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i-Catcher Sentry/Wildlife change log

This is the log of changes for the current version of i-Catcher Sentry/Wildlife. "Internal Build" refers to builds comprising a collection of changes, but where development was not to a point where an upload was considered necessary, or where more changes were required to produce a stable build. Internal builds also include OEM-specific changes. Builds may also include internal fixes/procedural changes that are not shown here.

Version 1.4

Build 60 - 06/01/2004

• Saved the device parameters after the initial connection to the feed.

Build 59 - 09/12/2003

• Added the ability to have overlays and emails longer than 126 characters.
• Fixed an error when a video capture device ID is longer than 126 characters.

Build 58 - 09/12/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 57 - 14/11/2003

• Fixed an error when starting up in trial mode loading the overlay settings.

Build 56 - 13/11/2003

• Saved the settings when closing the Video settings dialog box.
• Re-centred the Audio settings box.
• Ignored the next frame when setting the settings from the console.
• Fixed the error reporting while deleting the current days stills from the playback.
• Fixed it deleting the day directories when deleting all stills via the playback.
• Fixed the motion map showing the data in the wrong orientation.
• Replaced the playback delete buttons with a dropdown button.

Build 55 - 29/10/2003

• Added support to the OCX to get the WDM device.

• Added the /e command line parameter to accept driver ID and driver parameters.
• Changed occurrences of Device to Driver.
• Removed the hourglasses from around the device connection.

Build 54 - 22/10/2003

• Fixed the email test when using Outlook.
• Added help for the audio alert.
• Fixed the Video source dialog box being shown in the middle of getting an image.

Build 53 - 20/10/2003

• Fixed the system tray icon in the Node again.

Build 52 - 13/10/2003

• Added the trigger on non motion code.
• Re-added the "Save image" and "Invert detection" options.
• Added "Non " to the caption when in inverted motion detection mode.

• Fixed the system tray icon in the Node.
• Fixed a problem with duplicate HTTP header lines.

Build 51 - 11/10/2003

• Increased the JPG buffer size by 256KB.
• Disabled the Console detection code in Win9x.
• Hid the "Save images" option on the detection settings form.

Build 50 - 11/10/2003

• Fixed a resource leak in the mask drawing code.

Build 49 - 10/10/2003

• Moved the mask border drawing code until after the motion detection.
• Added code to make the FTP and email work asynchronously.
• Added code to find likely consoles on the network.
• Fixed a small problem in the FTP code that says 450 is an error when getting a file list.
• Moved the audio alert settings to a form of its own.
• Redesigned the Execute alert settings form to use the new style.
• Hid the crosshairs when the Center X and Y are 0.
• Removed the (s) from the title bar and made it conditional.
• Added logging of buffer sizes in SevePictureAsJPG.

Build 48 - 19/09/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 47 - 15/09/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 46 - 10/09/2003

• Made the folder selection box modal.
• Made all the hyperlinks get the focus and have focus rectangles.

Build 45 - 26/08/2003

• Fixed an overflow in the digital signature code.

Build 44 - 20/08/2003

• Improved the VidCap.OCX's error handling in the GetFrame routine.
• Added checks for invalid URLs when setting the URL after connecting.
□ Updated the OCX to 1.4.29.
• Added a fix for the IJL1.1 DLL returning a JPG data size that is 578 too large.

• Added the file size to the digital signature.

Build 43 - 25/07/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 42 - 25/07/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 41 - 25/07/2003

• Fixed VidCap.OCX with with Black and White video feeds.
□ Updated the VidCap.OCX to 1.4.26.

Build 40 - 22/07/2003

• Removed checks for command line parameters that have already been set.
• Fixed a bug with the autohide code.
• Made the archive settings box pause every 5s to keep the box responsive.
• Revised the checks for valid feed names.
• Made it display the initial feed graphic when no url is set on startup.

Build 39 - 09/07/2003

• Added an option to upload webcam files to a temporary file first.

Build 38 - 08/07/2003

• Stopped it logging a successful file save every time.

Build 37 - 08/07/2003

• Fixed the Readfile and WriteFile functions only working on Windows NT and not 9x.

Build 36 - 08/07/2003

• Fixed a bug in the FTP hanging if the remote end closed the connection.

Build 35 - 03/07/2003

• Rewrote the Readfile, Writefile and Kill functions to use the API functions.

Build 34 - 01/07/2003

• Fixed a bug with invalid working paths in the Node.
• Forced the splash screen text to black.

Build 33 - 25/06/2003

□ Updated VidCap.OCX to 1.4.25.
• Added a check to see if the video feed box is open before opening it again from the console.

Build 32 - 20/06/2003 (Node only)

• Added a check for invalid characters in the camera name.
□ Updated VidCap.OCX to 1.4.24.
• Added support for the VidCap.OCX Error url.

Build 31 - 19/06/2003

• Stopped the save JPG code writing a .tmp file then renaming it.
• Made the Save JPG code create the JPG in a byte array, sign that then write that to the file.
• Removed an unnecassary file exists check in saving the console feed jpg.

Build 30 - 17/06/2003

• Fixed the Playback crashing on 32767 images when getting the first and last files.
• Rewrote the playback population code to only populate the history once.
• Tidied up all the playback code to work with the new model.

Build 29 - 03/06/2003

• Made iCatcher.DLL check Y then X to stop cache destoying.
□ Updated iCatcher.DLL to 2.0.4.
• Made the Block size settings stay between incarnations.

Build 28 - 03/06/2003

• Added the settings and UI to pass alternative block and step sizes to IJL.DLL.

Build 27 - 29/05/2003

• Modified some more version checking code to use fixed values.
• Disabled the ability to delete the default profile.
• Added settings for the lost feed code.
• Added the UI for the Lost feed settings.
□ Updated iCatcher.DLL to 2.0.3.

Build 26 - 28/05/2003 (Node only)

• Changed the overlays to say Console when running as a node.
• Modified some version checking code to use fixed values.

Build 25 - 27/05/2003

• Set the minimum image quality to 1.

Build 24 - 21/05/2003

• Added the Stepsize parameter to the Motion detection function declaration.
• Added code to stop i-Catcher when it fails to get an image 3 successive times.

Build 23 - 16/05/2003

• Fixed the HTTP server binding to an address that is in use.
• Fixed a bug in the Node resetting the Console Demo key to invalid.

Build 22 - 12/05/2003

• Changed the check interval to 5s when in Console Node mode.
• Made it accept a Demo key as valid when in Console Node mode.

Build 21 - 08/05/2003

• Rewrote the ZoomBox resize code to only set the size if necessary (and once).
• Made it exit if it cant find the DeviceError.gif file when it needs it.
• Made it update the Application Title depending on the mode.

Build 20 - 06/05/2003

• Made it fall back to DeviceError.gif when it cant connect to a feed on Console Node mode.

Build 19 - 01/05/2003

• Made it check the remote admin commands BEFORE it checked if it was still connected to the console.

Build 18 - 01/05/2003

• Made it set the mouse curser to an hour glass AFTER displaying the source/format dialog box.

Build 17 - 30/04/2003

• Changed the interval code to use seconds and allow period selection in the user interface.
• Changed the buffer intervals to seconds.
• Made it change the mouse cursor to default before showing the device settings.
• Fixed the wizard to use the new interval system.

Build 16 - 25/04/2003

• Made it save the settings after loading settings from the console.

Build 15 - 24/04/2003

• Made the ForceForeground function force the window to the top.

Build 14 - 24/04/2003

• Made it display the splash screen after checking the command line parameters and the registration details.
• Hide the splash screen when starting in Console Node mode.

Build 13 - 24/04/2003

• Made the video feed box force itself to the foreground when it displays from a console command.

Build 12 - 23/04/2003

• DeviceID -1 now corresponds to the last device (Network feed).
• The device parameters are now saved after it has to display the device feed box on startup.

Build 11 - 23/04/2003

• Added a .device control file to show the Device settings box.
• Made it default to monitoring a local JPG when in Console Node mode.

Build 10 - 23/04/2003

• Added logging to the SMTP code controlled by the /l parameter.

Build 9 -17/04/2003

• Added .start, .stop and .shutdown control files.

Build 8 - 17/04/2003

• Added the command line parameters to start as a Console Node.
• Added code to force some settings into Console Node mode.
• Added code to set the window title as appropriate if in Console Node mode.
• Made it refuse to popup when in Console Node mode.
• Made it check for a console key when in Console Node mode.
• Made it Write to the console log file when in Console Node mode.

Build 7 - 15/04/2003

• Added fix to check the SMTP Authentication settings are filled in.
• Added fix to replace ,'s with ;'s when giving the recipient addresses to outlook.
• Added fix to handle the macros in the email subject.
• Copied the email test code to the test button so it doesn't need to save the changes first.
• Redesigned the email form.
• Added better error handling to the email alert function.
• Made the test email button show the error message.
• Fixed a bug with HTTP feed image sizes being off by 1.

Build 6 - 10/04/2003

• Fixed problem with default profile handling.

Build 5 - 09/04/2003

• Internal Build.

Build 4 - 25/03/2003

• Added extra error checking around HTTP request function.
• Fixed the motion map being skewed.

Build 3 - 11/03/2003

• Fixed a bug where i-Catcher always used the hard coded HTTP username of "icatcher".
• Made the profiles box disappear after switching profile if the new one auto minimises.
• Made the archive settings check the validity of the archive path and ask to create it.

Build 2 - 06/03/2003

• Fixed a problem with it not accepting SMTP servers that supported but not allowed ESMTP.

Build 1 - 04/03/2003

• Changed all images to version 1.4.
• Changed version to 1.4.