Here is a little teaser of the new menu:

Hello everyone!

I'd like to announce another project that is currently in the works. It is a sprite editor by the name of Pixit.

It will aim to aid the creation of spritesheets and animations by allowing the user to work with a timeline. It will support many of the normal tools in paint programs but nothing too fancy.

As it is aimed at sprite editing most of the features will cater to this rather than image editing. I will draft up a proper specification later but here is a little screenshot of early alpha:



~Sofi

(PS. Soon I will create a project category for this)

First of all I just want to say happy new year! I hope everyone had a good holidays.

Now for the important.

liteiRC 3.0 has just been updated with some pretty big changes.

- Major engine optimisations - liteIRC is a lot faster now, thanks to nmn editing the core functions to make them cleaner.

- Bug fixing - As a result from the optimisations, big channels can now be visited without the client crashing. It also removed the limitation of multiple connections to the same server. This feature will be added in a future update.

- Nick autocomplete - Now hitting tab when typing will activate the autocomplete dialogue or autocomplete to the nearest name if only one is found. Example:



More features to come in the near future.

Hello Everyone!

Xerodox has undergone a redesign to clean up the look of the site and make it more professional looking. I have been thinking about it for a while but hadn't really thought of a good method to clean up the messy side bars. On small resolutions I imagine it was a nightmare.

No features were removed from the site in this update.

The main changes:

- Side bars removed.
- Layout changed to fix width rather than variable (Makes things easier to read for people with very wide screens)
- Navigation is now simple and clear at the top of every page.
- Projects can be accessed from the navigation instead of going through the project page.
- Clean urls. Instead of somethinghere.php?stuff we now have simple urls like xerodox.com/forums/view_topic/6/. Hopefully this will improve readability of the site.
- New screenshot gallery. The old one was slow on some browsers and didn't look very professional.
- More CSS3 support, as more browsers support this I have decided to use it for some display elements. (Mostly borders and some shadow)
- A few redrawn images.

If you have any problems with this layout or suggestions please post in the forum.

Regarding PPC and liteIRC: They are still in development, things are just a little slow here right now as PPC may be getting an engine rewrite. However I want to release a demo first for everyone to try before doing that (which is close to being ready!)

~Sofi

A LOT has been changed and uploaded quite silently to the nolib rar version, however I have just updated the main download as well with some changes. Here is a quite extensive list of changes below:



Notifications now have a number indicator and pulsing for nick mention.

Raw log:

- Added pulse for nick mention.
- Added notification numbers to the tabbar.
- /msg support.
- Fixed a bug with PMs not checking case sensitivity.
- Added new setting to the settings: Idle reconnect. If the user disconnects more than 3(?) times without sending any data it will use this setting to lengthen the time or wait for user input. (Not implemented yet)
- Fixed smoothscroll for own messages partially. Now only fails to work when the box has to resize after being expanded.
- Message cut off now works (after 300 lines if enabled)
- Fixed fatal crash with /NICK and same names with different case.Fixed another minor error. Even though the new favourites returns the decrypted nickserv, the ircClient was still calling the function.
- Fixed bug with the OS detection. It was Q_OS_WIN32 not QT_OS_WIN32
- CTCP commands now work via /finger for example.
- Right clicking a user will give options.

Some items are missing due to them being SVN entries. Some internal stuff was done as well such as linux compability and restructuring of code to fix things.

If you would like to try that go to the project page and download it now! Auto update isn't quite ready yet so unlike old versions of 2.0, you will still need to redownload each time.

PPC 5.0 has been pretty quiet lately, but it is not dead. Our character artist has been very busy with the Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary translation.

However yesterday I recieved images and concept for the next attack of Monopoly Man, Gold Rush. So here is a picture of him throwing gold bars at Arle:



The engine has also been fixed a little, found a bug with ANIMATION_REAL_SIZE and it has been fixed. Instead of applying to only one character it used to apply to all at once causing some VERY strange (but funny!) bugs. The EasyX engine has been modified greatly due to project OpenBox which has also caused a few small errors. The demo may still have some of these as it is hard to find them all.

I would also like to add that a very important addition was missing from the old PPC 1.0 (2.0+ did NOT have it!) which is the counter animation. For some reason this was lost in the initial port and has been added back. The only problem is lack of sound effects for this. Legacy characters may be problematic in fixing, but Puyo Puyo characters can be found the sample for.

This has been added under ANIMATION 8 and is now present as of 5.0. Sorry for the huge mistake D:

Bonus:



This is Arle's counter animation.

Only a few more animations to complete until the demo can be released! Please be patient a little longer.

~Sofi

Thanks to a very good friend of mine, liteIRC 3.0 linux builds are being added to a repo system on this server.

If you want to install liteIRC 3.0 on linux, please check the link below and follow the steps. It also lists current available linux builds.

http://repo.xerodox.com/ - This is also a permanent link, the latest builds will appear here (maybe even faster than windows binaries)

Links will appear on the project page at a later date.

~Sofi

Hello! A new build of liteIRC 3.0 has been uploaded which tackles quite a few things missing from the previous version.

- Logging settings are now fully complete (Date / time previews included!)
- Alerts are now fully functional for tabs. Window flashing is fully customisable as well as disabling the beep for keywords.



The new alert system.

- Improved handling for different sized fonts in the chat window.
- Font change option now works.
- Fixed some bugs with timestamps and the userlist.
- Various minor fixes and additions

If you would like to try this client, head to to the downloads or project page.

~Sofi