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HotShots Changelog

What's new in HotShots 2.2.0

Aug 18, 2015
  • Restore last selection in region and freehand grabbing
  • Add options to display or not dialog before/after download

New in HotShots 2.1.0 (Feb 15, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Speed up launch time
  • Add option for mouse cursor in snapshot
  • Add User defined action on click/double-click tray icon
  • Editor: add group alignment (vertical/horizontal)
  • Editor: add rescale background image panel
  • Change Windows grabbing code on windows platform
  • Bugs:
  • Editor: correct invalid save/restore position for text item

New in HotShots 2.0.1 (Jan 25, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Enhanced shortcut editor
  • Add portable settings support (--portable option)
  • Add valid debian package files
  • Bugs
  • Correct invalid freehand and region grabbing on linux (multi monitor)

New in HotShots 2.0.0 (Dec 9, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Autostart on linux
  • Add Portuguese translation. Thanks to Vinícius "A. Jorge".
  • Add German translation. Thanks to dbr.
  • Change default location of translation file on linux ("/share/hotshots/locale" instead of "/share/locale")
  • Change some icons (best visual consistency)
  • Add launch editor action in systray menu
  • Editor: ability to set background color for some item type (rectangle, ellipse, text)
  • Editor: add a palette of last used of foreground/background color pair
  • Editor: add last saved/loaded file
  • Editor: add "bring to top/bottom" for selected elements
  • Editor: add "autorepeat" on font size buttons
  • Add MacOSX target
  • Bugs:
  • Editor: add margin to render pixmap (incorrect crop)
  • Editor: correct layout problem on font preview
  • Editor: correct focus problem on text item
  • Editor: correct saved shadow state on some items
  • Editor: correct invalid proposed name for "save as" function
  • Editor: correct text cursor move with keyboard if text item is selected
  • Correct a problem with automatic naming of exported image

New in HotShots 1.2.1 (Aug 30, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Add Romanian translation. Thanks to Jaff.
  • Editor: ESC key force select mode.
  • Editor: add key +/- for zooming
  • Add ability to directly load a file (.hot/image) in editor with command line
  • Bugs:
  • Find the correct path for translation files on linux in some cases
  • Incorrect display on multiple screen configuration in some cases
  • Incorrect display of splashscreen on linux in some cases

New in HotShots 1.2.0 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • some layout changes
  • Editor: add multi selection
  • Editor: ability to select shadow on each item
  • Editor: ability to edit some items (polygon, polyline, curve) more easily
  • Editor: ability to add post-effect to image background
  • Uploader: add a user field to define the output template for FTP uploader
  • Ability to send directly to printer a ducument
  • Add Slovak translation. Thanks to Slavko.
  • Add Turkish translation. Thanks to reis33.
  • Add Russian translation. Thanks to Andrey Maraev.
  • Add Sinhala translation. Thanks to chathu151.
  • Add Serbian translation. Thanks to ozzii.
  • Add Czech translation. Thanks to fri.
  • Add Vietnamese translation. Thanks to ppanhh.
  • Add Basque translation. Thanks to Alexander Gabilondo.
  • Add Spanish translation. Thanks to Manuel Soriano.
  • Add Chinese translation. Thanks to taijuin.
  • Bugs:
  • default location not updated in some case
  • add a message box to clear/update background image if annotation exists
  • can't crop an already cropped image
  • start in tray don't works
  • Blurring don't work on small area
  • Font preview can "disrupt" the editor layout
  • Incorrect post effect after crop
  • incorrect loading of translation file in some cases
  • incorrect list of supported image format list in save dialog

New in HotShots 1.1.1 (May 20, 2013)

  • The ability to force a background color for clipboard/Web copy.
  • The ability to launch an Internet browser when uploading is done.
  • A Polish translation. Some cosmetic changes.
  • An image uploading service (tof.canardpc.com/).
  • External Qxt library on Linux.
  • A fix for an untimely exit when HotShots is minimized.
  • A change to the default style on Linux.
  • Corrects a problem with transparency for clipboard/Web copy.
  • Corrects invalid bounding rectangle when items are outside the background image.

New in HotShots 1.1.0 (May 13, 2013)

  • This version adds direct upload to the Web, a torn edge effect, the ability to remove window decoration, freehand region capture mode, Italian and Japanese translations, the ability to export an annotated image to the clipboard, a curve shape/crop base image/Duplication function, and display of mouse position/scale factor.
  • Bugs fixed: incorrect save/restore of system shortcuts, incorrect backup/restore of some shapes, incorrect .pro definition for install on Linux, incorrect magnifier location for region capture, magnifier can only be defined from top left to bottom right, and bad support for alpha on saved edition (.hot).

New in HotShots 1.0.1 (Apr 24, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Add Lithuanian translation. Thanks to Algimantas Margevicius
  • Bugs:
  • Invalid preprocessor directive for OS/2 platform
  • Invalid signal/slot connection on OS2 platform