Version History

0.7.5 July 22 2016

New Features

• Webcam
• Chain Reverse Doubler. Makes a reverse image in chain mode.
• Chain Remove By Tail. Instead of randomly removing gifs, this option removes gifs from the end of the stack, making a snake effect.

Improvements

• You can now press space bar to pause/play at any time. Useful for taking screenshots at the right time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where automations would stay on after refresh.
• Removed unnecessary scroll bars on the deck.

0.7.4 June 13 2016

Control Deck

• New Features:
  • Sine Wave Automations
  • Random Value Automations
  • Scale reset button
  • "Equalize Corners" button in Corners mode
  • Added automation ability to:
    • Max Image Amount
    • Wind Intensity
    • Background Zoom
    • Background Opacity
    • Midground Opacity
    • Midground Zoom
    • Midground Scale
    • Hallway Stretch
    • Circle Spin Speed
    • Circle Container Spin Speed
    • Big Shrinker Rotation
    • Rainbow Bars Opacity
    • Rainbow Bars Speed
    • Rainbow Bars Rotation
• Improvements:
  • Processor intensive controls are now hidden by default and can be enabled from the settings panel
  • Made autopilot turn off when switching to an unsupported mode
  • Made center arc control less sensitive
  • Automations automatically turn off for mode-specific controls when that mode turns off
  • Reduced speed of automations
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed gif preview not showing first gif after looping around
  • Fixed bug where X/Y directions would lock when the deck loses focus

0.7.3 June 1 2016

Control Deck

• New Features:
  • Holding Shift or Control/Command enables one-dimensional XY movement
  • Counter on previewed gif shows amount of gifs and current index
• Bug Fixes:
  • Previewed gif now loops around to the first gif when it reaches the last one
  • Active mode now stays in sync when changed via MIDI
  • When an automation is turned off, the slider now shows the accurate value
  • Single clicks (without dragging) on sliders and XY pads now trigger a change

Hallway Mode

• Performance improvements
• Wind now affects hallway
• Border radius now affects hallway
• Rotate now affects hallway
• Scale now affects hallway
• Top and bottom images are now the previewed image

Center Mode

• New Threaded Rotation button rotates every other image the opposite direction

Circle

• Performance improvements

Wind

• Performance improvements

Chain

• Performance improvements

Misc

• Reduced Border Image max width from 300 to 100

0.7.2 January 2 2016

New Features

• Next gif preview can be toggled between still and animating. Keeping it still improves the overall frame rate.
• More controls for Corner Box:
  • Corner Box Opacity
  • Corner Box Position XY
  • Corner Box Size
• New automations added:
  • Border Image Width
  • Border Image Slices
  • Midground Rotation
• Border images now work in circle mode.

Improvements

• When width is reset, the width slider now automatically tracks the height slider to maintain image ratio.
• When sending a gif to midground/background, now the opacity does not change.
• Improved onboarding experience.
• Performance improvements to border images.
• Border image now uses the current previewed gif, rather than the current gif+1.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where a fullscreen performance window would show nothing after refresh.
• Fixed bug where XY pads would glitch when dragging from inside to outside.
• Fixed bug where mode parameters would reset when its button was pressed again.
• Fixed bug where circle would not start after chain.

Changes

• Temporary change of the automatic updater on Windows. The update button now opens a link to download a new copy of the fresh installer.

0.7.0 November 17 2015

New Features

• Complete interface redesign that separates the controls screen from the performance screen.
• Live preview panel of performance screen.
• Next gif preview and skip options.
• Draggable X/Y pad inputs for appropriate controls. (Chain direction, Hallway Perspective, etc.)
• Draggable sliders for other knob controls.
• Toggleable automation buttons for certain knob controls.
• Two different automation waveforms (Saw and Tri)
• MIDI Map edit window
• Import Map
• Export Map
• New Map
• Delete Map
• Framerate detection is now visible.
• Gif folder can be changed during performance.
• Randomization can be turned on or off during performance.
• Gamepad can now control hallway mode.
• Pixelated image rendering on midground/background.
• New Control: Wind Intensity
• New Control: Corners rotate quadrants

Bug Fixes

• Border images in hallway mode no longer push the hallway to the bottom right.

Misc.

• Removed Puncher addon for improvements.
• Rewrote update system.
• Renamed "MIDI Layouts" to "MIDI Maps".

0.6.33 August 5 2015

New Features

• Image scaling now uses the Nearest Neighbor algorithm, resulting in bigger pixels and no blurry gifs.

0.6.3 July 17 2015

New Features

• New Mode: "Center" creates a stack of concentric GIFs.
• Control: Activate Center Mode
• Control: Center Horizontal Arc
• Control: Center Vertical Arc
• Control: Reset Center Arcs
• New Addon: "Puncher" randomly places a GIF on the screen, which flies to a controllable destination coordinate.
• Control: Activate Puncher
• Control: Next Puncher Image
• Control: Previous Puncher Image
• Control: Puncher Vertical Destination
• Control: Puncher Horizontal Destination
• Basic Gamepad support.
• Basic framerate detection and automatic optimization if framerate drops.

Bug Fixes

• Increase / Decrease max image amount in Corners Mode now increments by 4 instead of 1. Previously you would have to press it 4x to see a result.

Misc

• Changed from custom window frame to standard OS window frame. This improves fullscreen support.
• Improved the menu bar on Mac and introduced the menu bar on Windows.

0.6.2 June 10 2015

New Features

• Added labels to each grouping of controls in the Controls Tool. No more long confusing list.
• Cursor position X and Y can now be mapped to knob functions independently.

Bug Fixes

• Rebuilt Windows installer to avoid permissions errors when updating.
• Stability and performance improvements to Hallway.
• Performance improvements to Wind. Images will now be removed when they are blown off the screen.
• Fixed a small Circle placement bug.

Misc

• Increased default window size from 800 to 1000 pixels wide.

0.6.1 April 29 2015

New features

• New Auto Opacity knob function
• New Auto Width knob function
• Height now affects Hallway Mode
• Auto Height now affects Corners Mode
• Scale and Auto Scale now affects Circle Mode

Bug fixes:

• Circle Mode now redraws in the center of the screen when you resize the window. Previously it would end up offscreen after resizing.
• The window can now be minimized from fullscreen.
• The page will no longer change when a file is dragged and dropped on gifSlap.
• Fixed a bug where the program would always use a cached version of the Default Layout after updating.

Misc:

• Removed functions: toggle_auto_scale and toggle_auto_height. These functions can be activated by turning up their knob functions and turned off by turning their knobs down to 0.
• The dialog box for updates now has a link to this changelog.
• On the main menu the midi and keyboard/mouse layouts dropdowns now live update when a control layout is added to their folders.

0.6.0 April 23 2015

Bug fixes:

• Fixed critical bug where gifSlap would crash in Corners mode if the max image amount was turned below 0
• Fixed bug related to opening and closing the function picker in the ontrol tool.
• Changed colors of "coming soon" buttons on the main menu to gray.
• Editing the default layout now appends a number to your edit, rather than overwriting the edited map every time.
• Edited some exclusive mode functions to do nothing if the respective mode is not active.

0.5.9 March 12 2015

New features

• The default control map is now uneditable. Edits are saved as "Default Map Edited". This also allows me to push a new version of the default map in updates.
• Introduced autopilot mode
• Control over GIF randomization on the main menu
• Zoom in and out controls, mapped to ALT +/- on the default layout
• On the main menu press Enter to fast launch with your previous settings

Bug fixes:

• Spaces in the folder path of the GIF folder was causing issues in hallway mode and background/midgrounds
• Fixed bugs related to the stage not filling up space when the window is resized
• Pause message container was appearing even when unpaused
• Randomized backgrounds, midrounds and foregrounds are independently shuffled now
• Control description was appearing at the top before a control was hovered
• Delete key no longer takes you back to the menu

0.5.7 February 6 2015

New features:

• Added default keyboard/mouse map
• Added button function for MIDI output
• Made image scale affect corners and mirror modes
• Added Credits
• Added indicator when gifSlap is paused

Bug fixes:

• Major improvements to control mapping tool
• Changed Wind direction functions to toggle