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Version 2.2, December 26, 2009

• Modified zoom behavior in the plan to zoom in the center of the displayed zone.
• Fixed a bug that happened with 3D models imported in furniture catalog from a zip file.
• Fixed a bug that reset rights on saved SH3D files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to drag and drop catalog furniture without selecting it first under Mac OS X.
• Fixed a computing bug on walls with almost equal ordinates.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to display correctly the texture of sloped walls.
• Added support for Linux 64 bits.
• Improved API to simplify the creation of customized versions of Sweet Home 3D.
• Added Bulgarian localization written by Valentin Laskov.
• Replaced JRE 6u16 by JRE 6u17 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Updated iText to version 2.1.7 (caution: from version 5.0.0, iText isn't distributed under GNU LGPL license anymore).
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 2.1, September 30, 2009

• As the Online version available on sweethome3d.eu is now able to save homes in the private space of the users registered to the site, its applet was improved to be able to:
  • save user preferences on server,
  • export a home at SH3D format to edit it with the downloadable version,
  • follow modifications made in the edited home to avoid the user changing browser page without saving it,
  • display the memory amount used by Java in the browser status bar.
• Improved loading performances of a SH3D file.
• Renamed print process as Sweet Home 3D followed by home name.
• Fixed a bug in photo-realistic rendering that displayed black polygons around a home.
• Fixed a bug that prevented home plan to be rendered correctly when walls were created with a double-click in a room which contains two points very close to each other.
• Fixed a bug that caused memory leaks when importing 3D models and when creating photos.
• Fixed a bug under Mac OS X that made menus and their shortcuts disappear after displaying Preferences or About dialog boxes.
• Reduced maximum used memory from 1024 MB to 512 MB to avoid could not create the Java virtual machine errors under Windows.
• Replaced JRE 6u14 by JRE 6u16 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Japanese localization written by Takahiro Sato.
• Added Vietnamese localization of the user interface written by Phùng Lê Tuấn.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 2.0, June 6, 2009

• Added 3D View > Create photo... menu item to create PNG images of the current 3D view with the ability to choose their size and their rendering quality; photo-realistic rendering performed by SunFlow library.
• Enabled the user to enter walls and rooms size with the keyboard once he presses the Enter key.
• Added the ability to create the walls around a room by double-cliking in that room.
• Added new preferences for the rendering of the plan to view furniture from its top, fill the floor of the rooms with their color or their texture, and change the pattern of walls.
• Added the units Meter and Millimeter.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to compute correctly the location of doors and windows and that made the plan view blank.
• Fixed a bug that didn't update the 3D view after some camera moves on computers with low capabilities.
• Updated the JNLP file of Sweet Home 3D to require Java 3D 64 bits on 64 bits architecture.
• Replaced JRE 6u12 by JRE 6u14 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization of help pages written by Zhao Si-cong.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.8, April 5, 2009

• Added Plan > Lock base plan menu item and its matching button in plan to select and arrange furniture more easily.
• Added Plan > Hide background image menu item to hide/display the background image without deleting it.
• Added Plan > Export to SVG format... menu item to export the home plan in a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file thanks to FreeHEP library.
• Added File > Save and compress menu item to save the current home in a smaller SH3D file and ease file transfer.
• Developed a 3D viewer applet to let users show their SH3D files on their web wite.
• Improved the 3D view to get smoother point of view changes, depending on the available power of user's computer.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to search in help files written with a non-western encoding.
• Updated iText to version 2.1.5.
• Added Greek localization written by Elli Nicolaou.
• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization of the user interface written by Zhao Si-cong.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.7, March 13, 2009

• Automatic adjustment of the thickness and the orientation of a door or a window dropped upon a wall.
• Automatic adjustment of the location and the orientation of a piece of furniture dropped along a wall.
• Automatic elevation of an piece of furniture dropped on an other one.
• Drawn the sashes of doors and windows with an arc of a circle (this feature is only available for doors and windows of the catalog provided from version 1.7 and for furniture libraries from version 1.0.3).
• Drawn the front face of the selected furniture with a thicker line in the plan.
• Drawn the bounding rectangle of a piece dragged in the plan, during its initial drag and drop.
• Managed the drag and drop cursor with the icon of the added piece of furniture under Mac OS X.
• Automatic move of pasted objects only when they can't be distinguished from current selection in plan.
• Fixed a bug that wrongly changed the default wall height and wall thickness in preferences pane when the user changed the unit.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.6, February 18, 2009

• Modified popup menus to display only enabled items.
• Added support of the importation of 3D models that need other files like texture images, even if these files aren't included in a ZIP file.
• Modified the reader of OBJ + MTL files ; caution, this change may have some side-effects on your existing homes, because the transparency factor of 3D objects read from OBJ files wasn't always correctly managed until now.
• Added support for the import with a double-click of SH3P files containing a Sweet Home 3D plug-in.
• Improved the stability of the online version of Sweet Home 3D.
• Fixed a bug that displayed incorrectly the print scale previously chosen by the user.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to display the tooltip of a piece of furniture of the catalog in the English version.
• Replaced JRE 6u11 by JRE 6u12 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Italian localization of help pages written by Simone Bufalino and re-read by Rosella Mariotti.

Version 1.5.1, December 17, 2008

• Corrected a bug that prevented to display some dialog boxes in Spanish and Brazilian Potuguese version of Sweet Home 3D under Windows and Linux.
• Reorganized localized files to simplify localization process.

Version 1.5, December 8, 2008

• Added the Create rooms tool, with the ability to display the name and the area of the rooms in the plan, and to change the color or the texture of their floor and their ceiling in the 3D view.
• Added the Add texts tool to add free texts to plan.
• Added a check box in the furniture pane to display its name in the plan.
• Managed the text style (text size, bold, italic) of the selected items in the plan with the items of the sub menu Plan > Modify text style and their matching buttons added to the tools bar.
• Added a button in the 3D view pane to choose the texture of the sky, with 3 new sky images.
• Managed page header and footer in page setup pane with the ability to enter 7 predefined variables (page number, page count, date...).
• Added the ability to choose the print scale of the plan in page setup pane.
• Displayed tips at first uses of a creation tool.
• Automatic selection of text fields in dialog boxes when they get focus with a tab key.
• Added a service hatch and a fixed window in default furniture library.
• Changed how selected objects are displayed in such a way that their bounding box is always visible even if some objects are hidden by other ones.
• Added the angle between a wall and its preceding wall in the tool tip displayed during the wall creation or modification.
• Changed zoom shortcut keys under Linux (Ctrl + Ctrl -).
• Enabled the menu items Delete, Undo, Redo, Copy, Cut, Paste, Modify... between the creation of two series of walls or the creation of two dimensions.
• Corrected a bug that prevented a correct computation of the holes of windows in a wall in some cases, when this wall contains more than one window.
• Corrected a bug that caused the system language to be used in the labels in Ok/Cancel buttons and Undo/Redo menu items, even if the user chose an other language.
• Corrected a bug that prevented the importation of a piece of furniture after that a previous attempt to import an incorrect file was interrupted.
• Corrected a bug that blocked the program after importating a few pieces of furniture in home plan.
• Corrected a bug that deleted the imported textures after a language change in preferences pane.
• Corrected a bug under Windows that caused the creation of too many clones during duplication with Ctrl key.
• Corrected a bug under Mac OS X 10.5 that prevented to display correctly the plan with Java Update 1.
• Developed an experimental online version of Sweet Home 3D with parameters that specifies the services able to save and open homes stored on a server.
• Developed a plug-in architecture that allows Java developers to add features to Sweet Home 3D based on the com.eteks.sweethome3d.plugin.Plugin and com.eteks.sweethome3d.plugin.PluginAction classes.
• Refactored many classes to present a better API to plug-in developers.
• Replaced JRE 6u6 by JRE 6u11 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Improvements in the Russian localization of the help files by Kazimirov Valentin.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.
• Moved the Sweet Home 3D web server to sweethome3d.eu.

Version 1.4, October 7, 2008

• Managed the importation of images to let users create their textures.
• Added the exportation of the 3D view to OBJ + MTL format with 3D view > Export to OBJ format... menu item.
• Added Plan > Reverse walls direction menu item to reverse the direction of selected walls.
• Added Plan > Split wall menu item to split the selected wall in two walls after inserting a point in its middle.
• Added Furniture > Import furniture library menu item to import furniture libraries at SH3F format .
• Used ' and " symbols to display lengths in foot/inch unit.
• Applied magnetism to lengths depending on the current scale in the plan and unit.
• Added the ability to duplicate selected objects in the plan with a drag and drop while keeping the ctrl key pressed (or under Mac OS X, the alt key pressed).
• Added a text field for length choice in the Modify wall dialog.
• From this version, the wall height chosen in Preferences dialog is also used for walls created in existing homes.
• Added the abbility to copy selected furniture to clipboard at CSV format, when furniture list has focus.
• Validated automatically the content of spinners (+/- components) when a dialog that uses one is closed.
• Stored the location and the size of windows in SH3D files.
• Simplified the largest furniture files at OBJ format to reduce Sweet Home 3D application size.
• Took into account the background image size to compute correctly scroll bars surrounding the plan.
• Modified Print to PDF feature to ensure non roman characters are printed correctly.
• Fixed a Mac OS X 10.5 bug which disabled all menu items at the end of furniture import wizard, when it's launched by Furniture > Import furniture... menu item.
• Improved Sweet Home 3D launch script for Linux.
• Created an executable JAR file (13 MB) for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux.
• Added Swedish localization written by Martin Karlsson.
• Corrected typos as proposed by Alain Espinosa in Spanish localization.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Version 1.3.1, August 27, 2008

• Updated Java 3D to version 1.5.2 under Windows, Mac OS X, Linux et Solaris.
• Updated JOGL to version 1.1.1 under Mac OS X.
• Updated iText to version 2.1.2u.
• Added Russian localization written by Basimov Ilgiz and Kazimirov Valentin.
• Added Hungarian localization written by Miklósi Viktor and Szita Balázs.
• Corrected typos as proposed by Kamil Páral in Czech localization.

Version 1.3, April 29, 2008

• Corrected the computation of image size of the plan copied into the clipboard when selection contains dimensions.
• Changed the way to save homes to avoid the corruption of the previous version of a valid SH3D file, if current save ever fails.
• Corrected a bug that opened twice a home file launched from Mac OS X 10.5 finder.
• Managed the import of an OBJ file created with Blender even if it contains objects definitions in a line starting by a o letter.
• Managed the import of a ZIP file containing a 3D model file at OBJ, LWS or 3DS format. This ZIP file may also contain the texture files of the 3D model and/or a MTL file (describes the colors and the textures of a 3D model at OBJ format).
• Added support for the import of furniture catalog SH3F files.
• Replaced JRE 6u4 by JRE 6u6 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Spanish localization written by Pablo Mayordomo and Paco.

Version 1.2.1, February 13, 2008

• Corrected a bug about the creation of new furniture categories with spaces at the start or the end of their name.
• Corrected a bug that prevented from changing the color or the visibility of some imported furniture.
• As many users tries to use Sweet Home 3D to design homes with multiple floors, the maximum height of the observer in 3D virtual visit was increased from 2.5 meters to 10 meters (the observer point of view still remains at the 13/14 of its height, to repect human proportions !).
• Replaced JRE 6u3 by JRE 6u4 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Czech localization written by Štephan Novák.
• Added Polish localization written by Paweł Antkowiak (user interface) and Szymon Życiński (help pages).
• Added German localization of help pages written by Thomas Zimmermann.
• Corrected typos in help pages.

Version 1.2, November 6, 2007

• Added textures applicable to walls and the ground.
• Managed the heights of wall start and end points to create garrets.
• Added a search engine in help pages.
• Added tooltips on catalog furniture.
• Managed A and D keys in 3D view equivalent to left and right arrow keys.
• Changed zoom and help shorcut keys under Mac OS X (Cmd + Cmd - Cmd ?).
• Changed the way the icon of an imported 3D model is created to avoid crashes at the end of import furniture wizard.
• Improved plan scrollbars management during the drawing of walls and dimensions created in left and top margins of the plan.
• Maintained the coordinates of the displayed top left corner when zoom is changed in the plan.
• Detected if 3D view print is possible according to the 3D configuration of user system.
• Reseted focus correctly after the import furniture wizard is closed.
• Corrected a bug about synonymous furniture in different categories of the catalog during a language change.
• Replaced JRE 6u2 by JRE 6u3 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Adaptated user interface for Mac OS X 10.5.
• Used Tango project icons in tool bar and menu items.
• Added 25 furniture created by contributors (their name is displayed in the tooltip of a piece).
• Added Italian localization of the user interface written by Simone Bufalino.
• Added German localization of the user interface written by Sebastian Breuer.
• Corrected typos and described new features in help pages.

Version 1.1, September 24, 2007

• Added dimensions creation and edition.
• Added a check box in preferences to make visible or invisible the grid displayed in the plan.
• Managed the change of user interface language in preferences.
• Added indicators in plan rulers to reflect current mouse pointer location in the plan.
• Managed walls modfication with active magnetism.
• Increased the pattern resolution of walls during print.
• Corrected a bug about the lighting of imported 3D models with inverted faces.
• Corrected a bug about adding Java 3D objects to a live scene.
• Added Brazilian Portuguese localization written by Roberto Rocha.
• Corrected typos in help pages.

Version 1.0, September 12, 2007

• Added Furniture > Display column menu items to modify the columns list displayed in furniture list header.
• Modified columns list displayed by default.
• Managed the copy into clipboard of an image of the selected objects in the plan (this feature may not work under Linux).
• Managed home print with Print..., Page setup..., Print preview... and Print to PDF... items of File menu.
• Created Windows / Mac OS X / Linux installers.
• Managed W and S keys in 3D view equivalent to up and down arrow keys.
• Added iText library to manage print to PDF.
• Used Java 3D 1.5.1 under Windows and Mac OS X.
• Modified splash screen.
• Corrected typos in help pages.

Version 0.18, July 21, 2007

• Added help pages.

Version 0.17

• Added furniture import wizard accessible from Furniture > Import furniture... menu item.
• Managed the transparency of window panes under Java 3D 1.3.
• Modification with the mouse of the height and the elevation of the selected piece of furniture in the plan, by clicking on the bottom left and top right corners of the piece.
• Added new furniture to catalog: sliding doors, slider window, radiators, shower, cylinder, fitted bath and washbasin with cabinet.
• Managed recent opened files.
• The first untitled and unmodified home is automatically closed when an other one is opened.
• No new empty home is created at application relaunch.
• Better integration in Mac OS X (Window menu, default menu when no home is opened).
• Managed memory better when a home is closed.
• Added Microcrowd Loader3DS library to manage 3DS format.
• Used Java 3D 1.5.1 under Linux and Solaris.

Version 0.16

• Added two 3D navigation modes accessible from the 3D view new menu: the Aerial view mode matching previous mode available in version 0.15, in which the user can zoom from now on, and the Virtual visit mode matching the view of an observer moving around in the edited home. In this latter mode , the user may modify its 3D view point, either with the observer drawn in the plan, or directly in the 3D view.
• Managed active keys in the 3D view.
• Added 3D view > Modify... menu item to edit the field of view and the height of the visitor, the ground and the sky color, the light brightness and walls transparency.
• Enabled the change of each wall height with Plan > Modify walls... menu item.
• Added the ability to view the mirrored shape of a piece of furniture with Furniture > Modify... menu item.
• Plan size can't decrease anymore, to avoid some difficulties to create walls outside of default plan space.
• Wall creation mode switches automatically to selection mode when the user drags and drops a piece of furniture in the plan, or when Furniture > Add to home menu item is chosen.
• Added a Door frame piece of furniture to catalog.
• Displayed current Java version in About dialog box.

Version 0.15, June 10, 2007

• Added Plan > Import background image... menu item and its matching wizard.

Version 0.14

• Modification of wall ends with the mouse.
• Managed zoom in the plan.
• Added rulers at left and top borders of the plan (may be rendered invisible by editing preferences).
• Added visual guides to align the ends of a wall with the ends of other walls.
• Added tooltips displaying the length of a wall, the angle and the size of a piece of furniture during their modification with the mouse.
• Added Edit > Select all menu item.
• Added furniture alignment menu items.
• Added contextual popup menus.
• Added a Box piece of furniture in the Miscellaneous category.
• Computed holes in walls at their intersection location with doors or windows in the 3D view.

Version 0.13

• Added Plan > Modify walls... menu item to edit the coordinates of walls ends, as their thickness and their color.
  

Version 0.12, May 27, 2007

• Added Furniture > Modify... menu item to edit the name, the size and the color of some furniture.

Version 0.11

• Sorting of the furniture list.

Version 0.10, November 16, 2006

• First public release.
  This version matches the study case described in the French book Les cahiers du programmeur Swing, written by Emmanuel Puybaret and published by Editions Eyrolles in December 2006.

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