Program development news
05-Jul-2005
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 7 is available for download :- Fixed a bug preventing to save urls list in editor.
- Added %z parameters for file names, it will be replaced with md5 hash of url.
- Added a menu option to capture only one web page and to save its capture in a specific folder.
- Added an option to capture the whole page and not only what is visible in browser. Content limits will be discovered automatically. If resize is turned on, the height will be ignored and calculated from specified width to keep proportions. The Full page mode is slower as it requires two passes for each web page to find limits of content correctly.
- Added an option to set canva size for full page mode. Web page will be loaded in this large blank area and limits of content will be detected automatically.
- Added an option to specify margins size around content in full page mode.
- Added a switch option for image resizing. Turning it off will save image in full original size.
- Added BMP format for image output.
- Updated documentation with latest changes in configuration window.
- German language is now available (thanks to Olaf Noehring).
30-May-2005
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 6 is available for download :- Program interface can now be translated in any language using gettext method.
- French and English languages are now available.
- New method to determine if page is fully loaded, improving speed of captures and fixing some problems with pages being captured before to be fully loaded.
- Configuration window has been modified to reorder available options.
- Added description instead of numbers for some errors returned by browser.
- Added an option to set JPEG compression level.
- Added an option to set browser auto-capture mode checkbox on/off by default.
- Added an option to display browser errors (javascript warnings). Hiding them may prevent some web sites requiring an user action to be loaded, like https wrong certificate confirmation for example.
- Added an option to disable Javascript (ActiveScripting) in browser to avoid some blocking Javascript alerts during captures (yes/no choices, etc...). Using this option may prevent some web sites to be displayed correctly.
- Now a blank page is loaded between each site to not duplicate the previous capture when a web site is broken.
- Fixed bug with file names containing .pl/.php and generating errors in Apache web server.
- When output format is PNG, pictures are now in 256 colors instead of 24bits, files sizes are smaller.
- Improved GIF pictures quality.
- Documentation has been converted to html for a better readability.
20-Aug-2004
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 5 is available for download, just to fix a nasty bug :- Fixed a bug blocking program when saving large JPEG pictures.
17-Aug-2004
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 4 is available for download, check it now !- Added hours and minutes in refresh delay to allow smaller delay.
- Added an option to activate loop-mode. When all captures are finished, program will restart forever. It must be used with a correct refresh captures delay in options.
- Time-out delay is now activated when a web site starts to load. Capture will be done even if the page failed to load completely before this delay. It should prevent some web sites to block the captures.
- Added a console version of program. Saved configuration will be used but you can override saved parameters by specifying some options on the command line. Use the --help parameter for help. Two versions of the executable are required because the command line is ignored when a Python program is started with the console window hidden, like webswoon.exe for example.
- Switched the Auto-capture mode two-states button to a checkbox for more visibility under some Windows themes.
- Updated documentation with a description for all configuration options.
- Added HTTP error return code in error message (like 404, etc.)
23-June-2004
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 3 is available for download. Browser window has been improved :- Fixed height of browser window, some pixels were missing at the bottom.
- Added "Auto-capture mode" button in browser window to switch between auto/manual capture mode. In manual mode, all configured delays are ignored but the button can be pushed again to reactivate them.
- Added "Capure now" button to immediately capture the current web site and jump to next one.
- Added "Skip" button to ignore current web site and jump to next one.
- Added "Abort captures" button to cancel all captures, equivalent to close the browser window.
- Captures can now be resumed without restarting program when they were aborted.
- URL of current web site is now displayed in browser window.
- Added status bar in browser window displaying IE messages and a progress bar.
- Added %i parameter in file name format, it will be replaced with the number of the current web site (first web site is 1, second is 2,...).
16-June-2004
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 2 is available for download. Many things have been improved, check the list :- Added a manager with list of URLs to browse and modify web sites addresses directly from program.
- Added a menu option to import web sites list from a text file.
- Added ignored URLs field to prevent browser to load some ads and to prevent SideBar feature on some web sites to replace main page content.
- Added an option to delete existing captures on startup.
- Added an option to remove border and scrollbar from captures.
- Added an expire time to refresh old existing captures.
- Added file name format field to personnalize file name of captures.
- Added PNG and GIF image format for captures.
- Folder in which to store captures can now be selected.
- Added a configurable timeout delay when it's impossible to determine if a page is complete or not.
- Reviewed placement of options in configuration window.
- Greatly improved JPEG quality in captures.
- Fixed captures width, some pixels were missing on the right side.
- Fixed a memory bug blocking program after several hundreds of captures.
- Improved wait time when browsing a web site before to do the capture.
- Added counter in statusbar to have some information about progression.
- Fixed timers, delay selected in configuration was extended of one second.
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23-Apr-2004
WebSwoon 1.0 Beta 1 is available for download. Try it now !