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Blog moved to WordPress and new domain...

I've moved my blog to my own domain and onto a WordPress engine, CS + SPAM was driving me nuts!

Catchup posts: Oh yes, I've been in Japan for a couple of months, first 2 weeks of photos are uploaded on Flickr, I still havent had a chance to upload the thousands after.

Whats more, I've actually written some information about me so you can finally find out my sad sad way of life. See About Thushan Fernando.
posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:57 PM by Thushan Fernando

HotHTML 3 Professional FixPack 5 Released!

Well I decided to take some time off (sleeping) and finalise FixPack 5 for HotHTML 3. The build number is now 3000 (epic milestone!) and mostly caused by alot of rework to make HotHTML 3 load faster, initially I intended to add a new Ftp Editor to make it easier to upload/manage websites, but due to a rewrite of the Ftp core taking longer than expected I decided to postphone it till FixPack 6.

This release is "IE 7 friendly" (atleast Beta 1, Beta 2 and builds inbetween the two) and recognizes all recent releases of Firefox & Opera also:-)

Change Log(View Text)
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BUG FIXES
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22806. DocumentData > Loading an empty document gives 'No Document Loaded' in 'DocumentData::Core Engine Runtime' which is invalid.
22805. Core > Checkboxes sometimes may raise errors in validation on some dialogs.
22804. Core > **** EXPERIMENTAL **** New fix for the crash when saving documents every now and then (rare to reproduce).
22803. IDE > VS.NET Tabs sometimes doesnt repaint after recieving the focus again.
22802. WebManager Account Manager > Selecting first item causes a save to be placed into the pending queue when it shouldnt.
22801. Tools > SpellCheck raises a fatal runtime error because it cant locate the 'custom.dic' dictionary file.

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ADDITIONS
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1.DocumentData can now have a padding of '0' (Zero) so it will ignore file-legth checking.

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CHANGES
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1. Welcome Dialog > When selecting a file from the recent list, if its not found/non-existant it will prompt and leave the dialog open.
Download HotHTML 3 FixPack 5 and have ago, use our servers (Tucows/Download.com havent been updated yet!).

(NOTE: Updates to the website to reflect FixPack 5 will happen in the next couple of days!)
posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:48 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

UPDATE: Security update for WMF Security issue from Microsoft

You heard it here first folks, the update patch to fix the WMF flaw just got released by Microsoft:

HIGHLY recommended download!
posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:21 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

Vista and VB6 applications... back to the days of XP and themes... nooooahhhhh!

Well after a heavy weekend of Vista messing (including Server) I tried HotHTML 3 (yes, I know... what a nut aye?)... with FixPack 4 the first thing you get after installation is the "Configuration Wizard" to show up, and thats when i noticed that the checkbox had that horrible black bar covers like XP caused when you try and use a manifest without initialising Common Controls library first...


Click Image for a larger shot

NOooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i yelled in disappointment. I've filed a bug but its still early days yet, MS *might* fix it otherwise we'd have to think of a work-around (after more research) to fixing it.

So in short, if your vb6 application uses a manifest/themes and it shows correctly in XP, chances are in Vista (atm) it wont.
posted Monday, August 01, 2005 1:47 PM by wsoftware with 1 Comments

HotHTML 3 at Wikipedia... oh and wiki's rock!

Someones posted a definition of "HotHTML" at WikiPedia... Check it out! and see the complete list. Kinda cool to be inside an internet encyclopedia, although the descriptions from a download site somewhere...!


In conclusion, Wiki's are cool!
posted Monday, August 01, 2005 12:40 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Final Released!

Well after close to three months of intense testing, I've finally gone live with FixPack 4 for HotHTML 3.

Anyone who has the pre-release betas, alphas or Release Candidates (from builds 1930-2278) you'll need to uninstall it and install the new FixPack 4 release as we're now fully switched to InstallShield 10.5 (we bought 10.5 a month before 11 debut'd but it shall do!)

Download:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/hothtml3eval.exe [ 11MB ]

ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt

NOTE:
Website(s)/KB's should be updated in a few hours!

Thanks to everyone who reported issues and spent time testing and messing with the fixes!
posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 3:52 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Release Candidate 5 Release

Thanks to everyone who reported issues with the previous Release Candidate, I've pushed Release Candidate 5 out and is available right now for download.

Download:
http://websoftware.customer.netspace.net.au/hothtml3/beta/FixPack5_RC5.hdp [ 875KB ]

ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt

NOTE:
The link above is ONLY for those who installed Release Candidate 4 release. If you want to try RC5, first install FixPack 3(if not already installed), then Release Candidate 4 Update file and finally download and run the link above which will install the new version.

This is because the WebSoftware installer (the HDP file) cannot update a core component (wRegistry.dll) that was updated for FixPack 4 as its being used by the installer - I know I know! Thats why I love .NET!
posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:42 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Release Candidate 4 Release

Well FixPack 4 for HotHTML 3 is nearing release. Unfortunately this release will not have Mozilla previewing support as I mentioned earlier as the priority for FixPack 4 changed to fixing up mutli-lingual/region issues and various other bugs.

This is an 'Update' of FixPack 3 to make it FixPack 4, and as such you need to have FixPack 3 Installed.
 
Download:
 
ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt
 
NOTE: You must have FixPack 3 installed for this release to update properly. There are NO UPDATED HELP FILES as they are still being written/updated.

Send feedback to developers@wsoftware.biz and we'll take care of the rest:-)

posted Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:50 AM by wsoftware with 1 Comments

SoftPedia: HotHTML 3 spyware clean!

SoftPedia has awarded HotHTML 3 the "Spyware Free Certification".

No suprises there, we're against spyware and adware, its another disease in the virtual world which we want to irradicate not distribute:-)

 

posted Friday, May 27, 2005 2:18 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

First International Resellers for HotHTML 3, BTSoftware:-)

BTSoftware is our first international reseller for HotHTML 3! I'm still a little hesitant on putting HotHTML 3 at ComponentSource (they charge farrr too much) but eventually I presume it'll get there. Some more resellers are coming around mid to end this year once we sort out some legal issues...

posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:19 AM by wsoftware with 2 Comments

HotHTML 3 FixPack 3 released!

Well after a long long wait - almost a month after Beta testing finished - I've finished FixPack 3 and uploaded it to the WebSoftware website.

This new release is quite a milestone, it brought massive - truely massive - changes to the core of the editor, which resulted in many changes and lots of testing to ensure nothing breaks (especially plugins). One major area i've tried to address is startup times. Compared to pre-FixPack 3 (Download FixPack 2 for a benchmark) the startup times should atleast be half of what it used to be or sometimes even less. The initial loading of the new version straight after installation will always be slower than subsequent times - it builds the GUI for the first time and creates default caches etc which does take time, but I'm happy to say that on some machines - Centrino P4M 755/1GB RAM -> 1.0 Second or less (Notebook) for instance - the load times are so fast its insane!

While working on this release I remember back when HotHTML 2000 was the 'thang' I actually made the splashscreen forcefully stay atleast 2 seconds before showing the editor because it loaded too quickly. My how those days have changed.

Download a copy of the final FixPack 3 release and enjoy!

Looking ahead to FixPack 4

I've been doing some extensive work since FixPack 2 back in November 2004 about allowing Mozilla and IE web controls to be loaded in the IDE and I'm finally starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel to get this supported. Basically using IE as a means to show a preview is great, but having that optional Mozilla preview will be beneficial for everyone. Using a slightly modified Mozilla ActiveX control i've got this to work on private builds of HotHTML 3, so its something that will appearing in FP4.

Thats it for today, tomorrow's ANZAC day here so I'm going to take the day off and relax a little. Atleast this weekend wasnt as crap as the last:-)

posted Sunday, April 24, 2005 8:13 AM by wsoftware with 1 Comments

FixPack 3 Compeition ends, release by Monday 18th April 2005.

Well I've been ubber busy with uni but we officially stopped counting bugs on the first of april and any reports there after were'nt included for the Gift Certicate offer we had going. Congratulations to Georgina Stein from Indianapolis for being the top reporter with a total of 48 fixes and change requests filed. She tells us that she'll be spending the $75 to buy some books on ASP.NET and UML from Amazon!

At the moment I'm updating the documentation as well as writing up a "Getting Started with HotHTML 3" guide (in PDF) both of which should be finished by the end of the week after which the final build testing will be done over the weekend making Monday the 18th the hopeful day of release for FixPack 3.

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:48 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments