Release: TouchBuddy (v1.3.0 Revision 9)

[zorlac]

Hi all

After rather a bit longer than we had imagined, and also with more features added than we had planned, here is the release of TouchBuddy v1.3.0.

This time round, we are making two different downloads available. The smaller file is the "core" build, and contains the core TouchBuddy application, plus the supporting DLLs, and the demo-profile (and images). The larger file is the "full" build, and contains everything in the "core" build, but has some of the better user supplied profiles bundled in with it.

As the release notes are now just so vastly huge, I wont be posting them in here, but I will quickly go over some of the new features:

• Button Tooltips
• A sent "macro list" available on the *TB* tab
• Button visual "Feedback" (optional)
• Remembers the last mode and profile used
• No more "lost" events when multiple buttions are pressed quickly
• Lomac Active Modules (TEWS, Payload, MCP)
• Active "click-through" Module
• Selective Transparency on a per tab basis *
• Selective Translucency on a per tab basis *
• Hold "expiry" times
• "Iconify" TouchBuddy to display the window contents behind it
• New "clone" button type
• Keyboard shortcuts to bring up the *TB* window or Iconfify it
• Progress bar during profile loading
• Ability to use multi-frame GIFs (with ImageMagick) *
• sending macros when entering/leaving tabs
• "invisible" tabs
• And much more...

(* - Transparency/Translucency and ImageMagick animated GIFs only supported on Windows 2000 and higher)

For the full list of what was added/fixed/broken/fixed-again, please take a look through the RELEASE_NOTES.txt file.

You can find both the core and the full downloads in **HERE**

WBK will be along shortly and will post the link to the new and improved Toolkit that supports the new features in TouchBuddy v1.3.0

Enjoy!

[zorlac]

Oh, I`ll post a couple of "how-to" messages soon, to explain how to get the Lomac TEWS working, and also a more in depth look at the active "click-through" module, how it works, what it can (and cant do), etc....

[blaster454]

Sweet! Thank you!

[krel01]

WOW ! GREAT !
I will check this out tonight !

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK !

[169th_PoleCat]

Absolutely fan-freaking-tastic man! Thank you so much for all the efforts for the TB and the TB toolkit! Excellent....off to install.

Out

[zorlac]

Just uploaded the new build files to the server (v1.3.0 revision 10), that has one obscure crash bug fixed, adds the missing lua and docs directories to the core build, and has some extra options in the config file that will help me track down this odd slow running on some people's machines.

These news builds are functionally the same as the previous builds. You really only have to download these if:

• You want the latest version (AndyHill "yes, release it now! Woohoo!")
• You want the core build with the lua and docs folders (Ripcord!)
• You are one of the unfortunate people who are experiencing the "slowness" (Primaryman + Ruggbutt)

New core and full builds available here:

http://www.touch-buddy.com/forums/lo...ks.php?catid=1

Sorry about this, the problems just didnt get caught during testing, and I do not have any machine here that experience the reported problems (3 x XP Pro, 1 x XP Home, plus under VMWare I have Win98, Win2000, Win2003Server, XP Pro and Vista RC2).

[zorlac]

OK, what does humble pie look like? anyone know the recipe?

Even though I have disabled debug, its turning itself back on again, so yes, its spitting out shedloads of text to disk. New build on its way shortly, once I can convince my code to behave

[zorlac]

New v1.3.0 revision 11 builds up and online:

http://www.touch-buddy.com/forums/lo...ks.php?catid=1

[Direwolf5]

Zorlac , i am a programmer, and I cant tell you the times i thought I had a release ready only to find out I forgot to turn something on or off. current project is in revision 18 of the alpha after 6 months of development. So don't feel bad about the mistakes just keep plugging away at it it will work out sooner or later.
Ps you stated that TB is using Image Magic to create the animated gifs what interface are you using? Or is it built in to TB Tool Kit?

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

I don't know what he's using but it's not the Toolkit. I didn't put anything in there to handle animated gifs.