eXpresser v0.26

Release 0.26 of the MiGen System is now available. This provides some important new features:

• Attribute lists now allow the editing of expressions in a very limited manner. In preparation for the next user session, the software now provides icon variables for iterations.
• Selection is now ’strict’ in that you must click inside of pattern (rather than its bounding box) in order to select it.

Since editing expressions requires the use of the minus sign (and the user is also able to type the = sign at the moment), the zoom in and out shortcuts now require the use of the CTRL key.

TLRP-TEL meeting

Across the two TLRP/TEL funding rounds, there are now 8 projects. MiGen was funded during the first round. The purpose of the event today was to investigate concerns that cut across the projects.

WordPress site

This news item marks the start of using wordpress for managing our main project web-site. It will be developing in may ways over the coming months/years so please check back here regularly!

eXpresser v0.25

Release v0.25 of the MiGen System software is now available. The issues that this addresses largely do not affect the user interface but do affect the performance of the software. In particular, this release addresses the serious memory leak that was in Release v0.24 that lead to slow down after continued use. Other minor changes include a rename of the ‘Increment’ column to ‘Increase by’. In addition, attribute tables now order their attributes. The bugs (especially for 1.5) where when grouping or creating nested patterns has now been fixed. See Issue 198 and Issue 199 for full details.

eXpresser v0.24

Release v0.24 of the system is now available. This provides several small improvements over Release v0.23. Specifically:

• Newly-created single blocks are selected by default once they are created.
• The clone/slave functionality has now been more accurated named copy/link-copy. These use the same icons.
• Can now ‘unpattern’ which replaces a pattern with the original shape on which it was based.
• All icons are now larger (32×32 rather than 16×16).

Note that this release uses Java 1.6. If you are on a Mac or only have Java 1.5, please use Release v0.24-5 instead. This ’split’ release is due to an elusive bug.

eXpresser v0.23

Release v0.23 of the system provides a significantly different user interface to the previous release. The interface is a lot more consistent with typical GUIs, providing a small toolbar of icons as well as access to (most of) the functionality through menu items. All tools have corresponding control-key shortcuts (see the annotations in the menus). Note that single blocks are now created through double-clicking in a blank space.