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No jUCy release this Month

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Published: Friday, 28 November 2008 01:23
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This month there won't be any jUCy release. That is not only because I have a lot to do... more important reason is that I made several large changes and plan to do some more. The negative effect of large changes is a larger number of bugs as a result. And currently the bug count seems not to converge. What means that releasing now would just result in a unstable version (more unstable than usual).

Though I am optimistic that for next month there will be a release with lots of new stuff... Just to tease you what is already done is:

- Native Seearch Widgets are now used in search windows (if the OS supports it)

- Nick colouring in Mainchat (colour self,Ops or Favourits differently)

- A Plugin that will show little flags to users so you can see where others are from. 

 

And some bugfixes to older problems. Things I still hope to do are ZPipe and ADCS  support (preparations for these resulted in the large changes named above) among some other things...

 

Wish you a nice Advent season.

Quicksilver

Donation button added

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Published: Thursday, 30 October 2008 20:06
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Today I added a donation Button on the left side of the page. The thought behind that is that may be I can finance my server here with this so this hobby pays itself. I like this approach more than adding advertisements even if that seems to be the more common approach.

I hope nobody feels repelled by that button. Its just for those that want to give something to a poor student or have to much money (better give it to me than to a bank: equal value for you, but more value for me). If you decide to pet a cat instead I will be equally happy. 

Also don't forget to make feature requests in the phorum. This is of course independent from donations. I am happy to hear any idea for improvement. Though currently development has slowed down as semester has started again so please be patient.

jUCy Version 0.64 released

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Published: Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:35
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With Version 0.64 some little improvements get into UC. Some little feature requests ... like possibility to colour UC. (no restart required to see new colours).

Also interesting for Russian people is that now default charset can be overridden ( FavHubs -> Properties -> Advanced). Which is commonly used in Russian NMDC hubs to conquer the lack of russian characters in windows-1252.

 

Some bugfixes. Problems loading images for fileendings on Mac should be solved (also happened sometimes under Linux).

Some usability improvements: Hovering over a transfer will now show the full path of the file that is being transferred.

Also now image-URLs posted in mainchat can be clicked and jUCy will load and show them without the need for a browser..

And additional there is a new Plugin that will replace smileys in Chat with little images. Not really a usability improvement but some people like it. If you want more kinds of smileys well talk to me in the forum. May be I missed some important smiley. 

 As it has often been requested jUCy has become open source though I yet can't make my mind up for a licence. I just say for now its open source, though not free software. In the meaning you are allowed to look at the source, though I don't explicitly allow reusing it (If you are a dev and want to use some of the source.. well contact me I am sure we find a solution.).

 

 

V:0.64

- Added possibility to change colours and font for all Editors
- Search Editor improvements (Search only OP-hubs and only user with free slots were not implemented, order of hubs is now the same as in FavHubs)
- A Plugin that shows graphical smileys is now available
- Hovering over transfers shows now additional info. (Full path to file, Stats on stuff left in Queue for user)
- Image URLs get now some glasses icon after them. Clicking on that icon will show the image within jUCy.
- Correction to FavHubs .. they were only stored permanently if the FavHubs window was closed.
- Fixed image loading bug primarily happening on Mac, sometimes on Linux and next to never on Windows.
- Its now possible to override the default charset on a per hub basis. This can be used in Russian (or other non windows-1252) NMDC based hubs that often use a different codepage than its common in DC.

jUCy Version 0.63 released

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Published: Saturday, 27 September 2008 21:20
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With Version 0.63  there is next to nothing new.

Only  a little changelog. But most important point is that jUCy is now running on java 5 instead of java 6. Which makes it possible now to run it on more systems. MacOSX version was tested and works! jay!

 

V:0.63

- In the preferences can now be set what should be shown in statusbar.
- Automatic check for updates. (Disable it on Misc Preferencepage if you don't want that)
- jUCy is now backported to java5 so you no longer need java6 to run it -> now possible to run it on Mac
- Fixed Bug in Personal Information preferencepage. Description could not be set.. also spaces were not allowed.