File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: OpenLayer 1.8
Notes:
Changes: - Added support for Bitmap blending effects (Thanks to Krzysztof Kluczek for the idea of the system) - New blending effect: Tinted blitting (Thanks to Krzysztof Kluczek for the idea) - Automated the loading and destruction of global Bitmaps and TextRenderers (No more "you have to wait until the screen is set up") - Ability to enable automated garbage collecting for dynamically allocated Bitmaps and TextRenderers - Screen has been renamed to Transforms to avoid naming collisions (Thanks to imaxcs for pointing out) - New Transforms -effect: SetColorChannels - sets the strength of the output color channels - Fixed the color conversion issue which disabled the alpha channel with other color depths than 32 - Finally an offline version of the manual is included! - Code has been separated to class-specific header and source files to increase maintainability - Several other minor fixes and tweaks
