Just a quick thing to say that I’ve just finished a few small changes that were needed to allow for everything with the site to work over HTTPS.
Week 12
Some weeks you just cannot tell if you’ve been productive or not and as i’m starting to write this I have to say it doesn’t feel like I have but lets see how things fared.
One main theme has been helping out on additional testing for the Winamp Backup Tool (if you can spare the time to help out and test the beta releases then i’m sure that koopa will be most grateful) as well as sorting out an NSIS plug-in that helps to correctly identify true running Winamp instances (which is also helpful for fixing a few things with the WACUP loader program when needing to pass on requests to the currently running Winamp instance (so work on one is beneficial to the other).
NSIS Installers & Correctly Detecting Running Winamp Instances
This is probably a niche topic but I thought it would be handy to document how to detect all true running Winamp instances if only due to the effort that I’ve put in to get a reliable means to detect if a true Winamp instance is already running so that it can be closed prior to installing a plug-in when using an NSIS installer (e.g. before running a Winamp backup with the Winamp Backup Tool).
Week 11
This week’s update will be a bit shorter than normal but at least being posted on a Monday which is going to be the default day from now on.
The main thing to see from last week was already posted a few days back here with regards to the preferences window and vertical sizing support for it. As something that I’d hoped would have been a simple thing, it somewhat ate up a bit more than 2 days time to get it generally working as wanted with a bit more work needing to be done on some specific plug-in preferences. Plus I’m sure one of the requesters of it are still being mesmerised by the gif :o)
Can you see me now…?
Often the simplest of changes can make a good difference to how you’re using something. This is how over the years I ended up making a range of small plug-ins that would modify / add something specific to Winamp which wouldn’t necessarily be considered officially.
With that in mind, I was recently reminded about something that I’d done when I was working officially on Winamp post-sale which was helpful for at least a few people and thought why not do it also for WACUP. So below you’ll see what I’ve been tinkering on yesterday…
Week 10
Sometimes you have the best of intentions and expect trying out something won’t take too long and then bam I’m two days late on posting the weekly update. So finally here’s last week’s update :o) The main thing from last week (which was a bit shorter due to Easter) was the release of the updated Crystal Classic Skins Plug-in v2.0. So for those who use classic skins then this may be of use to you.