Update Available - Version 8.0.18

[jsachs]

An update is available to Version 8.0.18 (10-Dec-2019)

The changes (taken from the update log) are:

Save Workspace Script with Image Names: this command now names the image copies it saves along with the script with filenames that reflect the original filename of the image, if any. If there is no original filename (e.g. if the original file was the result of a Paste command), images are simply numbered. If there is an original filename, the copy is named with the same filename (with the extension replaced with .tif), so you can tell where it came from. If this would result in a duplicate filename, the image is numbered instead.

Export: until a folder has been specified, a prompt is now displayed in the folder field.

The File Open dialog box now lets you set an optional caption for the Windows File Open dialog box used to select files. This can be helpful, for example, when saving a script without names and there is more than one file to open. The caption can then be configured to tell the user which file is being selected when the File Open dialog box is displayed while opening the script file. If no caption is entered, the default “Open Image Files” caption is displayed.

Copy Transformation: now ungrayed when workspace is empty, generates gray checkerboard when no input image is available.

Texture Transformation: fixed problem when angle sliders are positioned so the white slider is to the right of the black slider.

File/Export, File/Print: switching to a different image now cancels any pending export or print command instead of executing it.

New Edit/Convert to Copy command (also right click menu on top level images). This command converts a top-level image (typically a File Open or a Paste) to a Copy transformation. You can use this to save a set of operations you want to load and apply to images in the future, a little like a subroutine. To do this, first build a workspace that applies the transformations you want to save, to a sample image. Then replace the top-level File Open with a Copy, select the result image, and save the script. To use it, open the script into another workspace and use the Copy to select the image you want to operate on, and all the operations in the script will be applied to the image you selected. If you have more input images, replace them with a Copy also. I spent most of the last week working on a much more general solution to this problem, but it just got more and more complicated, so I tore it all out and implemented this much simpler approach.