Beta version

Version 2.4.3 2011/11/25

• Fix: Crash on startup in MacOS

Version 2.4.2 2011/11/23

This is version 2.4.2 due to a small bug in the version compare of my auto updater.
2.4.1 was not accepted to be newer than 2.4.1b3.

• New: DPI settings
• New: Generic XML exporter
• New: Exporter for bHive (http://www.bhivecanvas.com/)
• New: Better moai exporter
• New: Exporter for original cocos2d format
• New: Background image
• New: Crash reporter for MacOS
• New: New option to remove artifacts and borders around sprites
• New: Added 2x as AutoSD extension for Unity
• New: Better stability in out of memory situations
• Fix: Version compare (2.4.1 was not accepted as newer than 2.4.1b3)
• Fix: Crash when using reveal in finder from aliased image
• Fix: Crash when removing sprites which did not fit the
  current maximum texture width
• Fix: New Moai exporter
• Fix: Last frame of a flash import was added twice
• Fix: Transparency dithering (fs & attkinson) with active premultiplication does not get too dark anymore
• Fix: Reduced memory consumption
• Fix: GUI update when scaling sprites
• Fix: Opening 3 windows when opening a .tps file
• Fix: Save dialog everytime a file is closed even without change
• Fix: Auto alias did not find equal sprites when PNGs had invisible changes
• Fix: Tooltips for several items
• Fix: Save defaults now saves allow free size

Version 2.4.0 2011/10/26

• New: Flash (.swf) import on MacOS
• New: Quicklook plugin for pvr and pvr.ccz files (MacOS)
• New: Save defaults (pro only)
• New: Debian Packages for Ubuntu 11.04
• New: Support for Moai ( http://www.getmoai.com )
• New: Support for AppGameKit ( http://www.appgamekit.com/ )
• New: Support for Slick2D ( http://slick.cokeandcode.com/ )
• New: Support for Unity3D / UIToolkit ( http://unity3d.com / http://github.com/prime31/UIToolkit )
• New: Backspace + Delete now both delete sprites / folders
• New: Open in finder / explorer (issue 649)
• New: Dialog to select Flash Player Plugin (issue 1216, 1231)
• New: Sprite highlighing (issue 1200)
• New: Select checker board colors (issue 1227, 1200)
• New: Displaying flipped pvrs unflips them
• New: Added „Drag your sprites here“ image
• New: Added RGB888 output mode (issue 105)
• New: New Icons
• New: Added free choice of file endings for data file
• New: Option to flip PVR files (required for unity and other frameworks) (issue 1046)
• New: Rotation support for AndEngine (issue 723)
• New: Fit added to zoom bar
• New: Allow free size now supported for PVR (issze 747)
• New: Folders inside a smart folder are now blue to show that they can‘t be deleted
• New: Default-Padding changed to 2px – may cause problems when using from command line. Please adjust your build scripts!
• New: Lua module concept changed according to ( http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/09/a-better-approach-to-external-modules/ )
• New: Populate file names (e.g. saving blah.tps now sets blah.png and blah.plist)
• Fix: Shortcuts on windows now working (issue 1171)
• Fix: Escaping for CSS exporter
• Fix: Auto update sprite sheets when reentering the app (issue 767, 778, 833)
• Fix: Shape outlines (issue 618)
• Fix: Smartupdate did a rebuild for some frameworks – even if not needed
• Fix: Trim checkbox stayed disabled after selecting a framework that did not support trimming (issue 707)
• Fix: TextureSubPath now working on all frameworks supporting it (issue 609, 610)
• Fix: Zoom factor is maintained through starts of TexturePacker (issue 629)
• Fix: Default texture name (out.png) supported in AndEngine (issue 722)
• Fix: Shape outlines work again (issze 849)
• Fix: Trim sprite names (remove .png etc) now supported for all frameworks (issue 1009)
• Fix: JSON exporter now uses escaping (issue 1142)

Version 2.3.5 2011/08/13

• New: Support for AndEngine ( http://www.andengine.org )

Version 2.3.4 2011/07/30

• New: Fix for cocos2d‘s hd handling

Version 2.3.3 2011/07/27

• New: Support for gideros mobile ( http://www.giderosmobile.com )
• New: Support for cegui / ogre3d ( http://www.cegui.org.uk, http://www.ogre3d.org )
• New: Added json exporter with array format
• Fix: Missing comma added in JSON exporter

Version 2.3.2 2011/07/26

• New: Changed default for fast GUI display (using OpenGL) to disabled

Version 2.3.1 2011/07/25

• New: Added option to disable fast rendering using OpenGL in GUI application since it might cause problems on some platforms
• New: 64bit + 32bit executable on MacOS

Version 2.3.0 2011/07/25

• New: Feedback dialog: send feedback, bug reports and requests from TexturePacker
• New: 64bit executable on MacOS
• New: Create CSS Sprites (issue 527)
• New: Added option to ignore files on command line (–ignore-files) (issue 394, 346)
• New: Added option to replace parts of a sprite‘s name (–replace) (issue 348)
• New: Sprites are ordered alphabetically (issue 533, 405)
• New: Pixelformat Alpha + Intensity (issue 469)
• New: TexturePacker only opens a file once (issue 429)
• New: Added the current scale to JSON output format meta data (issue 407)
• New: Removed refresh button – TexturePacker now updates the textures when entering the app (issue 299)
• New: Speedup for rendering sprites
• New: Red colored sprites in demo mode get a text to make it more obvious
• New: Warning when using extended features in TexturePackerPro
• New: Auto updater for Windows
• Fix: Removed -hd in texture name which causes warnings in cocos2d (issue 570)
• Fix: Display broken files when adding single files (issue 395, 381)
• Fix: PVR viewer‘s zoom control (issue 550)
• Fix: Smart update (issue 520)
• Fix: Unicode char in license file (issue 495)

Version 2.2.0 2011/05/02

• New: Added suport for gzip compressed PVR files (.PVR.GZ)
• New: Multitouch and trackpad zooming and scrolling
• New: Trimming for upcoming Sparrow 1.2 release
• New: Added meta data to JSON exporter
• New: Speed improvements with better caching
• New: Speed improvements when scrolling
• New: Support for PVR flipped textures (used with unity framework)
• New: Icons: Application icon, document icon, .tpkey
• New: Changed license file extension to .tpkey, Keys can now be added with a double click on the license file (MacOS)
• Fix: Fixed coordinate issues when updating sprite sheets from command line using TexturePacker *.tps
• Fix: Zooming
• Fix: JSON exporter does not add .json.json

Version 2.1.10 2011/04/05

• Fix: Auto-Update was broken in 2.1.9 – please install 2.1.10 by directly downloading and installing manually
• Fix: Icon was lost in 2.1.9
• New: Allowing free sizes for PVR files
• New: –quite for command line reduces output
• Fix: Improved handling of non power of 2 sizes from command line
• Fix: Removed duplicated libgdx exporter

Version 2.1.9 2011/04/03

• Fix: Hotfix for windows command line crash

Version 2.1.9 2011/04/01

• Fix: Trim does not get re-enabled from GUI when loading a file
• New: Command line version for windows (still without globbing)
• Fix: Documentation
• Fix: QFile::remove: Empty or null file name on command line
• Fix: Sprite sizes can now be up to 32000 from command line
• Fix: hq2x now available in documentation from command line

Version 2.1.8 2011/03/24

• New: Scaling mode can now be chosen
  - fast (general purpose nearest neighbor)
  - smooth (general purpose nearest neighbor)
  - scale2x (fixed 2.0 scaling for pixelart)
  - eagle (fixed 2.0 scaling for pixelart)
  - hq2x (fixed 2.0 scaling for pixelart)

Version 2.1.7 2011/03/14

• Fix: Fixing a major bug in premultiplied alpha implementation leading to black halos around semi transparent sprites
• New: Added message box to inform user to activate premultiply alpha when using cocos2d + pvr image format

Version 2.1.6 2011/03/13

• New: Added png export to pvr previewer
• New: Storing position, size and zoom factor of window
• New: New icon
• New: tif support from GUI
• Fix: Extrude/Trim bug resulting in wrong image sizes
• Fix: Bug setting trim to true after reloading

Version 2.1.5 2011/02/14

• New: *.tps files prepared for importing in PhysicsEditor
• New: Added JSON exporter (experimental)
• Fix: BMP files can now be added as sprites from file selector dialog
• Fix: Size warning removed when autoSD and allowFreeSize is on
• Fix: Several smaller UI fixes

Version 2.1.5 b1 2011/02/07

• New: Added –inner-padding <int> which adds space to the sprite
• New: Added –crop which crops the sprite to the non transparent part, reducing the sprite‘s render size (–trim does not change the sprite‘s render size)

Version 2.1.4 2011/01/31

• Fix: Warning when using smart update and autosd from command line fixed.
• Fix: Loading PVRs with version 2

Version 2.1.3 2011/01/21

• New: Added shortcut to delete sprites from sheet
• New: Option to remove .png, .jpg, .bmp from sprite names (–trim-sprite-names)
• New: Added filtering settings for LibGDX
• New: Added message box asking to add @2x or -hd to texture and data file name if autoSD is enabled and the extension does not yet exist
• New: Warning on command line if sd size is not half of hd size
• New: Added option to change texture‘s path in plist file for cocos2d (–texturepath) to organize resources in sub folders
• New: TreeView expands when sprite is selected in sheet
• New: Added jpg quality settings to gui
• Fix: Immediate update texture size and memory usage on every change
• Fix: Basic layout created too big textures in some cases
• Fix: Added more digits for scale (e.g. to enter 0.125)

Version 2.1.3 b3 2011/01/06

• Fix: Reset sprite offsets if disabling trimming

Version 2.1.3 b2 2011/01/06

• New: Texture + data files get deleted before exporting
• New: Improved error messages for texture export

Version 2.1.3 b1 2011/01/06

• Fix: Publish asks for texture file names if not already set
• New: Texture name gets derived from data name if not set and vice versa
• New: Linux support (beta)

Version 2.1.2 2011/01/05

• Fix: Scaled images had premultiply alpha turned on, causing black outlines and artefacts when dithering

Version 2.1.2b2 2010/12/22

• New: Sorting of sprites by name in lua file

Version 2.1.2b1 2010/12/22

• Fix: Typo libgdx exported data file not allowing it to load

Version 2.1.1 2010/12/19

• New: Creating alpha masks
• New: Added tooltips for all options
• New: Polished interface
• New: Added bmp, tif file format to smart folder processing
• New: Windows installer, Icon, polishing
• New: Added trim alpha theshold to remove nearly transparent pixels
• New: Also collect gif, tiff, jpg, bmp from smart folders
• New: Scroll to selected sprite in sprite sheet
• New: Windows installer
• New: Windows polishing
• New: Preliminary support for libgdx (beta)
• Fix: User interface works with smaller screen sizes
• Fix: Document changed detection
• Fix: Open elements from finder in empty window on doubleclick

Version 2.1.1b1 2010/12/08

• New: Creating transparency masks from heuristics on images which have on transparency key color.

Version 2.1.0 2010/12/07

• New: Added texture selector combo box
• New: Added shortcuts for publish and refresh
• Fix: Bug when selecting AutoSD with PVR files

Version 2.1.0 RC2 2010/12/02

• Fix: Premultiply now only applied once
• Fix: Sometimes rotation flag was not exported to plist files
• Fix: Removed icon from menu item

Version 2.1.0 RC1 2010/11/30

• New: Layout mode basic
  Best use for tile sets / tile map editors
  Order by name, width, height, area, ascending, descending
  FREE for all users
• New: *.pvr and *.pvr.ccz previewer! (FREE)
• New: Process *.tps files from command line (pro)
• New: AutoSD allows automatically creation of standard resolution images from highres images (–auto-sd) (pro/cli)
• New: Drag’n'drop sprites to tree view to add them
• New: PVRTC2/PVRTC4 compression
• New: Enhanced color reduction quality (pro/cli)
• New: Additional dithering algorithm
• New: Linear quantization
• New: Nearest neighbour quantization
• New: Premultiply alpha (pro/cli)
• New: Option to disable automated alias creation
• New: Choose heuristics for MaxRects algorithm (pro/cli)
• New: Creation of non power of 2 textures

Version 2.0.2 2010/11/11

• New: Added TexturePackerEssential – free version to create basic sprite sheets

Version 2.0.2-dev02 2010/11/09 – Development snapshot

Update: .pvr.ccz format to current development state of cocos2d
* Fix: Fixed bug in gui mode not reloading files after save
* New: Windows support (Pro only)
* New: Automated updates using Sparkle (Experimental)

Version 2.0.2-dev01 2010/11/05 – Development snapshot

• Fix: Fixed bug in quantification for several pixel formats
• New: Added option to set jpg compression quality (currently commandine only) –jpg-quality <value>
• New: Added support for RGBA5551, BGRA8888, RGBA5555 (–opt <value>)
• New: Added .pvr.ccz – cocos compressed format (experimental)
• New: pvrz removed (replaced by pvr.ccz)
• New: Removed „texture size is too small“ message box. Instead widht, height and scale are now highlighted.
• New: –opt4444 and –opt565 are deprecated now, use –opt <type> instead

Version 2.0.1 – 2010/10/30

• New: PVR support
• New: PVR files with RGBA8888, RGBA4444 and RGB565 (*.pvr)
• New: Zlib compressed PVR file: *.pvz or *.pvrz (experimental)
• New: Improvements in Graphical User Interface (TexturePackerPro)
• Fix: Scrolling does not change texture size anymore
• New: Output of texture size and used memory (bottom right corner)
• New: Better close dialog

Version 2.0.0 – 2010/10/27

• New: Graphical User Interface (TexturePackerPro)
• New: Multitouch support
• New: Realtime display of sprite sheet
• New: Zoom
• New: File tree view
• New: Tooltips
• New: Alias overlays
• New: Smart folders
• New: automated scan for images
• New: include directory in sprite name
• New: Better PNG compression rate
• New: Support for Sparrow Framework

Version 1.1.1 – 2010/10/06

• New: Support for Corona Game Edition

Version 1.1.0 – 2010/10/01

• New: Support for PNG8 input files
• New: Enhanced error messages for Xcode
• New: Enhanced change detection for Build integration
• New: * Fixes in the Xcode integration script
• New: Added option: –data to specify the name of the data file
• New: Added option: –format to specify format of the data file
• New: Deprecated options: –plist

Version 1.0.5 – 2010/09/27

• Added option: –smart-update for Xcode integration
• Bugfix: License keys can now be installed again

Version 1.0.4 – 2010/09/24

• Added option –dithering for high quality color reduction
• Added option –enable-rotation and –disable-rotation
• Fixed bug in installer if no /usr/local/bin is available
• Alias creation if sprites are the same after trimming

Version 1.0.4 b2– 2010/08/27

• Bugfix for aliases

Version 1.0.4 b1– 2010/08/24

• If sprites are equal after cropping only an alias is created in the plist file.

Version 1.0.3 – 2010/08/21

• Enhanced feature –extrude <int>

Version 1.0.2 – 2010/08/21

• Added requested feature –extrude
• Split padding into –border-padding and –shape-padding

Version 1.0.1 – 2010/08/20

• Fixed bug in padding
• Added automatic testing of other placement rules if standard fails
• Added –create-debug-info and –extract-debug-info

Version 1.0.0 – 2010/08/19

• Initial release