1 <p style="margin-top:-20px;">Today I'm releasing PGnJ 0.8. I've been sitting on these updates since October but haven't released them because I've been really busy with work. In addition, Leopard came out and I wanted to revisit some of PGnJ's user interface.</p> <p><a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18411/pgnj" target="download">Download PGnJ 0.8 now</a></p> <p>With this release I really wanted to concentrate on further refining the application rather than adding a lot of new SQL related features. Some of the things I've done with this release include:</p> <ul> <li>Adding an automatic software update system.</li> <li>Adding a preference system with a hand full of useful preferences.</li> <li>Completely re-implementing the source tree selection logic.</li> </ul> <p>To see the full list of over 20 new features, changes and bug fixes, check out the <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/files/PGnJ/changes.txt">changelog</a>.</p> <div style="float:right;width:100px;margin-left:15px;"> <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/about.png" target="_about" style="border:0px;"><img src="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/about-thumbnail.jpg" style="padding:1px;border:1px solid #A2A8A2;"/></a><br/> <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/preferences.png" target="_about" style="border:0px;"><img src="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/preferences-thumbnail.jpg" style="padding:1px;border:1px solid #A2A8A2;"/></a><br/> <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/software-update.png" target="_about" style="border:0px;"><img src="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/software-update-thumbnail.jpg" style="padding:1px;border:1px solid #A2A8A2;"/></a><br/> <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/tree-selection.png" target="_about" style="border:0px;"><img src="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/images/2007/09/tree-selection-thumbnail.jpg" style="padding:1px;border:1px solid #A2A8A2;"/></a> </div> <p>I wrote about what was coming in 0.8 a few months back so I thought I'd quote some of my previous thoughts below.</p> <blockquote> <p>First, I added an about box and a preference system.</p> <p>After that, I decided to tackle automatic software updates. Unfortunately, since PGnJ is written in Java, I didn't get to use that slick <a href="http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/">Sparkle Framework</a> that all of the Cocoa developers use. I had to do my own thing.</p> <p>So, being that I try and make PGnJ look and feel like a real OS X application, I decided to model my software update system after the Sparkle Framework. In addition to just looking good and working well, I figured that people are used to the software update process that Sparkle provides so I went ahead and developed a pretty neat software update framework for PGnJ. Take a look at the third thumbnail to see it in action.</p> <p>Another thing I thought I could do to really spruce things up was something that I hope most people don't even notice. I really wanted to add some row selection intelligence to the database object tree on the left side of the application.</p> </blockquote> <p>To read more, <a href="http://www.slicedsoftware.com/2007/09/22/jtree-row-selection-and-pgnj-8-preview">check out the full post</a>.</p> 2008-02-17T11:51:03-05:00 Today I'm releasing PGnJ 0.8. I've been sitting on these updates since October but haven't released them because I've been really busy with work. In addition, Leopard came out and I wanted to revisit some of PGnJ's user interface. With this release I really wanted to concentrate on further refining the application rather than adding a lot of new SQL related features. 1348 2008/02/17/pgnj-8 2008-02-17T13:07:00-05:00 pgnj-8 /post/63459718/pgnj-0-8