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- Welcome to XaAES beta 6....
-
- It's been monthes in the making, and really doesn't include enough new
- stuff to justify the wait - all I can say is that I've been real busy
- at work, and I bought a sports car (so when the sun shined I went driving
- instead of working on XaAES). I was hoping to try this with the new
- MiNT kernal with the virtual memory support, but unfortunately VM
- doesn't like my f030 very much at all.
-
- It's (fairly) stable compared to beta 5, and probably a little quicker
- - depending on what you are doing of course).
-
- New stuff in this beta includes:
-
- o Widgets are now in a resource file.
- o One version runs in all modes.
- o Works in 256 colour mode now.
- o Fixed compatibility problems with EGEM applications, so LHAshell & ESS-Decode
- both work now.
- o Moose device driver is now accessed directly, so the seperate MOUSESRV
- program is no longer required.
- o Improved menu handling (point-to-drop after initial click,
- Click..hold..select-on-release)
- o Windows can be moved off-screen (bottom & right-hand edges only
- at the moment).
- o New object display routines, and a new scrolling list object.
- o Live/realtime window scrolling (WinX style) - right button is normal scroll,
- left button is live scroll.
- o New video mode select code that actually works with NVDI4 :)
- o New task manager window providing:
- - Program launch
- - Client Kill
- - Suspend / hide app (not done yet)
- - Resume
- o File Selector - not yet the finished article, but getting there.
- Optional alpha sort (build switch), upper/lower case + long filenames,
- u: relative paths (always), fsel_input() & fsel_exinput(), filters.
- More to come in the next release....
- o Rectangle list handling is totally re-vamped to improve stability,
- speed and remove all those display bugs that were such a pain in
- beta5.
- o Now works with MiNT memory protection turned on. At last.
- o Blitting now used for top window moves (no WM_REDRAW sent to app)
- - this speeds up the feel of XaAES quite nicely....
-
- Outstanding GEM compatibility issues:
- o 'Live' window move+resize.
- o Better mono support (again).
-
- Other outstanding issues:
- o Window Manager API. As discussed on the XaAES mailling list, the
- underlying stuff is already in place to allow alternative window
- managers to load after XaAES. What should the API be like?
- o Docked toolbars - they're cool, and the widget structure of XaAES
- would make them dead easy to do.
-
- If anyone fancies doing a re-build with sockets instead of pipes, I'd
- love to see it.
-
- Craig Graham.
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