Image Investigator

Version Info

Management tools and overview of archive have been put in a new form named Maintenance.
Consideration of negative similarity has been turned off now. It can be turned on in Advanced Settings.
The content encoding will now be set in reports. This will now display special characters, properly when the browser setting is e.g. UTF-8..
If the environment variable LOCALAPPDATA is set (Windows Vista) all files, which are modified by the application, are stored in the local application data folder. This should now avoid any problems, which relate to the User-Account-Control of Windows Vista. At the first use of this program version, all related files are copied to the application data folder and are ignore in the program folder thereafter.
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The browse buttons in the detail form not only starts the explorer, but also select the current image now.
The result list can now be sorted by the first two columns as well.
The Ignore List handling has been changed for faster access.
An error when using the Frequency Distribution has been fixed.
The information in the Archive Maintenance will now be updated correctly.

The left identical part is now being displayed in green, if identical in the Result Form
The color of the information field in the is now changed on directory change to make a change easy to notice.
Behind the creation time, the number of files in that folder is now displayed in brackets.

The Detail dialog has been modified to keep important elements in view for faster operation and easier identification of differences.

The Detail dialog has been modified to keep important elements in view for faster operation.

Copy / Move dialog has been enhanced with free input for the target file.
Deleted images are no longer automatically removed form the results. They are displayed in gray or as "deleted". The result list can be cleaned via the right mouse button menu and Pack.

Now one can open folders for the images displayed in the result list or detail dialog.
Settings forms are now cnetered when the main window is resized.
Missing DLLs are now included in the program package.

Now one can open an explorer window for the current file from the result list or the detail dialog.
Settings forms are now centered if the program window if this is maximaized.

Now one can use a Color Pattern or simple drawing to locate images in the database.
Results can now be sorted manually or automatically after a query.

Automatic folder verification can be turned off now. This saves time when dealing with many files in a directory tree.
The compare algoritm has been improved to be more destinct with landscape pictures.
When deleting the last row of results or position to an unexisting row, the detail dialog will be closed now.
Fixed a minor bug where the new file types wouldn't be resized properly.

Change behavior for closest matches. This function is no longer automatically activated under few conditions, but can be selected.

Minor bug fix in error reporting, when there are more than 100000 images in an Archive.
Verify of a cache can now be forced to syncronize cache of Archive or Probe with the file system.
Handling of deleted images in result list fixed.

Frequency Distribution of similarity with clickable bars to view a range of results.
Histoy in Select File or Directory dialog.

Results views can be saved and loaded now. Buttons need to be made visible in maintenance.
The ignore list is now either for an archive or global. Its always global, if probe is unequal archive.