The bug in die rolling was bad enough to warrant a new build, but while I was fixing it, I got depressed at how slow the rendering has gotten, so I tuned it up a bit.
I decided to release early so you guys can test it out before anyone needs to use it for a game this weekend, so I can iron out any kinks that might pop up.
Build 21 (9/28/06)
* Fix rolling bug where modifier was being added twice
* Update local image references to use streamed MD5 sums to improve memory usage
* Unbounded map rendering optimization
* Cell highlighting rendering optimization
* Fix about dialog
NOTE:
Of particular note is the optimization to the unbounded maps. Please bang around on those and see if any rendering weirdness shows up.
MapTool 1.1 Development Release Build 21
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MapTool 1.1 Development Release Build 21
Dreaming of a 1.3 release
Please excuse my lack of knowledge of WebStart, but is there a reason why the automatic updating from WebStart has been disabled?
It's this line that dictates that JWS won't check the server for a newer version isn't it?
<shortcut online="false">
Or are the some other supporting settings that also need updating? I'd be interested in the answer, just because JWS is not something I've ever developed for.
On another note, would it be possible to have the titles different between the Release jnlp and the Development one? I have two applications in JWS that have exactly the same name.
It's this line that dictates that JWS won't check the server for a newer version isn't it?
<shortcut online="false">
Or are the some other supporting settings that also need updating? I'd be interested in the answer, just because JWS is not something I've ever developed for.
On another note, would it be possible to have the titles different between the Release jnlp and the Development one? I have two applications in JWS that have exactly the same name.
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To be honest, I only mess with jws when I have to, and didn't actually build the launch script, so I'll punt the motivations to giliathNomad3k wrote:Please excuse my lack of knowledge of WebStart, but is there a reason why the automatic updating from WebStart has been disabled?
It's this line that dictates that JWS won't check the server for a newer version isn't it?
<shortcut online="false">
Or are the some other supporting settings that also need updating? I'd be interested in the answer, just because JWS is not something I've ever developed for.
On another note, would it be possible to have the titles different between the Release jnlp and the Development one? I have two applications in JWS that have exactly the same name.
Dreaming of a 1.3 release
I set the property to <shortcut online="false" /> to allow users to run our tools while not connected to the internet. This is the interesting part in our jnlp file.
The documentation is not very clear on what exactly online="true/false" means, but it is currently behaving exactly as I intended. Sometimes we break backward compatibility, so I didn't want to force upgrades.
If that property only changes whether it prompts for updates when we have new updates, but the <offline-allowed /> still enables the offline usage of the tools then it might be okay to change it, as long as it does not bug you everytime you run MapTool.
In the future I hope to go to a more traditional installer for those users who want an offline version of MapTool. This will allow a more traditional notification of updates.
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<shortcut online="false">
<desktop />
<menu submenu="RPTools" />
</shortcut>If that property only changes whether it prompts for updates when we have new updates, but the <offline-allowed /> still enables the offline usage of the tools then it might be okay to change it, as long as it does not bug you everytime you run MapTool.
In the future I hope to go to a more traditional installer for those users who want an offline version of MapTool. This will allow a more traditional notification of updates.
~Giliath
Re: MapTool 1.1 Development Release Build 21
Sails through directories with 150MB bitmaps with nary a hiccup.trevor wrote: * Update local image references to use streamed MD5 sums to improve memory usage
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Perhaps it is acceptable for the development releases. That is, let the released versions be manual updates, but the development releases update automatically. It seems reasonable that if you are using development, you are willing to accept that things will change and perhaps break sometimes.giliath wrote:Sometimes we break backward compatibility, so I didn't want to force upgrades.
Dreaming of a 1.3 release