Shozam version update

Razvan Neagu — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:21:28 GMT

Update older versions of Shozam.

Note: It is recommended to backup your gallery files before you update Shozam. Re-generating an existing gallery after installing an update will force all files to be generated.

2010.01.05 - Version 1.4.39

IMPROVEMENTS

· Full compatiblility with Windows 7

· More license flexibility for Express, Advanced and Business editions

2009.08.26 - Version 1.3.38

FIXES

· Fixed a compatibility issue introduced in v.37 and preventing Shozam to operate normally on Windows Vista.

2009.08.24 - Version 1.3.37

IMPROVEMENTS

· Introduce a prompt to generate gallery when moving from Step 5 to Step 6 after changing gallery name or location.

· Shozam upgrades now will activate automatically, without requiring Helpdesk to manually provide a new activation key.

FIXES

· Fixed an issue where Shozam would generate unnecessarily all gallery files, even with "generate modified files only" checked in Step 5.

· Fixed an issue where Step 5 will not remember edits in various user interface text boxes after click Back and then Next buttons.

· Fixed an activation issue where entering an invalid key would prompt a message "activation successful" even though activation actually would have failed.

2009.06.15 - Version 1.3.36

IMPROVEMENTS

· Step 2 --> Sell tab: Support for many additional currencies

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Installing a Shozam version update will now force Shozam to generate all gallery files regardless of the "generate modified files only" checkbox in Step 5 (ensuring Shozam update propagates through all gallery files and preventing odd incompatibilities)

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: All gallery files generated if gallery folder is deleted or not found

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Improved clarity of the main tab in Step 5 which now has a new field for Gallery Folder Name. This should make it more explicit where the gallery files are stored and prevent issues and confusion that occurred in earlier versions. TIP: You can use this now to hide your gallery title from displaying in the top banner of your gallery pages. Learn more...

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Gallery path in Step 1 and in Step 5 will now be in sync, which will prevent issues when a gallery is manually moved to another location. Step 5 Gallery Folder Name and Gallery Location fields are now pre-populated from the path displayed in Step 1 of Shozam rather than from the gallery project file - WebGallery.xml.

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: "Overwrite?" popup window that appears in Step 5 before generating the gallery is now more accurate and informative

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Now you can access View Gallery and View Files in Step 5 after you click Cancel in the "Overwrite?" alert window

· Edition Upgrades: Upgrades now activate automatically; no need to require a special activation key

FIXES

· Fixed a theme display "hide" issue

2009.05.14 - Version 1.2.35

IMPROVEMENTS

· Improved compatibility of themes with Linux servers; sometimes theme background graphic was not displaying. (Changed theme folder image introbkgrd.jpg Capitalization (introBkgrd.jpg) for first them to make consistent with other themes.)

· Improved compatibility with web servers that do not recognize correctly or transcode certain special characters. (Shozam now replaces `!@#$%^&()+~; _ - [ { ] } ‘ , ©=-_Øå®€'™ characters in the image filenames with “_”.)

· Step 2 --> Map tab: Added dropdown options 0 to 19 in for zoom

· Better map display: There will be new UI Map options available at Image/Gallery map and also at Step 2 View Map.

· Better map display: Map zoom level will start from 0 and not 1 at Step 2 map tab.

· Better map display: By default Map options will be Map/Satellite/Terrain on image/gallery map and at Step 2 View map to maintain consistency.

· Better map display: Zoom for single gallery map will set nicely and map will appear (before giving error that 'sorry map is not available to show to this zoom level')

· Better map display: Applied 3D control for maps at Image/Gallery and Step 2 View Map.
Better map display: Applied scale control for maps at Image/Gallery and Step 2 View Map.

· Better map display: Zoom for Gallery map will set nicely to fit maximum markers unlike before set to 2 in all conditions

· Better map based navigation in the gallery: Image map will now also show all markers as Gallery map will have same zoom as applied at Step 2. Only balloon will be on selected image.

· Better map based navigation in the gallery: Removed pre/next links from image map.

· Step 5 --> Tag tab: Easier entry of copy-and-paste text in the tag tab. (Replaced enter keystroke at Step 5 tag tab keyword textbox with space (“ “).)

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: 'Overwrite existing gallery' alert popup should not come if Generate Modified files option is checked or there is no gallery present at Gallery location path. Step 5 --> Generate tab: New UI for gallery title and location to ensure Gallery path will always be in Sync. Gallery path textbox will have whole path of gallery unlike before to avoid errors due to confusions.

· Gallery title displayed on generated pages and the page title tag (displayed in the browser window bar) will be now in sync even if you change title (in Step 5) for an existing gallery.

· Improvement in 'generate modified files only' option: All html files will generate of that particular album if info checkbox checked/unchecked.

· Better custom CSS support: Edit Customize theme will be accepted even if some property is not valid or not interpreting CSS (including comments and BLOCKED EXPRESSION.

· Better custom CSS support: Properties will not be resorted by Shozam in theme.css file.

· Detect any modifications in Gallery st Step 5 and prompt before allowing going to step 6.

· Help URL’s verified and updated (Step 6 'Integrate with existing' links were broken after help server moved location)

· Resolved issue for old version gallery having duplicated file names opening in Latest version.

· EXIF checkboxes changes detected and generated required files.

· Step 3: Made consistent text “Modify album pages” in context menu as well as on button

· Removed issue from adding Bmp image and if source not available while generating modified gallery.

· Added in warning message path for missing File /album name and image name on step 2 when file source is not available.

· Resolved double dot issue on image map page.

· Step 2 --> Other tab: Original link was not visible in image map page even if you include source image

· Delete source image having special characters and apply watermark to existing gallery.

· Info.htm file should not have extra space characters at info image path in info.htm file unlike before which was causing issue in Dreamweaver.

· Step 6: aligned controls better in the UI

· Updated License.rtf to 2004-2009.

STABILITY FIXES

2008.12.19 - Version 1.2.34

CHANGES

· Help links and help buttons open windows of different sizes, to accommodate the two type of layouts for the help pages.

· New help link in Step 6 providing information on how to integrate with an existing website (links to FAQ page)

· Trial version includes a couple of popups providing helpful information in Step 1 and Step 3

· Minor text change in Step 3 of Shozam

2008.11.06 - Version 1.2.32

CHANGES: Different location for online help files. Some minor interface tweaks to Step 1 in trial mode. Updated license agreement.

2008.10.10 - Version 1.2.31

Fixes: Generate "modified files only" feature vastly improved and now requires far fewer files to be generated. When modifying large galleries, the time required to process, generate and upload your gallery files is decreased by 50-90%, leaving you more time to have fun!

[Technical detail: this version update changes the structure of the gallery project file - WebGallery.xml that is generated in the root of the gallery folder. Galleries are forward compatible but not backwards compatible. This means galleries created by versions older than 1.2.30 can be opened and converted to the new format. Galleries created by this version cannot be opened by Shozam using versions older than 1.2.30. If you have a special need to use an older version of the program, we recommend you backup your gallery project files.]

2008.10.06 - Version 1.2.30

Fixes: Interim version improving "generate modified files only" feature with one limitation; works only on galleries with up to 6 albums.

2008.06.09 - Version 1.2.29

Fixes:

· Issue in version 1.2.28.0 related to Vista permissions.

· Issue in version 1.2.28.0 related to licensing of the upload module.

2008.05.06 - Version 1.2.27

Fixes - Issue in version 1.2.26; Vista related issue prompted by the new versioning number scheme.
[Technical detail: Dropping the last digit in the version number created problem in the security module on Vista]

NOTE: Fixing map issues in existing galleries requires re-generating all HTML files. For this you can uncheck the "generate modified files only" in Step 5. This will also reprocess and re-generate all image files, which is not neccessary. Another option is to re-generate (all) HTML files only. For this, just change the View Type for the Gallery Map following the steps below:

1. Start Shozam

2. Step 1 --> choose to modify existing gallery

3. Step 3 --> choose to modify an album (does not matter which)

4. Step 2 --> select the the Map Tab --> deselect all thumbnails

5. Click the View drop-down selector and select a different type

6. Generate gallery (you can keep "generate modified files only" checked)

7. Follow the steps above again and change the View Type back and re-generate (optional)

8. Upload

2008.04.30 - Version 1.2.26

Improvements

10973: Improved interoperability with Microsoft FrontPage. Fixed issue where Shozam Slideshow Page displays tiny 31px x 31px images.

[Technical detail: Issue was caused by FrontPage with Server Extensions enabled on the server as FrontPage would edit gallery pages without any explicit command to do so or any notification to the user that it has done this. Fix includes specific code on the Slideshow pages instructing FrontPage to not touch those files.]

Knowledgebase: http://helpdesk.shozam.com/Customer/KBArticle.aspx?articleid=3
Forums: http://community.shozam.com/forums/p/639/3364.aspx
Forums: http://community.shozam.com/forums/p/496/3358.aspx

2008.01.18 - Version 1.1.0.25

Fixes

· 10353: Program freeze at times when uploading large galleries (support ticket 203-0F104D91-93BC)

· 10365: The Other tab in Step 2 of the Trial Express edition did not display.

· 10366: Issue in image maps; sometimes last location would override all other locations

2008.01.03 - Version 1.1.0.24

Fixes

· 10230: Shozam now accepts 6-digit affiliate numbers (support ticket 274-0EFBBC01-94AF9921)

· 9921: Fixed stability issue with VideoWidget (support ticket 06C-0ED10D5B-4B52)

· 10129: Fixed issue with gallery upload (support ticket 22F-0EE9A8B6-6159)

2007.11.01 - Version 1.1.0.23

Fixes

· 8876: Clicking on view files after changing gallery name no longer crashes program

· 9797: Fix situation when a previously created gallery was not recognized by Shozam any longer (support ticket 192-0EB6DBD3-D7B8 )

· 9798: Fix situation where images form revious albums appeared selected in a new album for Intro Animation.

· 9800: Fix situation where intro animation does not appear if album has manual option selected and also images from other albums

2007.09.24 - Version 1.1.0.22

Fixes

· 8791: Step 2 - Right-click on thumbnail displays the context menu and no longer produces an error

2007.09.11 - Version 1.1.0.21

Fixes

· 8653: Upgrade from Lite Edition to higher edition - activation issue fixed

· 8652: Step 2 - Map Tab - minor typo fixed

2007.08.10 - Version 1.1.0.20

Improvements

· 8143: Changed generate metatag for Shozam BusinessPlus Edition

· 7813: and 7812: Split the Free/Trial Edition into dedicated versions of the program

· New version of Shozam Lite Edition (now is a paid version but no Promo Album is generated)

· 8129: Updated EULA to accomodate new Shozam Lite Edition and Shozam Trial

Fixes

· 7921: System is no loner crashing in Step 2 (without any album) when clicking on "close" and then "back" button.

· 7918: Step X (on close) now displays properly

· 7916: Step 1 now displays the correct file

· 7910: Help link: “About Shozam Editions” is not showing complete absolute link.

· 7923: Images from previous gallery no longer get displayed on Step 2 while creating a new gallery

· 7837: Video widget is now added when"Generate modified files only" is checked.

· 7954: Edit the pop up message when converting a WGW gallery with new Trial edition on Step 1

· 7946: Shozam Trial: Correct features are now enabled when moving from higher edition to lower

· 7942: Lite Edition -> Step 5 - No longer crash on 'Image' and 'Protect' tab

· 7941: Lite Edition -> Step 2 -> No longer crash when clicking on 'trying' disabled tabs.

· 8137: Program now does not fail when previewing generated gallery and default Web browser is Firefox

· 8495: Changed the MAC address dependency of the program works when Internet Connection is disabled from the Windows Network Connections Window (Error was: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library,Assertion failed!)

2007.06.26 - Version 1.0.1.16

Fixes

· 7718: Step 1 --> Activation tab: Correct hex to decimal conversion for the hardware id

· 7725: Image 'Long description' value is now used in the 'Description' meta-tag for that Image Map Page

2007.06.25 - Version 1.0.1.15

Improvements

· 7654: Add "Move top" and "Move bottom" buttons in Step 2 --> Image tab --> Arrange

· 7620: Store the Upload Preset selection in each each gallery so it will be selected by default when going back to modify that gallery

· 7718: Modify Register tab in Step 1, now called "Activation" and providing a clearer interface

· 7725: Album description is now used for the Description meta-tag on all album-wide pages

· 7702: Customize Step 1 page for each edition and first time in Lite

· Online help files updated (Tag tab page)

Fixes

· 7725: Album description is now used for the Description meta-tag on all album-wide pages

· 7726: Step 2 --> Video tab: Fixed crash after clicking on any "Move..." buttons

· 7727: Step 1 --> Activation tab: Fixed crash when clicking on tab in Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

2007.06.18 - Version 1.0.0.14

Improvements

· 7670: Register Tab in Step 1 (can now enter Name/Key for manual activations)

· 7674: Lite Edition - Promo Album update

· 7673: Lite Edition - Custom Step 7 (feedback page)

· 7672: New Step 1 page when running program for the first time and for each edition

· 7584: Large picture size for the original image now has scrollbar

Fixes

· 7619: Slideshow now stops and remains stopped after user clicks "next"

· 7572: Step 2 --> Other Tab: Album thumbnail section is now enabled in "modify" mode

· 7556: Corrected gallery statistics displayed when generating gallery from Lite Edition

· 7621: Affiliate ID is now retained when modifying gallery

Improved overall security

2007.06.04 - Version 1.0.0.13

Fixes

· 7553: Step 5 --> Gallery now generates successfully even when image has unsupported EXIF metadata

· 7540: Step 4 --> Installing new themes now shows the correct theme preview image on the left

· 7533: Going back after generating gallery without any further modifications does no longer display "your input is not saved" warning

· 7525: Step 5 --> Protect transparency slider shows disabled when choosing text watermark option since text transparency is not supported

· 7355: Application is no longer destabilized when clicking "Back" and "Next" buttons briskly one after the other

· 7557: Step 5 --> Text change from "analysing file" to "Analysing file"

· 7567: Fix crash occuring under specific cicumstances after making changes to a theme (such as changing the theme preview image) and then trying to use that theme in a following progam session

2007.05.25 - Version 1.0.0.12

New Features

· Step 2 --> Video Tab: You can now import Apple .MOV video files (uses QuickTime player)

· Step 2 --> Video Tab: You can add custom thumbnail image for Video Pages

· Step 5 --> Generate Tab: Enhanced Summary Report provided on the left after generating gallery

Fixes

· 7467: Theme Editor font size units are now simplified to show only "px" (pixels)

· 7518: Application window can now be opened in conditions where it previously failed

· 7529: Summary Report modified to show correct results

· 7530: Fixed invalid message "Invalid custom theme specified..." while modifying gallery

· 7531: Gallery size is displayed only after gallery is generated in the same session

· 7535: Summary Report is now displayed only after gallery is generated in the same session

· FTP Upload syntax improved to work with Linux/Unix servers where it was failing before

2007.05.21 - Version 1.0.0.11

· Step 5 --> Generate Tab: Add help link for information about burning gallery to CD-ROM

· Step 6 --> Upload Tab: Add Delete button to delete files from the Web server

· Step 6 --> Presets Tab: Corrected "/" vs."\" behavior.

2007.05.21 - Version 1.0.0.10

· Step 6 --> Presets Tab: Fixed Save button to be enabled as needed

· 10972: Improved Gallery Map functionality. Fixed issue where Map does not display all markers on the main Gallery Map. This fix affects only newly created galleries.

· [Technical details: Changed the assumption of showing the gallery map with only one particular marker as it is given to global gallery map. Default changed to show all the markers of maps in the gallery. If user does not selected any image in the album, then Shozam will disable all the controls, except the View selector which allows user to select the type of view for the Gallery Map.]

Forums: http://community.shozam.com/forums/p/949/3305.aspx

Fixes

· 10974: Improved program stability. Fixed crash which happened under some situations when user in Step 3 clicks on an album while Shozam is still loading other albums.
[Technical detail: implementation was changed as in the case of user clicking Next/Prev buttons.]

· 10381: Improve page layout artifacts and cross-browser compatibility. Fixed issue where on longer gallery pages (like when having many PayPal Buy buttons, which extend the height of the gallery page) the page footer does not go all the way to the bottom of the page when viewing the page in Firefox and Safari. Rather, it overlapped with page content (or the Buy buttons). Ticket: 232-0F248F19-881 (other support tickets related to this issue as well)

· [Technical detail: Adjusted a CSS class from "height =..." to "min-height =..." to support both Firefox and Safari browsers along with IE.]
Forums: http://community.shozam.com/forums/p/903/3147.aspx

· 11122: Fixed issue where Shozam did not run on Windows Vista. Ticket: 3C1-0FAB185D-3662
[Technical detail: Issue was triggered by the change of version format from four number groups to three. Fix relies on changing back to the longer version identification. The significance of each number is now as follows: 1) Major version, 2) Minor version, 3)Update release number, 4) Typically not significant.

· 10972: Expanded previous Map fix to display all markers on the main map of the gallery. Now this happens not only in new galleries but also in existing galleries, created by previous versions of Shozam.
[Technical detail: Added support for trimming the XML for an existing gallery, making it compliant with the new format required by the changes to the map section]

· 11128: Fixed issue where the map label appeared on existing galleries.
[Technical detail: Fix above also fixes this issue]

STABILITY

· Fixed condition where Shozam would encounter invalid image files or certain access/permission to files.

2008.06.02 - Version 1.2.28

Fixes - Issue in version 1.2.27.0; Upload to some Yahoo webhosting servers failed.
[Technical detail: program was not stripping spaces from the image filename when creating filenames for respective HTML files]

· Help links and help buttons open windows of different sizes, to accommodate the two type of layouts for the help pages.

· New help link in Step 6 providing information on how to integrate with an existing website (links to FAQ page)

· Trial version includes a couple of popups providing helpful information in Step 1 and Step 3

· Minor text change in Step 3 of Shozam

Handled program stability issues for the following scenarios:

· Step 2 --> Video tab: Preview click when Video file is Invalid/ Implemented same for audio/image preview (testcase 15569)

· Step 2 --> Video tab: Select Preview from context menu for invalid video/image file (testcase 15636)

· Step 2 --> Video tab: Previewing video (also from context menu) while video file is invalid or source deleted

· Step 2 --> Audio tab: Previewing audio while audio file is invalid or source deleted

· Step 2 --> Image tab: Previewing image from Context menu while image file is invalid or source deleted

· Step 3 --> Options tab: Previewing audio while audio file is invalid or source deleted

· Step 4: Load custom theme that has comments in the CSS file

· Step 4: Load custom theme that has expressions in the CSS file

· Step 4: Load custom theme that has a property added with no set value

· Step 4: Load custom theme that has invalid text as a property

· Step 4 --> Customize tab: Delete button when particular theme is already open or access denied

· Step 4 --> Customize tab: Preview button when access is denied

· Step 4 --> Customize tab: Save as button when access is denied

· Step 4: About theme button when access is denied

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Generate gallery right after a source image is deleted

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Generate gallery opened from Step 1 after gallery was manually deleted or moved to another location

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Confusing Gallery Title with Gallery location

· Step 5 --> Generate tab: Gallery location path mismatched with Step 1 Gallery location path

· Deleting existing Gallery folder while it’s open in Shozam.

· Deleting Source image while added video in single image gallery.

· Deleting all Source images of particular album having single album before generating gallery.

· Deleting all Source images of particular album having two or more albums before generating gallery.

· Duplicated albums generation after deleting all Source images of particular album having multiple albums before generating gallery.

· Access to path issue for My Shozam Themes folder.

· Access to path issue for Gallery folder.

· Generate Gallery when theme folder is not accessible.

KNOWN ISSUES

These are existing issues that are known:

· Video files will not play *locally* in any browser other than IE 5; once uploaded it will play great in all browsers. Same for Original (source) file.

· If internet connection not available or some other net issue occurs, map file will give JavaScript error on page.

· If an existing gallery (created with an ealrier version than 1.2.35) has duplicated file names and if you open gallery in any later versions (including 1.2.35), due to duplicated file names Shozam will remove one image and it may generate twice the remaining image.

· Due to security Windows Vista users not logged in with full administrator account privileges can only run Shozam if launched with “Run as Administrator” .

STABILITY

· Handled instability when trying to generate gallery in a private folder under Windows Vista if not using "Run as Admin" mode

KNOWN ISSUE

· Shozam does not run under Windows 7 (which is only in an early Beta test stage; expected release date is October 22, 2009)