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Release Notes ​

15 Oct 2026: ver. 1.8.1

  • Lottie Text Editor and Animation Viewer: fixed the icons of the side menu and of the toolbar, not shown when the application started without files (the toolbar buttons appeared only after a mouse-over).
  • VCL styles: removed the obsolete Windows10 styles; available styles: Sky, Windows Modern, Windows11 Impressive Light, Windows11 Modern Light, Windows11 Polar Light (light) and Glow, Windows Modern SlateGray, Windows11 Impressive Dark, Windows11 Modern Dark, Windows11 Polar Dark (dark). On Windows 10 the default style is "Windows Modern" (light) or "Windows Modern SlateGray" (dark); a style saved by a previous version and no longer available is replaced by the default one.
  • Settings, Theme page: all the styles linked into the application are offered, classified as light or dark automatically ("Windows Modern" and "Windows Modern SlateGray" were not offered).
  • About dialog: the link points to the new documentation site ethea.it/docs/skiatools; copyright updated to 2026.

14 Oct 2026: ver. 1.8.0

  • Lottie Text Editor: new Color palette panel under the editor, showing the colors of the animation (fill and stroke, also animated, gradient stops, solid layers, text, color effects and slots), grouped by color with the number of occurrences and a hint with value, properties and opacities.
  • Lottie Text Editor: click on a palette color to highlight all its occurrences in the text; move between them with Alt+Right / Alt+Left or with the arrow buttons of the palette. The palette marks the color under the editor caret.
  • Lottie Text Editor: double-click on a palette color to replace the color under the caret, keeping the notation of the file (number of components, precision, alpha, 0..1 or 0..255 scale, offset of a gradient stop).
  • Lottie Text Editor: palette context menu to replace all the occurrences of a color (one undo), select them with multiple carets, copy the color value, add or remove custom colors; option in Settings to show or hide the palette.
  • Fixed a GDI handle and memory leak in the Thumbnail provider: every generated thumbnail leaked resources inside the Explorer process.
  • The shared resources data module is now a single instance created on demand, instead of one created and destroyed by every preview.
  • Preview: the text of Lottie files with non-ASCII characters is read as UTF-8.
  • Lottie Text Editor: the first Undo no longer empties the file just opened.
  • Lottie Text Editor: the animation is no longer reloaded at every keystroke.
  • Lottie Text Editor: files whose extension is uppercase (.JSON) can now be opened.
  • Lottie Text Editor: closing with unsaved changes can now be cancelled; fixed the management of the tabs on errors and when closing the first tab; Save all continues after a file that cannot be saved.
  • Lottie Text Editor: the gutter of the editor follows the dark styles.
  • The new-version check runs in background at startup, respects the "Automatic check" option and its interval, and no longer crashes when the download starts right after the automatic check.
  • Added the styles "Windows11 Modern Light" and "Windows11 Modern Dark" (the default ones on Windows 11); a stored style no longer available falls back to the default one instead of raising an error.
  • Setup: the Skia library is installed also with the Editor or the Viewer alone.

03 Jun 2026: ver. 1.7.1

  • Added single-instance behavior: opening a file now reuses the running editor instead of starting a new one.
  • Added Settings option to remember and reopen files from the last session.

07 Sep 2025: ver. 1.7.0

  • Built with Delphi 13
  • Refactoring PageControl to speedup loading
  • Added Animation Viewer
  • Added check for new version available, download and install
  • Updated Setup

02 Mar 2025: ver. 1.6.0

  • Added "Wordwrap option" for the editor (active by default)
  • Updated the latest Image32 library
  • Added Color options in Editor GUI
  • Updated to Image32 4.6 Released Feb 2025 to fix some drawing issue

12 May 2024: ver. 1.5.4

  • Added StyledComponents (Rounded Buttons options)
  • Added init for GDI+Plus to Dll's
  • Deleted unused images

09 May 2024: ver. 1.5.3

  • Added File Changed notification and reload
  • Built with Delphi 12.1
  • Built with Latest Image32 Library
  • Built with Latest Skia4Delphi 6.1 Library

13 Jan 2024: ver. 1.5.2

  • Aligned to Image32 Library
  • Updated Copyright

26 Oct 2023: ver. 1.5.1

  • Optimized rendering of Icon using the Skia Codec directly
  • Enabled system draw for title and border of Editor when Styled

25 Oct 2023: ver. 1.5.0

  • Added "close button" over Tabs in Editor
  • Updated to Skia4Delphi 6.0.0-beta 5
  • Fixed enabling of Inverse Play Button
  • Built with Delphi 12

12 Mar 2023: ver. 1.4.0

  • Added "inverse" animation to Preview and Editor

27 Feb 2023: ver. 1.3.0

  • Updated to Skia4Delphi 4.1.1
  • Updated Projects to Delphi 11.3

13 Jan 2023: ver. 1.2.0

  • Updated to Skia4Delphi 4.0.2
  • Fixed Animation Panel of Preview

09 Nov 2022: ver. 1.1.0

  • Updated to Skia4Delphi 4.0.1
  • Fixed settings filename

24 Sep 2022: ver. 1.0.1

  • Fixed Setup registering 32bit dll
  • Fixed settings filename

23 Sep 2022: ver. 1.0.0

  • First version

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