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Author:	Steve	Created:	05 October 2008
This is my blog, which mainly focuses on the development of Data Tree but also includes posts on developing with RunRev and other thoughts and stories as they spring to mind.

Time for my serious face

By Steve on 11 October 2009

I've been giving thought as to how I'm going to charge and license Data Tree when it's ready.

There is more information to read about once you click on Read More but in summary, I've decided upon a licence fee of £30 and this will include the next couple of updates that will add some often asked for features that I think would be fair to add: in-node checkboxes, a reasonably customisable skin and cursor key navigation...

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Another update 0.9.7

By Steve on 01 October 2009

Do you know I've had nearly 40 people download and try out my tree now?

Rather embarrasingly, I discovered a bug in the last version that stopped the control from drawing huge trees in the background... pesky private handlers.

This new build contains a known issue. I think I know why it happens and have to find a way to solve it... pesky IDE, methinks.

If you're new to this site, you'll have to register to get access to the download. If you're returning to the site, log back in again and you'll find 0.9.7 in the beta download page.

This beta will self destruct on 31 March 2010.

More info after the Read More.

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Money, money, money

By Steve on 24 September 2009

Last evening, I popped a message up on the RunRev list about Data Tree and would like to thank everybody that has since registered and downloaded the library. I'd also like to thank Sean Shao (or is it Shao Sean?) for his comments too (more about what Sean's been up to after the Read More).

I've been asked a couple of times via e-mail about my plans for charging. Unfortunately, I won't be releasing the library as open source, nor will I be allowing access to the underlying source code. I'm a bit precious about the hard work and attention to detail that I've put in but having said that, I can't see myself charging an awful lot for the finished library.

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Can't help it, here's a big update!

By Steve on 20 September 2009

Time for an awesome beta. I'm getting so close to version 1.0 now, I can taste it!

I'll tell you now that version 9.0.6 of Data Tree WILL BREAK YOUR EXISTING TREES and isn't compatible with any trees that were created in a previous version. If you want to continue developing with just the Mac skin under version 9.0.4, I've left the download up, so you can revert back to it if you so wish.

You could not believe how much of this tree library is... well, click on Read More below to find out!

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I like food

By Steve on 06 September 2009

I do love to eat, I do. If I'm not cooking it, I'm eating it. And good food cooked for me tastes even better.

I don't do an awful lot other than working and eating these days (keeping slim is difficult but just about manageable). Music was the other big thing in my life but as I don't have time for a band anymore, that leaves me pretty much with coding and food as hobbies.

Maybe I should start commenting on food?

So this weekend, we were in Birmingham and popped into Woktastic, a lovely sushi bar right in the heart of the city centre...

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Tease

By Steve on 03 September 2009

Some cross platform loveliness!

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Little update

By Steve on 02 September 2009

I've been working on a heee-uge update to the Data Tree that introduces new skins for different platforms, starting with Windows XP. It's very exciting.

In the meantime, however, I've just uploaded a little update to tweak a few things that weren't quite right in the last version.

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New build 0.9.3

By Steve on 16 August 2009

Time for a big update to the beta.

To download a copy, please log in or register with the site.

Please click on Read More for the details.

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Stress testing the tree

By Steve on 09 August 2009

I have to admit that I've not done a huge amount of stress testing on the tree. I know that most applications that you might create won't need oodles of nodes, but what if you do have to have a few thousand nodes in a tree?

I know my code is tight but I thought that I'd better spend some time checking this out all the same. Click on Read More to hear some impressive stuff.

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New tree build (0.9.2)

By Steve on 05 August 2009

Had some more brilliant suggestions come in, so have released another beta update.

Existing testers can log in and download from the usual place. Anybody who's new to the site, you'll need to register an account with the site and the download and info page will become available.

Click on Read More to find out what I've added.

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