Northeast Data Corp.

Version 1.1  March 1995
First commercial release.

Version 1.2  June 1995

Fixed problems with display of images in reports. Incorrect border painting occluded images on some display adapters.
Fixed problem with scrollbars property not allowing removal of scroll bars from the image window.
Fixed problem with incorrect border painting with images rotated 90 and 270 degrees.
Changed Access demo app to use the Print event instead of the Format event to set the file property on the control. This eliminates unnecessary reloading of images that are not visible.
Fixed problem in Access app that caused two zooms to occur when the zoom in button was pressed.

Version 1.3  December 1995

Fixed problem with calculation of number of image colors. This corrects problems with some printers printing color images in black & white.
Added Colors, ImageWidth, and ImageHeight properties.

Version 2.0  January 1996

Fixed a problem with the screen HDC not being released. This caused crashes in Windows V3.1.
Added a VB 4.0 16-bit demo application.
Added a Save function to the MS Access demo application.

Version 2.3  March 1996

Fixed a problem with Access crashing under Win '95.  Removed support for PIW file format - obsolete.

Version 2.4  March 1997

Added error trapping for image file load errors.
Added PrintBorderWidth property.
If no rectangle has been selected with the right mouse button, the entire image is saved to the clipboard.

Version 3.0 - December 1997

Converts PCD images to same format as all other file types. All functions previously available for non-PCD images now operate on PCD images.
Added Scale-to-gray property. This enhances bitonal images for improved appearance on display and print.
Added rectangle properties for specifying source and destination rectangles for printing. This allows the application to control exactly what part of an image is printed and where it is positioned on the paper.
Added PrintComplete event to allow application to render its own information to the current printed page.
Added SelectionRectangle event to allow application to know when and where a selection rectangle has been drawn. This allows the application to do such things as printing a selection drawn by the user.
Fixed several minor problems in zooming and scaling.
Added double-buffering of images. This greatly improves scaling performance.
Updated demo application to demonstrate new properties and events.

 

 

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Northeast Data Corp.
12405 Herdon Court
Charlotte, NC  28277

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