October 01, 2006

October awaits


There has been some time since the previous release.( end of august)
What is keeping me busy for the next version (around end of october)

  • Many small bugs has been solved (like the not redrawing window after restoring from tray in some computers). I did a whole new splitter class
  • A total new (purely hand made) language module. Now you can load the language dynamically (no restart needed). You may create and immediately test yours .. its only a unicode text file (extension .lng) that you need to modify. The information of the author etc.. can be easily added and can be viewed in the about box.
  • It was fast to startup. Now it is even faster thanks to some on-demand constructions and code tweaks.
  • Now you may choose the columns you want to see in the list controls.
now the BIG ONES
  • The windows media player engine will be replaced with the BassLib (http://www.un4seen.com) (at least for the audio part - video will use the wmp engine). This means that more formats will be supported like mp3, wma, ogg, mpc, flac, aac and more.
  • Id3lib will be dropped in favor of the excellent TagLib. Tagging will be available for mp3, ogg, wma and more
  • A new plug-in like interface (and the associated API) for information downloading and more. (i don't know if this will be available in the 0.91 ver though
My main concern in this project is to test some coding practices and to self train. So there will be some major architectural changes not visible by the user of course.

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