VariIcons Revolve Release Notes
VariIcons Revolve is completely re-written based on the
code of VariIcons Reload. There are major changes in the
using paradigm.
Main Features:
-Tabbed UI, multiple documents of multiple types can be opened at the same time
-PluginSDK, new file formats can be added in later versions
-Advanced Gradient Editor. It follows the guidelines of Adobe Photoshop
Gradient editing und supports saving and loading gradients in xml format.
A Adobe Gradient reading plugin is in planning.
-Advanced Color Picker. It follows the color conversion and picking models
of Adobe Photoshop and supports RGB,HSL,La*b* and Hexcode color picking along
with picking from screen and copying colors to clipboard
-Gradient style and transform for linear, radial and angled gradients. more gradient
shapes will be added in feature versions
-Reworked Tools, tool options now reside inside a config toolbar on top
-Edit control for icon frames with configurable checker background and autozoom
-Full support for 32bpp, 24bpp, and indexed icon frames up to 256x256 pixels
-Integrated icon library extractor for stripping icons from exe and dll files
-Exporting icon frames as jpg, bmp, png and many more formats
-Importing and cropping frames from much larger images
-Batch creating icon from image list, for pre-designed icons
-intutive shape construction and painting tools
-now completely localized for english, and partly for german. localization
will be completed later.
As already said, the project is completely rewritten and therefore beta state again.
some features have been temporarily disabled or removed, and will come back in a few
weeks, as well as some groundbreaking new features.
Until then, have fun testing the public beta and feel free to report bugs in the
forum, or download the code and provide the project with translations.
And stay tuned for awesome new features!
Sincerely,
Julian Ott
VariSoft CEO
