April 2008 Archives
Late last night I uploaded the finial version of Looking Glass 2.0. It has been a busy couple of weeks while I tried to tie everything together mostly so I didn't have to think about it anymore. We did hit a slight bump but quickly tossed out 2.0.1 to fix issues with 10.4. Oddly enough Apple made some sharp changes to system preferences between Tiger and Leopard and since Looking Glass was a complete rewrite I missed them. My bad guys.
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So it wasn't my smoothest release yet but not too many people ended up downloading a malfunctioning version, and it only effected Tiger machines. Already I have a list of features to add to the next version that is slowly growing. I am happily going to take a break for at least a couple of weeks from Looking Glass and work on a new project that I have been toying around with.
Incase you were wondering about my to-do list on the new version:
• Automatic update downloading and installing, instead of forcing the user to install the update will install and relaunch itself.
• Better interface handling for 10.5 and 10.4 changes, my fix in 2.0.1 wasn't as clean as I would like it and I would like to fix this a little better in the future. The solution I used called for a slightly odd looking 10.5 interface.
• Automatic reporting of failed webcams so we can better maintain the list.
• Sorting tables, right now the database is in alphabetical order but when the application downloads it the order gets scrambled, I need to add code to properly sort the tables.
• Include the daemon and launcher in the bundle for the prefpane, this will eliminate the need for a third party installer and kind of simplify the whole install process.
Of course these features are barely in the planning stage and what makes it to release versions may vary greatly then what is posted here but I like to keep a running list.
The number of emails I had been receiving to upgrade Looking Glass finally became just too overwhelming. Besides the previous version not being Intel compatible it did not function on Leopard. For the last several weeks I have been slaving away on a new version that not only adds Leopard and Intel support but dozens of other new features. It has been a complete rewrite from the ground up and reuses no code so it has taken me a lot longer then I would of liked.
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I wish I could say it would be out on X date but being a lone programmer with a lot of other things going on I can never be sure. However it is in its finial stages of testing now. All the features have been added and are working correctly. So the good news is it will be out "soon". Just thought I would give everyone an update on my progress.
Here is a sneak picture of the new interface.
