From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 20 08:20:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:20:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150620082000.04f63e00@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. e-Paint 5 Revision 6 2. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ We've heard there's a movie about this now: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. e-Paint 5 Revision 6 _______________________________________________________________________ e-Paint 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in e-Paint from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Updates the Scrapbook. This includes fixing a small resource leak, improving the user interface and speeding up access to the Scrapbook's graphics. - Improves up the e-Paint rendering engine for more exact drawing. - Speeds up the Texture engine. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of e-Paint to update to this release. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download e-Paint 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using e-Paint 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to e-Paint 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in Animation Workshop from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to do so. - Improves the timing of the View window. - Improves the rendering engine. - Addresses some text metric issues in Text objects when they're confronted with weird-beard fonts. - Improves the Watermark function. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Animation Workshop 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using Animation Workshop 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to Animation Workshop 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... If you have questions about this list or any Alchemy Mindworks products, please contact us at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html You can contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and by snail-mail at Alchemy Mindworks, L10 C8 Brunel, Huntsville, ON P1H 2J3, CANADA. **************************************************************************** Copyright (c) 1998 - 2015 Alchemy Mindworks. All rights reserved. Use no hooks.