History: 09.05.2017 version 2.6.23 - fixed incorrect empty "My mobile"/"My android" disk-list displaying after showing of contents for any empty folder or folder with restricted access - base disk "/sdcard/" added in base-disk list for android devices incompatible with "sdcard/" 08.04.2017 version 2.6.22 - for android-devices without "Menu" key: in file manager you can call menu in "delete file" request window by click/long-hold on request text now - fixed setting of incorrect clipboard sizes after "Picture<->CB" call when picture and clipboard have not equal sizes - fixed incorrect drawing of solid-line ellipses if "Improve ellipses" option is enabled and current line style is dotted - fixed fatal error occuring after calling of context help by "0" button on "PC Gallery" menu item 23.04.2016 version 2.6.21 - "Settings" menu: added "Improve ellipses" option, allows you to enable embedded generator for ellipses and filled ellipses instead of system generator for using in Tools. By default enabled in Android version, where system generator draws bad ellipses with line gaps. - Commands menu - "Zoom": now works with long-holding of joystick keys on virtual keyboard, long-hold changing step lowered from 5 to 2 - "Combustion" additional effect: fixed fatal error, occuring in some cases due to division by zero in processing 9.04.2016 version 2.6.20 - android: fixed checking of new version function - android: fixed incorrect size decreasing by 1px for unfilled ellipses 19.03.2016 version 2.6.19 - android: for devices without "menu" button alternative menu-calling methods were added: long-pressing on text field, "..." button under left softkey of virtual keyboard (visible in windows with menu only) - built-in FontPack: fixed wrong positions of some cyrillic symbols in "dendy" font - Commands menu - Crop: increased speed of processing, fixed incorrect degradation to 16bpp in 24bpp mode for android version - old Siemens phones: disabled showing of hourglass icon in main window during long-time processing - windows with sliders now work with long-holding of joystick keys on virtual keyboard - saving to PNG: now is not cleaning clipboard, comparator and undo data - Preview mode: press left soft-key to switch between preview of image/clipboard - Preview mode: you can move created with'*' 5x5 image array if it larger than screen (like preview of big single image) - start wizard: "Open WBMP" and "Open 16x64" options replaced by "Open ???+alpha" è "Open ??? pic+CB" - fixed incorrect absense of "GIF-animation" help chapter in english help index New features from PaintCAD 4Windows: - file opening: "??? with alpha" format was added, you can load images with semitransparency (GIF and PNG) now as two parts - image to picture, alpha-channel to clipboard. - added selection of transparency mode for PNG saving: without transparency, with transparent color, with alpha-channel image from clipboard - main menu and commands menu: last cursor position is saving and loading with next menu showing now - file opening: for 8bpp and 24bpp new formats "BMP pic+CB", "??? pic+CB" were added, allows you to load selected file to picture (like "mypic.bmp"), and to load similar file named with CB addition to clipboard (like "mypicCB.bmp") - file saving: for 8bpp and 24bpp new formats "BMP pic+CB", "BMP24 pic+CB" were added, allows you to save picture to selected file (like "mypic.bmp"), and to save clipboard image to similar file named with CB addition (like "mypicCB.bmp") - main menu: new "Alpha" submenu was added for works with transparency - "Alpha" menu: "Picture<->CB" menu item was added for swapping between editing of image and alpha-channel/clipboard image - "Alpha" menu: "Render alpha" menu item was added, you can render your picture with alpha channel from clipboard after selection of background type (black, white, FC, BC, grid for transparency checking) - "Alpha" menu: "Capture for paste" menu item was added, you can capture your picture and alpha-channel from clipboard and use it in SuperPaste function with alpha-channel processing - "Alpha" menu: "Cancel capture" menu item was added, this function cancels previous capture and SuperPaste function works as usually (without alpha-channel processing) after you call this - "Alpha" menu: "Create mask" menu item was added, allows you to select transparent color and to create black-white alpha mask for this color in clipboard 9.01.2016 version 2.5.18 - zoomed icons: fixed absense of white color on Superpaste and 3D icons - line weight of square cursor in Tools, Effects, Selection, Palette windows depends on screen size now - size of title window components depends on screen size now - element positions fixed in Mode, Palette windows - "Edit color" window is displaying both colors (FC and BC) now, editable color in main big field (is it FC or BC - you can see at the bottom of window), second color in bottom small field - "Edit color" window allows you to switch between editing of FC and BC in 8bpp mode now - new feature of "Edit color" window: press '0' to switch step of changing for RGB component values (x1 or x5) - new features were added to "Edit color" window from PaintCAD 4Windows: 1) Press '*' key in edit color window for mixing FC and BC colors and placing result to current editable color. 2) You can enable brighness mode using '#' key - and any changing of one of RGB components will change other two components proportionally for changing brighness of current editable color. 3) Press 'JoyLeft' key for exchanging of RGB component values of FC and BC colors. 4) Press 'JoyDown' key for copying RGB component values of other color to current editable color. 5) Press 'JoyRight' key for converting current editable color to equal gray color. 6) Below RGB-component values color distance D between FC and BC is displaying for accurate selection of colors for pixel art. - "Edit color" window title now contains tooltip about main additional commands (* - mix FC and BC, # - brightness mode, 0 - switch step value x1/x5) - Preview mode: press '*' key to enable/disable showing of 2D set of 5x5 current images (equal to "Tile mode" preview function from PaintCAD 4Windows) - Preview mode: now works with long-holding of joystick keys when you viewing images larger than screen - in 24bpp mode in "Palette" window: added saving of positions of selected FC and BC cells for next call of palette of return from Spectral select of RGB color edit - fixed flare drawing on radiobuttons for small screens - file manager, main and other menus, help system: work with long-holding of virtual keyboard keys now - android and touchscreen phones: fixed switching off of Keys Block by long-holding of '#' on virtual keyboard - 8bpp mode: fixed fatal error in mild scanline effect - Select color and Select transparent color windows: color cell width depends on screen size now - Text tool: you can draw text using PCF-fonts with zoom x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 now - Font Pack contains 6 fonts now (4 matrix printer fonts, 1 arcade font and 1 font from future Basis game) 16.08.2015 version 2.4.17 - android: PaintCAD is in full-screen mode now - android: UI and your image can be viewed in 16-million colors now (gradients without lines in main window) - big screens: fixed absence of white color on zoomed icons - icons for "8bpp", "24bpp", "Processor" modes were repainted and now have better view after zooming to big screen - menu item "0"-"Options"-"Grid" is disabled by default now to lower lagging (but you can enable it if you want) - main window: fixed incorrect frame drawing over tool icon which showing that cursor is in selected area (with green color) or outside of it (with red color) 20.04.2014 version 2.3.16 - "Help" menu: "Memory size" command added - messageboxes with PCW icons - touch-keyboard redesigned - android: loading progress bar enabled - enhanced hyperpalette - enhanced primitives when line weight more than 1 - enhanced "Stroke" effect 6.08.2013 version 2.3.15 - disabled-brush-icon cross size fixed - android: showing of Cancel command in filename-input windows fixed - WBMP format: incorrect loading/saving for images with size larger than 127 pixels fixed - android: fixed brush/invertor using on image borders - android and touch-java: colors in palette-grid can be selected using touch-screen more precisely now - after screen rotation: main window repaints correctly now 31.07.2013 version 2.3.14 - paintcad can be operated by touchscreen now - android autodetect added - added new basedisks "/", "sdcard/", "/mnt/sdcard/", "/mnt/flash/" for android devices - "/" basedisk assigning automatically after first launch on android devices - "5" key calls menu like joy-key or right soft-key now - rounded rectangles in interface replaced by simple rectangles - on touchscreens: you can draw directly on picture with Pen tool (set of pixels) or Polyline tool (curve) - some icons were replaced by icons from PaintCAD 4Windows icon-set - other icons scaling by advMame2x and it is better than old scanline scaling method - in Preview mode: touching shows/hides virtual keyboard - "Ex-channel" effect: new invertations "255-R","255-G","255-B" - added file list sorting in File manager - in main window: color cells and tool icon scaling by 2x on big screens now 12.02.2011 version 2.2 - fixed error of file manager which occurs when you look contents of folder with hidden files - after packing GIF-animation: name of packed animated GIF is correct in message "Animation was packed in file" (instead of old "anim.gif") - phone model "Nokia" renamed to "Nokia(Alcatel)". Because of keycodes of Alcatel ÎÒ-802 and nokia codes are similar - after screen-size changing (4xample, when you open QWERTY-keyboard and 90 degrees screen-autorotation occurs) all windows will autoresized to new size - fixed bug of uncloseable warning message in "ex-channel" effect in 8bpp mode (if you have non-UNI-palette) - menu item "0"-"Processing"-"Video-GIF" renamed to "Pack aniGIF". - menu item "0"-"Settings"-"Native-ìåíþ" moved to "Commands menu" (JoyRight in painting window) - function "BMPs->GIFs" now can save transparent GIFs! You must get future transparent color to FC and to BC from one of BMP-pictures. And if FC equal to BC - GIFS will be saved with FC-transparent. If FC not equal to BC - GIFs will be saved without transparency. 28.11.2009 version 2.1 - in Main menu-Options has been added "Native-menu" item, which launches standard phone menu on Siemens and Benq-Siemens mobiles. - in Main menu-Options has been added "Grid" item, which can enable/disable grid drawing if zoom more than 1x - in 8bpp mode: fixed error of incorrect spectral drawing in Palette 'Spectral select' mode when you enables Adaptation-Super - in Browse: in preview mode by pressing 1,3 or 7 keys - previewed pictures are bordered by dotted frame now - for Nokia mobiles: default path for fonts is Graphics/Fonts instead of Pictures/Fonts - tools "Fill" and "Fill 2" rewrited. Now "Fill" and "Fill 2" need less memory for work. - Help System rewrited and recreated, context help system added (and can be called by "0" key in some menus) - in Main menu-Options has been added "Autoscale" item, which can enable/disable autoscaling of interface images - warning messages have been added for trying to save files without path input (exclude of Siemens - in Siemens-es is autosaving to basedisk to Pictures folder if you input only filename) - after first launch - "3D-interface" disabled automatically if screen width less than 170 pixels - in Main menu-Options has been added "Shape images" item, which can enable/disable showing of lines, circles, frames, polylines e.t.c when you move cursor on picture and select position of final point (of line, circle...) - menu item "Tile BMP-symbols" has been added to Main menu-Font - which allows you to convert BMP-symbols set to another set, where every pixel in first set is current picture (small picture, for example small circle, star e.t.c.). For creating fun fonts from simple fonts =) - button "7" in "Browse" mode allows you to overview set of BMP-symbols (similar to view of GIF-frames set by pressing "3" button) - menu item "Unpack Mobfont" has been added to Main menu-Fonts - it allows you to transform selected mobile font to BMP-symbols set (and pack to PCF if you want. or edit and pack to PCF after it.) - new mode "Processor" has been added to "Select Mode" window - its 24bpp mode with max pic's size 1x1 - it allows to you process for example big font-files (with "main menu"-"fonts" commands) or IN NEXT VERSIONS - convert one pics format direct (on-fly) to another without opening it in editor - in Main menu-Options has been added "3D-interface" item, which can enable/disable light version of interface (useful for old and slow mobiles, if painting of windows and menus is very slow) - menu items "Unpack font" è "Pack font" have been added to Main menu-Fonts. These commands unpacking PCF to BMP-files set and packing new PCF font from set of BMP-files-symbols. - menu item "Delete BMPs" has been added to Main menu-Fonts. This command will delete BMP-files set (1.bmp-255.bmp) in selected folder. - menu item "Browse font" has been moved to Main menu-Fonts - added new type of supported mobiles (and keycodes for it) - New Motorola (V8 e.t.c.) - can be selected now by key "2" in title window. Old Motorola (V3i for example) - is on "7" key now. - after cancelling start wizard - new file will be 1x1 by default (instead of old 16x16) - "Select mode" window redesigned: switchbox with icon instead of listbox - "Options" menu renamed to "Main Menu" and separated to 5 submenus: File, Fonts, Processing, Options, Help - Saving-to-PNG algorithm modified - fixed bug of "corrupted PNG file" saving - if Pictures/Fonts folder is not exists on BaseDisk - then font-opening starts from "My mobile" (list of disks) - progressbars added to "Cut", "Copy", "Shift", "Duplicate" and "Tile" functions - in menu "Add.effects" added "Ex-channel" effect, which allows to exchange RGB channels and to convert red objects to green, blue to yellow e.t.c. - in menu 0 added "Cursor type" item, which allows to select custom cursor from set or to draw your own - fixed bug "fatal error during painting progress-bars when processing in some cases" - fixed bug of saving pictures with height = 1 pixel - fixed bug of "Fill" and "Fill2" when using it on area which limited by selection - fixed bug of dotted lines in "brush" and "invertor" tools when hold cursor-moving keys - fixed bug of auto-call "Selection" menu after "Keys block" unlocking - fixed bug of black screen instead of "Photo size" window - *.JPEG file's icon as *.JPG now - auto-scalable interface: another small icons will scale x2 if screen width more than 170 pixels - auto-scalable interface: icons in Tools, Effects and Selection menus will scale x2 if screen width more than 170 pixels - auto-scalable interface: icons in window headers will scale x2 if mobile-font height more than 16 pixels - in file manager: button 5 works as well as JoyButton or RightButton (enter to dir, select file) 4.08.2009 modification 2.0.3 - fixed overcrossing of window title and paint-area when using "Window Font" function - effects "Drugs" renamed to "Sharpness" =) because before 2.0 it works not correctly and i call it "Drugs". but error was fixed after 2.0, and now this function works as need (and as it was designed primary) - speed up effect "Combustion" - progressbars "Buffering" added to some effects (Hot air, 3D, Glow, Blur, Superpaste, Combustion) - progressbars "Debuffering" added to some effects (Hot air, 3D, Glow, Scanline, Combustion) - added setup of photo's size in "Camera" function. Size "Auto" - old paintcad's method of photo snapshoting, or you can set your own size, but mobile can deny to photo if you request unsupported size of photo. Therefore remember that LEFT SOFT in Camera mode will return you to editor =) - cursor speed-upping and moving is more smoothed and not depends on mobile model (because fixed timer used instead of moving by keyRepeated) - cursor position now correctly displayed after double-push # in main window of single-push # in windows "select color", "select color from clipboard" and "select area". it allows you to find cursor on screen fast 2.08.2009 modification 2.0.2 - fixed bug of not-loaded font when starts PaintCAD with activated function "Window font" - speed up effects "3D", "Stroke", "Glow", "Blur", "Drugs" - fixed fatal error in "Superpaste" function 2.08.2009 modification 2.0.1 - fixed error in "Crop" function 1.08.2009 version 2.0 - interface has more volume - "press any key" messages hided. now it will starts process automatically - refresh frequency of processbars is increased - you will see countdown time-counter when processing effects - 24bit image mode added. Now you can select which mode you want - single time after running PaintCAD. for switch modes you need to restart PaintCAD and select another mode. - in 24bit mode: in Palette left softkey now calls RGB-edit of FC and BC colors - in 24bit mode: exit from RGB-edit is to main drawing window, not to uni-palette table - in 24bit: by default left softkey calls UNI-palette table, but in 24bit mode colors not limited to uni-palette, and you can simply select necessary colors from table, or push LEFT and jump to fully-colored Spectral-colors select, or push left softkey and jump to native RGB-color selection mode. These color-seklection modes in 24bit not linked each to other, and only RGB-edit mode can EDIT FC and BC, other modes (uni and spectral) allows you to select new FC and BC, and starts with black FC and black BC (or black FC and white BC). - fixed error in "invertor" tool - effects "Stars", "Snow" works faster now - in 24bit mode: some menu items are grayed and cannot be accessed. It is normal. These items can be used in 8bit mode only. - in 24bit mode: count of colors in image - is count of colors your mobile display (it is limit of Java). Therefore, after your color selection in palette, PaintCAD can modify selected colors to colors of your display. You can select FC as white 255 255 255, and after it in next RGB-edit you can see it as 248 255 248 for example. It is normal. - after PaintCAD start you can select "MAX picture size". In 2.0 and later you can select max picture size as screen size (it was in 1.9 and before) or select your own max picture size. It is limited to your mobile's RAM (memory) size in Java. I can edit on my Benq-Siemens E71 (screen 240x320) pictures with size 400x400 =) but tests on nokia 7900 shows that nokias have little RAM in Java, and 400x400 Max size can call "Out of memory" error. Then you must experiments with it and discover allowable max size for you mobile =) in Siemens if you select big max size (1000x1000) - Ok button will not be pusheable, and you must simply select lower size. But such big size in Nokias will call Java exception "Out of memory" and closing PaintCAD =) Nokia thinks that "out of memory" is very-very fatal error and stops java) - in menu "Right" Added command "Rounding", which regulates radius of rounded angles of rectangles. If you select this equal to 0 - rectangles will be as in old times =) - in menu "Right" added command "Transparency" which works ONLY IN 24BIT MODE. If you set it in values more than 0% - all primitives, pen, brush, fills and text - will be drawed on pictures with selected transparency (but now there is no way to save pictures with Alpha-channel. this Transparency only for drawing ones primitives over another). - in file-manager "Browse" when exploring the empty folder - it shows list with single item "Empty". - in menu "0" opened item "Window font" - this item sets interface font to Arial 14 (in PaintCAD.jar it is PCF font in arial14.png file. you can repack PaintCAD.jar with another pcf-file which replaced real arial14.png and enjoy interface with your custom font)