Cyotek Color Palette Editor Revision History Color palette editing made easy

Added

• Added initial support for Adobe Swatch Exchange palettes in RGB format [#27]
• Added initial support for CorelDRAW PAL/XML palettes in RGB, HSL, CMY and CMYK format [#42]
• Added support for Hex palettes [#301]
• Added support for Gravit Designer palettes
• Added new Reverse Palette command
• Added new Variations view, allowing easy selection of a colour based on an existing hue
• Added automatic translations for Arabic and Czech
• Added a new function for submitting colour palettes that the editor can't open for analysis
• Templates can now be duplicated via the Template Manager
• Added a new guid tag for use in templates to generate new globally unique identifiers
• Added a new modal dialogue for editing a colour
• The Batch Conversion dialogue now has new options for padding converted palettes to a minimum size
• Added Save Copy As command
• Added new Compare command for comparing one palette with another
• Added new nocrashreport switch to command line clients
• Command line clients can now display solution information when reporting crashes [#201]
• Pressing the Insert key in the colour grid now adds a new swatch

Changed

• Attempting to open an image file will now initiate the Palette From Image action
• When adding a new swatch, it is now added after the currently selected colour, rather than always at the end of the palette
• Formats dialogue now includes file extension information
• Tabbed or tree based option/property dialogues now include a search field
• Batch conversion log output is now displayed in the batch dialog, rather than a pop-up dialogue
• Minor improvements to External Tools dialogue
• Minor start-up improvements
• No longer forced to run as 32bit in 64bit environments
• Setup now uses InnoSetup 6.1

Fixed

• Empty analytics sessions are no longer transmitted
• Template output no longer includes UTF8 BOM's [#266]
• The Feedback extension crashed if the application language was set to a value other than English [#283]
• Fixed an issue where it was possible that text tokens weren't replaced
• Setup would display an error stating Unknown custom message name "lcid" if an appropriate version of .NET Framework was not installed and was required to be downloaded by Setup
• Uninstall should no longer prompt for feedback when running Setup to upgrade an existing installation
• A crash would occur when executing a template and no default extension was set [#299]
• Setup now includes all available languages when using the default Typical installation
• Preset manager no longer correctly handled some data types causing the Create Swatch Image dialogue to crash when trying to use a preset [regression]
• Corrected some settings that weren't being cached
• Exception reports no longer include the user name of the current user
• Exception reports no longer include the raw host name
• Backup files had the wrong file extension (regression)
• Partial output is no longer printed by CLI tools when using the quiet switch
• Statistics are now printed when using the statistics switch even if quiet is also specified
• All output is now correctly written to log files when the log switch is used, irrespective of the quiet switch setting
• Setup programs were only signed with SHA256, meaning Windows Vista couldn't read the signatures
• Setup tried to install .NET 4.6.2, causing an installation failure on Windows Vista which only supports 4.6.0
• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the options dialogue after switching views
• Windows that save their position and size should no longer keep increasing in size each time the window is opened and a custom font is being used with a point size above 8
• Options dialogues are now slightly more usable when using custom fonts with a point size above 8
• Photoshop Swatch palettes could be subtly corrupted if the number of colours in the palette was 256

Added

• Added a new optional extension for providing feedback/smiles/frowns or support requests from within the application
• Error diagnosis dialogs now include a reference to the original report
• Added the ability to load and save 18-bit VGA palettes used by Command and Conquer and many other older games [0000141]
• Added new template for generating a C# color list from the current palette

Changed

• You can now redraw the selection in the Palette From Image dialog rather than only being allowed to move or resize the existing selection [0000168]
• Pressing Delete can be used to delete the selection in the Palette From Image dialog [0000168]
• If no selection is present in the Palette From Image dialog, the entire image is used [0000168]
• If multiple formats are found that claim to be open the same file, a dialog will now be displayed allowing you to select how you want the file to be opened, including preview support

Fixed

• Fixed a number of issues that could occur after opening or saving a project and the MRU was updated (0000161, 0000176, 0000177)
• RSS entries would duplicate themselves depending on if the feed was accessed via HTTP or HTTPS. Note that a side effect of this fix will result all entries being marked as unread
• Fixed a possible crash that could occur when trying to load a themed font [0000203]
• Errors loading cached RSS feed resulted in the RSS extension from not functioning [0000204]
• Fixed potential exit crash when updating statistics [0000175]
• Fixed a potential issue where the last character in a directory path could be removed [0000213]
• Fixed a crash which occurred when right clicking an empty colour list [0000231]
• Fixed a crash which could occur when trying to invert or duplicate a color without a selection [0000184]
• When importing a palette, although the Allow duplicate colors option was checked by default, duplicates were ignored unless the option was toggled off and then on again
• When doing Save As, the selected filter index could be first matching entry where multiple types have the same extension (e.g. .pal)
• Sorting a palette broke internal events, causing the UI to be in an inconsistent and unstable state [0000178]
• Print options didn't scroll if the window was too small
• Print options occasionally didn't position controls correctly
• Print dialog would crash if the Fax printer was chosen
• Pages field in Print options was enabled when it shouldn't have been

Added

• Added new Grid Mode and Columns settings, allowing the main color grid to be either fixed swatches configured by the existing Swatch Width and Swatch Height settings, or to dynamically size based on the new Columns setting
• A new Print Options dialog has been added, allowing the appearance and layout of print output to be customised [0000035]

Changed

• More phrases have been localised
• The Print dialog now allows printer selection [0000034]

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where Setup sometimes wouldn't replace files
• JASC palettes were written with a UTF8 BOM [0000156]
• The editor now correctly recognises the PspPalette extension [0000157]
• Setup now allows for the PspPalette extension to be associated with the editor [0000157]
• JsonEscape liquid filter didn't cover all characters [0000055]
• After saving a palette with a new name, the old name was still used by some parts of the software [0000053]
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking a blank area of the Import and Export Wizard plugin list
• Transactional Undo/Redo commands no longer repaint color grids/lists for each item in the transaction [0000032]
• Fixed an issue where changing a colors name didn't correctly update undo information
• Fixed a number of issues causing severe performance degradation when adding multiple colors to a palette, for example when creating a palette from an image containing thousands of colors [0000018]
• Blank lines were being saved between colors in a Gimp palette (regression)
• The Save Backups and Maximum number of backups to keep settings were being ignored; backups were always taken and a maximum number of 5 backups were kept
• Saving a palette always created two backup files

Fixed

• Added 4.6 to configuration file which should prevent some users experiencing a "missing method" exception. Please note that the Color Palette Editor requires .NET 4.6 and trying to run it on older versions is not supported.

Added

• Setup now includes default Color List, CSS Export, GIMP Export and HTML Swatch Page templates, along with a demonstration template
• You can now copy the preview image directly from the Create Swatch Image dialog without having to save it to a file
• Added rudimentary code completion to template editor
• Added a new command line template runner suitable for scripting or batch scenarios without having to run the GUI client

Changed

• Template editor now remembers its size and location

Fixed

• Added help topics to remaining palette editor dialogs
• Print would behave unexpectedly if the paper size was too small
• The bounding box for swatches in the Create Swatch Image dialog was always one pixel larger than configured, which could cause lost edges on palettes without swatch names
• Some Liquid filter names were incorrect
• Swatch presets couldn't be correctly loaded

New

• The Create Swatch Image dialog now supports the use of presets
• Added new Copy Swatch Image command which will generate a preview image of the current palette and then copy it to the Windows Clipboard
• Palettes can now be exported to CSS
• Colours can now be imported from CSS
• Added template support, allowing palettes to be exported into custom text formats
• Added the ability to print swatch sheets
• Added Portuguese translation (machine generated)

Changed

• Create Preview Image renamed to Create Swatch Image and can now be found on the Palette menu
• Numerous changes to how plugins are discovered, loaded and configured. Due to no longer storing plugin details in the Windows Registry, this will cause any disabled plugins to be re-enabled

Fixed

• Attempting to save or export to a format which has a fixed color count no longer continues if the palette doesn't fit the limitations of the new format
• Dialog help buttons weren't working correctly on Windows 7

Added

• Added new Invert Color command
• Copy Color command now supports HSL values
• Add new Schemes view, allowing you view colour harmonies such as analogous or tetradic and add these colours to a palette
• Added limited localisation support

Changed

• Duplicating a swatch now places the new swatch after the existing swatch instead of at the end of the palette
• Major documentation updates and corrections

Fixed

• Editing a color using the value sliders caused large numbers of undo steps to be generated and could also cause severe performance issues
• Setup was using GIF Animators product code
• The editor will now display a message and then graceful exit if the user choose to unselect every single file format from Setup, rather than just crashing
• Resolved a crash that could occur when dragging on the last row in an irregular colour grid
• Palette previews sometimes had junk colours when first shown
• Some context menus could be opened with the dedicated menu key, but not with the original Shift+F10 combination
• Fixed a crash that could occur trying to paste an invalid value
• Fixed an issue where the Copy and Cut commands didn't work correctly if the color grid or list was the focused control
• Pasting a duplicate color now correctly sets the pasted swatch, instead of selecting the first swatch matching the duplicate
• Preview palettes were unnecessarily maintaining their own undo buffers
• Duplicate settings definitions could be created when showing the same options dialog multiple times
• Toolbar text was never set

Added

• Added support for Adobe Color Table palette files
• Added support for Microsoft RIFF palette files
• Added new warning when saving palettes with a specific requirement (e.g. required number of colours) and the requirements are not met
• The colour list now displays RGB values for swatches that do not have a dedicated name
• You can now drag files directly from File Explorer into the Batch Conversion dialog
• Added a new dialog for viewing available palette formats and their requirements
• Added support for CMYK colours in aco files
• The formats displayed on the Copy Colour menu can now be customised
• Added CMYK support to the Copy Colour menu

Changed

• Now requires Microsoft .NET 4.6
• The Create Desktop Icon option in setup is no longer checked by default
• Dragging a colour in the colour grid now automatically selects the colour if it isn't active
• Add Swatch shortcut changed to Control + Shift + A to avoid conflicting with the standard Control + A shortcut
• Setup now allows the selection of the file types to install
• Setup should now automatically uninstall previous versions

Removed

• Removed the setup option for creating a Quick Launch icon
• Due to offline help always being outdated due to the general weakness of the product manuals, the offline help files are no longer included in the setup, and requesting help will always display the online version

Fixed

• Some dialogs only supported local help requests and were unable to show help if the local help file was not available
• Fixed an issue where the Save As dialog selected the first available format, ignoring the current palette format
• Fixed a crash that could occur when sorting a palette by hue
• Fixed an issue where some Adobe Photoshop Color Swatch files saved using the palette editor could appear to be fully black in other 3rd party applications. To fix affected palettes, simply re-save them using the updated Color Palette Editor
• A newly required dependency was accidentally omitted from setup
• After moving a colour by dragging it via the colour grid, the dropped colour is now correctly reselected
• Deleting or cutting a colour via the colour grid couldn't be undone
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to undo the previous action
• Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging into the Palette Editor from another application
• If you initiated a drag operation in the colour list, then released the mouse outside the bounds of the list, no further drag operations could be initiated
• Fixed a crash that occurred when non-RGB colours were selected in the colour list

Fixed

• Fixed a nasty corrupt heap crash that occurred when trying to display the About dialog

Added

• When logging an exception, diagnosis actions are such as new version downloads or links to workarounds are now displayed, if applicable
• Added a new option to control whether or not new pre-release (beta) versions are included in update checks

Removed

• Disabled glass effects unless using Windows Vista or Windows 7

Fixed

• In certain circumstances, command line arguments would not be parsed correctly
• When changing settings via the main Options dialog, some settings would not be applied as the old versions were cached

Changed

• FreeImage updated to 3.17

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where sometimes renderer text was truncated with an ellipsis despite having enough room to fully render the text
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to change a swatch name and the selected colour wasn't in range. The original bug couldn't be reproduced so probably still exists, it just won't crash the program now
• Fixed a crash that occurred trying to resize an empty palette
• Unnecessary undo records are no longer generated occasionally when changing the name of a colour swatch
• If a view crashes when updating, it is now disabled for the remainder of the session without crashing the entire application
• Fixed a crash that occurred using the External Tools dialog if the Environment Variables sub menu was clicked
• Fixed an issue where token menus (for example those in the External Tools dialog) containing environment variables could be excessively wide

Changes and new features

• Digital signatures reinstated
• A confirmation prompt is now displayed when shrinking a palette via the Resize Palette dialog
• Added a new extension for dynamically creating preview images of palette contents

Fixed

• Ordering a palette now no longer causes any custom swatch names to be lost

Changes and new features

• Temporarily removed digital signatures, these will be reinstated shortly
• Added Windows 10 to application manifests
• Images using the WebP format are now supported

Changes and new features

• Experimental Added Undo / Redo support
• The Palette From Image dialog now supports additional image file formats
• Items in the Color List can now be reordered using the same methods as the Color Grid.
• Opening or creating a new palette no longer resets the active view back to Color Grid

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the editor couldn't load .gpl palette files that were formatted a certain way
• Fixed an issue where .gpl palettes saved via the editor couldn't be opened in Inkscape
• Fixed an issue where the selection region in the Palette From Image dialog couldn't be resized or moved if the image had been zoomed so that scrollbars were visible
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the Swatch Name field didn't reflect the correct value
• Fixed an issue where the RSS feed wouldn't update when the Update Now option was used, unless a daily update was already pending
• Creating a new palette via the Palette From Image dialog no longer includes a black swatch unless it was present in the image palette
• After using the Palette From Image dialog, it was possible the selected colour wasn't being set correctly
• Duplicating a swatch now also duplicates the swatch name
• Fixed an issue where focus wasn't correctly set to the colour grid when starting the application

Changes and new features

• When selecting a source image in the Palette from Image dialog, the preview automatically zooms the image to fit
• You can now select a portion of the source image in the Palette from Image dialog to use for generating the palette

Fixed

• Fixed a crash that could occur when painting the grid
• Repeatedly clicking column headers in sortable lists now correctly cycles between Ascending, Descending and None, instead of only Ascending and Descending
• Changing the window font is now correctly applied to the main window when the settings are applied, rather than requiring the application to be restarted
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to obtain the display string for an enum value

Changes and new features

• Added a helper tool for backing up and restoring settings, or for resetting settings to default values
• Added a stand-alone update check tool

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the update check could cause the main window to be unresponsive
• Corrected baseline positioning of editors and labels in dynamic user interfaces
• Fixed an issue where settings were both loaded and saved using thread specific culture data, which could cause a crash if the computer culture information was subsequently changed. All settings are now saved and load using an invariant culture.
• A crash no longer occurs if font information cannot be read correctly from stored settings
• Fixed an occasional crash when the colour list attempted to select a non-existent index
• Fixed an issue where the context menu wasn't displayed in the colour list if the context key was pressed and the second item in the list was selected

Changes and new features

• Holding down Alt and pressing an arrow key now allows navigation of the colour grid even if the grid itself does not have focus, allowing for easier entering of colour values or names without having to switch focus back and forth
• Added a new tab to show the palette in list form, providing an easier way of viewing all swatch names
• Setup now allows you to customize which components are installed
• Added product RSS notifications add-in

Fixed

• In certain circumstances, creating a backup of a file could take a substantial amount of time
• Fixed an occasional The path is not of a legal form exception when using the External Tools dialog
• Fixed an issue where colour settings were sometimes not loaded correctly
• Fixed an issue where font settings were sometimes not saved correctly
• Font sizes are now displayed as whole numbers
• Fixed an occasional crash resizing the application window with a collapsed panel

• Initial Release