beta 1 is mostly finished now. i’ve written the cd/dvd data burn engine and will be writing the ftp upload engine soon. the burn engine saves iso images, burns data, etc. but i have yet to add a display for total space used/available on the disc. this is trivial, however, and will be in the software prior to release. i’d estimate that development of b1 is roughtly 85% complete. do understand, however, that this BETA quality software and may have a bug here or there.
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Well, development is roughly 60% finished. The software now has a full GUI and can do everything 2.0 did, except copy “entire folders” (other than favorites and My Docs). This feature is pretty much moot as Windows Explorer can do the file copies via drag and drop AND the integrated burn engine must be run manually, so you can burn folders from anywhere on the drive anyway. I will consider adding the functionality for FTP uploads, however. I will be adding ZIP functionality, as you can see from the screenshot.
I expect beta 1 to be released sometime next week, depending on how busy I am with work. I will not be able to work on it much this weekend, but I maybe able to start writing the burning functionality sometime during Friday evening.
Here’s a teaser screenshot for AB3.0b1. The GUI is nearly complete now. A lot of the time was spent writing my own “wizard” system since .net didn’t have a form item I could use (that I could find, anyway). It’s quick, and I left out the transition effects because I want it to be fast. I just need to add one more page to the wizard for part of the FTP Backup engine, and the GUI will be completed. I’ll then start adding the functionality.
Well, as promised, I’ve started basic development on the backup program. Not much is done, atm, as I’m pretty much rewriting it to clean up the code a big (and hopefully make it slightly faster).