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• Notes (week 20) - 0.90 RC 1
• Notes (week 19) - 0.90 beta 5
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• Notes (week 17) - Busy busy busy

No 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.

It’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)

No 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

Little 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)

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)

Phew, 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)

I’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/

Well this week has been a disaster. I’ve been a bit sick and really too tired to do any work. The plan was to release CE 0.90 beta 1 this Friday but basically there hasn’t been any progress so no release this week. Now, I’m feeling a bit better so there should be some progress again next week. Anyway, I’ll keep it short this week and go back into solving Portal (what a great game ).

It’s been a bit slower week for a change. Been busy with some other stuff so didn’t have much time to do work with CE. I added full row selection option and a drop stack panel. The drop stack component is made by Jim from mustangpeak. It works fine but I’m thinking there could be some improvements done. For example when multiple items is dragged to the stack, they could be grouped in a tree so you could access individual files too. Also at the moment thumbnails are not working but I haven’t yet checked what’s up with that. Anyway, the drop stack panel is just a sketch at the moment so ideas are welcome.

I decided that version 0.91 will include the plugin support. I really want to get rid of the built-in text editor and replace it with a plugin. Not sure of the exact schedule yet. Also the SVN snapshots should start rolling soon. I’ve written some scripts to automate everything. Only thing that is missing is a script that extracts the log messages and uploads everything to the server. I’ll try to write it this weekend.

Anyway, have a nice weekend. Here’s the latest build

CubicExplorer 0.90.0.998 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (1.6MB)
Zip (1.5MB)

So here’s CE 0.90 alpha 1. The base for the new settings engine is done. Also the options dialog framework is ready. And as a bonus, I managed to code a basic sessions support. There’s still work to be done with the sessions and at the moment they only support tabs. Also I’m going to need some fresh ideas on how to interact with sessions. At the moment there is a Sessions menu and a Sessions toolbar.

I also added some new settings in the options dialog. I’m still experimenting how to layout all settings and what settings should be included, don’t want to clutter the dialog too much. Anyway, I didn’t have time to add the bug report system in this build so there’s no way to send reports if CE crashes.

CubicExplorer 0.90 alpha 1 (0.90.0.996)
Installer (1.6MB)
Zip (1.5MB)