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Offline djrikkiTopic starter

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Jack 2.4 now available
« on: November 10, 2011, 12:21:32 AM »
Jack 2.4 is now available

Download/Installation instructions:

* Existing Users - Simply start your current version of Jack as normal and when prompted click the confirmation button to proceed with the download**.  Open the Installation Drawer and click on the Install Jack icon - after that simply select the location where you already have Jack installed and the installation is complete.

** Once Jack has left OS4Depot's Upload queue.

* New Users - Visit OS4Depot and type Jack in the search box.  Installation is simple, just press the Install Jack icon and select a location where you would like Jack to be installed.  Jack will now appear on your Dockbar.

WBStartup:

Users can enjoy Jack on their Workbench all the time if they wish, simply press F6 inside Jack's Commodity Window and select WBStartup - alternatively open up your system disk and select the Prefs drawer.  Next click the Add button, find and double-click Jack and then save.

So what's new in Jack 2.4?  A couple of new additions, noticibly the Calendar window which can be themed and also native textfields throughout the application - amongst the bugfixes - users running on a resolution of 1024x768 now have access to the App-Store.  Here is the official changelog:

; CHANGES SINCE 2.3
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* Server: The log-in problem associated with the App-Store has been corrected.  Existing users will have to sign-up
again as old accounts have been removed as it is understood that the bug has been present for some time.

* Native textfields added through Jack's many interfaces.

* App-Store:  Removed Storage overview feature, it proved much too slow.

* Global:  Third-party application detection routine has been updated again,  APPDIR: is checked first and if
  still not found - for a select number of applications another common/usual location is checked.  Configuration
  window has been updated to reflect these changes.

* Global: Excluding the http:// handler in the File Manager, all other Url requests now have OpenURL Support if available.

* Calculator: Updated to open below the Commodity Window at the correct position.  However, does not auto-snap
when Calendar Window is opened/closed.

* Currency Converter:  The Currencies button will now open the associated text file.

* Commodity Window:  SideBar and Calendar window can be hidden.  Changes are saved automatically.

* AppStore: Now supports users running on a 1024x768 resolution as originally intended.

* Capture Screen: Now passes through the File Manager to reach the Image Editor.
  Removes all associated 'CloseWindow' crashes.
 
* Consolidated Window, Drag and Drop, DropFile and Keyboard event-handling into a new
p_InstallEventHandler() function.

* Further modulisation of core components within the source code.

Offline Wilse

Re: Jack 2.4 now available
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 06:40:38 PM »
What is Jack?

Not aimed specifically at the poster of the news item but a more general comment:
I wish people posting updates or news about software would at least give us a hint as to what the software does.

Happens time and again on here.

No later than the second line of any news item should be along the lines of:

"Jack is a package....."

Offline AltRN8

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Re: Jack 2.4 now available
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2011, 11:19:30 PM »
Apparently we don't know jack.

I thought the same thing.

Here is a link to the readme.

http://www.os4depot.net/share/utility/workbench/jack_lha.readme

Fun part is for this particular app it would be slightly difficult to describe.
 

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Re: Jack 2.4 now available
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2011, 11:47:06 PM »
Can't edit original post for some reason... just waiting and waiting and nothing happens.

I consider Jack to be a Jack-of-all-trades application hence the name.

Jack has the follow features amongst others:

* App-Store for AmigaOS4 Applications; access to all applications hosted on OS4Depot.net
* App-Store:  If you sign-up you can also give software a Star Rating from 1-5
* JackTunes: Play music from your iTunes library across a Samba network; still under development - at present - at best you can use it as tag editor - thanks to Python
* Capture Screen and integrated image editor for performing simple tasks
* In-built Amiga Knowledge-base which anyone in the Amiga community can contribute towards
* Weather on your desktop for your location
* Calendar and time on your desktop for your locale
* Basic File Manager, delete/rename/comment, send to archive, extract from archive, open numerous filetypes and more
* Quick access to AmigaOS System Preferences
* Integrates with WordNet (if installed) - the online English thesaurus
* 'Spotlight-like' calculator
* System-wide Search tool, interact directly with files in your search results
* Google Currency Converter
* Glorious Full-screen Image Directory Viewer
and more...