Wii TowerDefense 0.96

PlaatSoft has released TowerDefense v0.96. The following changes were made:

11-09-2010 Version 0.96
GUI:
– Update menu screen information.
Core:
– Use GRRLIB 4.3.0 as graphical engine.
– libpng was updated to version 1.4.2
– libjpeg was updated to version 8b
– zlib was updated to version 1.2.5
– FreeType was updated to 2.3.12
General:
– Maintenance release.
– Build game with devkitPPC r21 compiler.

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GRRLIB 4.3.0 slow with FreeType

On this moment GRRLIB 4.3.0 is working slow in combination with FreeType font access. Check out below mail content. The good news is that “Crayon” is working on a solution. I will keep you informed!

Hi Crayon, Today i have upgrade the GRRLIB from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0 in TowerDefense. The upgrade went good but the result was not really good. For some reason the freetype library is very slow. Resulting in poor (Frame-Per-Seconds) during the game play. Early this year you have tuned this library in the GRRlib 4.2.1 build and it was lighting fast. Why is it now so slow again. Do you have a idea? Looking forward to your response. wplaat

Hi wplaat, the code in GRRLIB has not changed that much, maybe the problem could be related to FreeType. If you have time, could you try to test older version of FreeType. Try different combination FreeType / GRRLIB. Let me know if you find something, I’ll try to test stuff on my side. Thanks for the feed back, Crayon

Hi crayon, Good news. I found the performance problem. I was testing wrong. I did not known, that when I compiled the new GRRLIB 4.3.0 library the *.a and *.h files were copied to the devkitpro directory. Therefor I was using everytime with the same “new” libraries. If I now replace the new freetype library of GRRLIB 4.3.0 build with my own old Freetype library (Downloaded from the wiibrew.org site). Everything is working lighting fast again. So the problem is related to the new freetype library. Can the performance issue be related to some wrong build flags in the freetype makefile? wplaat

hi wplaat, Good news, I was actually looking at your code 🙂 I’m going to test different way of building FreeType. It might be related to TrueType hinting, a new feature in FreeType 2.4.0. I’m going to try to build Freetype without this feature, normally TrueType hinting is suppose to make your text look better, but it might be slower too. I’ll keep you inform if I find something. Crayon

Join Flattr

Yesterday I joined the Flattr community. I hope this investment will payout in the coming time!

Flattr is a micropayment system, which launched publicly in March 2010 on an invite-only basis, and then opened up to the public in August 2010.

Flattr is a project started by Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson. Users will be able to pay a small monthly amount and then click buttons on sites to share out the money they paid in among those sites, sort of like an Internet tip jar. The minimum users will have to pay is 2 euros per month. Sunde said, “the money you pay each month will be spread evenly among the buttons you click in a month. We want to encourage people to share money as well as content.

Wii firmware upgrade to 4.3e

This afternoon I have upgraded my Wii firmware from version 4.2e to 4.3e. Now i can use the Wii shopping channel again. Also the pre-installed Homebrew Channel (version 1.0.8) and my free developed and downloaded games are still working fine. So i am a happy man!

Important: You have first to upgrade the Homebrew Channel to 1.0.8 before upgrade the Wii Firmware else the Homebrew Channel will be deleted during the Wii Firmware upgrade.

Released Addressbook 6.x-4.1

The next version of the Drupal Addressbook is released with the following changes:
– Rebuild csv upload functionality from scratch.
– Rebuild member list and search functionality.
– Rebuild map page functionality.
– Added breadcrumb menus to all pages.
– Improve modules URLs.
– Improve addressbook drupal permission rights.
– Improve member and family delete. Delete all related data.
– Rebuild birthday block overview.

Released Addressbook 6.x-4.0

The next version of the Drupal Addressbook is released with the following changes:
– Rebuild complete module from scratch. Goal improve look and feel.
– Added Main menu page including last edit time stamp.
– Split module functionality over more files.
– Added Java Script and CPS file
– Replace all html buttons with links. Much better look.
– Rebuild family and search functionality pages from scratch.
– Rebuild picture functionality.
– De-scope group email functionality.

Releasing ChurchAdmin 6.x-1.1

Found a critical bug in the 1.0 release today. There for I release today the next v6.x-1.1 release.

29-05-2010 Version 1.1
– Hotfix: Double visit report is filter out.
– Hotfix: Now all pages work correct with Microsoft Internet Explorer
– Improve visit overview page.
– Build for Drupal 6.x

Note: Second official release for public us!

Releasing ChurchAdmin 6.x-1.0

PlaatSoft has released today ChurchAdmin 6.x-1.0

28-05-2010 (Week 22) Version 1.0
– Added Dooplid and Belijdenislid information to database and views.
– Improve Married and Birthday report.
– Improve family view.
– Improve visit member admin page.
– Add functionality to modify the phone number in visit screen.
– Filter novisit in visit address selection.
– Improve csv output data filtering.
– Bugfix: Delete member is working again.
– Bugfix: When new member is added all date fields are now correctly filled.
– Build for Drupal 6.x

Note: First official release for public us!

Building ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.9

PlaatSoft building today ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.9

21-05-2010 (Week 21) Version 0.9
– Make member picture optional (Admin setting).
– Show member and church Id only for drupal administrator users.
– Hide Married date and Married state for non church visit users.
– Added functionality the cancel planned visited.
– Added functionality to adapted a saved visit report.
– Build for Drupal 6.x

Note: This build contain change requests which were reported by the beta testers

Windows PlaatStats 0.70

PlaatSoft release today PlaatStat 0.70

14-05-2010 Version 0.70
– Disable main window when sub window is opened.
– Improve new version check.
– Added donate window.
– Added Drupal Google Code downloads to statistics.
– Bugfix: Drupal ChurchAdmin module is now also counted.
– Build PlaatStats with QtCreator v1.3.1.
– Released app on freewarefiles.com.

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Release ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.8

PlaatSoft release today ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.8

14-05-2010 (Week 20) Version 0.8
– Added BlockId to all address entries.
– Show only addresses in the block where the visitor is active.
– Added support for lightbox2 drupal module. Nice photo popup effect!
– Improve module directory structure.
– Improve breadcrumb menu.
– Improve code syntax and source documentation.
– Improve form input validation.
– Make all SQL queries safe for SQL insertion.
– Added birthday email notification (cron job).
– Added birthday summary block page.
– Added picture remove.
– Bugfixes: Solve some minor issues after first deployment on my demo drupal6 site.
– Build for Drupal 6.x

Note: The release is also released on the drupal.org site

Building ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.7

Building ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.7

09-05-2010 (Week 19) Version 0.70
– Added jquery date picker.
– Added access security control based on user type’s.
– Show more information about family in visit address select page.
– Show more information about previous visit in visit search page.
– Show more statistics information on visit admin list page.
– Cleanup available data.
– Added version banner on main menu page.
– Added latest csv upload date on main menu page.
– Optimise HTML output for Internet Explorer (6.x, 7.x and 8.x) and Firefox (3.x).
– Improve two reports.
– Added functionality to remove members (Drupal admin rights needed)
– BugFix: KerkLidNr was not loaded (fixed)!
– BugFix: Member record was not completly updated during CSV upload.
– Build for Drupal 6.x

Note: Module is not yet release!

Building ChurchAdmin 6.x-0.6

Building ChurchAdmin v6.x-0.60

02-05-2010 (Week 18) Version 0.60
– Created visit pages including history information.
– Added “return” links to previous page.
– Cleanup available data.
– Created family pages.
– Created three reports.
– Added image upload.
– Cleanup code.
– Move all utilities functions to separate file.
– Remove not used code and files.
– Added CSV data upload.
– Added CSV data filter to replace non ASCII character.
– Added multi table select functionality.
– Bugfix: No “visit wanted” is now working fine.
– Bugfix: Now member AdrId is also update during CSV upload.
– Bugfix: Solve reload button (Multi insert) issue.

Note: Module is not yet release!