Time to Move On...

Well, two months (and a little less than 6000 downloads!) later, its time for a new release.  

Actually, its time for two releases, but the first one (b10) was fatally broken due to a mis-handling of preferences when preferences didn't exist.  Silly Brendan, testing is for kids...

Well at least I found it before I advertised the new release.  I don't think anyone actually downloaded the broken files (sorry if you did...).

Anyway, DroidDraw-r1b11 is now available (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Platform Independent .jar)  The higlights include:

• New support for saved preferences (for now: snap-to-grid, default screen size, default root layout)
• Removed redundant XML namespace declarations
• Added support for drawing the ScrollView scroll bar
• Fixed my support for opening URLs from inside DroidDraw (previously all URLs went to my PayPal donations page [oops, how did that happen ;-)]
• DroidDraw now checks for updated versions on startup
• It now handles the layout_margin* family of xml attributes.
• A bug in the Color selector button/property has been fixed.

As always, please post any new bugs that you may find or features that you'd like to see (I'm running out of things to do!) to the issue tracker.

And if you're feeling generous, feel free to donate!

DroidDraw r1a21...

Well,  I said that I wasn't going to release another alpha, but r1a21 is now out there on DroidDraw.org.  A couple of minor bug fixes, one submitted by a user (thanks!): 

• The gray outline of nested layouts wasn't being drawn.
  
• Nested RelativeLayouts deeper than 2 were causing infinite recursion and thus a stack overflow.

Okay, I'm back to my holiday break.  First beta sometime next week!

DroidDraw Dev. Blog Started!

Several people have requested a blog so that they can keep up with the latest releases, etc. for DroidDraw. Well, ask and ye shall receive!

Its been a hectic month of coding, starting from nothing and working up into an application that I'm fairly happy with and that others seem to be using with some frequency! Along the way, I've learned a bunch about Android GUIs and layouts and even coded some things inJava (Drag 'n Drop) which I'd never done before.

I just released DroidDraw-r1a20 (release 1 alpha 20, for those who were wondering). [Mac, Windows, Linux] I think I've finally qualified for the beta moniker, so the next release will be r1b1. Don't expect it before the end of next week. I'm taking a bit of a holiday break...

For now, enjoy the holidays! and if you find any bugs or want any improvements remember to log them at the issues list.

Later.