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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: djrikki on November 10, 2011, 12:21:32 AM
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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 (http://www.os4depot.net) 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.
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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....."
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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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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...