dbblast (Dust bunny blaster) / News: Recent posts

This release adds support for manually blasting individual dust bunnies, conversion from jpeg to png file format (and vice versa), updated help documentation, and other minor feature additions and bug fixes.

From the CHANGELOG:

REV 0.1.6

Feature additions and enhancements:
1) User specified output directory name. (-o for cmd line version)
2) Add a disable hotpixel processing checkbox, and cmd line switch (-n).
3) Add a hotpixel processing only checkbox for GUI version.
4) Documentation and online help updated.

Bug fixes:
1) Fixed isHotPixel() so that it returns false for a hotpixel that has been interpolated already.
2) Catch exiv2 library exceptions so command line ddblast doesn't get terminated.
3) Fixed widget enable/disable code in settings dialog.
4) Fixed button text and enable/disable code in batchblast dialog.
5) Fixed a long standing Win32 bug where the Load reference dialog broke the modal state of the batchblast dialog. This may actually be a bug in Q3FileDialog::getOpenFileName(). I "fixed" it by using the non static methods.
6) Fixed the Output Directory dialog and the Help Path dialog so they display the correct window titles.

1) Added support for .png (lossless) image file format.
2) Added hotpixel processing.
3) Fixed bug where the hotpixel list wasn't being cleared before it was written.
4) Added -p switch to command line version for hotpixel only processing.
5) Updated help documentation.

1) Optimized the for loops in the interpolation code for
a small but measureable performance increase.
2) Changed the drawing code so that only the rectangle
containing the dust bunny is updated, instead of the
entire canvas.
3) Automatically add missing filename extensions from
the saveas dialogs.
4) Added settings override from the command line.
5) Changed the way color range threshhold is calculated
to make the results linear. Changed the Configure
dbblast dialog to reflect the changes.
6) Added user selectable colors for the bunny marker
circle.
7) Fixed a bug where dbblast didn't exit when no .dbr file
got loaded when running from the command line.

This release fixes a bug where the exif data was lost in the output jpeg files. There are some other fixes and enhancements as well. See the CHANGELOG for details.