Tektosyne 6.3.2 Released

Tektosyne 6.3.2 is now available for download. This release fixes another bug in the MultiLineIntersection class, this time a rare search state corruption in the sweep line algorithm. Thanks again to Jeff Lockhart for his valuable efforts to identify these bugs! What happened was a misordering of adjacent positions on the sweep line, caused by … Continue reading “Tektosyne 6.3.2 Released”

Tektosyne 6.3.1 Released

Tektosyne 6.3.1 is now available for download. This minor update addresses one small bug discovered by an observant user: an assertion in method MultiLineIntersection.split was triggered when a collection of split points had a size smaller than three instead of the correct two. The interesting aspect here is how I managed to miss this bug … Continue reading “Tektosyne 6.3.1 Released”

MIME Browser 2.1 Released

Version 2.1 of MIME Browser, my free EML message viewer, is now available for download. This is a bugfix release prompted by a user report that double-clicking on a folder entry could select an entirely different file in the same folder. Turns out I had forgotten to translate between display and model row indices of … Continue reading “MIME Browser 2.1 Released”

Myriarch 2.1 for Swing Released

Version 2.1.0 of Myriarch, a simple real-time simulator for pre-gunpowder tactical combat, is now available for download. As with previous project updates, the Myriarch GUI is now based on Swing due to the removal of JavaFX from Oracle’s Java SE distributions. The minimum Java requirement was consequently lowered to Java SE 8, although note that … Continue reading “Myriarch 2.1 for Swing Released”

Star Chess 2.1 for Swing Released

Version 2.1.0 of Star Chess, my free mini space conquest game built to demonstrate a multiplayer turn prediction algorithm, is now available for download. As with previous updates to MIME Browser and Tektosyne, the big change is again due to the removal of JavaFX from Oracle’s Java SE distributions: Star Chess is now based on … Continue reading “Star Chess 2.1 for Swing Released”

Tektosyne 6.3 for Swing Released

Tektosyne 6.3.0 is now available for download. This is an unusual release as there are no functional changes whatsoever to the core library. Instead, the GUI demo application has been entirely rewritten, motivated of course by the recent removal of JavaFX from Oracle’s Java SE distributions. Here’s an overview of the changes. You can find … Continue reading “Tektosyne 6.3 for Swing Released”

MIME Browser 2 for Swing Released

Version 2.0 of MIME Browser, my free EML message viewer, is now available for download. The big change is the one motivated by the removal of JavaFX from Oracle’s Java SE distributions: MIME Browser is now based on Java AWT/Swing rather than JavaFX. The user interface has become somewhat uglier as a result (below is … Continue reading “MIME Browser 2 for Swing Released”

Tektosyne 6.2.0 Released

Tektosyne 6.2.0 is now available for download. This is another bugfix release, again mostly based on feedback from Github user Mushrooms (sf17k) (thanks!). You can find a summary in the What’s New file. As before, the library itself requires Java 8 while the IntelliJ project and demo application are based on Java 9.0.4. Voronoi Diagrams … Continue reading “Tektosyne 6.2.0 Released”

Windows GUI DPI Scaling in 2018

I have updated the article DPI Scaling in Windows GUIs with a modified test suite and new sets of screenshots for Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1, and Oracle Java SE 9.0.4. The focus of this update was of course Java 9 as JavaFX ceased special-casing 120 DPI, and AWT/Swing even got full … Continue reading “Windows GUI DPI Scaling in 2018”

Tektosyne 6.1.0 Released

Tektosyne 6.1.0 is now available for download. This is a fairly substantial bugfix release, with a number of specific changes beyond those described in my overview post, Moving Projects to Java 9. You can find a summary in the What’s New file. First, a clarification. While the JavaFX demo application and IntelliJ IDEA project files … Continue reading “Tektosyne 6.1.0 Released”