11/04/2024: Version 2.7.1 build 1038 - Improved the full screen color display system in order to make it more logical. - Added the possibility to change the speed of the animation of the auto hue variation. - It is now possible to select the orientation (horizontal or vertical) of the gradients in full screen. - A hint can be displayed in the color bar, indicating that a double-click allows to display the color(s) in full screen. This function can be disabled if you want. - Added a new section "Keyboard controls" in the help. It is possible to directly access it by pressing a key when the context help mode is activated. - Added the possibility to load 3 built in color sets: the colors present on the first color graphic boards available for the IBM PC compatible computers (CGA and EGA), as well as the color set which is loaded on WColConv first run. - Added an item (Keyboard controls) and moved another one (Questions) in the help menu. - When the version history is visible, the spacebar which allows to start or stop the animation has no more effect. - In the "Current color" button of the "Compare colors" function, the value shown in the hint could have been in the wrong mode (decimal / hexadecimal) if the mode had just been changed. ________________________________________________ 01/01/2024: Version 2.6.1 build 1036 - When the complementary color is enabled, some markers show its position on all the sliders of the main panel. It is possible to disable these markers if you don't want to see them. - Corrected the moving directions of the main panel and color temperature panel sliders induced by some of the keyboard keys. ________________________________________________ 10/04/2023: Version 2.5.1 build 1035 - Added an option allowing to make the Hue component automatically vary. When this variation is activated, an animation of the current color or of a gradient between the current color and the complementary color can be viewed in full screen. - The "Files - Apply default parameters" function doesn't reset the name of the folder containing the color set files to its default value anymore. - Improved a few help items and added a new FAQ item. ________________________________________________ 07/10/2023: Version 2.4.2 build 1034 - The complementary color is now also visible in capture mode. - Improved the stability of the sliders and component values displays when directly selecting the basic colors by clicking on the boxes located above the component values. - Corrected a help item. ________________________________________________ 06/21/2023: Version 2.4.1 build 1033 - It is now possible to see the color complementary to the current color and to select it as the current color. - In the previous versions, when loading a color, the position of one of the C, M or Y sliders was not correct. A click on one of the C, M, Y or K sliders then caused a sudden change of the current color to make it match the position of the sliders. This problem is now corrected. - In the previous versions, when a change of the current color was made by clicking on a component display above the sliders, the gradients located above the T and S sliders could briefly blink. It is not the case anymore. ________________________________________________ 04/10/2023: Version 2.3.1 build 1032 - The "Random colors enabled" status is now memorized in the color set when using the "Save color set to file" feature. For this reason, it is not reset when using "Apply default parameters". - The color type used by the random color generator is now displayed on the button. In the previous versions it was visible as a hint. - In the FAQ illustration showing the various color types, the caption for the gray shades is no longer "Grays" but "8 bits" or "4 bits" depending on the selected mode. - Some new colors have been added to thoses preloaded in the color manager on WColConv first run or after using "Files - Exit and reset parameters". - Adjusted the rainbow colors in the About panel and in the preloaded colors. - Added details in the help and a new FAQ item. - In some previous versions, after a modal panel had been displayed while the random colors were disabled the button was not disabled anymore and the program crashed if you clicked on it. The button is now disabled in this case. - In the previous versions, when saving the color set to a file an irrelevant default filename was sometimes proposed. It is not the case anymore. - Corrected the text of a FAQ item. ________________________________________________ 01/19/2023: Version 2.2.2 build 1031 - A small error had slipped into the previous version: for the "Display scaling" configuration option, it was mentioned that 5 buttons allowed to directly adjust the values to those offered by Windows 10, i.e. 100%, 125%, 150%, 175% and 200%. In fact, Windows 10 only offers the first 4 of these values. The button corresponding to 200% has therefore been removed from WColConv. ________________________________________________ 01/01/2023: Version 2.2.1 build 1030 - For the color comparison, it is now possible to select the current color in addition to the saved colors. - The "Copy to clipboard" function can now be executed with , as well as with the toolbar button. - While in capture mode, it is now possible to capture the color with the key, as well as with the key. - On WColConv first run, or after using "Files - Exit and reset parameters", the color manager is not empty anymore; now it contains some colors. On the other hand, the initial current color in no longueur gray, in order to prevent the value of H from being undetermined and the value of S blocked at 0. - When using the "Files - Exit and reset parameters" function, after the confirmation another dialog box appears, asking if the user wants to delete the \WColconv folder. In the previous versions, the confirmation buttons of these two boxes were at the same location, which means a double- click made by mistake caused the deletion of the folder. From this version, there is a vertical offset between the two dialog boxes. It is now necessary to move the mouse in order to confirm the folder deletion. - Added a ruler showing the colors in the "Color temperature" panel. - Added an option allowing to simultaneously run several instances of the program. - In the previous versions, the context help was not available for controls that were disabled (some menu items and RGB color lock). It is now. - Reorganized a part of the help in a more logical way by grouping the functions that can be accessed by toolbar buttons only. - In the previous versions including the "Load web color" feature of the color manager (from 1.3.1), the context help could point to the help for the "Random colors" button which is not visible on this panel. It is not the case anymore. - From version 2.0.1, the context help for the "Random colors" button in the color manager wasn't working properly. It is working now. - In the previous versions, the toolbar buttons went up when their context help was called while they were down (their function was active). The problem is fixed in this version. - Fixed an issue with toolbar button transparency. In previous versions, if the background color of forms and buttons was different from the Windows 10 default, the button icons were not displayed correctly. This is no longer the case since this version. - In the previous versions, the color capture feature could not work correctly in some cases (the color captured did not correspond to the position of the mouse pointer). This was caused by a Windows tweak and WColConv could not fix this error. Now it is possible to achieve correct operation by using the new "Display scaling" configuration option. - From version 2.0.1, when capture mode was activated the cursor was positioned in the color bar. The color was therefore undetermined and changed each time. Now the cursor is positioned outside the color bar. - From version 1.7.1, when the language was changed the thousand separator in the color boxes of the color manager which mentioned a color name and temperature didn't change. This has been fixed. - From version 2.0.1, "Files - Exit and reset parameters" didn't terminate the application if the color manager was open. This is now fixed. - Fixed the help display width numeric editor which allowed more characters to be entered than its width allowed. - Correction of small errors in the text of the FAQ. _________________________________________________ 06/06/2022: Version 2.1.2 build 1028 - In the "Load web color" panel, the hint of the color boxes can now display the color components in addition to the color name. - Moved the popup which is displayed when saving and loading a color set so that it is better centered. - Moved a text in the version history. - In the previous versions, when moving the K slider, the H and S sliders could briefly move in an erroneous manner and when moving the V slider, the C, M and Y sliders could also briefly move in an erroneous manner. It is not the case in this version anymore. - In the previous version, when loading a color set, if the spacebar was pressed when the small view of the color set of the popup was visible and you clicked outside the application before releasing the spacebar, the popup coudn't close anymore. In order to regain control of WColConv, it was necessary to click on the popup or press a key after clicking anywhere in WColConv. Now, when a click occurs outside the application, the popup closes. - In the previous versions, the name of the "PaleGoldenRod" color was displayed in an erroneous manner. This error is now corrected. _________________________________________________ 04/29/2022: Version 2.1.1 build 1027 - At startup, WColConv is now always fully visible. - After a capture, WColConv panel will be at the same position as before, even if the capture panel has been moved. - The popup that is displayed when saving and loading a color set doesn't have a title bar anymore and can be closed before the automatic closing delay by clicking on it or by pressing any key. If the key is the spacebar, the popup will remain displayed until the key is released, but only if the small view of the color set is visible. - It is now possible to specify in what case the small view of the color set is displayed in this popup. - The gradients located on top of the S and V sliders now show the color matching the H slider position. If the value of S is 0, its gradient is no more visible and the one for V shows the white. In the previous versions they always showed the red color. - In the previous version, when clicking on the vertical gradient of the H slider when the value of S was 0, the slider didn't go to the correct position. This issue has been removed in this version. _________________________________________________ 01/01/2022: Version 2.0.1 build 1026 - Added a toolbar. Some buttons correspond to submenu items and others replace items of the menu. - Selecting the color manager panel which is the one already selected closes the manager. - When the version history is displayed or in capture mode, a click on the Windows close button returns to the previous state (main panel or one of the color manager panels). If this click occurs while one of the color manager panels is displayed, it returns to the main panel. In the previous versions it always terminated the the program. - Added the possibility to save the color set of the color manager into files. - The "Configuration - Gradient in color comparison" menu item causes a color gradient between the two compared colors to be displayed in the lower part of the panel showing the comparison result. A double-click on this gradient allows to display it in full screen. In this mode, a mouse click or a press of any key returns to the comparison result display. - When using the "Delete all colors" and "Delete random colors" functions of the color manager, the confirmation dialog box will no more appear if there are no colors in the chosen zone. - Modified texts in some dialog boxes. - Adjusted the position of some texts in the color bar. - The random color generator can now generate 16,777,216 different colors whereas in previous versions it could only generate 16,777,215 (have any of you noticed this limitation?). - It is now possible to chose the type of the colors created by the random color generateur between 24 bits (as in the previous versions), 12 bits and 256 shades of gray. - From version 1.3.1, if the capture mode was deactivated by clicking on the "or to end capture" text, after returning to the standard mode the color of the color bar was wrong and didn't match the positions of the sliders. This has been corrected in this version. - In the previous versions, if the exit from the full screen color display while in the comparison result panel was done with a double click, an unwanted action could occur. It is not the case anymore. _________________________________________________ 05.25.2021: Version 1.7.1 build 1024 - In the color manager, if a box holds a color which has a name and which matches a color temperature, the temperature of this color is now displayed under the "N". - Added some details in the help window. - In the help window, the links to a website are now underlined. - The default width for the help window is now 800 pixels (it was 1000 pixels in the previous two versions). - In the help window, the help and the FAQ are now displayed on backgrounds of different colors. - Made the accesses to the help and FAQ more consistent: now, the key opens or closes the help window while the "Help..." and "FAQ..." menu items open the help window if it is not already open and position the display respectively at the beginning of the help and at the beginning of the "Questions and answers" section. These two menu items never close the help window. - Added two buttons in the help window allowing to directly jump to the beginning of the help and to the beginning of the FAQ. - The context help for the color spaces graphic representation is now available. - In the previous versions, if the help window display width was different from its default value, the help was not always properly displayed after executing "Files - Apply default parameters". It is not the case anymore. _____________________________________________________ 03.02.2021: Version 1.6.2 build 1023 - Corrected the caption of a menu item. - In the previous version, if the exit from the full screen color display was done with a double click, an unwanted action could occur. It is not the case anymore. _____________________________________________________ 01/01/2021: Version 1.6.1 build 1022 - Added a menu item in the configuration allowing to modify the width of the help window between 640 pixels and the desktop width. In the previous versions, this width was 800 pixels and now the default value is 1000 pixels. - A double-click in the color bar now displays the selected color in full screen. - The "Apply default parameters" function doesn't initialize the RGB components lock status anymore. - The mouse cursor is now the default cursor for all the buttons and sliders. In the previous versions it was the hand cursor for some of these controls. - Added a new item in the FAQ. - When using the "Apply default parameters" function, the current color and its name are not reset, which is correct, but in the previous versions its color temperature was cancelled. It is not the case anymore. - In the previous versions, if some RGB components were locked at program shutdown, when restarting they were locked only if there were two. Now they are also locked at startup if all three of them were locked before. ______________________________________________________ 11/24/2020: Version 1.5.1 build 1021 - Added a text search feature in the help window. - It is now possible to move in the help window by using the , , , , and keys. - Corrected the text of a help item. ______________________________________________________ 06/29/2020: Version 1.4.1 build 1020 - Added an option allowing to disable the "Random colors" feature. - It is now also possible to switch into and out of context help mode by pressing the key. - In the previous versions, when the "Show color name" option was checked, the name in the color bar was not updated when the current color was changed if the "Show color value" option was not checked. This issue is now corrected. ______________________________________________________ 03/29/2020: Version 1.3.2 build 1019 - After copying a color identification to the clipboard from one of the color manager panels, the mouse cursor goes back to the location where it was when right clicking. - In the color manager panels, if the screen saver triggering occured while the clipboard copy dialog box was open, after the screen saver stops the dialog box is still open, which was not the case in the previous version. - In the previous version, if the format selection for the clipboard copy from one of the color manager panels was done with a double click on a button, an unwanted action on a color box could occur. It is not the case anymore. ______________________________________________________ 02/20/2020: Version 1.3.1 build 1018 - Added a new submenu in the "Color manager" menu, giving the possibility to select a color among the 139 identified by a name in the web browsers. - Added a "Copy" menu allowing to copy to the clipboard the current color identification in various formats, in order to use it in a HTML page or a program. - In the color manager panels, a right click in a box allows to copy its color identification to the clipboard. - The color temperature, if available, is now always displayed in the color manager boxes, regardless of the "Show color temperature" setting. This menu item now only affects the color temperature display in the color bar. - It is now also possible to deactivate the capture mode by clicking on the "or to end capture" text. - Improved the help by adding an explanation of the HSV color space as well as several new items in the FAQ. - Added separators between the versions in the history. - In the previous version, if the language was changed while in the color manager "Load color" panel, the "Load color" text at the panel bottom disappeared. This issue doesn't exist in this version anymore. - In the previous versions, a double-click on one of the color manager boxes could operate a control in the main panel when the manager closed. It is not the case anymore. - In the previous versions, if the language was set to English, the text at the panel bottom was "Compare couleurs" instead of "Compare colors". This has been corrected in this version. - Corrected a few minor errors in the help. ______________________________________________________ 01/01/2020: Version 1.2.1 build 1015 - Added the possibility to lock together two or the three RGB components in order to link their sliders. - Added a new submenu in the "Color manager" menu, giving the possibility to display a color by specifying its color temperature. - From version 1.0.2, at program startup one of the C, M or Y sliders was sometimes wrongly positioned at 0. This problem is corrected in this version. ______________________________________________________ 07/31/2019: Version 1.1.2 build 1014 - In the "Configuration" menu, "Show capture area when no focus" has been replaced by "Hide capture area when no focus", disabled by default. - When in capture mode, WColConv window stays on top of other windows. This allows capturing colors from an application running in full screen mode. - Instead of using a space as the thousand separator, the color value display now uses a comma if the selected language is English or an apostrophe if it is French. - In capture mode, all the menus except the "Capture" menu are grayed out. - In capture mode, when WColConv doesn't have the focus, the "Press to capture color or to end capture" text is grayed out. - When applying the default parameters, the mouse wheel increment in the help is now reset and the selected color is not reset anymore. - Added the possibility to display WColConv version history thanks to the "Help - Version history" menu item. - When clicking on the color comparison result panel after activating the context help, nothing was displayed. Now, in this case, the help for "Compare colors" is displayed. - The context help for the "Random colors" button is now available. - In the previous versions, when the help was displayed, a click on the main panel (if a part of it was visible) didn't bring it to the top of the help. Now, when the main panel has the focus, it is completely visible on top of the help. - Added an item in the "Questions and answers" section of the help. - Improved a few help texts. ______________________________________________________ 06/20/2019: Version 1.1.1 build 1013 - The "Files - Color manager" submenu has been moved and is now a base menu. - Each item in the file manager submenu is now checked while its function is active. - Added a color comparison feature in the file manager. This feature uses the L*a*b* CIE color space. - Added the "Delete all colors" function in the file manager. - The context help for the file manager now points to the help of the various items of the menu and no more to the manager main menu. - In the capture panel, added the mouse cursor coordinates display, as well as small bargraphs showing the level of each of the color components. - Added the optional color value display in the color bar. - Added an item in the "Help" menu allowing connection to the WColConv webpage. - After cancelling saved colors changes while a color manager function was active, the mouse cursor was sometimes wrong in some boxes. This issue has been corrected. ______________________________________________________ 04/19/2019: Version 1.0.3 build 1009 - Correction of a S cursor lock issue after it had been moved to 0 and then to a higher value right after while "Real time RGB feedback" was enabled. ______________________________________________________ 04/18/2019: Version 1.0.2 build 1008 - Correction of a RGB cursors move issue after ending a modification in the CMYK color space. ______________________________________________________ 04/16/2019: Version 1.0.1 build 1007 - First published version.