Notes (week 19) - 0.90 beta 5
May 10th, 2008It’s been quite productive week. I fixed few bugs and changed the tab bar to another component. Changing the tab bar was fairly big job so there might be bugs left. This new bar let’s you customize it similarly as toolbars can be customized. However, this release doesn’t yet fully support it and there are some bugs still left in it. Also I added a “change tab on drag over” feature. I’ll add the “drop to tab” support for next release.
I meant to release 0.90 rc1 this weekend but due to the new tab bar, more testing is needed. There won’t be anymore features added in 0.90, only bug fixes. I’m hoping to release rc1 next weekend and 0.90 final within few days from that.
Thanks to everyone sending bug reports. Any type of feedback is welcome and appreciated so keep them reports coming in.
NOTE!
This is a buggy release so use it only for testing purposes.
CubicExplorer 0.90 beta 5 (0.90.0.1041)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 18) - 0.90 beta 4
May 2nd, 2008Fairly slow week again but there was some progress. I managed to find the cause for many refresh issues that were reported. There was a bug in the FoldersPanel which caused those issues and some others. So I had to make some changes on how it works. While I was doing those changes, I also added similar timer as WE has when you navigate with keyboard. Now it waits for 500ms before changing the folder. You can also use SPACE or ENTER to change the folder immediately.
Anyway, it looks like summer finally came in Finland, 20°C and sunny 
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*** UPDATE 5.5.2008 ***
There was a bug in folder panel which prevented a folder change if the "Auto expand tree" setting was disabled. Also there was a bug which might cause CE to crash at startup. Those bugs are now fixed and the download is updated (new version is 0.90.0.1029).
CubicExplorer 0.90 beta 4 (0.90.0.1029)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 17) - Busy busy busy
April 25th, 2008It’s still been quite a busy week but I did manage to fix few bugs. Hopefully next week is better. I really want to get the 0.90 final out and start working with plugin support. Anyway, you can see all changes in the SVN Log. I made FileSearch to use the same layout as FileView does. TextEditor still has it’s own layout. In the future, toolbars will have a global layout so that their position wont change when user flips between different tab types.
Oh by the way, I’m now using WordPress plugin called WP Super Cache to ease up the server load. So if you see something strange or missing pages, let me know.
CubicExplorer 0.90.0.1021 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 16) - Halt
April 20th, 2008No progress this week at all. I’ve been too busy with some other stuff in my life. Good news is that once everything settles, I have a lot time to focus on CE. There has been reports on some bugs that need further testing so the next version will be 0.90 beta 4. My aim is to release it next Friday. Anyway, I’ll keep it short this week.
Notes (week 15) - Slow progress
April 11th, 2008It’s been quite a busy week and I haven’t had much time to work with CE. The original plan was to release 0.90 final today but that was way too wishful thinking. Beta 3 brought some new bugs that need to be fixed. Hopefully I’ll make better progress next week. I did managed to fix few bugs and add a "ViewStyle Menu" button in Customizer.
Anyway, here’s the snapshot:
CubicExplorer 0.90.0.1017 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 14) - HTPC madness
April 5th, 2008No progress on CE this week. Last weekend I started to rebuild my HTPC. I figured since I’ve been using Windows to handle that task for many years, it’s time to see what Linux has to offer. The plan was to get everything up and running over the weekend. Obviously it was way too optimistic timeframe since I’ve been working with it whole week. Finally yesterday I finished the job… kinda. Due to my own stupidity, I managed to blow up the motherboard! So no HTPC for a while 
. I’ll write more about the HTPC endeavor in my blog.
Anyway, next week I’ll go back to the regular schedule and do more work with CE. I’m hoping to release 0.90 final next Friday. After it’s released I’ll write a proper roadmap for CE and also open help wiki. If anyone knows a good, easy to use (wysiwyg) wiki or help system, let me know. This server can only support PHP and MySQL.
Have a nice weekend everyone
Notes (week 13) - CE 0.90 beta 3
March 28th, 2008Little shorted this week. I fixed most of the reported bugs including the shutdown bug. I received tons of bug reports from it, which is OK. Keep sending them if crashes happen, they help a lot. I added refresh function to bookmarks. They now automatically update when a drive is inserted/removed, or other changes occur. I haven’t done much testing with it so any feedback is welcome. Another new thing is an "Arrange By" button you can find from the Customizer.
CubicExplorer 0.90 beta 3 (0.90.0.1010)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 12) - CE 0.90 beta 2
March 21st, 2008
There’s been pretty nice progress. Many bug fixes and I added an "Arrange By" item in the background menu. I’m still working with the scripting engine and scripts to update SVN log and SVN download automatically. Anyway, I’ll keep it short this week. Here’s the download:
*** Update ***
There is a bug in this release that might crash CE when you close it. To "fix" it, disable the auto save from session properties. I’ll release new version this weeks Friday that will fix this issue.
CubicExplorer 0.90 beta 2 (0.90.0.1002)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 11) - Back in business
March 14th, 2008Phew, finally things started to roll again. It’s been quite interesting week. I fixed many items from the todo list and did some research on techniques that I’ll be using in CE later. Also there is some fresh code from Jim which fixes few issues. Denis from MyTreeDB.com has created some nice themes that will ship with CE.
Also I’ve been doing a lot of work with automating SVN snapshots and logs. I had a bunch of batch files to do most of the stuff but using them was a pain. Also there was some other things that made me decide that it would be better to just write a program for the task. The solution I ended up using was to create a program that can run scripts. More specifically Pascal scripts. That way it’s possible to use it for other things also. All this work gets integrated into CE eventually.
Anyway, here’s CE 0.90 beta 1. It now includes the bug tracking system so if you have a crash, please send the report. Those reports do help a lot in finding the problem. Have a nice weekend everyone .
CubicExplorer 0.90 beta 1 (0.90.0.1000)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.0MB)
Notes (week 10) - The flu
March 8th, 2008I’m still under the flu . No progress on CE. I did manage to do little work on the site and wrote more scripts to automate SVN snapshot uploads. You can now see all the development changes in the SVN Log. Once everything is ready, there should be a download associated with every (or almost every) revision. Also I have plans to create an updater to CE which let’s one to update/downgrade CE versions easily.
On other notes, I opened a new blog. So this site will now only focus on Cubic Reality softwares and news about them. All other stuff will go into the real blog. Also I’ve been playing around with Google Sites. Basically it’s an easy to use wiki which I would like to use for documenting CE. At the moment however, it’s not possible to customize it’s appearance enough so I’ll have to think about it some more.
Cubic Reality Blog
http://cubicreality.blogspot.com/