Here’s last week’s notes. I’ve been rebuilding my work/home environment for the past 3 weeks. It turned out to be quite a can of worms. If I would have known the work amount in advance, I probably would have never started the job. Anyway, I started last week by working with CE but soon decided to finish the install job. There were just too many loose ends to let me focus on CE.

Currently everything is done so I can finally focus on CE. However, there is a problem I need to handle before I can do that. Over the weekend, I suffered a “small” melt down, so I’ll need to recover from that. Since I’ve been working non-stop for few months now, it was inevitable.

Anyway, I’m not sure there will be any progress in CE this week either. So far I’ve been just resting but will try some light work tomorrow.

There’s been no progress in CE this week. I’ve been rebuilding my work environment which turned out to be quite a big job. Mainly it’s because my central server is now powered by Windows 7 and not Linux which I’m more familiar with. To get all things working together without a problem isn’t that simple it turns out.

Anyway, by trial and error, things are starting to be functional at last. So hopefully I can get back on working with CE next week. As there wasn’t any progress, this weeks snapshot isn’t anything major. There’s only one bug fixed, a bug which I already fixed few weeks ago. The new server should help in preventing mistakes like this from happening in future.

Change Log

• Fixed sort columns bug in list view mode (again).
• Updated Turkish translation

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1253 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.3MB)
Zip (2.6MB)

This week I’ve mostly been building a new server. One of it’s uses will be to function as a backend to the Version Manager. It will be used to create CE builds and publish releases. I’m using Windows 7 as the operating system. Because my hardware is fairly old, I’ve had to fight hard to make everything work.

Since I’ve been using Windows 7 on my laptop for some time now, I’m getting more used to it. I’ve also done some reading on how the UAC works. That information will be useful in making CE fully compatible with Vista and Win7. In this weeks snapshot I’ve added a “Create Symbolic Link” action (read more about Symbolic links). This action uses UAC elevation technique that will be used in the Version Manager if there aren’t any major issues. Let me know if you have any problems with it.

Change Log

• Added “Create Symbolic Link” action
• Updated Spanish translation

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1251 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.3MB)
Zip (2.6MB)

I had a bit of a relapse this week, seems like I was pushing too hard. This meant I had to take it easy with the work. I did make progress with the Version Manager but wasn’t able to finish it for this weeks snapshot. I did however made InfoBar auto refresh when renaming etc. Also by default, folders are now included in search results. You can control this from Attributes tab:

Change Log

• Updated Hebrew translation.
• Removed border around Drop Stack.
• InfoBar now refreshes on rename etc.
• File Search now includes folders to results by default.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1246 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.3MB)
Zip (2.6MB)

I’ve spent most of the week coding the Version Manager. Unfortunately it’s not yet implemented in this weeks snapshot. Reason for that is Vista/Win7 support which is causing some problems. Past few days I’ve been doing some research on how to fix those problems and also learned how Vista/Win7 works in general (information I’ll need later when I’ll make CE fully compatible with Vista/Win7). Anyway, here’s how the Version Manager looks now:

I’ve fixed bunch of bugs for this weeks snapshot. Also I added option in Advanced settings to make CE use jumbo size icons in InfoBar (Vista/Win7 only). Reason why it’s not enabled by default is because I haven’t yet figured out how to get around a bug in Windows itself. At the moment if selected file doesn’t support jumbo icons, a small icon is displayed instead.

On other notes, I’m still keeping little distance to the forum. Since I’m still not fully functional, I’ll have to keep the pressure at minimum. However, I do read all forum posts.

Change Log

• Added Hebrew translation
• Added Use_JumboIcons_in_InfoBar option in Advanced settings.
• UI accessibility enhancements in Translator.
• Fixed possible crash at CE startup.
• Fixed crashes in Search.
• Fixed crash in TextEditor.
• Fixed crash in Translator sort column.
• Fixed sort column size remembering bug.
• Fixed InfoBar multi selection bug.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1239 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.3MB)
Zip (2.6MB)

I used this week mostly to fix my house and to build the work system. I did however manage to design the Version Manager (Online Updater). It’s called Version Manager because it will allow users to make backups/”portable packages” of CE installations. Also it will have an option to roll back to previous versions and snapshots. It’s fairly simple to code so we should have a working prototype in next weeks snapshot.

I also fixed some bugs:

Change Log

• Fixed filter bug when changing tab.
• Fix try for “list index out of bounds” error in search.
• Fixed selection issue when using Info Bar.
• InfoBar now gets information in background.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1228 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (1.9MB)
Zip (2.2MB)