshal_flags error. This is an issue with QT happens regardless of using an appimage, the previous packaged PYInstaler executables, or executing the Python code directly.
- Workaround:
- QTA_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb ./BeeRef-x.x
New in BeeRef 0.3.2 (Jan 21, 2024)
- Added:
- For arranging, a gap between images can now be configured in the settings.
- The opacity of images can be changed (Images -> Change Opacity).
- Images can be set to display as grayscale (Images -> Grayscale).
- The scene can now also be exported as SVG
- Keyboard shortcuts can now be edited from within BeeRef (Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts). The KeyboardSettings.ini file will now only store values which are changed from the default, since it's no longer needed as a reference.
- Settings dialog now displays icons to indicate changes from default values
- Fixed:
- Scene Export: Fix output image size and margins when scene had been scaled or moved.
- Scene Export: Selecting filename without file extension now automatically appends the extension from the selected filter instead
- of resulting in a confusing error message.
- The exemption from antialias/smoothing for images displayed at large zoom now also works on images that are flipped horizontally
- Changed:
- Improved performance of Select All/Deselect All
New in BeeRef 0.3.1 (Dec 11, 2023)
- Added:
- Images can now be stored JPG or PNG inside the bee file. By default, small images and images with an alpha channel will be stored as PNG, the rest as JPG. In the newly created settings dialog, this behaviour can be changed to always use PNG (the former behaviour) or always JPG. To apply this behaviour to already saved images in existing bee files, you can save them as new files.
- Enabled antialiasing/smoothing. Images that are being displayed at a large zoom factor are exempt to make sure that icons, pixel sprites
- etc can be viewed correctly.
- A scene can now be exported to a single image (File -> Export Scene...)
- Alternative way to move the BeeRef window without the title bar: View -> Move Window (or press "M")
- Changed:
- Editing of text items will now be undoable after leaving edit mode
- Empty text items will be deleted after leaving edit mode
- Text edit mode can now be aborted with Escape
- "Save as" will now open pre-select the folder of the currently opened file
- "Save" and "Save as" are now inactive when the scene is empty
- Fixed:
- Fixed a bug where the binary data of deleted images would still hang around in the bee file.
- The shortcut to move the BeeRef window (Ctrl + Alt + Drag) now works on an empty scene
- Crash when copying an item from a bee file, opening a new scene and pasting the image into it.
New in BeeRef 0.3.0 (Nov 27, 2023)
- ADDED:
- Image cropping (Go to "Transform -> Crop", or press Shift + C)
- Show list of recent files on welcome screen
- Keyboard shortcuts can now be configured via a settings file. Go to "Settings -> Open Settings Folder" and edit KeyboardSettings.ini
- Remember window geometry when closing (by David Andrs)
- FIXED:
- Various typos (by luzpaz)
- Ensure that small items always have an area in the middle for
- moving/editing that doesn't trigger transform actions
- Ensure that the first click to select an item doesn't immediately trigger
- transform actions
New in BeeRef 0.2.0 (Aug 24, 2022)
- Added:
- You can now add plain text notes and paste text from the clipboard
- You can now open bee files from finder on MacOS (by David Andrs)
- Dragging bee files onto an empty scene will now open them
- Adding the first image(s) to a new scene centers the view
- Changed:
- Make debug log file less verbose
- The program is now bundled as a single executable file (issue #4)
- Fixed:
- Hovering over the scale handles of very narrow items now displays
- correct cursor orientation
- Fix a rare crash while displaying selection handles