WildBill Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Version 1.1.6 of SmoothText is now available. The only change is speed optimizations for the skinning engine. Performance isn't yet where I'd like it to be, but it's noticeably faster. Both the NT4 and W2k versions will see a speed boost when the skinning engine is active, though the W2k version will see a greater improvement since it supports SSE2 whereas NT4 only supports MMX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) I took the night off from Windows patches and made some more improvements to SmoothText. This version fixes some bugs in the last version and adds further speed improvements for newer CPU's that support SSE4.1 instructions (many dual-core and quad-core CPU's support them). These optimizations only affect the W2k version, but I also improved the internal bitmap code to pre-align images along 16-byte boundaries. This was important to realize the full benefit on the W2k version but also has the potential to result in a modest speed improvement for the NT4 version. Version 1.1.7 is now available with the changes. Edited February 15, 2011 by WildBill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 SmoothText 1.1.8 is now available; it includes a small fix for Firefox 4 compatibility.Enjoy, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasz86 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 I'm trying to run SmoothText on an old computer with a Pentium III 866MHz processor.It's incredibly slow. The CPU usage jumps up to 50% just by running SmoothText and becomes almost unusable Is there any way to speed it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet William Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Really bad rendering problem with text editors using Scintilla control. The control is used in Notepad++, Scite, Notepad2, and a whole lot more tools.The problem is inserted strings of spaces, particularly when font characteristics change within a line.The problem will be easy for you to spot, just load some source code into Notepad++ and you'll see it.At least the source code for Scintilla is available.Hope you can find a solution because the problem really is a deal breaker.--Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo2k Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Will there be any future updates for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NothingMuchHereToSay Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 The skins are pretty glitchy on Windows NT 4.0. It causes the taskbar to disappear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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