Monthly Progress Report for May 2012 (part 2)

I was hoping to have a nonfunctioning preview out by now. But the program code is twice as large as it should be, and is a little slow, mostly because it still has 100% of the version 5 code underneath.

But on a plus note, May was a very productive month for the program. I have the GUI all programmed, and some functionality programmed in. I had to create a clickable link, it's a lot like the hyperlink control in Winforms. I had to create my own version of a numeric up-and-down control.

For April I plan to have some functionality in the program, at least some basic functionality. I have also begun removing some legacy code that has not been needed. Began restructuring the namespace and classes to be more pragmatically efficient.

At the end of April I plan on having an alpha release, even if it just has basic functionality.

 

Sincerely,
William McCormick
McCormick Computers
http://www.mccormickcomputers.com

Monthly progress report for May 2012

I'm hoping to make these progress reports a monthly thing. I think it's a great way for me to see how the progress of the development is going.
I've finally worked out a system in WPF to display a system tray icon have the functionality and have it work exactly like I need. This is done by an open source library, located here http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36468/WPF-NotifyIcon.

I also hope to have been a non-functioning development preview. For people wondering what some of the code is going to look like and what the window will look like, here is a picture of the designer for XAML.

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By the end of this month i should have a better design and a non-functioning preview put online.

 

Here's an image of the code behind for everybody that is curious.
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Backround Cycler version 6 Progress report.

What is going on with Backround Cycler version 6?
Upgrades to the user interface are slow, some of the features that I use in the winforms version are just not present in WPF. This is leaving me the need to extend a lot of the WPF classes. WPF is a challenging framework, but fun to learn.

I am about 50% complete with the GUI upgrades. I had to step back and pull apart the source code to version 5, because I had an e-mail with a bug report. After investigating in talking to the user, I had determined that it was a problem on his and not mine.

So far few things I like about the upgrades to this program are, it looks better, I have better control over how it's displayed (pragmatically).

Backround Cycler has won another award

Backround Cycler has won some awards from softoxi

I am also designing a awards page to host all the Awards that i have won so far

Strange things will be happening in SVN

I have a few people that like to check out the Development code that is in the SVN. As some people know, Backround Cycler is going into version 6 and with that i want to move from WinForms to WPF. this will require that i redo the Projects. I am switching over to WPF to learn WPF as Backround Cycler was a way to learn C# and WinForms

Backround Cycler Version 5 released

I am proud to announce Backround Cycler version 5 was released today. Changes from version 4 are minor but the list is :

• Redesigned the error reporting system, It is now windows Vista and 7 compatible.
• Changed some wording inside of the program.
• Added a tooltip that will display the current desktop background that is displayed.
  • known limitations are that it will still display the last image selected if the user changes the desktop background using the built in Windows background changer
• Code cleanup.

You can download the program here
You can download the source code here [or in a 7z file]