So I released the latest version of the Win32 Declare Library (up to 1.7 now) tonight. I have the feeling it's going to be the last release for a while. Don't worry! I'll still be adding new features and doing bug fixes, etc. I just think it's being released too often. I have some very special plans for version 2.0 (that happen to coincide with some awesome new features of RB 6), so I don't want people to think v2.0 is just a natural extension of v1.9 ;-) I may just throw a monkeywrench in everyone's world and name the next major release 3.0 or something crazy like that. Who knows!
In any event, the new version has some new common controls added to it. Such as a Calendar control and a Date/Time picker. It also has a few new functions to do things like create a GUID, or register for global hotkeys. And a few bug fixes as well (as always!). So if you use REALbasic, I'd suggest checking it out. You can find a copy here: http://www.aaronballman.com/programming/REALbasic/Win32Declare.php. And if you don't program in REALbasic: then you should start!
Hopefully people like the new release. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them here. I'm always listening! :-)
What is up with the whole 3.0 and 1.7 versions...why do they add the "." huh?
The "." is for minor versions. So basically, it's like this:
MajorVersion.MinorVersion.BugFixVersion
So when you see 1.0 go to 2.0, you know there are some major new things in there to go checkout. When you see 1.1 go to 1.2, there are usually just minor things (small features and bug fixes). When you see it go from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 you know it's just like one or two bug fixes and no new features.
Since I'm at 1.7 right now, I don't want to put out any more releases because people will just think that 2.0 is just another minor release and not the major one that I have planned.
Make sense?
ah...now I see the light