VINCI Version History (2002)

Vinci 0.91.6, December 20 2002

• LoadView and Image Volume Arithmetics - the dialogs are now synchronized to temporarily remove delete-protected image buffers from the selection while they are being processed by the Image Volume Filter plugin.
• Image Volume Arithmetics and Image Volume Filter - write minimum and maximum of the resulting image into the log.

• Load MicroPET image - nasty bug for multi-frame images: frame offset was not applied correctly. We also limited reading of interfile-style headers to 32 KB which caused an inconsistent error message for longer headers (new limit is 1 MB). FIXED.
• Load Flat image - offset was not used correctly. FIXED.

Vinci 0.91.5, December 20 2002

• Generic Annotations - i.e. text objects with a keyword placeholder. Vinci will display the corresponding information from the current image buffer instead. Lower and upper characters of keywords will be differentiated. The brackets <...> are part of the keyword and must be present. So far the following keywords are supported, other keywords will follow soon:
  • <FileShortName> - display the filename without path of the image volume.
  • <PatientName> - display the patient name belonging to the image volume. Shows unknown if the image volume does not provide the information, empty if the patient name is not filled in.
• Magic Plugin - major redesign: we hope it is now more intuitive and useful. A new icon (star) under each OrthoDisplay can be used as a shortcut.
• Render/Sampling settings - the former "TruePixel mode" button under each OrthoDisplay now opens the Display properties plugin which allows detailed changes of sampling resolution and interpolation modes, see also "TruePixel mode" (last item).
• Image Volume Arithmetics and Image Volume Filter - source and destination display can now be identical. The resulting image buffer has to be different from the source-image buffer(s), though.
• Image Volume Arithmetics - image volumes can be calculated with the following formula now: (A*<Volume 1>+B*<Volume2>+C, with A, B, C float numbers).
• Image Volume Filter - the filtered image can be shown with the same reslicing and color settings as the source image.
• Image Volume Filter - the progress of the computation will be shown and the computation can be cancelled.
• ScriptDemo - the user can install the Vinci Demo Data collection from within the program if it is not yet present.
• Icon redesign - many smaller changes; suggestions about further improvements are welcome.
• ToolBox/Plugin handling - has improved a lot: new toolboxes with plugins will be positioned in a (hopefully) more useful manner.
• The Mouse Creation Modes - to create new ROIs, profiles and annotation objects - are automatically re-set to arrow cursor mode.
• The Cursor mode is set to the previous mode if the space key is pressed in arrow cursor mode. This is useful if, e.g., you have just created an elliptical ROI and want to create another one: just press space to get back to your previous ROI drawing mode.
• Move, Cut, Zoom in and Zoom out flip with standard arrow mode on consecutive presses of the m, c, z and u-key.
• OrthoView - Copy to Clipboard; you can now also choose the OrthoDisplay from which to copy from inside the dialog.
• ALT-key handling on OrthoPlugins - menu shortcuts and accelerators (like ALT-C and ALT-Enter) are forwarded to the OrthoView in the background now.
• Online Update/Download - this module has been much revised and improved. When requesting an update, our server will log, amongst other things, which previous version of Vinci you have been using.
• Vinci provides Tool tips for the OrthoToolbox headers.
• Save Images - The image buffer number (Save from buffer) is updated on mouse click on the OrthoDisplay (Thanks Carmen).
• Save Images - The list of image buffers is synchronized with the actually existing image buffers now.
• OrthoView context menu - the following menu entries are grayed now:
  • Clear image buffer if the image buffer is undefined or just being processed.
  • Reset image buffer if the image buffer is undefined.
  • New Drawing Object if the image buffer is undefined.

• Fusion Tool, Image Volume Arithmetic and Image Volume Filter did not re-set their display-lists when the number of OrthoDisplays of the OrthoView had changed. FIXED.
• ScriptDemo - called via Windows start menu - did not come up with its tour menu if Vinci's installation path contained a blank. FIXED.
• ScriptDemo did run even if the Vinci Demo data were not installed. FIXED.
• The Vinci Demo Data collection - if installed via Online-Update - was placed in the standard directory <program files>\MPIFNF even if Vinci was installed somewhere else. In this case ScriptDemo was not able to access the data. FIXED.
• Profiles Tool - when you opened the profiles tool via OrthoDisplay context menu Vinci did not select the profile on which you right-clicked with your mouse. FIXED.
• Profiles Tool did create a default profile on start up even on OrthoDisplays that show no image. FIXED.
• Clear Image Buffer - did not re-set lock- and link-status of the cleared image buffer. FIXED.
• PlanesView - the layout information (# planes in x and y direction) was not properly read from the properties dialog. FIXED.
• OrthoView - in the properties dialog you are now notified that some options are only available for newly created OrthoViews (right-mouse menu "New OrthoView" rather than "OrthoView Properties").
• Save Images - a previously saved image buffer could not be made part of the Vinci project file. FIXED.
• Save Images - the file dialog window disapeared into the background as soon as the mouse hovered over an open OrthoView. FIXED.
• TruePixel mode - some synchronization issues with zoomed views and link channels have been addressed. Partly FIXED.

• TruePixel Mode - we have not yet solved all problems associated with advanced sampling/interpolation schemes, sorry. A much more consistent and user-friendly approach is in development and will hopefully make it into the next release.

Vinci 0.91.0, December 02 2002

• Image Volume Arithmetics - a new plugin to compute an image volume as linear combination of two given volumes: (A*<Volume 1>+B*<Volume2>, with A, B float numbers). The plugin will only run if the images have the same dimensions and pixel sizes.
• Image Volume Filter - a new plugin to compute an image volume as a 3D-Gauss filtered version of a given volume.
• Standard accelerators implemented for handling of Vinci Drawing Objects:
  • Ctrl-C copies the selected Vinci Drawing Objects of the OrthoDisplays under the mouse cursor.
  • Ctrl-V pastes the previously copied Vinci Drawing Objects onto the OrthoDisplays under the mouse cursor. If all copied Drawing Objects belong to the same OrthoPart, e.g. are all located in the transaxial view, the pasted objects will be assigned to the OrthoPart under the mouse cursor. If the copied Drawing objects belong to different OrthoParts the pasted objects will be assigned to the corresponding OrthoParts of the target OrthoDisplay.
  • Ctrl-X cuts the Vinci Drawing Objects of the OrthoDisplays under the mouse cursor.
  • Shift instead of the key A now enables additive selection of Vinci Drawing Objects (non-sticky).
• ALT-C - Copy OrthoDisplay to Clipboard - now works on the OrthoDisplays under the mouse-cursor.
• Selection Regions now run over all three OrthoParts of an OrthoDisplay. Zoom Regions run over one OrthoPart as before.
• TruePixel mode - supports now several more zoom stages. In addition, if TruePixel mode is switched on and off through the button in the InfoLine (under each OrthoDisplay) the reslicing positions will be resetted so they are well-defined (alas, but not necessarily the way you expect them to be, s.b.).
• Load HRRT sinogram - the plugin will now make "educated guesses" about sinogram parameters if the necessary parameters are not given in the header file (this affects only some older sinogram header files).
• Mouse Mode and Moving Cross Mode will be saved in the Vinci project file now.

• The Online-Update did always try to install Vinci in the standard path <program files>\MPIFNF. Now it will place Vinci in a directory parallel to where it was installed before.
• The Online-Update did not start Vinci after running the installer if Vinci was manually placed in another path as the standard directory <program files>\MPIFNF. FIXED.
• IDL_GetImage.Pro did not load the demo-image into the required image buffer. FIXED.
• IDL_GuidedTour.Pro did show a black profile. Changed to red again.

• TruePixel Mode integration with other rendering modes needs improvement: changing between TruePixel mode and other modes now results in non-intuitive changes of reslicing positions. Also some of the more interesting properties are not reflected in the user interface; a new user interface for render/sample modes will fix that and is currently at design stage. Still no ROIs in TruePixel mode, sorry.

Vinci 0.90.0, November 20 2002

• Online Documentation - VINCI now has a framework for online, context-sensitive (just press "F1") documentation. All documentation is available as compressed html (MS Windows standard) and pdf - all generated from the same FrameMaker-source. Alas, most of the documentation is still very much work in progress. Please have a look at the MMM part of the documentation to get an impression of what we are aiming at.
• TruePixel Mode - new reslicing mode to guarantee unbiased (no interpolation, no rotation) images, esp. suited for viewing of sinograms. Zoom steps are achieved by pixel reduplication only. Switch to TruePixel mode by pressing the icon in the OrthoDisplay info line next to the CrossMarker button. ROIs and profiles do not yet work on images in this mode, sorry (but will soon).
• Multi Modality Matching Tool (MMM) - summary of recently implemented features:
  • Registration schemes - allow a detailed tuning of the registration procedure. Several schemes for routine usage are predefined and users are free to define their own schemes via a user interface. Import and export of schemes from/to a file is possible.
  • Affine transformations - any subset of affine transformations can be used for registration.
  • Squared-difference - a similarity measure for a rough co-registration of images from the same modality.
  • Masking of voxels - voxels with values lower or higher than given thresholds are excluded from registration. By default, settings from VINCI's Color Tool are used.
  • Registration log - information about the last performed registration can be saved to a file.
  • Initial transformation estimate can optionally be passed to the registration procedure.
  • Single/Multiple Registration - besides the common user interface for registration of two images, MMM now contains also an interface that simplifies registration of multiple images to one reference image.
• A detailed description of MMM can be found in the online help (press F1 in VINCI).
• VINCI now supports two kinds of annotation objects:
  • Display Text - associated with the display and shown only on the display where the object was defined.
  • Image Text - associated with an image and shown on all displays that show that image.
• Annotation objects are true Vinci drawing objects. So you can manipulate them with the mouse in the same way as ROIs or profiles: select, move and rotate, create and delete, change size, etc. The right mouse key menu of each OrthoDisplay and the cursor-modi-menu have two new menu points Annotation (Display) and Annotation (Image) to generate the appropriate objects. Display text-objects are created with the contents-string "DText", image text-objects with the string "IText". The new Text Define-plugin is opened automatically - as it is currently the only way to edit the contents of the text objects.
• The new Text define plugin can change each property of the annotation objects visible on the corresponding OrthoDisplay.
• The Maximize-Window-Button is re-activated for views. InfoView, LogView and PlotsView behave WINDOWS-typical and get maximized. OrthoView and LoadView show an optimized size. PlanesView ignores this button, so far.
• Copy - Paste Usage - Paste in the Profiles, ROI Define and Text Define plugin now preserves the OrthoPart of the copied Vinci Drawing objects. Thanks, Prof. Graf.
• Copy - Paste Usage - Paste via the right mouse menu now preserves the relative positions of the copied Vinci Drawing objects.
• Load Analyze Plugin - default orientation of loaded images should now be more consistent with popular settings of SPM.

• HRRT Sinograms - segments will now be displayed in their full and glorious size of up to 256 x 288 pixels.
• ROI-Define plugin - after pressing the paste-button the clipboard was blocked. FIXED.
• A newly created ROI or profile did not always get activated in the tool. FIXED.
• ROI transformation polygon into ellipse and polygon into rectangle resulted in invisible ROIs since Vinci 0.89.8. FIXED.
• The ROI define plugin did not reflect menu induced color changes if only one ROI was defined. FIXED.
• The ROI define and profile plugin did not appear via right mouse key menu on a selected ROI or profile if the OrthoView was previously zoomed and the zoomed View closed again. FIXED.
• The ROI define plugin pasted non-ROI Vinci Drawing objects. FIXED.
• The ROI define plugin created new rectangles always with the same color (red). FIXED.
• PlanesView properties - start plane was not re-set on change of image buffer. FIXED.
• The Profiles Tool did not appear after being created with no open PlotsView. FIXED.

• ROIS and Profiles can not yet used in TruePixel mode, or, generally, for diplay settings which involve pixel reduplication mode. This will be fixed soon.

Vinci 0.89.8, October 24 2002

• Polygon ROIs scaled via the move-handles were written to the Vinci project file un-scaled. FIXED.
• Micropet Sinogram - Vinci crashed after reading a micropet sinogram file without corresponding header file. FIXED.
• Profiles Toolbox - Vinci crashed when working in the toolbox with no profile yet created. FIXED.
• ROI labelling - due to some new Vinci drawing-object type in preparation, polygons were auto-labelled as ellipses on creation or type-change and ellipses as rectangles. Rectangles were not labelled at all since Vinci 0.89.7. FIXED.
• Exported Metafiles did crash Adobe Illustrator 9.0 on import if they contain:
  • Selected Vinci Drawing Objects like ROIs and Profiles.
  • PlanesView with activated drawing of plane numbers.
  • Zoomed OrthoDisplay in pixel reduplication mode.
  • Plots of profiles.
  FIXED.
• Exported Metafiles did not show the correct color in Adobe Illustrator 9.0 for:
  • Vinci Drawing Objects like ROIs and Profiles including their bounding rectangle.
  • Color Legend beside the OrthoDisplay.
  • Plots of Profiles.
  FIXED.
• OrthoView Prints - OrthoViews imported from Vinci via clipboard to programs like MS Word and MS Powerpoint did not print correctly on some non-PostScript ink printers. FIXED.
• PostInstall.exe did use MSVCP60.DLL which was not part of the distribution and is not present on all WINDOWS systems Vinci claims to run on. The DLL is not required any more for PostInstall. FIXED.
  But Vinci makes now more use of the C++ standard-library. As this is associated with MSVCP60.DLL, and this DLL is not present on some NT systems, Vinci installs this DLL into its bin directory now.
• Open toolbox for profiles and ROIs - the OrthoView's right mouse key menu always popped up with an entry to open the toolbox of the Vinci drawing object directly visible under the mouse. You could never call the toolbox for drawing objects beneath the visible one - even if they were selected. FIXED.
  The popup menu is now created for the selected Vinci drawing object under the mouse. If there is no selected drawing object it works on the visible one as before.

Vinci 0.89.7, October 17 2002

• Load HRRT Sinogram - for some sinogram flavours, a wrong span and/or data type was assumed. FIXED. If in "auto" mode and a header file is found, settings from the header file will be used. In general, "auto" settings now should work most of the time so only the desired segment number needs to be changed.
• Load ECAT7 - for some ECAT7 image file with multiple bed positions z_pixel_size was not set correctly. FIXED.

Vinci 0.89.6, October 15 2002

• LoadView, new file-dialog features - the first two do only run with the large and detailed file picker activated in the Vinci options dialog.
  • You can now change the plugin type within the file-dialog just by changing the file-type, i.e. without leaving the file-dialog first.
  • When you leave the file-dialog by pressing the cancel-button the last directory is saved and used as starting directory when you next enter the file-dialog. Howewer, this memory is cleared when you press the OK-button, close the LoadView or choose a load-preset.
  • The file-dialog opens automatically when you choose a load-preset.

• PlanesView, properties dialog - opening PlanesView via the OrthoDisplay context-menu or the info-line button didn't open its properties dialog any more. FIXED.
• PlanesView, Plane Numbers - setting Plane Numbers On or Off did re-position the properties dialog. FIXED.
• LoadView, file text-field - the contents of the file text-field did vanish when you opened the dropdown list and did not choose a file in it. FIXED.
• Large project files - Vinci project files greater than 32 KB were ignored. This limit is set to 512 KB now.

Vinci 0.89.5, October 14 2002

• Profile rotation - you can now rotate a profile: analogous with handling of ROIs, the rotation-handles get activated a little bit beyond the move-handles. Profiles can also be rotated as part of a multiple selection.
• Toolbox Menu - The Toolbox button under each OrthoDisplay now pops up a menu to open the desired plugin directly in the corresponding display.
• OrthoPlugins and ESC-key - on pressing the ESC-key all OrthoPlugins (i.e. Toolboxes) show a message box now that asks the user whether he wants to close the tool or not.

• MMM plugin - the spin-wheel for fast change of OrthoDisplays did not work correctly. FIXED.
• MMM plugin - the status dialog disappeared on pressing the ESC-key. Now it ignores the key.
• Magic Tool - the closing question "Really close ?" did not make a lot of sense in this context (and really was a left-over test case). FIXED.

Vinci 0.89.4, October 10 2002

• Multiple selected ROIs rotate around their common current center now, instead of the common center of the unrotated ROIs.
• PlanesView, Plane Numbers - a new checkbox in the PlanesView Properties to manage the drawing of plane numbers in the upper left corner of each display. On small images the plane numbers tended to hide part of the shown slices. Thanks, Gerhard.
• PlanesView image values are now displayed in 7 digit floating-point notation. They were shown in 2 digit fixed-point notation, so that the values of an Analyze image appeared as +/- 0.00.
• PlanesView - Tool tips for the info-line buttons.
• Accelerators - the following accelerators are implemented or re-activated now:
  • PlanesView, Moving Cross - X for permanent and SHIFT for sticky mode.
  • OrthoView, Properties - Alt+Enter to show the Properties dialog.
  • OrthoView, Cross Marker - Y to show the crossmarker for the OrthoDisplay under the mouse-pointer.

• Maximum number of OrthoDisplays - OrthoViews with more than 112 OrthoDisplays of size 256x256 did not re-draw themselves correctly, asking for 300 OrthoDisplays led to a crash. We now check for the maximum supportable number of OrthoDisplays dependant on the chosen display and font size, i.e. for normal fonts 112 for size 256, 78 for size 384, 59 for size 512.
• PlanesView, Moving Cross - it did not disappear after leaving the view with the mouse and it re-appeared behind closed foreground windows. FIXED.
• PlanesView did not re-size its displays on selection of a new image buffer via its info-line button. FIXED.
• PlanesView Properties - the image number was not updated if PlanesView was re-started from the OrthoDisplay with an different image. FIXED.
• The ROI position was negative if its bounding rectangle was empty. The position is set to zero now.
• A mouse-created ROI did not update the list of ROIs in the ROI2D-define tool. FIXED.
• The question to sync a new member of a link channel with its previous members always asked for synchronization of the RED channel. FIXED.
• The deletion of the last ROI in the ROI2D-Define plugin did not update the OrthoDisplay. FIXED.
• Magic Tool - ResetAll did only reset the Color-Information. Now it really resets all parameters.
• Profiles and ROIs did not get copied to the clipboard. FIXED.

Vinci 0.89.3, October 7 2002

• The new PlanesView Property "SkipPlanes" is saved in the project-file now.
• Selecting Ellipses and Polygons by mouse is now reflected in the ROI-Define plugin.
• Moving a ROI to the foreground or background now updates the list in the ROI-Define Tool.
• The ROI2D-Define plugin is fully self-synchronized now, i.e. changes in one toolbox are reflected in all other toolboxes working on an OrthoDisplay that shows the same image buffer.
• A system-named ROI gets a new name with each transformation in a new ROI-type.
• The limitations for ROI-movement were computed with respect to the extent of the un-rotated ROI. Now the limitations are computed relative to the center of the ROI.

• MMM - an incorrect similarity measure was used in a multi-modal registration when registering a lower-resolution image to a higher-resolution one. FIXED.
• Profiles could not be saved in the Vinci project file since Vinci 0.89.0. FIXED.
• ROIs changed in angle or OrthoPart via the ROI2D-Define plugin were found at the previous (un-changed) position by the mouse. FIXED.
• Vinci crashed if prompted to show PlanesView with image index 1 on start up and closed immediately. FIXED.
• PlanesView always started with image index 0 independant of the image index saved in the Vinci project-file. FIXED.
• PlanesView was created by the toolbar button everytime anew in the manner dictated by the project file. Now a toolbar button-started PlanesView uses default-settings.
• You could not insert or delete points into a polygon created via rectangle- or ellipse-transformation. FIXED.
• The transformations polygon into rectangle and polygon into ellipse did not work correctly. FIXED.
• The color-spin-button of the ROI2D-Define plugin changed to the wrong color on first click. FIXED.
• The ROI2D-Define plugin was too small to show the results of the ROI-evaluation for some text-sizes. FIXED.
• The Fusion Tool did not initiate the previous OrthoDisplay to re-render its image buffer after choosing a new OrthoDisplay with the spin-wheel. FIXED.
• The Fusion Tool did not correctly show the names of OrthoDisplays with number > 26 in its selection-lists. FIXED.
• Polygon-sides with 45° slope were not found by the mouse. FIXED.
• The ROI-transformation rectangle to polygon produced an ellipse-like polygon. FIXED.
• The ROI-evaluation crashed with ROIs larger than the OrthoDisplay. FIXED.
• ROIs with small height, rotated by 90°, could not be moved to the edge of the display. FIXED.
• Load Flat file plugin - INT16-type data flag was ignored in some cases. FIXED.
• Load Analyze file plugin - caused Vinci to crash when trying to load non-Analyze data. FIXED.
• VDIST.CMD is now part of the distribution, really.

Vinci 0.89.2, September 13 2002

• MMM - changing the OrthoPlugin in a ToolBox while a registration is in progress will no longer affect the running registration.
• OrthoPlugins - can now request that there should be only one instance of its kind for each OrthoView. The MMM plugin already makes use of this.

• Load HRRT Sinogram - segment offsets for sinograms of type float were not calculated correctly. FIXED.

Vinci 0.89.1, September 4 2002

• PlanesView Props - new entry "SkipPlanes" (default: 0) allows to make the PlanesView more compact by omitting planes in a regular fashion.

• In some cases, adding a 2D ROI by cursor or "ROI define" plugin resulted in a crash. FIXED.

Vinci 0.89.0, September 4 2002

• ROIs ROIs ROIs - use the new "ROI2D Define"-plugin to change ROI properties, create and delete ROIs. We also now display average, standard deviation, number of pixels, minimum and maximum values. ROIs are evaluated "online" and based on the display resolution shown in the target display. CAVEAT: if you evaluate the same image for the same ROI with different display resolutions (e.g. standard view and zoomed view) your results will be different. TIP: to create ROIs, you can also switch to one of the ROI cursor modes by using the shortcut next to the sync icon just below each OrthoDisplay.
• > 100 (one hundred) OrthoDisplays per OrthoView (the previous 26 were already quite useful). Use the OrthoView Properties menu or Extras:Options to adjust the number of OrthoDisplays. Naming of Displays will be A-Z, AA-AZ, etc. When interfacing from IDL or C/C++ you can use the numerical index.
• # Image Buffers (virtually) unlimited - if you have an unlimited amount of RAM. They are allocated dynamically (as are the OrthoDisplays); in principle we are supporting this since before 0.80 but have only now removed some contraints in the user interface.
• VinciImage - all LoadPlugins now store imported images with their "native" dimensions: Analyze, ECAT, MINC, Interfile and Flat-type images will no longer be padded to multiples of 128 in each dimension.
• Improved Installer - if started with a "/A" option the installer will now install shortcuts (Desktop, Start:Programs menu) for all users.
• Batch script for remote installation - easy remote installation of Vinci with default options on any number of workstations in a network. Requires administrator permissions, see "vdist.cmd" in the bin-directory.
• Faster drawing of ROIs.
• New plugin for images in Leibinger format.

• Synchronization problems with OrthoDisplays and their plugins. FIXED.
• Some ECAT7 files with unusual dimensions were not displayed properly. FIXED.
• Some MINC files with unusual dimensions were not displayed properly. FIXED.
• Many cosmetic glitches.

Vinci 0.88.4, August 26 2002

• Mouse-induced rotation of 2D-ROIs is implemented now. You select the objects(s) you want to rotate and mouse-click slightly outside the corner of the bounding rect of (one of) the selected object(s). The mouse-cursor will assume the form of a small open circle with an arrow over the rotation-sensitive handles. Rotated objects can be selected, moved, streched and shrunk, saved and re-created etc. very much like the unrotated drawing objects before.
  Profiles do not yet re-act to rotation in a multi-object selection.

• Changing sampling resolution in linear interpolation crashed Vinci under certain circumstances. FIXED.
• All selected Vinci Drawing Objects re-acted to mouse-induced movement even if they were on different displays (i.e OrthoParts). FIXED.

Vinci 0.88.3, August 22 2002

• Polygons do not show the bounding rectangle during their creation in draw-mode.

• Invisible OrthoView - when starting Vinci without a project file that defined OrthoView window positions, new OrthoViews were created but positioned outside the visible screen. FIXED.
• Orientation of MINC volumes was sometimes flipped. FIXED. Their orientation is now properly extracted from the files. Hence the volumes are now displayed in the standard uniform manner - despite of their arbitrary orientation within the files.

Vinci 0.88.2, August 21 2002

• New "About" entry in InfoView did not show the Vinci icon. FIXED.

Vinci 0.88.1, August 21 2002

• Multi-level zoom - double-clicking an OrthoView will open another, larger OrthoView displaying the same image buffer (with the same reslicing settings). The zoom levels can be set with the OrthoView context menu (right mouse button: properties).
• Sights-And-Movies plugin - save the settings (reslicing only for now) of one OrthoDisplay with a name to restore them at a later stage. Preliminary support for Online Animation and Writing of AVI (MPEG-4) files.
• OrthoDisplay Props plugin - allows you to view and change the rendering methods used for each OrthoDisplay. The PixelReduplicate mode can also be switched on/off with a new icon shortcut under each OrthoDisplay.
• Save ECAT7 plugin - preliminary support to write any Vinci image buffer to a file in ECAT7 format (menu file, "Save Images..."). CAVEAT: currently limited to exporting the "native" and unresliced data of an image buffer, also not all original header information is used.
• Temporary Files gone - InfoView has been redesigned to display dynamically generated HTML without needing to write any temporary files.
• Zoom limits - when using the "magnifying glass cursors" (Zoom in/out), zoom factors resulting in large changes will be set to something less drastic, as they are most likely due to involuntary "Zoom Regions".
• Drawing polygons - To prevent self intersection-deadlocks Vinci will no longer insert the corrected point into the polygon. In polygon line-mode the user will be informed via a tool tip.
• Polygons can be drawn with or without handles now. You can change this property by selecting a single polygon and then using the context menu (right mouse button). Polygons created in draw-mode are shown without handles, in line-mode with handles. Note: The handles of the bounding rectangle are active even if they are not shown.
• Polygons and Ellipses are now move-sensitive on the bounding rectangle.
• LogView - word-wrap-mode is now switched off, i.e. lines longer than the current width of the LogView widget will no longer be distributed over several lines but rather invoke an automatic horizontal scroll bar.

• High resolution cubic spline - under some circumstances only one quarter of one display was rendered, leaving the other quarters black. FIXED.
• Reset image buffer (from the OrthoDisplay context menu) - did not give the expected reslicing settings for zoomed OrthoViews. FIXED.

Vinci 0.88.0, August 14 2002

• 2D-ROIs - Vinci provides preliminary support for the following two-dimensional regions of interest:
  • rectangle without rotation - so far
  • ellipse without rotation - so far
  • polygon without rotation - so far - intersection control is already working.
• Mouse-Handling of 2D-ROIs - as they are implemented as Vinci DObjects (like profiles), it is possible to
  • Create 2D ROIs via right mouse menu (new drawing object) on each OrthoDisplay.
  • Select 2D ROIs. Just click on them or draw a selection rectangle.
  • Delete 2D ROIs. Select them and press the "Delete" button or use the right mouse menu (work on selected).
  • Move 2D ROIs. Select them and move them around with the mouse.
  • Stretch and shrink 2D ROIs. Select them and move them around via the handles.
  • Move 2D ROIs to Fore-/Background. Select the one you want to modify and choose the appropriate command in the right mouse menu (work on selected).
  • Copy/Paste 2D ROIs. Select them and choose copy in the right mouse menu (work on selected). Then click on any other OrthoDisplay (or the same) and choose paste in the right mouse menu.
  • Insert a point into a polygon. Select it and click the right mouse key somewhere on the polygon where there is no other point yet. Choose "Insert Point" in the menu.
  • Delete a point in a polygon. Select it and click the right mouse key on some polygon point. Choose "Delete Point" in the menu. If the resulting polygon would intersect with itself the deletion of the point will be prohibited.
• Select Cursor mode button - a new button under each OrthoDisplay to easily select the cursor mode. The icon on the button front indicates the currently chosen cursor mode which is also checked in the menu.
• Vinci Drawing Objects now generated just by drawing them with the mouse - this feature is activated with the new select cursor mode button.
  • profile - just create an profile by drawing it with the mouse - with or without left mouse key down during drawing.
  • rectangle - just create a ROI 2D rectangle by drawing it with the mouse - with or without left mouse key down during draw.
  • ellipse - just create a ROI 2D ellipse by drawing it with the mouse - with or without left mouse key down during draw.
  • polygon (line) - just create a ROI 2D polygon by clicking at each point and doubleclicking at the last point. Vinci prevents you from drawing a polygon which intersects with itself.
  • polygon (draw) - just create a ROI 2D polygon by moving around the mouse with the left mouse button down. The polygon closes when you let the left mouse button go. When the polygon intersects with itself where you want to close it you will be informed and the polygon will be deleted.
• You can edit recently created drawing objects without changing to standard arrow-cursor mode as the standard drawing object handling is active in any object creation mode with the following restrictions:
  • selection by drawing a region is impossible in any object creation mode.
  • if you click near an existing drawing object that drawing object is activated instead of starting to created a new one at that position.
• Usage of 2D-ROIs
  • 2D-ROIs are coupled to the image buffer. So if you see the same image buffer in different displays (e.g. the zoom-display) they show the same ROIs. Profiles stay coupled to the displays - so far.
  • The bounding rectangle and its handles are drawn in a special blue.
  • Polygons do not intersect with themselves. Vinci enforces this policy when creating polygons using the mouse.
  • Intersection check on 2D Polygon ROIs. Vinci checks ROIs when restoring them from a project file: if a Polygon ROI intersects with itself (as perhaps it was edited in the vpx-file) an error message will be issued and the polygon will be ignored.
• Zoom-Window - a double-click on any display (in arrow-mode) opens a zoomed view of that display. This features is de-activated for cut-, move- or zoom-in/zoom-out mode of the display.
• The image buffer popup menu opened by the image buffer button under each OrthoDisplay now checks the currently shown image buffer.
• The link channel popup menu opened by the link channel button under each OrthoDisplay now checks the currently shown link channel.

• Profiles did not move right up to the border of an display if you moved the mouse (very) fast up to or over the border of the display. FIXED.
• The Undo/Redo buttons did not correctly reflect changes of the undo/redo-state of the image buffer induced in an other OrthoDisplay. FIXED.
• Undo/Redo did work on the image buffer of other OrthoDisplays if invoked from an ortho display that was changed to that same image buffer afterwards. FIXED.
• The concurrent selection of several Drawing objects at the same position went wrong with the following scenario (FIXED now):
  • Two profiles and one rectangle were clicked one after the other. Everything went right.
  • The profiles tool was opened and two additional profiles created at the default position. If the profiles tool was closed and the profiles and rectangle clicked, everything works fine, as before.
  • But if the profiles tool stayed open, you couldn't activate the rectangle any longer.
• If you pressed the CTRL-key while you drew a selection region Vinci did not react to left mouse clicks any more. FIXED.
• If you had a zoomed View with an open ColorTool and doubleclicked the OrthoView again to overwrite the zoom-view, Vinci crashed. FIXED.

• 2D-ROIs - (almost) everything you could ask of 2D ROIs is there - except they do not produce any statistics yet. Sorry.

Vinci 0.87.2, July 25 2002

• Co-Registration - several new features:
  • Improved performance for registration tasks where the reference image has a higher resolution than the reslice image.
  • Dimensions of registered image can now be either equal to the dimensions of the reslice image (default) or of the reference image.
  • Visual feedback during registration is significantly better now.
  • The registration result and the reference image will be displayed in fusion mode to facilitate inspection of registration quality.
• The Cross Marker parameters can now be synchronized (button "Sync") within the displays of one OrthoView.
• Inactive fusion mode does not save the current fusion parameters any more. Thus, on startup of Vinci, they will no longer be initialized to a potentially undesired setting.
• OrthoDisplay saves the currently used image buffer only if it contains an image so as to avoid settings that are no longer valid.
• Fusion Tool - a wrong choice of ortho display as fusion source will no longer be corrected automatically.

• In OrthoDisplay the transaxial, coronal and sagittal Display used only 255 pixel in height when set to 256 x 256 mode; the sagittal Display used only 255 pixel in width. FIXED.
• ScriptDemo - the color tool did not change the colors of the images any more since Vinci 0.87.1. FIXED.
• Fusion Tool - if you opened a second Fusion Tool for the same OrthoDisplay, it did not reflect the state of the permanent fusion-mode correctly. FIXED.
• Trying to use the Fusion Tool with OrthoDisplays that did not show the standard image buffers resulted in irritating error messages. FIXED.
• The Fusion Button and the Cross Marker Button did not work correctly with a second OrthoView open. FIXED.

Vinci 0.87.1, July 19 2002

• CROSSMARKER - now offers several new features like optional shadow lines and variable transparency at the centre. A new plugin (Display Properties) is provided to edit these CrossMarker properties. CrossMarkers can be invoked by using either the new button below each OrthoDisplay or via the right mouse menu. CrossMarkers also now look good in print when exported via Clipboard.
• Co-Registration - To achieve quick results you should make sure that the resolution of the reslice image is higher or equal to that of the reference image. If the reference image has a higher solution than the reslice image a warning message will be displayed, so that you can re-consider your settings.
• Ortho Displays are now saved with individual settings in the Vinci project file, so that
  • Vinci Drawing Objects - like profiles - can now be saved without its tool being open.
  • CrossMarker Settings can be saved; and thus can be made the default (i.e. Vinci start-up) setting.
  • The Fusion settings of an ortho display can be saved independant from the fusion tool.
  • The current image buffer, the state of the additive selection mode and the link channel will be saved for each individual ortho display.
• The Fusion Tool is now fully synchronized with other fusion tools working on the same ortho display.
• The Lock state of each image buffer will be saved in the Vinci project file now.
• The Vinci Options will be saved in the Vinci project file now. The spin-controls are working now.

• CrossMarker - colors were not reproduced correctly when exported via Clipboard Copy/Paste, e.g. to Powerpoint. FIXED.
• Profiles Tool - new profiles were generated with the colors beginning with black and white instead of red and green in Vinci 0.87.0. FIXED.

Vinci 0.87.0, July 16 2002

• CO-REGISTRATION with the Multi Modality Matching (A) plugin by Jiri Cizek is now available via the OrthoToolbox. Using a Mutual Information/Downhill Simplex-approach, it is now possible to automatically co-register two image buffers. Currently, Vinci provides three parameter presets that provide different tradeoffs between desired accuracy and running time.
• The ScatterPlot interface - only available to external IDL programs so far - can now also be used in external C/C++ programs. There are the functions "Vinci_OpenPlotsView" to open a plots view and "Vinci_ScatterPlots" to actually draw the plots. See the header-file "Vinci_C.h" for details.
• New CrossMarker option for OrthoDisplays: a "static" cross to mark cut positions. Options and properties for this mode are in preparation.
• The Fusion Tool has a check-box to install on its display the new "permanent fusion mode", i.e. the display stays in fusion-mode even if the tool is closed.
• Fusion Mode Button - you can now enter the fusion mode of an OrthoDisplay by simply pressing down the new fusion-mode state-button. The appropriate fusion tool opens in permanent fusion-mode. If you release the state-button the fusion tool closes again.

• ScriptDemo showed black profiles instead of red and green ones since Vinci 0.86.2. FIXED.
• A click in the legend area brought up the currently used tool for the display clicked in. But it was designed to open the Color-Tool of that display. FIXED.
• Fusion Mode - all image processing with the left mouse button was done with no visible effect as the image is invisible in fusion mode. The display showing a fusion image will not respond to mouse commands (for now).
• Fusion Mode - all image processing with the tools other then the fusion tool is done with no visible effect as the image is invisible in fusion mode. But the color legend and profiles (and their plots) did change none the less. This inconsistency is FIXED.

Vinci 0.86.3, July 5 2002

• MicroPET multiframe images - the "Micropet Image" plugin can now load one single frame or all frames of a MicroPET multi frame file.
• Click on a Vinci Drawing Object - like a profile - and it gets activated in (the list of) its tool. You can select it with the mouse and then use the "Del" or "Copy" button in its tool.

Vinci 0.86.2, July 4 2002

• Large and detailed file dialog to pick files (e.g. for loading) - it works like manually enlarging the standard file browser and selecting "detailed view".
• New Options dialog to temporarily change Vinci global parameters like:
  • setting of the new detailed file dialog
  • number of load history entries & presets
  • default number of ortho displays
  • setting of color & magic tool live synchronization
  • handle size and sensitivity of Vinci drawing objects
  The spin controls do not work so far.
• Multiple Undo and Redo-options - you can take back (and re-do) the last 10 mouse-induced zoomings, image moves and cuttings just by clicking a button.
• Profile direction, i.e. starting and endpoint of a profile are represented by different markers (you need to select the profile first): the starting point is indicated by a filled square the endpoint by an outlined one.
• Copy, cut and paste is now available for Vinci drawing objects - like profiles - via right mouse key menu anywhere on the ortho display.
• Improved left mouse key support
  • Profiles at the same position will now get selected one after the other when you click on them - instead of all of them at once. If you want all selected at once open a rectangle with your mouse.
  • A selection region, i.e. a rectangle within which each drawing object is being selected, can simply be drawn with the mouse now.
  • A zoom region, i.e. a rectangle which is zoomed into view, can simply be drawn with the mouse now.
  • A new zoom cursor is introduced, so you can draw the zoom region more exactly.
• Improved right mouse key support
  • Move to foreground, i.e. bring the first selected profile to the front of the screen and thus make it visible if there is more than one where you clicked.
  • Move to background, i.e. bring the first selected profile to the back of the screen and thus hide it if there is more than one where you clicked.
  • Change Color of any Vinci Drawing Object without opening "its" tool.
• A newly opened PlotsView now shows all profiles of the active OrthoView.
• Improved color handling in the Profiles Tool:
  • New profiles are now created using nine different standard-colors.
  • The color of each profile can be freely chosen in the full RGB color space.
• Images in Flat Format can now be loaded partially (useful for multi frame images or 3D sinograms), only a check for read operations beyond the file size is performed.

• The center of a zoomed image was not in the middle of the zoom area/the point you clicked, if the image was "cut" before. FIXED.
• Moving Cross deleted profiles during move. FIXED.
• Moving Cross appeared on OrthoDisplays that did not show an image. FIXED.
• The Del key on the keyboard deletes all selected profiles; whereas the menu entry Delete deleted only the top profile. This inconsistency is FIXED.
• Moving a profile with the mouse, it was computed anew even if the cursor position didn't change. FIXED.
• Two singular profiles in different ortho displays contested in the PlotsView for the right to be plotted. FIXED.
• Analyze-images in y-direction considerably larger that in x were not read correctly. FIXED.
• Accelerators like CTRL+S for "save project" did not work on the OrthoView after changing the image buffer, the link or lock state. FIXED.

• The Undo and Redo-buttons do not yet apply to:
  • the Magic Tool,
  • linked images,
  • keyboard-moved images,
  • the same image shown in a second display.
  They so far only take back (and re-do) image-motion induced by mouse-movement.
• Moving Cross does not yet come directly after activating it via right mouse key menu or shift key.

Vinci 0.86.1, June 19 2002

• Multiple selection support
  • In Additive Selection Mode - enabled by a new button under every OrthoDisplay - you can add profiles to a selection by simply clicking on them. Normally the previously selected profile becomes unselected if you select another one.
  • Press the "a"-key on your keyboard to enter a temporary additive selection mode.
• Right mouse key support for profiles. It is only available when the cursor is in "arrow mode" and the mouse hovers above a profile, i.e. when you see the special arrow mode cursor form with an additional plus sign. You can:
  • add one profile into a (multiple) selection.
    This works for one profile only, even if you click where two or more profiles overlap.
  • subtract one profile from a (multiple) selection.
    This works for one profile only, even if you click where two or more profiles overlap.
  • open the profiles tool
  • create one new profile
    This works only if the profiles tool is open, so far.
  • delete one profile
    This works for one profile only, even if you click where two or more profiles overlap.
• Press the "delete"-key on your keyboard to delete all selected profiles.

• An 8bit Analyze-image in Big Endian format were not read correctly. FIXED.

Vinci 0.86.0, June 14 2002

• Mouse support for Profiles: use the mouse to select profiles, drag them and change their anchor points.
• Clipboard export has been improved: snapshots (these are not ordinary screenshots) of OrthoDisplays can now be modified after they have been exported to Powerpoint, Word or Adobe Illustrator after they have been "ungrouped" in these tools.
• IDL compatibility now includes IDL 5.2: we have removed the "/UNLOAD" option which required at least IDL 5.3.
• Vinci External - the "MyFunction.cpp" and "IDL_MyFunction.pro" now also retrieve information on Vinci's currently loaded image buffers and are generally more consistent, thanks Jiri.

• The Ortho Toolboxes did not correctly reflect the deletion (using the new OrthoView Properties, see 0.85.2) of their currently active OrthoDisplay. FIXED.
• Accelerators like CTRL+S for "save project" did not work after creation of a new OrthoView. FIXED.

Vinci 0.85.3, June 11 2002

• The Ortho Toolboxes did not correctly reflect the deletion (using the new OrthoView Properties, see 0.85.2) of their currently active OrthoDisplay. FIXED.
• Accelerators like CTRL+S for "save project" did not work after creation of a new OrthoView. FIXED.

Vinci 0.85.2, June 10 2002

• OrthoView Properties - to change the number of OrthoDisplays for a given OrthoView, so far. The (new) number of OrthoDisplays must be less or equal 26 for now. A new number of zero OrthoDisplays deletes the OrthoView.
• New OrthoViews - You can specify the properties of the OrthoView you want to create.
• Dynamic OrthoDisplay list - the list of OrthoDisplays is now generated dynamically in each ortho toolbox, i.e. it only shows ortho displays that exist in the given OrthoView.

• You could only access displays up to OrthoDisplay T via the ortho toolbox list even if there existed the momentary maximum of 26 OrthoDisplays. FIXED.

Vinci 0.85.1, June 07 2002

• The Color Bars now reflect minima and maxima of the displayed color range via tool tips.
• Vinci Settings are saved version-independent. So Load History, Load Presets and the default project file should usually not be affected by updating Vinci.
• Project Files - contain (optionally) information on the current session (when it started, name of user and host).
• Relative Paths - image paths can be saved without full path information (Save Project As). In this case, Vinci expects the image files to be in the same directory as the project file. This feature is especially useful for portable file systems (CDs, firewire disks).
• ToolBar - the position of the ToolBar is saved in the project file. Default is "left border".

• Interfile LoadPlugin - unnecessary white space around keywords will now be ignored more thoroughly.
• Save Project As - the suffix ".vpx" will be appended automatically if necessary.
• Vinci startup - an open OrthoView always reserved the active state for itself if some tool box was open during "save project". FIXED.
• The info line tool tip of the ortho display did not appear if an active Ortho Toolbox was present. FIXED.
• The IDL program idl_myfunction.pro is now (really) part of the distribution.

Vinci 0.85.0, June 05 2002

• Color Bars! reflect the current color settings in OrthoDisplays.
• Clipboard Export from OrthoDisplays now gives some choice about color settings and also features Color Bars with a proper legend.
• Vinci External - the C/C++ sources and the IDL sources have been supplemented with a mechanism to retrieve information on Vinci's currently loaded image buffers from external programs.
• New idl_myfunction.pro demo source that asks Vinci to load ECAT7 data, transfers the image data to IDL, manipulates the image volume and sends it back to another image buffer in Vinci.

• OrthoDisplay - image values at mouse cursor positions will now only be displayed when the mouse cursor is directly over a visible part of the image. FIXED.
• Color Tool - the color-table of a newly chosen image buffer was not updated correctly. FIXED.
• Info View - the info view did not correctly update on image buffer deletion. FIXED.

Vinci 0.84.1, May 24 2002

• The Vinci Ortho Toolboxes now features a spin control to rapidly change between OrthoDisplays (Thanks Carmen).
• The screen position of new Ortho Toolboxes has a small offset.

• Planes View Properties - the following sequence resulted in a crash. FIXED.
  • Load image "pat3_mri.v" into image buffer #0.
  • Start PlanesView via the OrthoDisplay Infoline-Button -> PlanesView Properties appear
  • Close PlanesView Properties.
  • Load image "pat1_pet_fdg.v" again into image buffer #0.

Vinci 0.84.0, May 24 2002

• Save Project settings of image buffers (reslicing settings, color settings), and settings of LoadPlugins will be saved in the project file, so a Vinci session can now be restored including all images. While writing the project file, the Vinci logo will be shown as feedback (which is helpful in case you have invoked the "Save Project" command via keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S, s.b.).
• Save Project As features two new options: "Make default project" (the VinciProject will be loaded automatically when Vinci is started) and "Image Paths": if not checked, the Project File will not contain instructions on what image files to load.
• How to find Vinci's bin-directory: this is the directory where Vinci_*.exe and some of the libraries it needs is located, also sometimes reffered to as $VINCIBINDIR. We define all file paths in this and subsequent releases relative to this path. Vinci's installer usually creates shortcuts on your Desktop. If you right-click these and choose "Properties" from the menu, the absolute path to Vinci_*.exe is given. The default installation is: "C:\<Program Files>\MPIFNF\Vinci_<x>".
• Vinci_External_IDL - is a collection of IDL scripts that demonstrates a number of useful new and "user-friendly" commands you can use from IDL to remotely control Vinci and/or use it as a frontend. Please see the "readme.txt" in the corresponding "external" directory (in the same directory as Vinci's bin-directory). If IDL is installed on your system, you can run some demo scripts directly from Vinci's bin-directory: use the shortcut in "Command Line" from the "Start" menu (try "idl_guidedtour.pro", "idl_getimagevolume.pro" ).
• Vinci_External_C - is a ready-to-compile C/C++-project that demonstrates how to interface with Vinci with an external C/C++ program, including binary transfer of image data. Please see the "readme.txt" in the corresponding "external" directory (in the same directory as Vinci's bin-directory).
• Vinci displays a new Tools Menu if the OrthoView menu is active.
• Accelerators are working properly again. We have the following menu shortcuts:
  • Ctrl+I to open the info view or bring it to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+L to open the load view or bring it to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+T to open the logger or bring it to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+K to open a plots view or bring the non-locked one to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+M to open a planes view or bring the active one to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+R to open a ortho view or bring the active one to the front if already open.
  • Ctrl+N works context-sensitive. It opens:
    • a new planes view if called in planes view.
    • a new plots view if called in plots view.
    • a new ortho view if called in ortho view.
    • a new project if called in load view, info view, the logger or an completely empty Vinci.
  • Ctrl+O to show the open dialog for Vinci project files.
  • Ctrl+S to save the current project in its project file or open the save-as dialog if it still has its default name.
  • Ctrl+Shift+S to show the save-as dialog for the current project.
  • Ctrl+U to update Vinci via FTP.

• Planes View - if you changed an 256x256 pixel image currently displayed in PlanesView into an 128x128 image Vinci crashed. FIXED.
• Planes View - the Planes View did not correctly interpret image dimension, e.g. it showed only a quarter of an 256x256 image buffer in 1x1-mode with 1:1-zoom. FIXED.
• Planes View - the Planes View did wriggle around when first opened. FIXED.
• Planes View - if you changed the image shown in an image buffer currently displayed in PlanesView the new image did not let itself be redrawn. FIXED.
• Load View - the Load View did not re-appear after closing it when first opened at the top-left position - which unfortunately is the default position. FIXED.
• LoadView - the list of LoadHistory entries and of LoadPresets contained unneccessary white space when saved in the project file. FIXED.

Vinci 0.82.2, May 16 2002

• Choose new buffer(s) in the Load View and images will always be loaded into the next free image buffer. If you load a multiframe-image and the loader encounters an buffer that already contains an image this buffer will be skipped.
• Choose buffer(s) starting from in the Load View and images get loaded into the image buffer starting with the number specified in the combobox. If the chosen image buffer already contains an image this buffer will be overwritten.
• Scrolling OrthoDisplays into view - When you change the OrthoDisplay in an OrthoToolBox the OrthoDisplay scrolls into view.
• Scrolling image buffers into view - When you load an image into an image buffer the nearest OrthoDisplay that shows this image buffer is scrolled into view. This also happens when you manually change the image buffer in the list on LoadView's right hand corner ("Load buffers starting from").
• OrthoView - if you open the image buffer menu of an OrthoDisplay, the image buffer currently shown is checked.
• Tool Tips - Vinci now provides tool tips for:
  • every item in the Tool Bar.
  • the title bar of each OrthoDisplay.

• PlanesView - the pixel values given for mouse positions belonged in fact to a position in the display shifted in the y-direction by the height of the second title bar. FIXED.
• Load History - Load pre-sets store directories (since to-day), plugin types etc. The load history instead should store fully qualified filenames, plugin types etc. But - using the same function - the load history suddenly stored directories only. FIXED.

Vinci 0.82.1, May 14 2002

• Tool Tips - Vinci now provides tool tips for:
  • the tool buttons on the status bar of each OrthoDisplay (Thanks Carmen),
  • the LoadView dialog.
• Presets of LoadView
  • Edit LoadPresets - now proposes more meaningful default names of format "directory/file pattern [plugin name]" for new preset entries.
  • Use the Arrow Button next to "File(s)" (Browse) to select a previously defined LoadView setting ("preset") by name.

• Load View - subsequent load operations did not increment the id of the image buffer widget, thus overloading the previously loaded image. FIXED.

Vinci 0.82.0, May 13 2002

• IDL Tools - we proudly present some external programs written in the "Interactive Data Language" (IDL, from Research Systems Inc.) that interface with Vinci (idl_ScatterPlots, idl_GetImage) and exchange binary data in a user-friendly fashion. Located in Vinci's bin-directory.
• ScriptDemo - this external C++ program is now part of the distribution and demonstrates Vinci's scripting engine, including a Guided Tour of the main features using some demo data (s. next item). It can be invoked by a shortcut in the "Start"-menu and is located in Vinci's bin directory.
• Download Demo Data - from the "Update"-menu will download and install 25 MB of compressed demo data necessary for the new ScriptDemo.
• LoadPresets - LoadView now features a user-friendly means of associating arbitrary settings ("presets") of the dialog (directory/filename pattern, choice of plugin, plugin settings) with a name and recall them later. This works independently of the LoadHistory function.
• LoadHistory - LoadView now saves the history of loaded files automatically, a copy will also be written to the project file (manually). If you open another instance of Vinci or reload Vinci later, all files that have been loaded in the previous session will be available as shortcuts in the drop down list of the LoadView.
• Clear Image Buffer - added to the OrthoDisplay popup menu to delete the image buffer (free the memory) currently shown. The command acts on the display where you opened the popup menu and it will also affect all displays that show the same image buffer.
• Analyze Files - added the ability to read Analyze files with 8 Bit data.

• Planes View - a call for PlanesView from the OrthoDisplay info bar resulted in a view with zero rows. FIXED.
• Link Channels - to optimize performance you are now hindered to place one image buffer twice in the same link channel (red, blue or green). User interaction on image buffers that are shown in more than one OrthoDisplay is processed faster now through the Live Self Synchronization technique.
• Analyze Files - all Analyze files will now be padded to multiples of 128 in x and y size, thus avoiding some previous display problems.

Vinci 0.80.16, May 02 2002

• Project File/LoadView - now saves the history of loaded files: if reloaded at a later stage, all files that have been loaded in the previous session will be available as shortcuts in the drop down list of the LoadView. In order to use this feature, you need to manually do a Save Project.
• Load - if the text field (path) is empty, the directory for Open Explorer and File Browser defaults to the directory of demo images.

• Load
  • Open Explorer - now also works with Windows NT.
  • File Browser - will now open in the correct directory: the one specified by either directory or full file path on the text line.
• Memory Tool - If an MicroPet image was loaded on a WINDOWS NT machine and then deleted by the Memory Tool (Delete Current), Vinci would crash. Fixed.

Vinci 0.80.15, April 30 2002

• Large Fonts - Vinci now also supports the large fonts setting of Windows.
• Main Window - title bar now features version text.
• Online Update - added a progress bar, also supports loading of demo data (s.a.).
• Show Project File - a new command added to the Update menu to view the default project file in the standard editor Notepad.
• Reset Image Buffer - added to the OrthoDisplay popup menu to show the image with default reslicing parameters. The command acts on the image buffer shown in the display where you opened the popup menu (incl. link channels and other displays that show the same image buffer). So there can be no keyboard shortcut or call through the main menu.

• VinciScript/Project Format -some comments did not adhere to XML standard (typo). FIXED.
  So you can inspect the project files in any XML-Viewer, now, e.g. the Internet Explorer.
• Move/Zoom/Cut - When you moved/zoomed/cut an image shown in a display, the same image in other displays was not moved/zoomed/cut accordingly. FIXED - incl. link channel connections.

Vinci 0.80.14, April 26 2002

• Version History - now available as html-document. To display, use main menu Update:Version History.
• Online Update - will start new Vinci version and exit (after successful update).
• Load
  • Drag & Drop: you can now drag an image file from the explorer onto Vinci and it will be loaded, automatically selecting (hopefully) a suitable plugin.
  • If the keyword $VINCIDIR is part of an image path, it will be replaced by the path to Vinci's bin-directory (where the current version of Vinci was started).
  • Open Explorer: a new button to open the windows explorer in the directory given by the file path in the load widget.
• Fusion Tool: The fusion tool is back again.

• Load -The error message "file does not exist (network problem?)" also appeared when trying to load an image file that was in use by another application. FIXED.
• LoadHRRTImage
  • does not insist on a header any more (the previous version did). FIXED.
  • will display the first segments of an OSEM3D normfac. FIXED.

Vinci 0.80.12, April 19 2002

• Link Channel modification - If an image is assigned to a link channel the user will be asked whether he wants to re-use the reslicing parameters (rotation, zoom, and cutting planes) of the first image of the group. Thanks, Christof.
• Magic Tool
  • new "Sync M"-button (cf. "Sync C" in the Color Tool). With "Sync M" you can transfer the reslicing parameter of one image to all other loaded images.
  • new "Live Sync" now, i.e. live synchronization of all OrthoDisplays that show the image the Magic Tool is currently manipulating. If "Live Sync" is not active, every Magic Tool handles only the image of its own OrthoDisplay. But you can synchronize the other OrthoDisplays with the Apply button. "Live Sync" is compatible with the link channel technique. But you should not use "Live Sync" and "link to yourself" at the same time.
  • Data Min./Max. changes in the Color Tool are now immediately reflected in the Magic Tool and vice versa if Live Self Synchronization is activated.
• Profiles Tool - If you re-open the Profiles Tool to an OrthoDisplay where you previously generated profiles in, the profiles get redrawn in the currently active PlotsView. The profiles are now completely re-created from the OrthoDisplay their profile-baseline is shown in. The profiles get deleted at the time the OrthoDisplay is closed.

• OrthoView - If an OrthoView was opened, an OrthoToolBox opened and closed again, the OrthoView closed and opened again, Vinci crashed. FIXED.
• PlanesView - If two (or more) PlanesViews showed the same image and this image was changed Vinci entered an infinite loop. FIXED.
• VRemote.Exe - Vinci crashed after changing from Profiles Tool to Color Tool. FIXED.
• Personal Folder - on systems that support Version History, PersonalFolder is the default location for temporary files; finding this folder should now be more reliable.
• Vinci Pipe - serialization of piped commands (VRemote.exe, etc.) should now be more reliable.

Vinci 0.80.11, April 10, 2002

• MINC - Vinci sports now an external Plugin to load MINC-Files.
• Online Update - now gets the new versions of Vinci from the MPIfnF ftp-Server.
• Color Tool - "Live Sync", i.e. live synchronization of all displays (OrthoDisplays, PlanesView,...) that show the image the ColorTool is currently manipulating. If "Live Self Synchronization" is not active, every ColorTool handles only the image of its own OrthoDisplay. But you can synchronize the other displays (incl. PlanesView) with the Apply button.
• PlanesView Properties - Color Handling now works with the same ColorTool as in OrthoTools: everything works as explained for ColorTool including Live Self Synchronization.

• Color Tool - The Sync C Button is back again.

Vinci 0.80.10, April 4 2002

• ColorTool - updates colors automatically in all windows that show the same image buffer.
• MemoryTool - the image in the active image buffer of the active OrthoDisplay can now by deleted by pipe command. Also, all images can now be deleted at once.

• VRemote.exe - should be used with a "fresh" Vinci only. If a profiles toolbox was opened before and closed again Vremote.exe causes Vinci to crash.

Vinci 0.80.9, April 4 2002

• Color Tool - objects that show the same image buffer can now be synchronized by pressing the Apply-button.
• Magic Tool - objects that show the same image buffer can now be synchronized by pressing the Apply-button.

• Magic Tool - Zoom-Buttons now activate and synchronize the zoom-percentage.