Salasaga

Recent Development

Sunday, 11th May 2008

Created a Gentoo ebuild for Alpha 2:

• salasaga-0.8.0.ebuild

Also found a critical bug in the way colour values were being converted for swf export.  This resulted in the background colours of pretty much all text boxes (at least) being wrong.

Now fixed in subversion, and I suspect his will mean Alpha3 needs releasing soon. :(
 

Sunday, 4th May 2008

New Alpha2 release is ready for download.  *nix platforms only.

Definitely a recommended update:

• Ubuntu 7.04 package (32 bit)
• Ubuntu 7.10 package (32 bit)
• Ubuntu 8.04 package (32 bit)
• Source code (~1.1 MB) Linux/BSD/Solaris only

Saturday, 3rd May 2008

Found a serious bug in the timing of mouse click sounds in exported swf, so going to fix it before releasing Alpha 2.  An exported swf starting out paused has it's mouse click sounds played anyway, as if the movie isn't paused.

Update - A temporary fix has been put in place that seems to work, and packages for Alpha 2 created.  However, the SourceForge website is presently broken, not allowing project administrators to add new files.  Not much can be done until SourceForge is working again. :(
 

Friday, 2nd May, 2008

After about 2 days of effort (!), finally got the mouse click sound to play in swf output, in a reasonable manner (i.e. without looping).  Was Not Easy.

Will release Alpha 2 fairly shortly.
 

Tuesday, 29th April 2008

Added an optional information button to the exported swf, so authors can put in freeform text and a clickable link.  Should be useful for authors to include a built in feedback mechanism, for example to a rating submission page or feedback form or similar.
 

Monday, 28th April 2008

The colour and border attributes for highlight and text layers are now adjustable.  As is the opacity of highlight layers.

Also started adding code to have an "information button" in swf output.
 

Sunday, 27th April 2008

Found 2 bugs with the way the screen capture key was being set in metacity.   The first was recently introduced by moving to storing the full path name to the screencapture command, thus a comparision was no longer working properly.  This meant a new key binding was being additionally set each time the program ran.  Now fixed.

The second was with the way the gconf key was being unset at program exit.  It was only unsetting one of the two gconf keys, leading to a build up of crap after many program runs.  That's fixed as well.

Also further fine tuned the control bar in exported swf.  The fast forward and rewind buttons are no longer displayed if there is only one slide.

Got fed up with rows in the timeline area being able to be moved around while resizing them, so adjusted that too.  "Feels better" in usage now.
 

Thursday, 24th April 2008

Still working on the initial guides for installing Salasaga on Ubuntu.  Have been finding small annoying things (including bugs) in the alpha 1 release through doing this, so have been fixing them as they're found.  They'll be included in Alpha 2, which will most likely be next week:

• Manual changes to slide duration weren't taking effect properly
• The background for the control bar in the swf output looked fuzzy.  Now it's drawn directly as a swf vector so looks very sharp

Older History is stored in the Development Log Archive.