RISC OS News

Peter Naulls of Firefox fame has ported the Thunderbird email client to RISC OS, this is a demonstration version and is not completely functional as of yet.

You must own a A9Home or Iyonix (Virtual RiscPC?) machine in order for this to work, RiscPC,RISCStation etc. machines will not run Thunderbird at this early stage in development. 

The program sends various commands to modern printers which enable you to perform head cleaning, test prints etc by clicking on an icon rather than use printer buttons or a PC.

!NoButton isn't completely free, a £10 fee is recommended if you really like this program.

Links:

http://www.jochenlueg.freeuk.com/english/sharewar.htm

Paul Vigay has released Beta 6 of his web gallery program for RISC OS.

WebGallery is a flexible and powerful utility for generating galleries from
directories of images. It can use ChangeFSI to re-scale images and generate
thumbnails, before creating a full HTML based gallery of interlinked pages
and index files. 

A huge range of options provide hundreds of permutations of effects that
are possible, and a customizable web template system provides even more
flexibility for seamlessly integrating galleries into existing websites. 

Links:

http://www.vigay.com/software/webgallery.html 

Ray Favre has updated his progam !MeDDLe to version 2.10, This new version adds the ability for the user to choose an Impression/OPro Style which will be used to create HTML external links in the output HTML pages, and lots more new features!

!meDDLe is an application to convert OvationPro DDL documents into
HTML - including 'embedded' pictures.

On dragging in a DDL document, !meDDLe extracts its 'Styles' and
presents a list of them so that the user can - if he/she wishes -
'map' any Style to any one or more of the common HTML text-altering
codes e.g. Style "Heading" might be mapped to HTML code "h3".

There are other options:

- to get rid of headers/footers;

- to decide how the output is to be split into separate HTML 'pages';

- to choose a Style to be used for starting a new HTML 'page' or to
trigger the placing of an HTML marker

- to choose a Style to trigger the placing of an HTML external link;

- to add a Contents page with live links to each 'page' and marker;

- to include/exclude the extraction and referencing of pictures;

- etc.

The output comprises a series of...

Over a fortnight ago, Peter Naulls asked for £1000 in donations so he could port Firefox 2 to RISC OS, the pledge had been successfull and now Iyonix users can happily browse the web with the version of Firefox.

The current version is far from finished but it's a start, only owners of Iyonix machines can currently use Firefox 2 but that might change in the not so distant future.

The next release of Firefox 2 if hoped to be released on Christmas day if a further £4000 in donations has been reached.

You can download this new port for free from the Unix Porting Project website, link shown below.

Links:

http://www.riscos.info/unix/firefox/

7Th Software have made version 1.14 of MoreDesk available to the public, this new version includes:

•   Options to change double-click behaviour in the main window
•   Split Ignore and TaskSprites lists into separate text files
•   Improved memory usage and protection
•   Better configuration options layout
•   Statistics window listing information on all open windows
•   SysLog support
•   Improvements to support for the A9home
•   Help documentation improvements
•   Lots of other tweaks 

MoreDesk allows you to organise your windows on over a space which is larger
than the normal desktop. It does this by creating a grid of desktop spaces
and by allowing you to select which of these is the one you are currently
looking at.

You can easily move windows between desktops and get a view of the entire
desktop space. You can even have different sets of pinboard icons and a
different backdrop image for each of the desktops.

MoreDesk costs just GBP 14.99 (plus VAT) and can be purchased on-line or by
sending an order form to 7th software.

Links:

http://www.7thsoftware.com/moredesk/

Ray Favre has update his program, CSVamp for RISC OS to version 3.01, the only changes in this new version is a bug fix that was annoying some users. CSVamp is an application allowing users to produce new, modified CSV/TSV files from existing CSV/TSV files.

Links:

http://www.rayfavre.me.uk/dwapps.html

James Scholes has updated his IRC client for RISC OS, Cretin to version 0.23b.

Taken from Jymbob's site "Cretin is an IRC client for RISC OS. It was written mainly just for the fun of writing one, and partly because we wanted a client that worked as we wanted. Mainly for the fun of it.
It is called Cretin for no very good reason - it was born from "I (C)an't (R)emember (T)he (N)ame", which later became "I (C)an't (Re)member (T)he (I)RC Client's (N)ame" for the better acronym thing. It's also an anagram of IRCNet, so "go figure"."

Links:

http://jymbob.drobe.co.uk/