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Chameleon v4.56

(service release)

New feature:

- Movie frame size will be adjusted with the player controller size, thus no gap above and below can be seen.

Bugfix:

- When "Link to originals" or "Link to originals to scaled images" were selected with "Copy originals" turned off you got a broken link on the original page, seeing only the filename.

Changed:

- In version v4.54 and 4.55 of Chameleon you needed to turn "Include originals" on if you wanted to have a link to originals with "Link to originals"or "Link to originals to scaled images" linking scheme. Now Chameleon adds the links on the slide pages even for images with "Include original" unselected. Now "Include original" is important only in "Link to scaled-down images only" linking scheme.

Chameleon v4.55

(service release)

Bugfix:

- Movie playback blocked in 4.54 is fixed (This bug was caused by the change in Jalbum 8.1, i.e. the feature to include originals one-by-one. This involved some code changes which affected the movies too, which I wasn't aware.)

Chameleon v4.54

New features:

- New "Jump to picture top" option to scroll down every slide page to the top of the main picture when you browse through the album. Practical when you in need of more vertical space.
- Added support for Jalbum's new picture by picture "Include original" feature.

Bugfix:

- Fixed a bug with Guestbook inclusion on slide pages

Changed:

- The original image will open in the same window and not in a popup as previously did.

Chameleon v4.53

New features:

- New option to control the depth for blog style layout - instead of the old 'Only at top' option.

Bugfix:

- Failing to genarate Custom Paypal shopping cart bug (with missing email and shopping option fields on User Interface) has been fixed.

Updated:

- Jalbum widget support has changed since 08/09/2008. In order to run the keyboard navigation of Chameleon and Commenting widget on the same album you need to upgrade your albums with this skin version, otherwise these two will interfere.

Chameleon v4.52

Updated:

- Swedish and Danish translations.

Bugfix:

- The bug undefined variable: enableKeyboard || enableMousewheel fixed

Chameleon v4.51

New features:

- The breadcrumb trail can be aligned left, right or center.

Bugfix:

- URLencoding for link to originals in image navigation was missing when 'URL-encode links' was selected, now added
- Guestbook Flash invoked with wmode="opaque" - which is the correct way - has a bug in handling international keyboard layouts. Now the wmode parameter has been removed.
- Guestbook has a PHP error when the email notification was turned on, now fixed

Changed:

- The mousewheel navigation is OFF by default

Chameleon v4.5

New features:

- Mouse wheel navigation on slide pages.
- XMP fields added — there are too many fields to display one-by-one on the user interface, so you need to define them manually. With this method you can define any ordering. If you are in doubt which metadata fields are available with your images use the "Metadata scouting" feature.
- Metadata scouting feature to explore all the metadata in the image files.
- The new File Title field can be used both below the thumbnails and on the slide pages.
- Zoom in / Zoom out feature on the originals page.
- Lithuaninan translation added thanks to Thomas Sakalauskas
- New style Aqua added with 6 additional substyles
- Added control to enable / disable keyboard and mouse wheel navigation

Bugfix:

- The movie background color taken from the base style when using a substyle bug fixed
- Focus 35mm equivalent did not appear using some camera types bug fixed
- On some browsers (like Safari) Chameleon could not figure out the background and text color for guestbook at the time the page was loaded, so they displayed the guestbook with black letters on black background. Now guestbook is using white letters in this case.
- Chameleon's Keyboard navigation took over the control when using the Widgets bug is fixed.
- The underscores are correctly replaced with spaces in Folder names.

Changes:

- The cameras.properties file is now taken from the central database: Jalbum / system. If that file is too old copy Chameleon's or BluePlusPlus's file there.
- Default style is changed to Aqua.
- The background image definition has been moved into the CSS files from the template file, to make it more easy to modify.
- On the User Interface the normal files are now called "Files" instead of "Other files" which was a bit unintuitive, and now displayed as defualt tab.

Chameleon v4.41

Bugfix:

- A bug causing JavaScripts error on the index page has been fixed
- FLV player "Buffering" text is removed for it was still on the video after started playing.

Chameleon v4.4

New features:

- Guestbook updated to version 2.2
- 'Add comment' graphics has changed (to a pencil) to make it more hintful
- Guestbook will use the time and date format used in Jalbum. You can set up it here: Settings / Advanced / Date format. If none specified MM/dd/yy HH:mm will be used by default.
- Added Entries per page setting for the guestbook.
- Guestbook can be included on pages either on top or bottom position.
- Paypal can be positioned above or below the main content too.
- Custom paypal has been improved a lot and you don't need to modify index.htt and slide.htt anymore

Please note, that from this version on, there will be 2 versions of Chameleon:

- Full version which contains all the styles and sub-styles, check out the full list here.
- Bundle version which contains 22 styles

(This was necessary to keep Jalbum download size small.)

Bugfix:

- Paypal ordering had problems (UTF-encoded Item name) when the folder or filename contained characters not in Western character set.
- Custom paypal ordering didn't add the handling fee.
- another FLV movie bug fixed - this time the movies from the top level folder were corrupted. :)

Chameleon v4.32

New features:

- Starting slideshow from the index page
- Soft: Beige, Green, Red, Yellow substyles
- Added custom paypal shopping solution (includes/paypal_c.inc)
  (You need to edit slide.htt and insert <ja:include page="includes/paypal_c.inc" /> before the last </div> element with Notepad, and configure everything in the paypal_c.inc file instead of the user interface. For advanced users.)

Bugfix:

- GPS coordinates got corrected in JAlbum required a small correction in Chameleon too
- Guestbook did not work in certain circumstances from subfolders.
- Filtering of linebreaks in titles (the small labels popup on mouse over)
- Restored CarStereo style - it was not working in the previous version due to a typo
- Added Snake style back to bundle
- Guestbook notification now works if the default page extension has changed to something else than html.

Chameleon v4.31

New features:

- Terrain Google map style added

Bugfix:

- FLV movies did not play when placed in a subfolder bug fixed
- Title tags corrected (the small labels when you move the mouse over an image or button). They did not show up in Internet Explorer.

Chameleon v4.30

New features:

- Blog style layout added
- Automatic Image enlargement to fill in the visitors window
- alt and title tags are added in every important place to meet the standards
- Header / Footer can be managed from the User Interface too
- Added User Interface icons
- 3 new styles (Christmas, Lack, Soft) and 1 new subtyle (Lack White)
- Lens Exif field is added (Works with Canon cameras)
- Product links can be either Text and Button
- Shipping cost has been added to Paypal shopping options
- Handling fee and Cartwise handling fee option added
- An additional Select box is added to selling options
- Quantity box added as well
- Guestbook is updated to version 2.1.
- You can remove the labels from the metadata fields
- Custom path separator in the header

Bugfix:

- Some incompatibility with JAlbum's and Chameleon's Printing service feature is fixed
- No posts get lost in the guestbook when visitors post concurrently.
- Email notification works
- JAlbum hangs when '<' used without '>' or '[' placed near the end of comment string bug fixed.
- Broken link to CSS file in the help.html is fixed
- Horizontal gaps between thumbnails upons loading the index page is fixed.

Important Notice

The naming scheme of the guestbook has changed to support the emai notification. Now the database filename reflects the original filaname and not just removed the non-websafe characters. This might result in the guestbook doesn't pick up the old guestbook entries file. If you wnat to keep the old entries first backup the /guestbook folder, then rename the files to match the new model:

E.g. if the page was:
http://mysite.com/myalbum/slides/first picture.html

The old guestbook entries file was:
__slides_first_picture.xml

You need to rename it to:
slides_!_first picture.xml

You should keep the whole path and filename (with xml extension), but change the slashes to _!_. When in doubt add an entry in the new gallery and observe which name was given the new xml file.

After renaming the files upload them again.

Chameleon v4.23

(service release)

Bugfix:

- Internet Explorer displayed the guestbook on black background in all cases. Fixed.

Chameleon v4.22

(service release)

Bugfix:

- Guestbook has been initialized with the default dimensions (360x140px) in IE served from Windows servers. Fixed.
- from now on Guestbook will using the same posts for all languages with multilingual albums. Note, that the XML file naming convention has changed from using the folder titles to the real folder names — thus you might need to rename the old guestbook XML files in order to be able to use with the newly generated gallery.

Chameleon v4.21

New features:

- Added controls for Guestbook highlight color
- and font size

Bugfix:

- Guestbook previously had problems with non-english keyboard layouts, fixed
- Czech translation went wrong in the previous version, fixed
- HTML page search keywords were not filtered for the required language in multilingual albums, fixed
- Guestbook was showing "1. [] null" on certain servers when no entries were added yet, fixed

Chameleon v4.20

New features:

- XHTML 1.0 Transitional pages generated. Browsers will support this standard for a longer time, and you can integrate the gallery into Content Management Systems more easily.
- Imporved Guestbook with optional rating, custom size, ordering, Email notification
- Selling Photos via Paypal feature
- Download icon now can be turned off if not needed

Bugfix:

- Google Maps link did not work on systems (or Java versions) using comma ',' instead of dot '.' as decimal sign, like French, German, etc.
- The uplink was not compatible with MyJalbum's main gallery address. Fixed.
- The Numbered linklist got unlimited when the number of rows set to '0' (unlimited rows). Fixed.

Chameleon v4.11

New features:

- GPS position formatting
- Link to map parameters added (Map type, Zoom level, Open in new window)

Bugfix:

- Guestbook is not working on certain PHP configurations (5.05, 5.22) problem is fixed.
- "NEW" indicator reported incorrectly on virtual folders. Fixed.
- Sound attachments cannot be found in virtual folders problem solved.

Chameleon v4.10

New features:

- Support for multilingual albums
- GPS data processing
- Link to map feature with both GPS data and Iptc location fields
- 35 mm focus equivalent computing (thanks to BluePlusPlus team for the lens data file)
- Comment now can be attached to enhanced pictures too
- Automatic maximize browser window feature
- Uplink title can be specified in order to display in the clickable path (Useful for multi-level albums.)

Bugfix:

- FixedShape filter bug (when used with Large thumbnails for folders) is fixed
- Folder with no description inherits the parent's description bug is fixed
- Chameleon will detect and use the folders thumbnails even if their name contain extended (accented) characters — previously those files were copied with a wrong filename.

Chameleon v4.04

New features:

- Thumblist on the slide page can be positioned left or rigth too relative to the main picture
- Copyright info on slide pages can be turned off
- A file chooser has been added to the Logo filter (you don't have to manually add the filename)
- You can have Guestbook only on the main page
- Updated serbian translation by Goran Milovanovic, russian by Mike Sazonov

Bugfix:

- No unnecessary uplink button is generated when no index.html in the parent folder and "Uplink" is set to "default"

Chameleon v4.03

New feature:

- Displaying folder title (or name) under the thumbnails can be disabled
- Complete polish translation by Adam Ciszewski

Bugfix:

- The Settings window went behind the main window after bringing up the Guestbook warning popup message — fixed
- Corrected help on using Enhaned image

Chameleon v4.02

This version has been checked to conform W3C standards. Now all pages should validate as "XHTML Transitional".

Bugfixes:

- Missing space in Page Title fixed

Chameleon v4.01

New features:

- "Force link to empty folders" — to generate gallery without the sub-albums ready
- "Show thumb title" — You can disable the thumb titles (the popup labels on mouse over)
- The language box now shows full name
- The maximum thumb dimensions are set to 128x128px for Graphic type thumbnails instead of the old 120x120px — though I still not recommend using larger thumbs than 120x120px
- Using "None" as Slidemount background the folder thumbnails will also show without slidemount (just the book)
- Grayscale effect for Indexpage thumbnails (works only with IE)
- Complete simplified chinese translation by Marcus Tsang

Bugfixes:

- DigiBug printing service is available again
- Enhanced picture scaling problem (distorted image) is fixed
- Broken links to original images is fixed
- Imagenavigation on the first page (showing "At first page") fixed
- Wrong folder icon with Steel style is fixed
- The download icon is there again even if no originals are copied
- Workaround for NIKON E880 and SONY Pxx series which doesn't display the Camera name corretly.

Chameleon v4.0

This version has been largely compiled into Java programming language, which made the generation process up to 300% faster compared to the previous versions. The skin's user interface loads 3 times faster too. There are so many new features, changes and bugfixes — I decided to make it a major version.

Chameleon's homepage at lazaworx.com is now working. There you can find more styles, sub-styles, sample galleries, tutorials, source code and other web-design related stuff.

New features:

- Sub-styles: The original styles' color variations. Now available for 5 styles — more on the site.
- Thumblist on both sides — left and right to the picture.
- You can choose the album's base font type and size.
- Configurable field-separator string. (default "|")
- Color input can be hexadecimal too.
- new Exposure Bias Exif field, Exposure mode added for non-Canon type cameras.
- Em-square, and Zoom filters now available for closeups (slidepage images) too.
- Albuminfo now can be detached from the tables, and displayed with no frame around.
- Guestbook on the indexpages.
- Re-designed sleeker guestbook. New graphics. The naming conflict issue is fixed. The guestbook files are stored in the root's guestbook folder — so you can manage it easier.
- Enhanced picture feature: you can choose a picture — the first one, the folder thumbnail or with a specific name (map.jpg) — to be displayed in large size on the top, left or right on the index page.
- Folder thumbnails are copied from the sub-albums right into the current level's "thumbs" folder — thus making it possible to password-protect a sub-album and visitors will still see the thumbnail representing the folder.
- Picture navigation "Previous | Next" has been added to the usual "Previous | Index | Next" .
- For the "Simple" type thumbnail background you can specify the frame width too.
- When no thumbnail background is selected there will be no background generated behind the current picture for the slide page thumblist, thank you Mark.
- The Page title now uses the whole path (e.g. "Familyalbum » Trip to London » 1st day » PICT1578.jpg")

Chameleon v3.42

- Guestbook thanks to dhina Don't forget to set the "res" folder permissions to 777 in the current album's root. Use "CHMOD 777" or set the properties right-clicking the folder in an FTP program. This will enable the visitors to write into the guestbook. Unfortunately this cannot be done with JAlbum's Publish feature.
- Movie "Scale to fit" feature can be turned off - the original size will be used instead of the given size
- XP-added fields (Title | Subject | Keywords | Comment) can be displayed along with other metadata (Exif, Iptc). You can add these fields by right-clicking the image file /Properties/Summary.
- Custom Links now can be relative to page (links not starting with "http://" or "/" treated as relative). Coding is done by Ross Tyler.
- Bugfixes: Indexlinklist broken link problem from the 10th to 9th page / thumblist pict distorted bug with large thumbnails / empty text for slidepages in certain situation

Chameleon v3.41

- More Iptc fields generated by different software are recognized. The order of Iptc fields is changed to: Headline | ObjectName | Category | Author | Location | City | Province | Country | Source | Copyright | Caption | Keywords
- The thumbnail alignment is changed to vertically centered if no thumbnail background is selected
- An additional line break is inserted if the NEW label is longer than 4 chars, like the french "Noveau"
- Album title, label, comment, author and keywords variables has been added to meta tag "keywords" (in the HTML header, recognized by the search engines)
- The default border width of slide page images is changed to 1px
- Graphic background is generated again (if chosen in the index tab) when thumbs are smaller than 120px. (When they're bigger it will replaced by simple background to avoid the thumbs stretcing out.)

Chameleon v3.4

- Improved performance for large albums
- faster, and less memory-cunsuming album generation (thanks to David Ekholm)
- Thumbnail spacing is configurable
- Automatic start of movies can be switched off (Flash content will start automatically regardless of this switch)
- 4 new styles: Chrome, Glass, Oldbook, Wedding
- The text of thumbs can be aligned right to the thumb (not only below). This is useful for the top level gallery and also for galleries with lots of text detail rendered to thumbs. Looks best when "coloumns" is reduced to 2 or 1.
- The media embedding has been totally redesigned. Due to the so called " Eolas " licencing lawsuit the browsers can not support media embedding the way before - you will see "Activate controls" messages or nothing at all in the place of multimedia content. The workaround is using an external script to embed media on the fly. Known bugs: Opera 9.01 for Windows does not play script generated Windows Media Player content (jumps back from the page), and the Flash embedding does not work too. IE and FireFox does not play DivX content from local drives. All other media types work - even Opera for Mac plays everything fine, so I hope this bug will be fixed on PCs soon.
- The movie icon has been replaced in all designs and has slide mount background as all other files.
- Slide mount background now can be "Graphic" - as before, "Simple" - just a flat background color and "None" - when no background is generated at all.
- Border can be added to indexpage thumbs as well as to slidepage images before. The hover (mouse over) color is calculated automatically, but you can specify independently too. Controls are moved to the Index page and Slide page sections.
- New Exif field: White balance
- A wide range of IPTC fields added: Caption, Headline, Object Name, Location, Country, State/Province, City, Category, Source, Keywords, Copyright, Media
- Changed some style's graphics and made transparent background buttons.
- Bugfix: when no comment was given no download icon has been generated - fixed.

Chameleon v3.32

- The NEW label now means the file is new at the time of viewing and not the time when the gallery was made. Now you can have your localized string instead of "NEW". (see text/text_??.properties)
- Custom color scrollbars (Works only with IE for PC) - you can turn off in the Chameleon's general tab
- Download icon varies in color with the different styles
- Firefox bug when the infotable got too close to the header is fixed
- Print ordering did not work from the index pages (since the beginning)- now this is fixed
- digibug CompanyID can be specified through the user interface the similar way photoBox ID was
- the Custom Links can be controlled separately whether to open in a new window or in the same

Chameleon v3.31

- There was no way to disable to show the ISO setting other than omitting the exif display at all. This is fixed.
- Danish translation update by Jacob a.k.a craps

Chameleon v3.30

- Voice annotations can be attached to slide pages. Give the sound file the same name (with the original extension) and it will be played with the photo. Supported formats: MP3, WMV, WAV, MID, RM - if there is more than one found picks the first in the list. In the case of MP3, WMV and RM JAlbum will generate separate slide pages for the sounds too, unless you "exclude" them manually in the Edit panel.
- ISO setting might gave back strange values ("Unknown: 16383") for Canon EOS machines. The bug is in the JAlbum EXIF extraction, but I have a workaround.
- Album Total images and Last Updated field appears only on the root index page - it shows Folder image count in the subfolders and Slide pages.
- Two Custom links can be added.

Chameleon v3.23

- Some bugs with tables are fixed — 3.22 had several, you better not use that version
- An unnecessary linebreak is removed when there was no table at the top
- No linklist nor thumblist is generated when only one page exists
- The default row-count is set to 0, i.e. continuous view

Chameleon v3.22

- Text instead of "Help" icon
- The Album info, JAlbum Copyright and Help grouped into one box to spare with vertical space. Album info thus placed always at the bottom.

Chameleon v3.21

- The Black style with grey background bug is fixed
- New: player included for FLV (Flash Video files) thanks to Jeroen Wijering

Chameleon v3.20

- A lot better media-embedding on Macs. The generated page contains the code for both Windows Media Player and QuickTime, and picks the better for the visitor's platform.
- New: Flash info
- New: Album info (total images, last update). The custom link is moved into this box.
- The JAlbum copyright info has now taken out of the infoboxes.
- New: popup help can be attached to albums for the visitors (only english, french and hungarian version at the moment)
- No slideshow icon on index pages when only one indexpage exists
- The Mac files with no extension bug is fixed. This time really. :)
- Comment for folders now has the same style as the comments on the slidepages
- The Indexlinklist bug when unnecessary link to last picture ( > | » ) was displayed with a broken link is fixed
- Choosing the Default Uplink behaviour the link textbox is grayed out to make clear that this link will not be used as uplink

Chameleon v3.11

- Using "Large thumbs for folders" resulted in a small frame around folders without thumbnails. Bug is fixed.
- Using files without extension on Macs caused exception used with "new" folder feature. Fixed.

Chameleon v3.10

- New Logo filter
- New Image Border for slidepage images
- The indexpage header has the same width as the slidepage's
- The "slideshow stops at the last image" bug is fixed
- The unnecessary line feed has been removed when no text below the thumb was found
- No brackets when using label in the place of comment
- Movie thumbnails now handled the same way as the picture thumbnails - all the "Text below thumbs" options are working with them, and have the same outlook
- No slide background for thumbnail pictures on the slide page when "Display slide mounts" is unselected
- A bug when nothing is displayed when only "Date" was selected as "Text below thumbs" is fixed
- Slovenian translation by Igor Trcek

Chameleon v3.04

- Option to disable slide mounts behind the thumbnails
- The empty album name now handled corretly
- Workaround for the broken links with filenames containing apostrophe (')
- Comments are also displayed on the slidepage thumblists

Chameleon v3.03

- "New" sign for files/folders modified in the last N days. Thanks for oli /france/
- .divx movies can be included too in the albums (you need to replace the filetypes.xml in the JAlbumm root!)
- Windows Media Player is now the default player for .avi files
- Uderscores (_) are replaced with spaces in the label fields under the thumbnails and on the slidepages too. (An old Chameleon feature I forgot to implement in the new version)

Chameleon v3.02

- Thumblist is looking a lot better.
- Print service is disabled from local disk.
- More media files are played (don't forget to copy the filetypes.xml to JAlbum root, and empty the ignore pattern on the Advanced/Main tab!)
- Corrected Czech translation by Miroslav Fridrich
- Plural form for "Folder image count" with more than 1 image
- ComboBoxes load corretly from saved projects

Chameleon v3.01

Service release:

- 2 </ja:if> removed
- French translation is corrected by Nakaminow
- Minithumbs have the correct size when used with "Em-square Thumbs"
- Larger minithumbs for non-image files

Chameleon v3.0

New features:

- Redesigned User Interface
- UpLink can be completely omitted, or you can stick on using the given link
- Better PhotoBox support with multiple selection from the index pages
- You can place many elements (Linklist, Folder Comments, Thumblist, Exif info, Printing box) at the top or bottom of the page or you can completely omit them
- You can set the count for Linklist pages
- Page transition delay is now configurable
- Thumblist is a completely new feature: you can include previous and next N thumbs on the slide pages for the easier navigation
- The text to display on the slide pages is now configurable
- You can choose which EXIF info components to display
- Built-in filters section with Fixed-size (em-square), Grayscale, ColorMap and Watermark text filter
- Detailed help
- Now you can embed movies into the slide pages
- Languages:
  - French by Nakaminow and Pilou
  - Finnish by Ulla Saarinen
  - Russian by Mike Sazonov
  - Portuguese by Carlos Albarran
  - Czech by Mirek Fridrich
  - Polish by Arthur Starz
  - Ukrainian Serhij Dubyk
  - German by Torsten Roloff
  - Dutch by Peter Z