20110301 – Project Status Update & Screenshots

Update

Work has been slow lately due to my busy work schedule. I took on a new Job back in July, and since then have been travelling around North America. As a result, my free-time to work on this project has slowed, but not my determination. Since the last post, much progress has been made on the Message Areas. Screenshots posted here will show some of the functionality. There has been a lot of minor database changes as well, so if anyone is actually running the code on their own machines, they will either need to manually perform a schema change, or more easily, delete your existing databases and start fresh. In sticking with the Roadmap, the current goal is to get as much of the core functionality completed in order to reach a 1.0 release later this year. Subsequently, 2.0 will become a more feature enhanced version and include many refinements. Thanks to everyone who has offered their support for this project, and the fans who stop into the IRC chat room.

One important change, is support for the built-in editor is no longer available. The code remains, but the functionality has been disabled in favor of Nano which provides enhanced functionality such as being able to load and edit quoted text when replyin to a thread.

Commit Summary since last update

114	Fixed minor issue in DB model creation for USERS table. Fixed minor issue in DB model creation for USERS table.
113	Updated h2 database version Updated h2 database version
112	Colorization and menu consolidation for Message Area & Brows… Colorization and menu consolidation for Message Area & Browser
111	Message areas: Added Reply including quoting to browser, cle… Message areas: Added Reply including quoting to browser, cleaned up bug in 'view' method.
110	Minor work on Message Browser Minor work on Message Browser
109	h2 jar was missing from recent commits, adding h2 jar was missing from recent commits, adding
108	Updated message browser menu and initial menu tpl Updated message browser menu and  initial menu tpl
107	Message Browser work started. Message Browser work started. Minor bugfix in Signup
106	Fixed minor bugs in signup routine: Fixed minor bugs in signup routine:  - Fixed Preferences being added during signup, which caused crashes during a user's first session  - Added Password Confirmation  - Minor template changes
105	Minor fixes to ANSI_RESET based on improper background setti… Minor fixes to ANSI_RESET based on improper background setting in transparent terminals.
104	Fixed bug in Message Areas with disabled areas Fixed bug in Message Areas with disabled areas
103	Removed EMAIL placeholder and msgtype from MSGAREAS. Private… Removed EMAIL placeholder and msgtype from MSGAREAS. Private email is relatively worthless with Netmail.
102	Minor fix to message menu Minor fix to message menu
101	Pager now integrated into Tgtemplate::display Pager now integrated into Tgtemplate::display Added some online help documents
100	Fixed minor issues with TgEdit & Nano

Screenshots

Entering the message reader, then displaying the message list for the currently selected area:

Posting a NEW message to the current area:

Messages are edited with restricted Nano by default:

Replying to an existing Post. Telegard automatically adds the "RE:" and asks if the user wants quoting:

Viewing a message. In this case, the one we just posted:

What's Next?

Next, work will be done of the FileAreas section to get working download functionality.