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JPEG Saver 5.41
This is a smaller update - I had hoped to get more done, but things turned out to be trickier than I had expected. There are a couple of awkward bugs fixed too.
Revisiting the logo item
I'm not good at naming things, and "logo" doesn't really describe what the item does very well at all. I might rename it to "overlay image" or something more useful in a future version.
The actual change I did make in this version was to add support for loading a logo image from a folder of images instead of just using a single image. This uses a similar method to background images, adding the folder to the database to be scanned at startup.
JPEG Saver 5.40
This is another release that improves things without adding much. It fixes a couple of bugs too.
Better logging
Logging was something that JPEG Saver could do, but it was very limited and inefficient. For this version I have made it more efficient and more capable, so I can actually make more use of it in the future.
Because of this, I have added the existing logging options that were previously only available by editing the config file into the debug dialog. You can set the log file location, enable logging of image/video loading and transitions, and toggle logging altogether.
JPEG Saver 5.39
It's only been a couple of weeks since version 5.38 was released, but version 5.39 fixes some quite annoying bugs and ticks off an item that has been on my to-do list for about two years.
Background information
The background modes that use a folder of images have been getting more and more clunky over the years, and version 5.38 made things worse. I decided the best way to fix it was to address item #618 from my issue tracking software: “Store background images in main database”.*
In previous versions JPEG Saver was scanning the background images folder into a temporary database at each startup. It was slow and inefficient, especially if you had a lot of background images. Version 5.38 made things worse somehow, though I didn't waste any time trying to figure out why and went straight to the long term solution.
JPEG Saver 5.38
Over time I add more and more stuff to JPEG Saver, and it eventually slows things down. So every now and then I have to spend some time speeding things up again. This is one of those versions.
I feel the need…
There are several things I have done in this version to make things run faster. I won't describe them in detail because none of them are very interesting, but the upside is that the initial file scan should be faster and changing between images should be faster. Also, the time JPEG Saver takes to build the file list at the start of each run should be shorter.
No colours anymore
There is one new option in this version, “Greyscale images” on the Position/Resize tab. It makes JPEG Saver display all the foreground images or videos in greyscale. It doesn't affect anything else.
JPEG Saver 5.37
This version is a bit later than I had hoped. I've been trying to find and fix bugs, and one of them is still playing hard to find. I haven't been able to reproduce that one yet, so I thought I should release what I have done now.
So what's new?
I haven't just been fixing bugs, I did manage to add in a couple of new shortcut keys. The first one toggles between displaying only images, only video or both. This only works if video is enabled, but it starts off in video only mode if you have that option selected. The default key binding for this is 'Ctrl-V' - because 'V' is for video and there isn't much pasting in JPEG Saver.