Thursday, April 26, 2007

Entering BETA Phase - Beta 1

Since the last version, I've improved the performance and visual representation of xeus. Hardware acceleration works only on Windows Vista, but performance on Windows XP is acceptable.
There are currently two builds - for x86 and x64 platforms.

If you notice any issues, please feel free report it.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Technical Preview 6

This version is focused on performance. I did several steps to enable HW acceleration on XP and fixed some bugs. I hope that performance is much better than before.

There is another button in the status bar which enables to open login dialog. This is more user friendly than right-click on status icon.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Windows XP - hardware acceleration

I was checking the performance of xeus and I've found that hardware acceleration is not supported on non-rectangular windows (which is the case). So i decided to set xeus windows to be rectangular which makes a little design glitch - on the other side, performance is better. On Windows Vista, it is fine. This will be released with the next version.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Another preview - 5

I've completely re-coded the chat window. It is now a document where you can easily search, scroll, zoom and copy. Copy to clipboard now supports RTF.
Another enhancement is that you can click on hyperlinks in text.


Yet another improvement was made in Big-Icon mode:

Fixed issues:
  • Vista startup crash
  • When user gets a message from non-roster contact

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Vista testing

If there is any volunteer who has Windows Vista, please let me know if xeus works on it. Just leave a comment or send me an email.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

1.0 Alpha TP4

Yet another bugfix release. Version 1.0 TP 4 contains samller bugfixes and some improvements in application look.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Windows Vista Problem

Xeus crashes on Windows Vista during startup. I don't know exactly, what's going on, but when I recompile the project under Vista, it works. I have to find out what's wrong.