Help support the law suite against Gaiaware

Peter Kuemmel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:26:20 -0000

Gaiaware - the company behind Gaia Ajax Widgets wants to sue me due to creating LGPL licensed Ajax libraries for .Net since they think that is a threat to their business model. Help support the case by donating to the law suite fund by clicking the link here; http://ra-ajax.org/Donate.aspx and go to the page.

SmartWin 2.0 RC2 Release

Peter Kuemmel — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:11:11 -0000

The 2.0 RC2 version of SmartWin is out. It's a bugfix release solving a bug with modal dialogs, which would close the app when closing a modal dialog created from another modal dialog.

Also, I've updated the online docs which I forgot to in the last release. But remember that the docs are also included in the release in a neat chm help file :)

SmartWin 2.0 RC1 Release

Peter Kuemmel — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:17:52 -0000

The 2.0 RC1 version of SmartWin is out! Check the changelog for many bugfixes and some nice features added.

We need your feedback, so please stop by the forums and tell us what you want on SmartWin :)

SmartWin 2.0 BETA Release!

Peter Kuemmel — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:37:37 -0000

There is now a beta release of the 2.0 version downloadable from the sourceforge servers.
Among new stuff is the SmartSOAP which is a SOAP extension to SmartWin but can be used independantly of the core SmartWin library.
There's a ton of bugfixes and several new features.
To name them all would take just too much space so read the changelog if you're interested in more specific details!
Anyway, it's out, it's hot and it's a SmartWinner! :)

SmartSOAP!

Peter Kuemmel — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:38:40 -0000

We're currently working on an extension to SmartWin which will contain network classes, HTTP classes, an XML parser and a SoapRequest/Response class type from which we can call WebServices from within a SmartWin application.
This library will be 100% selfcontained and not dependant upon SmartWin in any way (or vice versa) so this library will become an OPTION.
The reason I started building this is beacause I was fed up with all the SOAP libraries that had en extreme C'ish syntax or overused COM in ways I never imagined.
As to my knowledge this is gonna be the first low overhead "true" C++ SOAP library capable of running on e.g. Windows Mobile solutions...
Though there'll probably be now WSDL autoparsing stuff in the first release...

New domain address!!

Peter Kuemmel — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:14:22 -0000

SmartWin++ has now got its OWN domain address!! :)
Since smartwin.org was taken we had to settle for smartwinlib.org though...
We tried to get a hold of the owner of the smartwin.org and we were actually willing to PAY him for that domain, but we never got a reply...
We even tried to PHONE the guy (in India) but it appeared to be a bogus number, so he is probably a domain harvester (though they do claim to work with some kind of "gambling" stuff...)

Anyway, our domain is now http://smartwinlib.org and we're proud of it! :)
Think lib as in library!!
(or for the windows users out there lib as in ".lib"...)
And while we were at it, we also bought smartwinlib.com and smartwinlib.net but we're just forwarding requests to smartwinlib.org for clearity...

You can also write "www." in fron of any of the given domain addresses and it'll work (but you'll be forwarded to http://smartwinlib.org\)
This makes us have lots of possible different choices when going to our favourite C++ GUI Library site.
We can actually freely choose between:

http://smartwinlib.org
http://www.smartwinlib.org
http://smartwinlib.net
http://www.smartwinlib.net
http://smartwinlib.com
and
http://www.smartwinlib.com

But the "official" site is hosted at http://smartwinlib.org
!!

Happy SmartWinning at or brand new domain address and remember to update your bookmarks!!

A brand new Widget and Open GL sample!

Peter Kuemmel — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:50:09 -0000

WidgetChooseFolder is now a part of the CVS thanx to flix01 (username at sf.net)
I think many SW users will be pleased to get yet another tool in their SmartWin utility belt!

In addition we've made som (very basic) Open GL samples which uses SmartWin.
SmartWin does NOT contain any Open GL helper classes at the moment but since it builds on top of Windows API you can use Open GL as easy as you can use Open GL in the native Windows API.

Keep on SmartWinning!

Andrew, my new best friend... ;)

Peter Kuemmel — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:18:46 -0000

Andrew just made it onto my "people I like more then my right foot list"... ;)
Reason; he has succesfully managed to compile and run the library and the HelloSmartWinWorld sample application on a Linux box utilizing WineLib!! :)
This is GREAT news!!
We will therefore probably focus alot more on getting our WineLib port and this will probably be an officially supported platform from version 2.x and onwards!!
So find your "Ubuntu Utility Belt" and buckle up for some serious SmartWinning!!

.t smiling from ear to ear!! :D

Project ranked as the 47th most active project!!

Peter Kuemmel — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:00:05 -0000

We're climbing upwards here on a daily basis, alot has probably to do with the fact that we have just changed our license to a BSD type of license and made a new release but this is GREAT news for us developers behind SmartWin++!
Imagine what would happen if we reached the 10th most active project position or something!! :)
(Hint; billion of web pages would be linking to the project... ;)

SmartWin++ ranked as the 64'th most active project at sf.net

Peter Kuemmel — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:47:21 -0000

Congrats everybody, today we had an activity percentage of 99.96 percent and we we're ranked as the 64'th most active project on Sourceforge!!
That's pretty impressive for a C++ GUI library!
A couple of more percentages and we're gonna start competing with the consumer projects such as peer to peer software!!

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