News archive

SVGGraph 2.5.1

Just a quick bugfix for SVGGraph - data values of 0 were messing up the bar display for the StackedBarGraph and HorizontalStackedBarGraph types, so this update fixes it.

Updated files are available from the downloads page.

TagCanvas 1.13

TagCanvas 1.13 only has one obvious change, the addition of an option to set the cursor type when the mouse is over a tag. The new option is called activeCursor and is set to "pointer" by default, the cursor normally used by the browser when hovering over a link.

The changes I still have on my to-do list are quite large, so I wanted to get this small update out of the way first. The updated stand alone and jQuery plugin files are now available on the TagCanvas page.

CRCDropper 3.2

This new version of CRCDropper came about because I wanted to play with some of the things that Windows 7 can do - specifically, displaying progress in the taskbar.

It actually turned out to be really easy: first, make sure the taskbar button exists, then use the ITaskbarList3::SetProgressValue function to set the range and amount completed in one step. When the process has finished, the taskbar button can be set back to normal using ITaskbarList3::SetProgressState with TBPF_NOPROGRESS. I like it when things are this simple.

I've also spent some time cleaning up the progress bars on the dialog, since they didn't seem to be working very consistently. The updated version is available from the downloads page.

Glowspot 1.1

A new year, and the first new release is an updated version of Glowspot. The previous version was limited to being used on elements that did not have any existing background images (because it would replace them with the glow image) so version 1.1 fixes that.

The updated version takes advantage of the multiple background image CSS support in modern browsers and adds the glow image on top of any existing images. This should have been easy to do, but IE9 made things a bit tricky. IE9 supports setting the background-position attribute, but doesn't reliably support reading it, so I have had to make use of its background-position-x and background-position-y attributes, which do work.

The updated files are on the Glowspot page.

TagCanvas fonts and colours

I promised to create a page that would explain how to make multiple fonts and colours work in the latest version of TagCanvas, so that's what I've done. The new page is here and has a few examples showing what can be done with a null in the right place.