Release Notes - JavaScript 4.x

4.0.2 (04/01/2024)

New

• Implemented a visual magnifier to facilitate adjustment of corner points.

Changed

• Enhanced “beep” quality by allowing multiple soundtracks now.
• Renamed the method getDrawingStyles() to getAllDrawingStyles() under class DrawingStyleManager for clarity.
• Move DrawingItem subtypes, such as LineDrawingItem, up to directly under the namespace DCE.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where changing singleFrameMode would get drawing layers removed.
• Fixed a bug where an unnecessary button to appear on iOS devices when invoking the takePhoto() method.
• Fixed a bug specific to iOS 17, where reopening the camera after leaving the browser could result in failure.

4.0.1 (01/11/2024)

Added

• Added beepSoundSource & vibrateDuration to the class Feedback.
• Added maintainAspectRatio to ImageDrawingItem.
• Added clearAllInnerDrawingItems() to clear internally added DrawingItems.
• Added setErrorListener() to receive errors occurred during image acquisition.
• Added cameraOpenTimeout to control the maximum time allowed for opening a selected camera.

Improved

• Updated the behaviour of SingleFrameMode to allow an Android or iOS device user to make use of the camera without having to select between the camera and image gallery as the image source.
• Updated the method setScanRegion() to allow passing null to clear the scan region.
• Updated the resolution selection drop-down box to make it more intuitive.
• Updated setZoom() to support Safari on iOS v17.x.

Fixed

• Fixed issues with the methods setZoom() & getZoomSettings() so that they can now work with static videos.
• Fixed issues with the autozoom or enhanced-focus features to prevent them from throwing unnecessary error messages.
• Fixed an issue with unstable video streaming upon opening the camera on iOS 17.x.

4.0.0 (08/24/2023)

Changelog

• Separated the user interaction functionality from the original CameraEnhancer class into two new dedicated classes: CameraView and ImageEditorView:
  • The CameraView class is responsible for streaming video with real-time interaction such as highlighting certain objects found in the video;
  • The ImageEditorView class is responsible for displaying a single image with real-time interaction such as editing the boundaries of an object found in the image.
• Refactored the CameraEnhancer class to be compliant with the ImageSourceAdapter interface.
• Improved the built-in drawing logic:
  • Added the DrawingStyleManager class to manage DrawingStyles;
  • Renamed basic DrawingItem types;
  • Expanded the drawing logic to include the ScanRegion indicators.
• Refactored the Tip feature with a TipConfig interface and methods like setTipConfig(), getTipConfig(), setTipVisible() and isTipVisible().
• The following features are grouped together as enhanced features that require a license. They can be enabled or disabled with the methods enableEnhancedFeatures() or disableEnhancedFeatures():
  • Enhanced-focus. This feature used to be called auto-focus. Now it is defined as EnumEnhancedFeatures.EF_ENHANCED_FOCUS.
  • Auto-zoom. This feature is defined as EnumEnhancedFeatures.EF_AUTO_ZOOM, and we allow the zoom range to be set or returned with the methods setAutoZoomRange() and getAutoZoomRange().
  • Tap-to-focus. This feature used to be controlled by the method enableTapToFocus(). Now it is defined as EnumEnhancedFeatures.EF_TAP_TO_FOCUS.
• Added the method takePhoto() to the CameraEnhancer class to allow users to temporarily invoke the system camera to capture a video frame with higher quality