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  <title>Vampyre Imaging Library History</title>
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      <title>Vampyre Imaging Library History</title>
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    <par>
      You can find a listing of Imaging versions on this page.
      There is the release date of each version together with
      a short note and a list of the most important changes that were made.
      You can find the change tags explained here
      <link url="#legend">Changes Legend</link>.
    </par>
    
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.26.4 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.26.4 - 11th October 2009</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>APNG</b> file format (Animated PNG) loading, animating, and saving
          added to existing PNG support. 
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Arbitrary angle image rotation. 
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Mac OS X (Intel) compatibility (garbled LCL bitmaps in Carbon, JPEG 2000 support, ...).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>XPM</b> file format saving added, <b>JPEG 2000</b> file format loading 
          improved.  
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+/F]</keyword>
          New canvas methods: premultiply and unpremultiply alpha.
          New methods for TFastARGB32Canvas: InvertColors, DrawAlpha/StretchDrawAlpha.
          Fixed DrawAlpha/StretchDrawAlpha destination alpha calculation.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Three new extensions in <keyword>Extras/Extensions</keyword> directory:
          <ref>ImagingJpegIJL.pas</ref> uses Intel Jpeg Library to load/save Jpegs (DLL needed),
          <ref>ImagingSquishLib.pas</ref> uses Squish DXTC library with Imaging (DLL needed), 
          <ref>ElderImagerySky.pas</ref> loads SKY images from Daggerfall.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Conversions between RGB and YCoCg colorspaces.
        </li>        
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Bug fixes: loading of some GIFs when using D2009+ failed, 
          bugged XPM loading in Linux, indexed images resizing leak, 
          PNM saving using D2009+, DXT3 alpha encoding, RGB>>CMYK conversion, 
          garbled images in Lazarus GTK IDE.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Delphi 2010 and Lazarus 0.9.28 compatibility fixes.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.26.2 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.26.2 - 28th December 2008</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Delphi 2009 and Lazarus 0.9.26 compatibility fixes.
          New project files for Delphi 2009 added. Kylix and CLX 
          stuff removed.  
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New canvas methods: flood and boundary fills, color channel
          fills, color level adjustment, histogram calculation.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Animated <b>GIF</b> support rewritten and it now 
          properly animates all tested GIFs (several thousand, true color ones too). 
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added new <keyword>Extras/Contrib</keyword> directory with 
          Imaging modifications, extensions, demos, etc. contributed 
          by users (now with ExtraGIF, NIF loader, and HqResampler).          
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Changed LINK defined symbols that control which file formats will be
          automatically registered. More in <link url="../Extensions/ExtFileFormats.xml">File Format Extensions</link>
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>PSD</b> images with alpha channel are now saved as layers 
          to get proper transparency when opened in Photoshop.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Changed conditional compilation of <ref>ImagingComponents.pas</ref>
          unit to properly work with LCL widget sets other than
          Win32 and GTK.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Removed linking against libstdc++ library in JPEG 2000 headers in Unix
          (replaced with libc and Pascal functions).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Fixed problem with loading of progressive JPEGs (out of memory) 
          when using FPC Win32.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
     
    <!-- VERSION 00.26.0 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.26.0 - 27th August 2008</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New data formats using 3Dc compression added: <icode>ifATI1N</icode>
          and <icode>ifATI2N</icode>.
          <b>DDS</b> file format updated to be able to load and save
          images in this format.
          <b>OpenGL</b> and <b>Direct3D</b> extensions were updated
          to allow creating textures in these formats.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Canvas class was extended with many new methods and effects.
          They include image drawing with blending (custom blending factors),
          filtered image stretching, nonlinear filters (min, max, median),
          point transforms (contrast, brightness, gamma, threshold), and blended
          rectangle filling.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New unit <ref>ImagingBinary.pas</ref> was added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>
          extensions with morphologic operations on binary images.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>XPM</b> file format loader was added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>
          extensions.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          <b>LCL Imager</b> and <b>Image Browser</b> demos were extended
          with new functionality provided by canvas class (blending, filters,
          morphology, etc.).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Updated <b>OpenJpeg</b> library (JPEG 2000) to version with
          my CDEF patch that saves JP2 files with alpha properly.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Changed some file format loaders/savers to be more thread safe
          so more images can be loaded concurrently..
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Many bugs in library fixed (<b>GIF</b>, <b>BMP</b>, and <b>PNM</b> loaders,
          ConvertSpecial, linear filters, ...).
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.24.2 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.24.2 - 11th December 2007</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Updated <b>OpenJpeg</b> library (JPEG 2000) to latest
          revision and added Imaging JPEG support for 64bit Linux.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Fixed various user reported bugs in file format
          support for <b>GIF</b> and <b>JPEG</b> images.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*/+]</keyword>
          Compatibility changes and project files for new Pascal
          compilers/IDEs: Lazarus 0.9.24 (LCL support update),
          FPC 2.2, RAD Studio 2007 (project files).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          LCL Imager demo updated - operation timing added. Supports
          alpha blending with new Lazarus.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New features added to OpenGL texture builder: skip mipmap levels
          and alternate pow2 texture resizing.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Pascal translation of Hq resampler with Imaging demo added
          to Extras directory.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Some bugs in library fixed.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.24.0 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.24.0 - 27th June 2007</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          Documentation updated to version <b>0.24</b>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>TIFF</b> image file format
          loading and saving added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>.
          Not yet native Object Pascal.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>GIF</b> image file format
          loading and saving added to core library.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New compressed image data format added: <icode>ifBTC</icode>
          (block truncation coding).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Changed headers of some low level interface functions.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>High level</b> interface in <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit
          was slightly extended.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Other library enhancements (color conversions for 16bit channels,
          new buffered file IO, ...).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+/*/F]</keyword>
          Compatibility enhancements (Bitmap saving, JPEG loading,
          DDS loading/saving,
          UNIX compilation, Win64 compilation, FPC compilation, ...).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Many bugs in library fixed.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>Photoshop PSD</b> image file format
          loading and saving added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.22.0 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.22.0 - 25.01.2007</mediumcap>
      <notes>
        For complete list of changes see <keyword>File Notes</keyword>
        section at the end of each source file.
      </notes>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          Documentation updated to version <b>0.22</b>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          Some demos were extended, updated, and some bugs were fixed.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New unit <ref>ImagingColors.pas</ref> added.
          Some color space conversion functions are there now.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*/F]</keyword>
          <b>High level</b> interface in <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit
          was extended and many bugs were fixed there.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>Canvas</b> class was extended. FrameRect, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Line methods
          were added, and you can now specify PenColor, PenMode, and FillMode.
          New convolution kernels were added too.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>JPEG 2000</b> image file format
          loading and saving added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>.
          Not yet native Object Pascal.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>PCX (ZSoft Paintbrush)</b> image file format
          loading added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM, PFM (Portable Maps)</b> image file formats
          loading and saving added.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>Elder Imagery</b> extension added to <keyword>Extras</keyword>
          for loading and saving images from older Bethesda games (Daggerfall mainly).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added new <keyword>Extras</keyword> package (located in
          <keyword>(ImagingRoot)\Extras</keyword> folder)
          with additional extensions, demos, and tools for Imaging.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to the low level interface:
          <ref>EnumFileFormats</ref>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+/*]</keyword>
          Many changes to image file format loader/saver classes
          for easier creation of new formats (old formats were updated
          and some (Bitmap, DDS) have various parts rewritten).
          Some new stuff added (file name masks).
          Also file format enumeration functions were added.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Many bugs in library fixed.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 0.20.0 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 0.20.0 - 30.10.2006</mediumcap>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          New demo <b>VampConvert</b> replaced old <b>DXTTool</b>.
          Demo <b>High Level</b> was removed because other demos
          now use high level interface more.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added new unit <ref>ImagingCanvases.pas</ref> with
          classes for drawing/effects functions added
          (not much functionality here yet).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+/F]</keyword>
          High level interface in <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit
          was extended and several bugs here were fixed.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Imaging now compiles and works on 64bit
          <b>AMD64</b> CPU architecture (tested in Linux).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          VCL/CLX/LCL support in <ref>ImagingComponents.pas</ref> unit
          was extended.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image data formats based on half-float (FP16) type added:
          <icode>ifR16F</icode>, <icode>ifA16R16G16B16F</icode>, <icode>ifA16B16G16R16F</icode>.
          <b>Direct3D</b> and <b>OpenGL</b> extensions now create textures in these formats too.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New low level interface functions:
          <icode>IsFileFormatSupported, GetPixelDirect, SetPixelDirect,
          GetPixel32, SetPixel32, GetPixelFP, SetPixelFP</icode>.
          <icode>GetPixelBytes</icode> was removed (same data can be obtained by
          <icode>GetImageFormatInfo</icode>).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F/*]</keyword>
          Many many bug fixes in many parts of the library as well as some optimizations,
          changes, and tweaks.
        </li>
       </bulletlist>
    </section>
        
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.18 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 00.18 - 25.04.2006</mediumcap>
      <note>Source code is about 620 KiB in size.</note>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          Documentation updated to version <b>0.18</b>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          Demos were extended or updated.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          High level interface in <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit
          was extended.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*/+]</keyword>
          Mipmap generation in library core and
          in <keyword>Direct3D 9</keyword> and <keyword>OpenGL</keyword>
          extensions is now filtered.
          Also <keyword>Direct3D 9</keyword> extension was extended and works
          with D3D surfaces now.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          There was a bug in conversion between Imaging image
          and <icode>TBitmap</icode> in <ref>ImagingComponents.pas</ref>
          unit when using <b>LCL</b> component set (with <b>GTK</b> interface).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Imaging now compiles and works in
          <b>FreeBSD</b> and maybe in other Unixes as well.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to the low level interface:
          <icode>StretchRect</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+/*]</keyword>
          Filtered resizing and stretching implemented. <icode>ResizeImage</icode>
          and other functions now take advantage of it.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>MNG (Multiple Network Graphics)</b> image file format loading and
          saving added. Supports usage of <b>PNG</b> and <b>JNG</b> frames, animation
          capabilities are not used.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>JNG (JPEG Network Graphics)</b> image file format loading and
          saving added. Supports 8 bit gray and 24 bit RGB images with
          optional alpha channel.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*/-]</keyword>
          <b>PNG</b> support moved from <icode>ImagingPng</icode> unit to
          the new <ref>ImagingNetworkGraphics.pas</ref> unit. Old unit was
          removed from Imaging.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New unit <ref>ImagingNetworkGraphics.pas</ref> added for
          future handling of all Network Graphics image formats.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.16 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 00.16 - 22.12.2005</mediumcap>
      <note>Source code is about 535 KiB in size.</note>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          Documentation updated to version <b>0.16</b>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          New demos created: <b>D3D Demo</b>, <b>OpenGL Demo</b> (Object Pascal).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to the low level interface:
          <icode>RotateImage</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          New demos created: <b>SDL Demo</b>, <b>LCL Demo</b> (Object Pascal).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Extension for creating/loading/saving <keyword>Direct3D 9</keyword>
          textures using Imaging added to the new <ref>ImagingDirect3D9.pas</ref> unit.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Extension for creating/loading/saving <keyword>SDL</keyword>
          surfaces using Imaging added to the new <ref>ImagingSDL.pas</ref> unit.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Extension for creating/loading/saving <keyword>OpenGL</keyword>
          textures using Imaging added to the new <ref>ImagingOpenGL.pas</ref> unit.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to the low level interface:
          <icode>ReplaceColor</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <icode>TGraphic</icode> descendant classes which use Imaging
          added for <keyword>VCL</keyword>, <keyword>CLX</keyword> and
          <keyword>LCL</keyword> components sets. They are in the new
          <ref>ImagingComponents.pas</ref> unit.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F*]</keyword>
          Bugs (in 48/64 bit image handling) fixed in
          <b>PNG (Portable Network Graphics)</b> image file format
          handling and support for color keying (if present in image) added.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Headers of some functions exported from Imaging dll/so library were
          changed in <ref>ImagingExport.pas</ref> unit and in the wrappers for
          the other languages.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New options <icode>ImagingLoadOverrideFormat</icode> and
          <icode>ImagingSaveOverrideFormat</icode> added. Also all
          option values are checked for validity before they are used.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>

    
    <!-- VERSION 00.14 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 00.14 - 10.07.2005</mediumcap>
      <note>Source code is about 418 KiB in size.</note>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[D]</keyword>
          Documentation updated to version <b>0.14</b>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          New demos created: <b>High Level</b> (Object Pascal),
          <b>dotNET Demo01</b> (Delphi.NET).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          You can now use Imaging with <b>MPL</b> or <b>LGPL</b> license.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Large changes in <b>Delphi.NET</b> wrapper. Function names and
          parameter types are now almost same as in <b>Object Pascal</b>
          without using dll. Some <b>.NET</b> only things added too.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to low level interface:
          <icode>NewPalette, CopyPalette, FreePalette,
          DetermineFileFormat, DetermineStreamFormat, DetermineMemoryFormat, GetPixelsSize</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Pixel format conversions rewritten to get better color
          quality when converting from low bitcounts to higher
          (visible mainly when using formats like <icode>ifR3G3B2</icode>
          or <icode>ifA4R4G4B4</icode>).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to low level interface:
          <icode>MapImageToPalette, FillRect, SplitImage, MakePaletteForImages</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Basic high level interface created. Classes
          <icode>TSingleImage</icode> and <icode>TMultiImage</icode>
          added to <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to low level interface:
          <icode>CopyRect</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image formats added: <icode>
          ifA16Gray16</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>PNG (Portable Network Graphics)</b> image file format loading and
          saving added. Supports 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48 and 64 bit images.
          1, 2 and 4 bit images can be only loaded.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Various bugs fixed in <icode>Imaging, ImagingBitmap</icode>
          and <icode>ImagingExport</icode> units,
          look there for details.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to low level interface:
          <icode>GenerateMipMaps, TestImagesInArray</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added wrapper unit for <b>Delphi.NET</b>.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.12 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 00.12 - 13.03.2005</mediumcap>
      <note>First version released to the public. Source code size
      was about 250 KiB in size.</note>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          <b>DXTC</b> compression and decompression code optimized
          and it is now about 20% faster.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[T]</keyword>
          <b>VampyreDoc</b> tool for documentation management created.
          It can create <b>XHMTL</b> and <b>HTMLHelp</b> documentation
          from <b>XML</b> based projects.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New field <icode>IsRBSwapped</icode>
          added to <ref>TImageFormatInfo</ref> record.
          It is used in conversions and in channel related functions to
          distinguish between ARGB and ABGR formats.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image formats added: <icode>
          ifA32R32G32B32F, ifA16B16G16R16, ifB16G16R16</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Functions added to low level interface:
          <icode>ReduceColors, GetImageFormatInfo</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Image format conversions between all types of formats are now
          supported (<icode>ChannelToIndex</icode> and
          <icode>FloatToIndex</icode> implemented).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword> Color quantization with support
          for alpha channel (using Median Cut algorithm) added.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[F]</keyword>
          Fixed huge memory leak in <b>Windows Bitmap</b> file format (occurred when
          loading 8bit uncompressed image).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          Demos created: <b>DXT Tool</b> (Object Pascal), <b>Test</b> (C/C++),
          <b>VCL Image Browser</b> (Object Pascal).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[U]</keyword>
          <b>Vampyre Imaging Library</b> project registered at
          <link url="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</link> (03.12.2004).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added <icode>PushOptions</icode> and
          <icode>PopOptions</icode> low level functions for
          pushing and popping Imaging options.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          <icode>SwapChannels</icode> and
          <icode>SwapChannelsOfPalette</icode>
          low level functions extended
          to allow to swap all channels, not only red and blue.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Checked and if necessary added support for special image formats
          (only <b>DXTC</b> images now) in all low level functions. 
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>DXT1, DXT3</b> and <b>DXT5</b> decoding and encoding added. 
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>DDS (DirecDraw Surface)</b> image file format saving added.
          Supports mipmaps, cube maps, volume textures and ordinary images.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[E]</keyword>
          Demos created: <b>Benchmark</b> (Object Pascal/C++).
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.11 -->
    <section>
      <mediumcap>Version 00.11 - 18.11.2004</mediumcap>
      <note>Source code size was about 150 KiB in size.</note>
      <bulletlist>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image format added: <icode>
          ifR32F, ifDXT1, ifDXT3, ifDXT5</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>DDS (DirecDraw Surface)</b> image file format loading added.
          Supports mipmaps, cube maps, volume textures and ordinary images.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image formats added: <icode>
          ifX8R8G8B8, ifX1R5G5B5, ifX4R4G4B4</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Property <icode>SupportedFormats</icode> added to
          <icode>TImageFileFormat</icode> class.
          It is set of <icode>TImageFormat</icode> values
          which can be saved by this file format. Also
          <icode>MakeCompatible</icode> method was added.
          It converts unsupported formats to supported before saving.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[*]</keyword>
          Made <b>PasZLib</b> library compatible with all compilers and platforms
          supported by Imaging (needed for PNG support).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New low level functions for palette support added: <icode>
          FindColor, FillGrayscalePalette, FillCustomPalette, SwapChannelsOfPalette</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added import unit and header for Object Pascal and C/C++ to
          enable using Imaging library compiled into dynamic link library (<b>dll/so</b>).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>BMP (Windows Bitmap)</b> image file format loading and saving added.
          Supports 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit images with or without RLE compression.
          1 and 4 bit images can be only loaded.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added support for function inlining in <b>Delphi 2005</b> (although not tested yet)
          and <b>Free Pascal</b> (although compiler crashes on this now).
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New image formats added: <icode>
          ifA8Gray8, ifR3G3B2, ifR1G1B1</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          New low level functions added: <icode>
          ConvertImage, FlipImage, MirrorImage, SwapChannels, CloneImage,
          FreeImagesInArray, ResizeImage</icode>.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          Added image format conversion engine which will support all
          members of <icode>TImageFormat</icode>.
          Some indexed and special format conversions are not implemented yet.
        </li>
        <li>
          <keyword>[+]</keyword>
          <b>TGA (Truevision Targa)</b> image file format loading and saving added.
          Supports 8, 15/16, 24 and 32 bit images with or without RLE compression.
        </li>
      </bulletlist>
    </section>
    
    <!-- VERSION 00.10 -->  
    <section>
    <mediumcap>Version 00.10 - 23.09.2004</mediumcap>
    <note>First working version. Source code size was about 80 KiB in size.</note>
    <bulletlist>
      <li>
        <keyword>[+]</keyword>
        <b>JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)</b> image file format loading and saving added.
        Supports 8 and 24 bit images.
      </li>
      <li>
        <keyword>[*]</keyword>
        Made <b>PasJpeg</b> library compatible with all compilers and platforms
        supported by Imaging.
      </li>
      <li>
        <keyword>[+]</keyword>
        Initial low level functions added: <icode>
        InitImage, NewImage, TestImage, FreeImage,
        LoadImageFromFile, LoadImageFromStream, LoadImageFromMemory,
        LoadMultiImageFromFile, LoadMultiImageFromStream, LoadMultiImageFromMemory,
        SaveImageToFile, SaveImageToStream, SaveImageToMemory, SaveMultiImageToFile,
        SaveMultiImageToStream, SaveMultiImageToMemory, SetOption, GetOption,
        SetUserFileIO, ResetFileIO, GetPixelBytes</icode>.
      </li>
      <li>
        <keyword>[+]</keyword>
        Initial image formats added: <icode>
        ifUnknown, ifDefault, ifIndex8, ifGray8, ifGray16, ifGray32,
        ifGray64, ifR5G6B5, ifA1R5G5B5, ifA4R4G4B4, ifR8G8B8,  ifA8R8G8B8,
        ifR16G16B16, ifA16R16G16B16, ifA32B32G32R32F</icode>.
      </li>
      <li>
        <keyword>[*]</keyword>
        Basic structure of library created.
      </li>
      <li>
        <keyword>[U]</keyword>
        <b>Vampyre Imaging Library</b> project started (about 08.09.2004).
      </li>
    </bulletlist>
    </section>
    <br /><br />
    <anchor name="legend"><scap>Changes Legend</scap></anchor>
    <list>
      <li><keyword>[+]</keyword> Addition (new features, functions etc.)</li>
      <li><keyword>[-]</keyword> Removal (old features, functions etc.)</li>
      <li><keyword>[*]</keyword> Change (existing features, functions etc. changed or extended)</li>
      <li><keyword>[F]</keyword> Bug fix</li>
      <li><keyword>[D]</keyword> Documentation related</li>
      <li><keyword>[E]</keyword> Examples and demos related</li>
      <li><keyword>[T]</keyword> Tools related</li>
      <li><keyword>[U]</keyword> Unique event</li>
    </list>  
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