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Software News : OWB 1.8 released

Posted by poweramiga on 2008/2/12 11:57:42 (2980 reads) News by the same author

Good news OWB 1.8 is out for testing with a much improved speed and stability
Resizable window and better GUI
So what you waiting for go get it here
http://strohmayer.org

[Edit: And now 1.9 is out! Read more for update history]

1.9 changes:

* To open OWB on an own screen you can define a screen in Prefs/Screens with the name "OrigynWebBrowser" (was supported in 1.8 already, I just forgot to mention it in the release notes).
* Fixed return/enter not working in text areas.
* Cursor left/right for scrolling in too wide pages works now.
* Added progress bar with status bar text.
* The window title is changed to the page title now.
* URL string gadget is updated when loading a new page.
* Added tooltype support, you can configure the home page (HOME) and minimum font size (MINFONTSIZE) now.
* Added home gadget.
* Search engine is configurable now (SEARCH tooltype).
* With pressed you can scroll horizontally with the vertical mouse wheel now.

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Author	Thread
Jack	Published: 2008/2/12 12:17 Updated: 2008/2/12 12:17
Quite a regular Joined: 11/27/2006 From: Israel Comments: 932	Re: OWB 1.8 released @Poweramiga You beat me by some seconds posting these great news Kudos to Andrea, Joerg and everyone involved! Jack

Cyborg	Published: 2008/2/12 13:45 Updated: 2008/2/12 13:45
Just popping in Joined: 12/22/2006 From: Germany Comments: 198	Re: OWB 1.8 released Good job Andrea and J?rg.. There are still some glitches (e.g. while typing here this comment with OWB and scrolled a bit down before, gfx curruptions occur and Return key for newline also doesn't work) and of course a scrollbar is lacking But it's getting better and better and using an Intuition window is a very important step.. Keep it up guys!

PEB	Published: 2008/2/12 15:50 Updated: 2008/2/13 0:10
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/29/2006 From: Comments: 474	Re: OWB 1.8 released Very nice work, indeed! Edit: Just noticed that it still crashes when trying to log into e-mail accounts through mail.yahoo.com Edit 2: OWB 1.9 has just been released; and now it works well with yahoo e-mail.

spotUP	Published: 2008/2/12 17:49 Updated: 2008/2/12 17:49
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Comments: 1485	Re: OWB 1.8 released Arrgh! I don't have access to my A1! Someone, post a screenshot, quick! I am curious! =)

salass00	Published: 2008/2/12 17:56 Updated: 2008/2/12 17:56
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1878	Re: OWB 1.8 released I've posted one on my website: http://a500.org/index.php?s=screenshots

centaurz	Published: 2008/2/12 19:15 Updated: 2008/2/12 19:15
Just popping in Joined: 09/03/2007 From: France Comments: 144	Re: OWB 1.8 released Good work ! Quote: # Implemented the graphics device for AmigaOS4, it's now using an intuition window instead of a SDL one. # Implemented intuition event handling. Does this mean that the abstraction layer is moving towards a 100%-Intuition implementation ? (without SDL)

LiveForIt	Published: 2008/2/12 19:22 Updated: 2008/2/12 19:22
Home away from home Joined: 11/20/2006 From: Norway Comments: 3777	Re: OWB 1.8 released @centaurz Well it does not matter as long as it responsive. what this program really need is some horizontal, vertical slide-bars.

joerg	Published: 2008/2/12 20:27 Updated: 2008/2/12 20:27
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/01/2006 From: Germany Comments: 1751	Re: OWB 1.8 released @centaurz Quote: Does this mean that the abstraction layer is moving towards a 100%-Intuition implementation ? (without SDL) I tried replacing the rest of SDL (there isn't much left anyway, only graphics, i.e. drawing lines, polygons, arcs, images, etc.) as well, but there were some problems and it didn't work. Since the remaining SDL functions are no problem anymore I'll first add other things which are possible now with the intuition window and event handling, for example scroll bars for the complete page (not for frames, text areas, etc.) should be possible, before trying to replace the SDL graphics functions again.

Chris	Published: 2008/2/12 22:50 Updated: 2008/2/12 22:50
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3361	Re: OWB 1.8 released @joerg Fantastic!

grim_fandango	Published: 2008/2/13 0:18 Updated: 2008/2/13 0:18
Just popping in Joined: 09/24/2007 From: Comments: 22	Re: OWB 1.8 released Outstanding improvement, congratulations! Runs much better on my Classic PPC, I imagine it rips on the AmigaOne. Thanks!!

Rigo	Published: 2008/2/13 16:26 Updated: 2008/2/13 16:30
Supreme Council Joined: 11/19/2006 From: London, England Comments: 1382	Re: OWB 1.8 released Superb work, runs well here on my A1s.Although there does seem to be a few layout problems. The bar to the side on the site is wider than it should be, and the links are not clickable. Plus this textarea that I'm currently writing in is not where it should be, it has appears half way up the "Recent Posts" list :) It seems to be a refreshing problem, if I click outside this textare the page refreshes and everything is in line with the textarea, although it has moved up about half a view After I submitted this post, the home page came back up and the links on the left bar were clickable. Weird! Looking good though, I guess problems with the engine are down to the OWB source tree, they aren't Amiga specific. Nice job, anyhow! Simon

spotUP	Published: 2008/2/13 22:05 Updated: 2008/2/13 22:05
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Comments: 1485	Re: OWB 1.8 released \o/

Raziel	Published: 2008/2/15 2:35 Updated: 2008/2/15 2:35
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5416	Re: OWB 1.8 released Thats one heck of a fast development

hotrod	Published: 2008/2/16 9:59 Updated: 2008/2/16 9:59
Not too shy to talk Joined: 12/02/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 278	Re: OWB 1.8 released Great Work! There are two sites that I'd like to see working. One of them being http://www.seb.se/ . I can't log in since I can't change the alternatives in the popup menu under "Logga in". The other site would be hotmail.com wich isn't important at all but it acts kind of funny if you try to log in and seems to get stuck. Posting this in OWB 1.10