Monthly Reports

January 2008

• RunningCeaWithFTP
• Registry v1.0 Upgrade. Released 2 snapshots

December 2007

Released 2007.4.beta1

• First beta release
• Extensive Astroscope improvements.

November 2007

Released 2007.4.alpha7

• Self testing to diagnose potential problems at startup
• Completed application's menu bars
• Drag and drop between windows and between application and OS

Released 2007.4.alpha8

• Reporting and monitoring of background processes
• Low-bandwidth configuration
• Dialog improvements - non-modal where possible.
• Formatting of resources in VoExplorer
• VoExplorer, TaskRunner, FileExplorer, Core UI now completed.

Currently

• Working on completing Astroscope side of VoDesktop^?
• Building towards first feature-complete beta release in mid-December.

October 2007

Released 2007.4.alpha6

• TaskRunner:
  • rearranged layout as suggested
  • parameter values are remembered, and can be recalled from a running task
  • file:// indirect parameters are copied to myspace.
• VoExplorer: finished suggested UI improvements.
• Added general error handler - makes a best effort to display something meaningful to the user.
• Added mechanism for displaying transient messages / warnings.
• Completed file chooser dialogue

Worked towards next release

• Added self-testing at startup - detects and warns the user when there is no network connection / ports not open / proxy server in the way.
• Updated login dialogue to show login progress and report errors
• Fixed assorted long-standing AR/AstroScope bugs - 2116, 2148, 2189,1837

Meetings

Attended VOIndia Workshop at IUCAA, Pune - 1 week, plus preparation

Currently

• Integrating Mark's work on VoExplorer resource tree
• Extending Drag-and-drop support, and testing for interoperation with OS. (e.g. drag a resource or myspace file into a text editor)
• Adding cut / copy / paste where useful
• Sorting out menus - key accelerators, etc.

Future

• Plan to have another release out in early November - in which VoExplorer, TaskRunner, FileExplorer will be feature-complete (but not necessarily bug-free)
• After that, concentrate on completing AstroScope, Registry 1.0 upgrade

-- NoelWinstanley - 31 Oct 2007