Software update: Jalbum 8.5

Tuesday version 8.5 of Jalbum was released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a well-arranged interface, photos can be easily edited, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. Once everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, Jalbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

News and Updates

• Ability to change location for album publishing in the quick publishing dialog
• Hover buttons to nagivate into and in the edit view
• The album info window now updates as users deletes albums from it
• Better at starting quickly on broken networks
• New design for account meter in the status bar
• Folders will have thumbnails activated by default
• Skins may include .jar files in a “lib” folder too making it easier for skins to include 3:party code.
• The status icons for thumbnails now have tool-tips
• When installing a skin over a previous skin, the old version is put in the recycle bin under Windows and deleted on Mac.
• The tool-tip for thumbnails now displays the path to the original image
• Better support for skin developers by inclusion of new support classes (ComponentUtilities and StateMonitor) to simplify managing component states
• The image filter buttons now have the same new look as the album buttons
• The file name of the currently edited image is now displayed in the window title
• Mouseover effect when selecting album projects
• Some UI enhancements
• New CropFilter for skins to use
• Languages ​​updated. Thank you all translators!
• Camera 30mm focal length conversion table updated
• Updated the JColorSelector component so it properly handles the enabled/disabled state of its attached text component.
• Updated the JColorSelector component so it displays its disabled state using dashed lines
• Skin developers can now read various skin related properties from the updated SkinProperties class

Bug fixes

• User variables weren’t available when processing the “init.bsh” file or css files.