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Jexer Work Log
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March 18, 2017

TStatusBar is working, as is "smart" window placement.  Overall this
is looking quite nice.  Found a lot of other small paper cut items and
fixed them.  It looks absolutely gorgeous on Mac now.

Tomorrow I will get to the public wifi and get this uploaded.

Time to call this 0.0.4 now though.  We are up to 32,123 lines of
code.

March 17, 2017

Jexer is coming back to active development status.  I had a lot of
other projects ahead of it in the queue, mostly Qodem but also Jermit
and of course lots of actual day job work keeping me too tired for
afterhours stuff.  But here we are now, and I want to get Jexer to its
1.0.0 release before the end of 2018.  After that it will be a
critical bit of function for IWP and NIB, if I ever get those going.
I need to re-organize the demo app a bit so that it fits within 80x25,
and then get to TStatusBar.

A status bar will be an optional part of TWindow.  If it exists, then
it will be drawn last by TApplication and get events routed to it from
TWindow's event handlers.  This will have the nice effect that the
status bar can change depending on which window is active, without any
real extra work on TApplication's part.

Putting together a proper TODO now, with release and regression
checklists.  I think I will see if jexer is available at SourceForge,
and if so grab it.  Perhaps I can put together some good Turbo Vision
resources too.  At the very least direct people to the Borland-derived
C++ releases and Free Vision.
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55d2b2c2 KL	1	Jexer Work Log
	2	==============
	3
a7986f7b KL	4	March 18, 2017
	5
	6	TStatusBar is working, as is "smart" window placement. Overall this
	7	is looking quite nice. Found a lot of other small paper cut items and
	8	fixed them. It looks absolutely gorgeous on Mac now.
	9
	10	Tomorrow I will get to the public wifi and get this uploaded.
	11
	12	Time to call this 0.0.4 now though. We are up to 32,123 lines of
	13	code.
	14
55d2b2c2 KL	15	March 17, 2017
	16
	17	Jexer is coming back to active development status. I had a lot of
	18	other projects ahead of it in the queue, mostly Qodem but also Jermit
	19	and of course lots of actual day job work keeping me too tired for
	20	afterhours stuff. But here we are now, and I want to get Jexer to its
	21	1.0.0 release before the end of 2018. After that it will be a
	22	critical bit of function for IWP and NIB, if I ever get those going.
	23	I need to re-organize the demo app a bit so that it fits within 80x25,
	24	and then get to TStatusBar.
	25
	26	A status bar will be an optional part of TWindow. If it exists, then
	27	it will be drawn last by TApplication and get events routed to it from
	28	TWindow's event handlers. This will have the nice effect that the
	29	status bar can change depending on which window is active, without any
	30	real extra work on TApplication's part.
	31
	32	Putting together a proper TODO now, with release and regression
	33	checklists. I think I will see if jexer is available at SourceForge,
	34	and if so grab it. Perhaps I can put together some good Turbo Vision
	35	resources too. At the very least direct people to the Borland-derived
	36	C++ releases and Free Vision.
	37