WildBill Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) Version 0.5.3 is now posted, with a minor bugfix.That's amazing that it works on XP, though I have to wonder why anyone would want to use it on XP since it already has ClearType. Neat, though, anyway. Edited January 20, 2009 by WildBill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Awesomeness. My Taskbar is replaced by ObjectBar, so it's all good.Too bad TClock3 fails to work on my computer... It walks the tightrope and usually falls off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 I've fixed a major bug in TClock3 tonight and I'm running it right now. Hopefully I'll be able to release a new version soon, but I first have to port a lot of SmoothText bugfixes back to it and fix some other issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 You could always seperate the TClock3 and SmoothText aspects.Or distribute them together but run them as seperate programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Version 0.5.4 is posted, which has some nice fixes and internal improvements.There are both benefits and drawbacks to having skinning in TClock3 and antialiasing in SmoothText. I'm a little on the fence as to whether they should be combined. At any rate, TClock3 development is continuing; I'm currently cleaning up a LOT of code, and then I have to nail down a few more bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Gah. I introduced a bug in calculating text height in version 0.5.4, so here is version 0.5.5. Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Everything's A-Okay. A while back I had an exception error involving TextHook.dll, didn't bother to keep it. The thing is, the whole program stayed running and didn't crash. Looks almost exactly like XP's ClearType, excellent work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 I'm testing 0.5.6 right now. Maybe I'll release it tomorrow. I ran across some thread contention issues in 0.5.5 and had to redesign some parts of it (nothing that should cause a crash, but it wasn't strictly correct). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Version 0.5.6 is posted, which should be more reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Sorry for the rapid update to version 0.5.7, but this was too good not to share. The unbounded nature of the text-size cache was causing real performance issues. I've implemented an LRU caching scheme and a cache limit of 512 strings. The result is a performance boost from the cache (as long as you don't go over it) but also a limit to the impact of using it. Overall, performance should be much better in normal use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 All day I had planned to work on TClock3, but it turned out that I had to work on SmoothText first Version 0.5.8 is posted, and in some ways it's a huge improvement. I'm getting blazing speed in Firefox now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 I really, really hate obscure bugs Version 0.5.9 is posted, which fixes a really hard-to-find bug in the caching code that was causing the cache to become corrupted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel O'Neill Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 (edited) Bleh. Something in 0.5.9 made Times New Roman look like it gained a couple pixels of width. It looks nothing like the original font. Not present in 0.5.7. Speed-ups are noticeable with 0.5.9.The SmoothText list box text reverts to non-smoothed when clicked (certain conditions) and don't return to smoothed until it is hovered over.The checkmark option doesn't unhook all processes... It's be nice if toggling smoothing was as easy as clicking the tray icon. Great improvements but at the moment I am sticking to 0.5.7 because the wide Times New Roman makes my head spin with all of the documents I have to write for school.EDIT: Never mind, I forgot to restart Word. Times New Roman looks normal now. Edited February 4, 2009 by Colonel O'Neill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 That's great. I definitely need testers, LOL Please let me know if you run into any issues. I've made some more slight optimizations for 0.6.0 (and simplified some code), but I'd like to sit on it for at least a few days to see if any issues crop up before I release it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) Version 0.6.0 is now posted. I've really tried to hyper-optimize the caching to try to maximize speed, and I've made a couple of small improvements.Enjoy... Edited February 8, 2009 by WildBill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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