Several features and fixes...

Showing active file name in taskbar.

Added live update while drawing. The following shortcuts can be used while using a tool and live feedback is given:
- switching color
- swap first/second color
- switching color palette rows
- switching gradient
- switching between gradient colors
- flip gradient
- change brush size

Added "Find Shortcuts" function for Shift + Ctrl + P. Lists all shortcuts and lets you find, execute or modify them quickly.

Added shortcuts to inc/dec drawing opacity, opacity toggle and color mix toggle

For new projects the "Save as single images dialog" now presets to folder used last time instead of "documents".

Added shortcut to open effects settings of active layer.

Highlighting tile mapping sync mode check box if enabled.

Fix: Layer blend mode drop down showed scrollbar but should show all entries instead.

Fix: Mix option for paint mode with alpha transparency not working correctly.

Fix: Some custom shortcuts for timeline actions not working.

Fix: Changes to workspace handling. So far, the default workspace was used when you switch to a project having no explicit workspace assigned.
This had a the negative effect that if you change the workspace and switch to another project having no explicit workspace assigned, the default was enabled again, but this might not be what you want.
If no workspace is assigned to a project, switching projects do not switch workspace any more. This only happens if a project has a workspace assigned.
Also the home screen now does not reset to default workspace any more.

Fix: If a visual grid was defined in project preset config then it was not enabled for display when the grid was enabled. Also added 16x16 drawing grid to default project preset.

Fix: Layer deletion and undo not working with tile map projects when sync mode off. When tile mapping sync mode was off then drawing a layer, deleting it and undoing the deletion did not correctly rebuild layer contents.

Fix: Visual artifacts on canvas when drawing while animation is running.

Fix: Middle mouse panning not working with different interactive tools lite transform.

Fix: Error when opening some dialogs. Create text brush, Edit keyboard shortcut, edit formula settings.

Fix: When using ESC key to close a dialog then active canvas tools have been canceled as well.

Fix: Shortcuts for rotating a transform object used wrong direction.

Fix: Internal error when inverting selection that was not active any more.

Fix: UI overlap at paint mode panel with long paint mode descriptions.

Fix: Folder text display cut off when using display scaling in palette and halftone management dialog-

Fix: Internal error when color palette window was sized to small.

Fix: When switching between projects zoom level changed. If a zoom level below 1 was selected for a project, switching to another project and back, reduced the zoom level.
Same happened when using crop tool.

Fix: Movement lock (Shift) reset after each stroke with freehand paint tools. It's better to keep the Shift lock position (horizontal, vertical) with these types of tools, even if a stroke was done.

Fix: Some paint modes not correctly working when touching same tile at different position. When using (e.g.) paint mode Shade with a tile map project and drawing over the same tile that is placed at different positions then the shading was applied again, although a tile pixel has already been shaded before at a different position of the tile on the canvas.

Fix: Tile index numbers contained in the brush did not consistently highlight. When having tile index display enabled and grabbing a brush as tile from canvas, the tiles in the brush are shown as purple index numbers on the canvas.
If the sync mode is disabled, a different brush is grabbed and sync mode is enabled again, then the index of the tile is marked purple that was used before.

Several fixes and changes with window layouts (workspaces):
- The wording "window layouts" has been used for historical reasons but workspace is more common.
- Turning workspace buttons into drop down button.
- Rearranged menu items in menu View/Workspaces.
- Removed "Arrange Windows" function. It's not really needed anymore since the windows snap to each other now. It was often causing confusion when it has undesired results.
- Removed embedded windows mode.
- Reduced flickering when switching workspaces.
- When holding Ctrl on window move/sizing, snapping is disabled.
- When sizing main window then windows inside the main window keep their aspect ratio.

Middle mouse button on brush container slot deletes the slot.

Fix: Now stopping animation playback when dropping a file onto the UI.

Fix: Formula paint mode was applied multiple times during stroke.

Fix: Using "Save As" with brush container and cancel showed an error.

Fix: Color editing dialog not working correctly. When using the dialog for editing a single color in non-palette mode, e.g. in the preferences for the transparency checker pattern colors, then the RGB edit fields did not work correctly.
Also, a display glitch at the color range gradients of a single channel sometimes showed pure white instead of the gradient when opening the dialog.

Fix: Intro dialog interfered with canvas window and did not close.

Fix: A layer blend mode different than "Normal" could not be reset to "Normal".

Fix: It could happen that some of the application windows use a wrong width.

Fix: Fixed several glitches for the window layout management and window resizing

Fix: With some pen/tablets an internal error occurred when using WinTab interface. This error is now caught so that the program can still be used. A message appears that pressure support is disabled.

Fix: Invalid file type preselected in single image export file dialog after previous usage.

Fix: Unwanted log file writing disabled.

Fix: Transformation options where not allowed for separate tools like scale, skew, rotate.

Fix: Internal error at start up.

Fix: Airbrush now supports transparency lock. Actually the AirBrush does not use a paint mode and the transparency lock is a paint mode setting. But since it's a painting tool it makes sense to also use the lock options with it.

Fix: Scrolling through blend modes in layer window rewinded when hitting a separator.

Fix: Animation playback got stuck if frame has a delay of 0ms.

Fix: Error when closing drop shadow effect dialog while trackbar of opacity input was visible.

Added some explaining message dialog to Window arrange and default layout functions

Project tab can now be closed with middle mouse button.

Improved key handling when stamping brush over frames.
When stamping a brush over frames is enabled for paint dotted/continuous tool by holding Ctrl + Alt then the cursor changes so that it can bee seen that this function is active.
Even if stamping a brush over frames (option "Stamp AnimBrush") is enabled then the temporary tool assigned to Ctrl key can now be used (which is the pipette tool by default). The stamp mode starts when also Alt is hold.

Added another interface to access pen pressure data for non Wacom tablets.

Fixing invalid positionion of tile palette window in default window layout.

Added audio track to animation playback. Play a WAV file along with your animation.

Added visual checkbox for handle toggle in transformation tool options.

Brush shade up/down now working on current gradient for single color brushes.

Added shortcut to append the active brush to the current project as frame(s).

Added option to hide grid in canvas window.

Window layout management improvements:
Automatic arrangement has been improved in different ways.
Auto save window layout when changing main form size.
Added buttons to the main window that let you quickly select a predefined layout.
Some bugs fixed when switching between layouts.
Pinned windows now ignored when rearranging.
Window layouts can now be sorted.
Workspace Windows do now snap to other windows when moving or sizing.

Added new option to let the transformation reference point move relatively with the object.

Added keyboard shortcut to hide/show handles when in transformation mode.

Made layer effect settings window to be resizeable.

Pattern drawing settings now allow 100 x 100 repetitions.

When creating an animation in 3d then the frame preview option now shows all visible layers and not only the active one.

Included experimental multi threaded canvas rendering.

Fix: Importing an alpha transparent PNG image into an non alpha transparent project not working if frame sizes differ.

Fix: Importing an image to an existing project could not be made undone.

Fix: Error when turning layer into single image layer + undo/redo.

Fix: Stamping brush over frames (Alt + Ctrl) ignored last selected frame in timeline. Hints of freehand tools now only show extra key options if they are available (AnimPainting, AnimBrush stamping, stamping brush over selected frames) and usable.
Alt or Ctrl now don't activate layer move or color picker if multiple frames are selected in the time line to stamp on.

Fix: When toggling a layer group (open/close) while another layer was active, the layer list jumped to the active layer.

Fix: Error when using shortcut for "Restore Brush" when having the brush resize too active.

Fix: Menu item "Paste as new Layers" was always active.

Fix: Error when closing drop shadow effect dialog while trackbar of opacity input was visible.

Fix: Re-apply Color palette layer effect not correctly working on file export.

Fix: When loading a true color file that is defined to open PM, then the color reduction dialog was hidden behind the main window making the application defunct.

Fix: Editing palette color plus drawing plus undo also reverted the color modification.

Fix: When adding/removing frames along with undo/redo then previous palette changes where undone as well.

Fix: Crash when using extended oval/rectangle edit mode with stroke layer effect. If there is a definition of an oval/rectangle active with extended edit mode and a layer FX "Stroke" was added then the program closed due to an internal error.

Fix: Toggling "Grouping" in "Re-apply Palette" layer effect applied some internal value reset. When switching off "Use Grouing/Sub-Palettes" then internally the "Group start at" value has been reset to "0" leading to invalid rendering.

Fix: "Create 3d Animation" not working correctly when moving from outside top left into visible area. The brush contents have been misaligned.

Fix: Pen eraser not working.

Dix: Internal error when defining a paint mode formula only for right mouse button and leaving left mouse button formula empty.

Fix: When loading a JPG file then color reduction with "use current palette" did not work correctly. It used the default palette instead.

Fix: Swapping a brush in the brush container with Alt + left click does not work with the last slot.

Fix: Internal error if a folder was selected for halftone patterns that is write protected.

Fix: Internal error, when number of dots for lines is set to 1.

Fix: When using right mouse button to open the context menu of a layer, then the layer was not always selected correctly.

Fix: Loading sprite sheets from plain image files not working correctly. The layout definition that can be done when loading a sprite sheet image (BMP, PNG) was not reset correctly when loading another file. Internally it always created an animation with the number of frames that where used for the first file that was loaded, no matter what the input dialog said. This led to corrupted frame contents.

Fix: Wrong delays when exporting individual frame ranges to animation files.

Fix: Transparency not loaded correctly from alpha transparent sprite sheets.

Fix: "top level FX" and layer opacity created wrong rendering on output. When having a layer with opacity < 100 and a layer FX that renders "top level" then the effect has been rendered twice leading to a doubled opacity of the output when exporting to image or animation.

Fix: Export file extension of project presets was wrong (.scc instead of .cfg).

Fix: Error when using Frame/Rotate Canvas and Frame/Flip Canvas when a layer group was selected.

Fix: If project defines FPS for frame speed instead of ms delays then the input field at the bottom right still stored a new value as ms delay.

Fix: Rectangle tool did not allow temporary Ctrl-Pipette.

Rectangular brush grab tool now enabled for auto scrolling.

Contains important bug fix.

Changes
Fix: Pixel perfect drawing removed pixels when crossing lines.

Fix: Mouse wheel action for zooming now only applied when mouse pointer is on canvas.

Fix: Middle mouse button executing canvas mover sometime drew on canvas instead of moving it

Fix: frames sometimes not loaded correctly. Some (mostly larger) frames might not load correctly due to a compression decoding fault.

Added auto scrolling mechanism to toolbox for when the height does not fit on screen

Brush transformation tools now allow adding frames without stopping transformation

Mainly a couple of fixes, but also an important feature: group/ungroup layers

Changes
Shape of cursor for freehand drawing made to be more slim again.

Improved button visualizations in color palette window.

Added layer group and ungroup functions.

Using ESC key in the web color edit field in the color palette editor window now removes focus from the edit field.

Fix: If there was no other group/layer after a group then the layers of that (last) group could not be moved out of it by dragging to the very bottom.

Fix: When changing the delay of a frame directly in the corresponding input and using frame playback/control buttons, the delay was not correctly stored

Fix: When adding a layer and doing undo in a fast way while starting to apply tooling like fill on that canvas, an internal error occurred.

Fix: Shortcuts that are used for different working areas (tabs) in the color palette window where considered to be conflicting and the user had to choose one of the operations.

Fix: When having pixel perfect drawing enabled and the license key was removed then the application did not start correctly.

Fix: When using middle mouse pan and mouse wheel very quickly the same time then sometimes lines where drawn.

Fix: Freeform brush grab not working correctly if stencil is enabled.

Fix: ESC with freeform line tool was not working correctly.

Fix: Merging a layer group sometimes raised an internal error.

Fix: Extended edit mode with filled shapes did not work with interactive gradient fills.

Fix: Active tool did not cancel automatically when loading image/animation/project files leading to problems

Several improvements in 3d animation creation dialog.
Improved calculation precision.
All brush handle types now supported.
Add switch to enable perspective distortion rendering. Default is now linear rendering.
Revived B-button to acquire last brush stamp position.

Made shortcut for switching palette edit modes (select vs. edit) to be a global one.
Before it only worked when the palette window was active.

Fix: Several fixes and improvements in the palette editor window.
Undo/Redo keyboard shortcuts sometimes not working.
Now when there are pasted floating colors, they use a different highlighting to differ copy/paste and movement actions.

Fix: Internal error when starting with 125% scaling on some system.

Fix: When stamping down the brush during brush transformation, the stamped brushes where made undone when the brush transformation was finalized.

Fix: When moving a transformation then the rendering changed depending on the in-pixel position of the corners.
This happened because the movement was made on sub pixel precision and not on pixel precision. Now the movement always moves by whole pixels.

Fix: News contents not displayed correctly on some systems.

Fix: Number edit field in line tool settings always included an additional "2" when entering numbers.

Fix: Internal error (division by zero) when using FPS edit on a frame that has a delay of 0ms.

Fix: Memory usage display showed wrong hint and some beta disclaimer on click but shouldn't.

Fix: Crash when using WinKey for shortcuts.

Fix: Brush lost color palette when applying transformations.

Fix: When setting a color channel bit depth to 1 bit then the preview did not show correct colors.

Fix: Internal error when modifying color channel bit depth with projects having a layer group.

Pro Motion NG - V8 is released.

Major features

• all tools have been revamped and enhanced for easier and more consistent use
  
• selection tool set including multi layer/multi frame move, copy & paste
  
• transformation of selections and brushes like free, rotate, scale, skew, also multi layer/multi frame
  
• linear and perspective transform rendering with quality optimizations
  
• layer groups
  
• symmetry options now available with all tools
  
• extended edit mode for rectangles/ellipses for rotation and easier placement
  
• even line stepping as part of isometric lock options
  
• transparent canvas to display any graphic source behind the application and draw on it (e.g. for rotoscoping)
  
• improved keyboard shortcut handling (conflict checks, keys for pipette/move tool now modifiable)
  
• multiple window layout definitions
  
• DPI aware UI

And hundreds of other functional improvements.

Some enhancements by example - YouTube