Cubic Reality

Notes (week 26-27) - Vacation

Marko — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:36:56 +0000

So I decided to take few weeks off. The original plan was to take the break after 0.90 final release, but since it’s delayed and there’s lot’s of other stuff going on right now, I thought this would be a good time for the break.

On other notes, I’ve been fine tuning the new office and all I can say is, I love it. Productivity level has increased tons. To add even more productivity I installed another graphics card and two monitors. At the moment I have to use some old CRT monitors but at some point those should be switched to LCD panels. There’s never enough workspace .

Notes (week 25) - Happy Midsummer!

Marko — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:15:58 +0000

Slowly moving along. I managed to defend the flu from taking over my body. Although, it put on a good fight and tried to infect my bronchus. Anyway, I fix few bugs this week. Also I added an option to toggle if new tab (opened with middle click etc.) should be selected. Plus, there are new icons for tab related actions.

Happy Midsummer to everyone!

CubicExplorer 0.90.0.1064 (SVN Snapshot)
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Notes (week 24) - New Office

Marko — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:09:48 +0000

So, this whole week went in building a new office and fighting against flu virus. I got pretty sweet deal on used, quality office tables and chairs. Although there are still few furniture I need to get, I’m very happy with the new office. Now there’s lot’s off workspace and no clutter. While working with the office, I let my guard down and the flu virus took over my body. It hasn’t kicked in fully yet, so there’s still hope since I have some ammo left.

Anyway, I hope I’m back to the schedule next week. It’s been a crazy month but things should cool down in July. Have a nice weekend everyone.

Notes (week 23) - Back to work

Marko — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:29:48 +0000

I got my energy back, no more sleepiness . Unfortunately I’ve been busy all week with other things so I didn’t have much time to work with CE. However, there are few bugs fixed so I’ll upload SVN snapshot. At least the shutdown bug (#133) needs testing so GTHK or anyone else suffering from this bug, please let me know if it’s fixed now.

On other notes, I made pretty sweet deal on some used office furniture. Tomorrow I’ll start to build my new office. It remains to be seen how much time it takes to finish it. I’m not yet sure about the 0.90 RC 2 release, scheduled for next Friday. There are few bugs left that need much work/time.

CubicExplorer 0.90.0.1061 (SVN Snapshot)
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Notes (week 22) - Sleepy

Marko — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:19:07 +0000

Just a quick note. There was absolutely no progress this week. I’ve been dead tired so I pretty much slept the whole week. Same thing happens every spring, which is kind of weird because you would think that one feels more energetic due to increased amount of light.

Anyway, maybe next week will be better.

Notes (week 21) - Grouping

Marko — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:48:22 +0000

Man, feels like a steamroller has run over me. Yesterday I was fixing my sister’s car (Renault Clio -94). Since I had to work in all sort of weird positions, pretty much every muscle is now aching. I ended up fighting with the car for about 12 hours. All I can say is, I hate that car!

Anyway, I did manage to do some work earlier this week. Few bug fixes here and there. Some fine tuning on the tab bar painting and I changed the ViewStyle drop menu so that it’s icon changes depending on the current view style. Also grouping is now available, although it need’s some more work. For example, there should be a way to collapse/expand all groups. You can find a "Group By" button from the Customizer. Also it’s present in the background menu.

CubicExplorer 0.90.0.1054 (SVN Snapshot)
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Notes (week 20) - 0.90 RC 1

Marko — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:12:02 +0000

New week, new release. All reported bugs should be fixed (with few exceptions). I made the tab bar to remember some customizations. It’s working properly only when the actions are placed on the left side from tabs. If items are placed after tabs (right side), they are moved to left side when CE is restarted. Also it’s not yet possible to align items on the right border. These are things we’ll have to live with for now. I’ll have to do quite a lot of work to make the tab bar component suite my needs. So these issues will move to version 0.91.

I also added few new options for the tab bar. You can now choose what folder will be used for new tabs. Note, at the moment virtual folders won’t work (My Computer… etc.). I’ll fix that on 0.91.

Anyway, here’s the new build:

CubicExplorer 0.90 RC 1 (0.90.0.1049)
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Notes (week 19) - 0.90 beta 5

Marko — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:36:12 +0000

It’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)
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Notes (week 18) - 0.90 beta 4

Marko — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:08:50 +0000

Fairly 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 .

*** 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)
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Notes (week 17) - Busy busy busy

Marko — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:38:28 +0000

It’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)
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