PanoTools:
New version of PTViewer
Fulvio Senore 2006-Apr-01 17:06:46
I have just released PTViewer V2.8 beta7.
New features:
- Fixed: when autopanning and quality=6, moving the mouse over the viewer caused the interpolator to switch to nearest neighbour reducing image quality (a lot of "shimmering" effect).
- Added new parameter "horizonPosition" (integer, no decimals) to specify the position of the horizon if it is not in the middle of the pano image. Without this parameter PTViewer would show a curved horizon. The parameter is a % value of the image height, measured from the top. The default value is 50 and the horizon is considered to be in the middle of the image. If the value is less than 50 the horizon is nearer to the top of the image, if it is greater than 50 the horizon is nearer to the bottom of the image. For example, if you have a pano 1150 pixels high and the horizon is 430 pixels from the top then the parameter value is 430/1150*100 = 37.
- Pressing "o" will interactively decrease the value of the horizonPosition parameter with feedback in the status bar, pressing "O" will increase it. This is useful to quickly find the correct value for the parameter. Hotspots position will not be updated since it would require more work and this feature is not intended for production use.
- Added parameter "authoringMode" (default = false). If set to true it will enable authoring features that could have unexpected results for end users. At the moment it will only enable the "o" key (see above).
- Added parameter "toolbarBoldText", default=false. If set to true the hotspots description in the toolbar will be written in bold font.
- Added parameter "statusMessage": it can be used to specify a fixed text to be written in the status bar. The text is written every time the user drags the mouse or presses an arrow key. This parameter does not work with Firefox (for security reasons).
- Added parameter "hsShowDescrInStatusBar" (default = true). If set to false the applet will not show the hotspots' description in the browser's status bar when the mouse moves over a hotspot.
- Changed default mouse sensitivity because panning was too fast with modern computers.
- Added new features in static hotspots declaration: "y" and "b" values can be negative. If negative they are computed from the bottom of the viewer window and not from the top.
"x" and "a" values can be negative: if negative they are computed from the right of the viewer window and not from the left.
"x" must compute to a positive number lower than "a".
"y" must compute to a positive number lower than "b".
http://www.fsoft.it/panorama/PTViewer.htm
follow the link at the top of the page.
Fulvio Senore
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