The following improvements have been made to Jovian (Project Poutine): Oct. 14 2010 v. 2.0.12 -The Library's C button, used for clearing the search results, has been changed to say Clear. -The Library's Auto Search feature has been changed slightly. In addition to the check box which enables the feature, there's now a drop-down menu which lets you change from Auto Search (which searches when you release the mouse), to Live Search (which searches as the color is being adjusted). -I've re-written the keyboard handler in the Pick From Image window, Alt+Space now works correctly. I've also made the E and R keys shortcuts to the Even and Random distribution methods. -The Pick From Image window now supports a marquee selection (tied to the M key). When the marquee is set, the Even and Randomly placed markers will be placed only inside the marquee. Double-tapping M or hitting Alt+D will remove the marquee. Oct. 8 2010 v. 2.0.10 -Fixed a bug in the Auto Screen Picking, the previous code was affected by the width of the window's frame. A wider than (XP's) normal frame width caused the Screen Picker to intermittently not auto activate. The new code uses a different piece of data that isn't affected by the window's frame width. -Fixed two minor bugs in the Library. Some new features have been also added: Holding Ctrl while dragging-n-dropping a Library entry now copies the entry (and any children if it's a folder) into the new location instead of moving the entry. -The Web button has been changed from simply a button to a checkbox and button. The button is still used to choose between Web Safe and Web Smart Color, but now the checkbox is used to switch between the normal and selected Web palette. -Holding the Alt key and clicking on a Mixer slot will make that slot's assigned color the current color, holding Alt+Shift will make the slot's mixed color (the background color of that slot) the current color. The Mixer's switch button's tooltip has been updated to show these new shortcuts. -When the Library is open there is now a checkbox below the Close Library button named Auto Color Search. When enabled, a Color Matching Search will be performed whenever the color is changed (and the mouse button is released). This feature works when changing the color using one of these controls: the main color area, the vertical slider, the Color Wheel, the Color Palette and the Color Mixer. Clicking the Current Color swatch will still perform a Color Matching Search just as before. Oct. 6 2010 v. 2.0.9 -Several changes have been made to the Pick From Image window, such as: -The maximum sample count has been increased from 10 to 200, some minor changes have been made to the layout of the controls to accommodate the much bigger Sample Strip. -Sample Markers can now be re-positioned by simply moving the cursor over the marker and, when the marker turns red, then click and drag the marker to the new position. -Zooming into and out of the image can be done by holding Ctrl+Spacebar then clicking dragging to the left to zoom out and to the right to zoom into the spot that's been clicked. Alt+Spacebar can also be used for this feature but because of an issue with Qt and Windows you have to press and hold the Spacebar first and then hold Alt. This will hopefully be fixed in a later version. -To allow for this new zooming feature, the way the image is displayed had to be adjusted. Thus image is no longer locked to the top left of the viewing area. -Zooming now goes up to 3200% -Two new Sample Sizes have been added to both Pick From Image and Pick From Screen, they are 7x7 and 9x9 Average. -A new feature as been added called Auto Screen Picking (enabled by default). When the cursor leaves the Jovian window via the left or right side of the window, the Pick From Screen tool will be activated, when it returns to inside the Jovian window it will be turned off again. The Pick From Screen button can still be used to explicitly activate the tool. -The choice of RGB or RYB in the Color Wheel is now saved to the config file and restored when starting. -Two keyboard shortcuts have been added to the Custom Complement type. Holding Ctrl and clicking on a handle will remove it. Holding Alt and clicking the wheel will add a new handle at that location. Jun. 30 2010 v. 2.0.8 -The internals of the Color Wheel have been re-written to allow for two new features. -The first new feature is the addition of the RYB color model to the wheel, previously the wheel was just RGB. Red, Green and Blue is the color wheel commonly used on computers since they usually deal with RGB values. Whereas Red, Yellow and Blue is the color wheel used by traditional artists since RYB are the pigment primaries. Switching between the two modes is done by clicking the new little icon in the Color Wheel's top-left corner. When in RYB mode, the Color Wheel also includes a segmented color wheel inset inside the normal wheel. The colors in this inner wheel are similar to those that would be found on a painters color wheel. Holding Shift while moving in the color wheel will lock the current color's handle to the center or edge of each segment. -The second new feature is the addition of a Custom complement type. When Custom is selected, you can move each complement handle independent of each other by simply clicking and dragging it around. Switching to the Custom mode will copy the handle locations from the previously selected complement type (when there aren't any custom handles already added). Up to 11 complement handles can be added. Clicking the Remove button will remove the handle that was moved last. Custom Complement handle setups can be stored and recalled using the Preset button. -Doing a Color Match no longer requires that the Library be opened first. Now you can simply click the Current Color swatch and the Library will open up with the Color Match results. -When over-writing a .jcl file, Jovian now writes the data to a temp file instead of directly over the existing file. This is to prevent data loss should anything happen while saving the data. After successfully saving to the temp file, the file names are swapped and then the old file is removed. -When trying to perform an un-supported action in the Library, like adding a folder when nothing is selected. Instead of just nothing happening, the bottom of the Library will display an info message. -This release also includes a change in the documentation. The .pdf file is being dropped in favor of browser-based documentation. This new documentation has also been updated to reflect the changes made in this (and the previous) release. Apr. 16 2009 v. 2.0.7 -The Wavelength scale can now be shown in two different directions, the new (and default) direction has low end (380) on the left and value increase to right. The Options panel includes a new setting for changing the direction back to the old direction, 780 down to 380. Using the new direction makes value changes more consistent when using the Wave mini-slider. -The Gamma In and Out options have been removed from the Options panel, these controls have been redundant for a long time since the same options are controlled via the main interface. -Added a Preset system for the Color Mixer and Palette. Under the Opts and Mixer menu there's a new Presets sub-menu. In this sub-menu is a list of all the Palette (.jcp) or Mixer (.jcm) files that are in the folder that stores the Library files. Clicking one of the entries will load it as the current palette or mix. At the bottom of the menu is an Add Preset option which lets you quickly add a new preset. -Embedded several presets as well as the default Library file inside the program file, when Jovian is run and the files can't be found, these embedded files will be unpacked and used. -Removed the Reset Palette to Default option from the Color Palette's Opts menu, that palette is now included as a preset. -Added a new Blending Type to the Color Mixer: Subtractive. This type behaves differently from the other types because it starts off with the color white and then subtracts each color slot's opposite color from that starting point. Using this type you can make a pretty functional CMYK color mixer (which is one of the included presets). -Changing the folder that contains the Library files will now cause Jovian to copy the Library and preset files to the new location. Apr. 9 2009 v. 2.0.6 -Added a new Tints & Shades mode to the Color Wheel, this new mode shows colors brighter (tints) and darker (shades) than the current color. When in this mode there are two new options: Colors sets the number of colors to show (3 to 11). Offset is the distance (in brightness) between the colors. -Added Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) file support to the Color Exporter. Importing a .ase file is planned once a viable Lab and CMYK converter is implemented. -Dragging a Library folder onto another folder (so that the destination folder is outlined) and dropping will ask if you want to move just the contents. Clicking Yes, will move the dragged folder's contents to the destination folder (and then remove the empty folder). Clicking No will move the dragged folder to inside the destination folder (which was the previous behavior). -Double-Clicking Jovian's tray icon now opens the color picker instead of disabling the override feature. Enable/Disabling of overriding can still be done via the right-click menu. -Several improvements have been made to the Pick From Image window. The number of samples now ranges from 1 to 10 (and uses a mini-slider). A Save Colors button has been added for saving those samples. Two new buttons, R and E, let you Randomly or Evenly distribute the sample points. Clicking and dragging on the image now shows a zoomed preview of the image akin to the Pick From Screen view. And lastly, holding the spacebar and clicking the image can be used to pan. -Fixed the slowness in the Pick From Screen display when using Windows Vista/7 with Aero enabled. In that configuration it has to capture the screen much less often, thus the zoomed view may seem out of date if something on the screen has changed. While moving the mouse, Jovian will periodically re-capture the screen. When actually sampling the color (clicking the screen or hitting spacebar) it uses the "live" screen image. -The Documentation has been updated and reorganized, further modifications are planned.