Version 11 — March 13, 2010 — 209 KB

View Slides now has a new style toolbar which can be seen in Sugar on a Stick. The old toolbar is still supported for older versions of Sugar. I have added the .cbz MIME type to the format View Slides can read, so you can use View Slides as an alternative to Read for reading comic books in that format.

• Source Code License GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Version 10 — September 7, 2009 — 189 KB

Version 10 adds a couple of useful features:

1). Annotations, like Read Etexts has. You can add notes below an image. For instance, if you wanted to create a collection of pictures for an art appreciation class you could put notes about each picture underneath the pictures. You can also bookmark as many images as you like. Be aware that if you use annotations the Zip file containing the images will need to be completely rewritten when you exit the Activity, and this can be time consuming.

2). You may now create a Journal entry from any image in the collection. If a teacher wanted to distribute a collection of images with the idea that students might use individual images to make a Memorize game, etc. a View Slides presentation would be a workable way to do that.

Some bugs have been fixed, notably that in Sugar version .84 and later you can now add images from a thumb drive to your presentation. Previously .84 only allowed adding images that were in the Journal. .82 treated images on thumb drives as if they were in the Journal. Currently the Activity gives the same experience on either version.

• Source Code License GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Version 8 — June 21, 2009 — 182 KB

Release 8 adds the ability to use View Slides to create slide shows as well as view them. The Slides toolbar lets you open a panel that lets you select image files in your Journal (both the Journal proper and also any USB devices and SD cards that can be browsed using the Journal) and add those images to a slide show. You may also select entries in your slideshow and either delete them or rename them (which you would do to arrange the images in a new sequence). When you select an image for renaming, deleting, or adding you will see a preview of it in the upper half of the screen.

Another feature of release 8 is that any Journal entry you resume from the Journal proper is marked as belonging to View Slides, so thereafter you can open the slide show with one click of the Journal entry rather than selecting "View Slides" from a menu. Of course if you open the entry by mistake you can still open it through the menu as you did before.

Version 7 — March 29, 2009 — 97 KB

This version adds the ability to zoom slides to fill the screen width and scroll vertically, useful for reading scanned book pages. It also allows you to toggle full screen mode using Alt-Enter, just like the core Read activity can.

Version 6 — March 26, 2009 — 96 KB

This version fixes a couple of embarrassing bugs. The first was that while focus started on the image, if you moved the focus to the toolbar for any reason you couldn't get it back on the image, so you couldn't use the keyboard to navigate through the images, only the mouse. The second was if you were receiving a shared document it did not show the progress messages while downloading, only the total when finished. Both of these problems have been fixed.

Version 5 — March 14, 2009 — 95 KB

This release fixes document sharing (slow, but it works), gives you the ability to hide and show the mouse cursor for more pleasant image viewing, and gives you a nicer image to look at while receiving a shared slide collection.