Topic: Applications

If anyone was thinking that they'd like to use a VNC Server on RISC OS but just wished it had a front end user interface, then this may be useful to you...

David Thomas has updated Private Eye to version 2.51, a viewer for Sprites, DrawFiles, JPEGs, ArtWorks, GIFs and PNGs. It has recently gained some editing features including a bitmap effects system.Version 2.50 had a bug which could stop the effects window working on any OS earlier than RISC OS 4. (I was calling Wimp_AutoScroll which didn't exist up until WindowManager 4.00). Bug fix release 2.51, now available, fixes the problem and also tidies up some vanishing icons in the templates.

Private Eye 2.51 can be downloaded from the MyRISCOS downloads section.

A short while ago, Martin Würthner made the latest ArtWorks Viewer application available on his web site.  An important point to note about the latest version is that some earlier versions were only available as commercial purchases, whereas Martin has decided to make version 2.10 available to everyone for free.

Paul Sprangers has updated ConvText to version 2.04, a scripted search and replace program. ConvText provides an easy search-and-replace utility for all kinds of files, making use to easily create scripts. You can read an in-depth review of this application here . You can download the new version of ConvText from the My RISC OS downloads section.

New features in this new version include:

• The number of scripts, as well as the number of lines per script is now configurable. 
• A configuration window is added, accessible from the iconbar menu.
• A website button is added to the Info window.
• The structure of the Stronghelp manual is slightly modified.

Chris Johnson has produced a brand new application, Text > Draw, here's Chris' USENET announcement: "Diagrams produced in Draw often need to be annotated using standard draw text objects. However, a draw text object can have only one text style. When annotating technical or scientific diagrams, for example, it is often necessary to include subscripts, superscripts, greek
characters, mixed styles such as italic and normal, etc. Thus, to enter an equation or a chemical formula would involve the entry of a number of separate text objects as small as single characters, with subsequent careful grouping and alignment to construct the complete equation.

New uploads are going to appear regularly from now on so keep an eye out for some hot new programs coming your way!

Have you made an application? If your application is not on the downloads section of the site, then why not submit it? It will be downloaded by hundreds of users, you can even keep track of it! Simply go to the downloads section of the site which is linked to from the sidebar and click on 'Add Application'.

R-Comp released Messenger Pro 5 in time for the Wakefield 2007 show, the latest version of the commercial email and news client. According to R-Comp, the latest version includes improved printing and better mail searching, editing and sending.

R-Comp also updated their NetFetch, UniPrint software as well as others ready for the Wakefield show that took place last May. UniPrint 3.20 now has better scanning support and NetFetch 3.02's RSS feed handling has been improved as well as Atom support and better spam filtering.

All of R-Comp's new and old products can be bought from their website: http://www.rcomp.co.uk.

Wakefield 2007 has been and gone, probably the biggest release at the Wakefield show was ArtWorks 2.7 by MW-Software. Possibly the best feature in this new update was the new multi-page feature for multi-page documents and PDF export.

A new ArtWorks viewer is freely available from MW-Software: http://www.mw-software.com and supports multi-page documents as well as all the other features in ArtWorks.