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2023 | |
July 2023: After my wife and I decided to separate at the beginning of May, I hope to finally find time for this again and to push my projects forward. | |
April 2023: There is some hope again: On March 12, the Ukrainian developer of the AlphaControls released an update to fix the bug described in the post "Balance of the year 2022". Since I had rebuilt four programs in the meantime so that they work without the AlphaControls, I am now rebuilding everything again WITH the AlphaControls that I "love". Unfortunately I can't use the changes I saved before the rebuild, because I added new functions at the same time. A lot of work - nevertheless I am very happy that the developer has survived until now. | |
Balance of the year 2022: This one doesn't look too good: 2022 is the first year in which I released neither an update nor a new program. This had many reasons. The little positive: My disease, which broke out in October 2021, could be contained by the therapists in January 2022 to such an extent that I have to live with only a few restrictions. And I have successfully invested a lot of time in Android app development: The test app for consumption recording is running very well. The negative: With release 11.2 of my development environment, I can no longer use the AlphaControls (skins) with 64-bit programs. These contain a bug that cannot be fixed at this time: The only developer is a Ukrainian living in Odessa, who is busy trying to drive the Russian aggressors out of his country. Let's wish him good luck in this and, above all, that he will survive this insane war. For me this means that I have to rebuild all (at least 64-bit) programs - I had been using the Alphacontrols components very intensively, because they have more functionality compared to the standard components. Well, in the next weeks the Delphi release 11.3 will be released. It may be that I will then have to rebuild the 32-bit programs as well. This is all very time consuming. During my development of the Android app I had to deal with the SQLite database. I will also use this in new Windows programs, because the previously used database Accuracer has not been developed further for many years, and yet they keep asking for money for the next Delphi release. SQLite is a modern database, which is relatively easy to use with an additional component. The conversion of the program "SiBA Postbuch Easy" to new data grids consumed a lot more time than I had planned. I only hope that my software balance for this year will look better. |
2022 | |
Changes to the fall 2022: 1. For family reasons, I will cease my activity as an eBook author on 01.09.2022. Whether temporarily or permanently, will only become clear in the course of 2023. This will also mean the end of the "edeus" series. Existing references and links in the programs will be removed when a new release is published. 2. In order to be able to concentrate more on the topics "lying" to me (picture, audio, video), I will no longer develop the following programs (nevertheless these are further available as download): - Knowledge & Information - Extensions for WebsiteX5 - CSE - CoDoToP - THe ALF (only internal development and use for my purposes) 3) Why have I not delivered a single update or new program in 2022? This has several reasons: a) I was sick from October 2021 - January 2022 and could not continue working on my freeware projects during this time. b) After that I tried a lot of new things to be able to offer up-to-date, modern programs in the future. c) The programs in progress need much more time than I had planned. d) And also thinking about the future concept and appearance was quite time consuming. | |
"Consumption Recording" and "Password Protector": On the weekend 23/24 April I finished my first app for Android. This was necessary because the mobile consumption recording website that comes with "Consumption Recording" does not run correctly on all smartphones because some manufacturers use an intermediate layer to display local web pages (for example, MIUI on Xiaomi; but this also affects devices made by Huawei and Samsung). With the next major release of "Consumption Recording", an Android app for mobile recording will therefore be available as an alternative to the website and will have enhanced functionality compared to the website. But now this app has to undergo an intensive test first. An Android app is also planned for the "Password Protector" so that the stored passwords can be used on more than just a Windows PC or notebook. However, both of these are still in the future. I will see to it that "Video - Cut & More" is finally finished. | |
Program documents (QuickStart and History): My programs are offered multilingual since several years - thanks to the online translators. But this also brings a problem, which I would like to explain on the basis of my program "Rapid Image Viewer": Unpacked, the program in the current release 3.4 needs about 173 MB on the hard disk. Of this 101 MB are allotted to the folder "Doc". Here are two documents each in 58 languages. However, these documents are usually only used in one language, the rest takes up pointless space. Therefore all programs released from 2022 on (new and updates) will be shipped WITHOUT documentation. At the first program start after a new installation or an update the documentation will be downloaded for the detected language. If you change to another language in the settings, it will be checked if the documents for it are already available. If not, you have the possibility to download them. For the download you need an internet connection. Details can be found in the QuickStart document of the respective program. | |
E-books of the "edeus" series: From now on, I will publish the e-books of the "edeus" series only in German and English via a publisher. This saves me a lot of time for the translation into another language and does not "overload" the publisher as much anymore. In return, after purchasing an e-book of the "edeus" series, you can request it from me free of charge in the language of your choice. All languages are possible, which are delivered by me with the corresponding program. For each purchased e-book you can request it in one language of your choice. You will find details in the respective QuickStart document. |
2021 | |
Languages: When I noticed at the beginning of March 2021 that the third most views of my freeware pages come from France (after Germany and the USA), I was happy about this fact. As a small thank you, my freeware pages are now also available in French. |
2020 | |
About my image viewers: Little by little, I had developed four image viewers. In order to have more time for the maintenance of existing programmes and the development of new ones, I decided in August 2020 to continue developing only two. The "Image Racer", which was my most used image viewer for a long time, and "Pure Image Display" fell victim to this decision. The "Little Image Viewer" will receive considerably more functions with almost the same concept. From release 3.0, the "Rapid Image Viewer" only keeps the features of the very fast single image display and that there is a lot of space for displaying single images (depending on the screen size). Otherwise it has been given a completely new concept and remains the "small", fast image viewer. There is a compensation offer for the buyers of the eBook on the "Image Racer". |
2019 | |
Removed program: At the end of October of 2019 I removed the program "PRIMA Screen Resolution Switcher". I will not develop it any longer. |