How to get the latest beta version

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:12 pm

I often release some intermediate beta releases of EventGhost, that are not published on SourceForge.net.

You find these "nightly builds" here:
http://www.eventghost.org/downloads/

Keep in mind:
In every development something can go wrong. Therefore it is recommended that you should make a backup of your .XML configuration file, before you try a new version.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:46 pm

I have decided to irregulary announce new features in the beta versions from time to time. So here we start:

0.3.5 build 855 includes full working undo/redo functionality. It is also a bit faster on loading the XML file.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:45 pm

0.3.5 build 856
This version has no new feature that you can actually see, but introduces a fundamental change in the code that handles the display of the tree. The tree is now a "lazy evaluation tree".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
So EG will only create GUI elements for tree items, if they are actually needed because their parent node is expanded. As soon as you collapse a node, all GUI elements for the childs get deleted.

The benefits of this approach are the smaller memory usage and faster creation of the tree when loading the XML file. For bigger files this version is nearly twice as fast on loading as the old ones.

This is a step forward to the long term goal of mine to separate the GUI and internal data structures completely, so that it is possible to run EG without any GUI. All the GUI stuff will then only be created when the user actually wants to configure something.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:43 am

0.3.5 build 878
+ Includes a basic HID plugin from developer Bartman.
+ Undo/redo enhancements.
+ New option to suppress warnings on delete of items.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:41 pm

0.3.5 build 881
+ Added undo/redo to the toolbar

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:51 pm

0.3.5 build 898
+ Reworked the script that builds the installer for EventGhost. The Setup.exe is now a little bit bigger but should contain actually everything from the Python Standart Library.
+ Included the "Yamaha RX-V1000 Serial" plug-in from Quantus.
+ Included the "Meedio" plug-in from jorel1969.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:41 pm

I started the 0.3.6 branch.

The main difference is, that the program will now destroy all resources of the main GUI, if it is minimized to tray. The 0.3.6 versions are currently very experimental and might have many bugs. Thus I upload them separated from the 0.3.5 branch to this directory:
[EDIT: Link removed. We are back at the betas.]

I also changed the way Unicode is handled. This might also involve many bugs.

But every bug you find, helps to speed up the development. So test it out and report your findings.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:13 pm

0.3.6.928
+ Added a "SageTV" plug-in.
+ Many bugfixes.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:52 pm

I released 0.3.5 on SourceForge today. So we continue beta-testing on 0.3.6 now. I have cleaned out the "experimental" directory and moved the latest 0.3.6 to the "downloads" directory.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:12 pm

0.3.6.970
+ Added a plugin for the TechnoTrend USB-IR receiver.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:20 pm

0.3.6.977
+ Added new "System Tray Menu" plugin. It allows you to add custom menu entries to the tray menu of EventGhost.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:07 pm

0.3.6.982
Thanks to the contributor "stridger", global volume control now works on Vista also.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:31 pm

0.3.6.983
+ Error messages in the log are now in red text colour. Actually I've added it at some version before.
+ Added menu item "Log Macros" in the "View" menu.
+ USB-UIRT plugin: Added option "Pass short repeat codes as enduring events" that does the same as the "Pass Stop Codes as Repeated Events" option in the "Learn Helper Utility" from Jon Rhees.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:27 pm

0.3.6.990
+ Updated wxPython to version 2.8.4.0
+ Incorporated a fix for the MCE remote plugin, suggested by cameronr. It should avoid problems when the computer goes into stand-by.

Bitmonster · Post by **Bitmonster** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:02 pm

0.3.6.995
+ All configuration dialogs for plugins and actions are now modeless. So you can even open more than one dialog at once. I will add an option to turn this off in the future, because I'm not sure if this behaviour is really useful. Let me know your impressions here.

Implementation note (for developers):
This was possible through the astonishing "greenlet" module:
http://codespeak.net/py/dist/greenlet.html
The typical Configure() methods for plugins and actions were designed to only handle a modal dialog. By adding only some lines into the calling code they now work even in a modeless way without any change.