Blogging to Paradise

We’ve just released the newest version of SonicMood, 4.8.9! It’s HOT so get it now!

We’re in the middle of beta testing SonicMood v4.8.9.

Here’s a list of some of the new features and bug fixes for this version:

• Made the edit window more compact to save screen space. In addition, the edit window is now resizable with vertical and horizontal scrollbars so the controls can be scrolled. The width and height of the edit window, along with the position of the scrollbars, is saved.
• Changed default starting size and position of windows. Made changes to the default locations of windows so they open over the main window.
• Tweaked the look of the various lists.
• Changed some of the toolbar buttons on the main window.
• Made a small tweak to the “color scheme” selection area of the Preferences window and changed the default color scheme to “mellow yellow”. Also put a “spiral galaxy” graphic background on the Register window.
• Made a few improvements (I hope) to the “version update” function, including adding a check to see if the SonicMood folder is read-only. If it is, SonicMood will tell the user to fix it before an update can happen.
• Came up with a way to trap the user’s pressing of the oval button at the right of the titlebar to know when the toolbar is hidden or shown.
• Changed the URL for the “Bit of Paradise Products” link on the “About SonicMood” window from the BitOfParadise home page to the SonicMood home page. Also changed the URL for downloading updates.
• Added more error checking in the “version update” code.
• Got the “Cancel” button on the “version update” DownLoad window to work even if the connection is interrupted.
• Changed the behavior if a network connection isn’t available. Now no user message is given (it “fails silently”) if the check is not requested explicitly by the user (auto check).
• Replaced the HTMLViewer with an EditField in the “version update” window to hold the version notes. This avoids the crashing problem on PPC with Tiger (don’t know about Leopard with PPC…) when scrolling with the mouse scrollwheel.
• Removed some unused “Help” variables.
• Fixed an “out of bounds” error that happened if a Mood was moved to the last row, and it was playing, when it was deleted.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong Mood to be removed from the “play times” schedule list if a scheduled Mood was deleted.
• Fixed a problem with the way user names were saved if the name was in a multi-byte character set like Kanji, etc.
• Fixed a bug that erased a good registration if the user started to re-register and then pressed Cancel. Also fixed a bug that caused a good registration to be erased if the user entered an invalid re-registration code and then pressed Cancel.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the horizontal scrollbar from appearing when listbox column sizes were increased.