Changes from Version 15 to Version 16

Version 16 of the LEADTOOLS Image Viewer C API has changed from version 15 as follows:

Feature Updates

The Medical Image Viewer Control now includes:

• Animation support with a shuffle option for the animation engine.

• Begin and End Update for faster processing.

• Low memory usage capability for faster loading

• Up to 8X8 rows and columns.

• Ability to calibrate the ruler for one axis only (X or Y) or both.

• Feature to set Window Level defaults and units of measure

• Window level engine detects appropriate sensitivity

• Control over tag size.

• Bitmaps

  • Bitmap perspective rotation

  • Invert bitmaps and check for bitmap inversion

  • Bitmap region removal

• Mouse

  • 5-button mouse support

  • Convert mouse coordinates into bitmap coordinates

  • Interpolate the image before the user releases the Mouse button

• Cells

  • Adding, Deleting, modifying cell tags.

  • Cell or sub-cell printing

  • Cell scaling

  • Ability to calibrate cells without using the ruler.

  • Fit image to cell height or width

  • Freeze sub-cell and determine whether the sub-cell is frozen

• Frames

  • Adding, Deleting, modifying tags for specific frames

  • Scale and Offset for a specific frame

  • Set and Get the scale and scale mode of a specific frame

• Regions

  • Get and set the region handle.

  • Load and Save a region to/from a scripted file.

  • Allow the user to change the color of the control region.

  • nudge tool feature

  • shrink tool feature

  • add select mode

• Annotations

  • load and save annotation objects.

  • get, rotate, flip, reverse, and set the annotation container.

  • change the foreground and background color of the text annotation object.

Topic Updates

The following topics have been updated:

Applying Actions

Creating a Bitmap Region Inside the Image Viewer

Image Viewer Cells

Implementing Animation

Using the Image Viewer

Working with Annotations

New Functions

L_DispContainerBeginUpdate

L_DispContainerCalibrateCell

L_DispContainerEnableCellLowMemoryUsage

L_DispContainerEndUpdate

L_DispContainerFlipBitmap

L_DispContainerFreezeSubCell

L_DispContainerGetAnimationStartedCallBack

L_DispContainerGetAnimationStoppedCallBack

L_DispContainerGetCellScale

L_DispContainerGetDefaultWindowLevelValues

L_DispContainerGetLowMemoryUsageCallBack

L_DispContainerGetRotateBitmapPerspectiveAngle

L_DispContainerHandlePalette

L_DispContainerInvertBitmap

L_DispContainerIsBitmapInverted

L_DispContainerIsSubCellFrozen

L_DispContainerPrintSubCell

L_DispContainerRemoveBitmapRegion

L_DispContainerResetWindowLevelValues

L_DispContainerRotateBitmapPerspective

L_DispContainerSetAnimationStartedCallBack

L_DispContainerSetAnimationStoppedCallBack

L_DispContainerSetBitmapListInfo

L_DispContainerSetCellScale

L_DispContainerSetDefaultWindowLevelValues

L_DispContainerSetLowMemoryUsageCallBack

L_DispContainerSetRequestedImage

L_DispContainerUpdateCellView

L_DispContainerGetCellScaleMode

L_DispContainerSetCellScaleMode

New Structures

DISPCONTAINERBITMAPINFO

New Callbacks

DISPCONTAINERACTIVESUBCELLCHANGED

DISPCONTAINERANIMATIONSTARTEDCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERANIMATIONSTOPPEDCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERANNOTATIONCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERANNOTATIONCREATEDCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERMOUSECALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERPOSTPAINTCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERPREPAINTCALLBACK

DISPCONTAINERREGIONCALLBACK

For more information, refer to:

LEADTOOLS Press Room