Chemix has undergone lots of improvements and it's version numbering of 2.0 is well deserved. But instead of rambling about and describing all the new features, view the video to see for yourself:

Menu Inventor 1.2 is progressing slowly, but it will take a long time before it is finally released. In the meantime, small patches to Menu Inventor 1.1 will be released, fixing some of the most annoying bugs and implementing most requested small features.

Today comes the first patch, which adds these:

• Minify feature: By default, the Trigger takes 48x48 pixels of your screen. Double click it to reduce it to 16x16.
• Start up position: Select one of the presets, or set your own custom one.
• Always on top: Trigger always floats above all applications, which can annoy in many situations. An option has been added to disable this and force Menu Inventor to appear in the taskbar.
• Retain menus after launching an item: Menus automatically hide when an item has been launched. An option has been added to disable this.This feature has been reported to be broken! Discuss here

Bunch of stuff has been added and changed:

• Dynamic menu: the Navigation menu on the right is now dynamic and allows you to expand/collapse menus with ease! Try it out.
• Live Search: Yep, no kidding. Start typing into the search box at the top and wait about a second. Results on-the-fly.
• Fast feedback - that little feedback form in the bottom right corner of your screen, use to post ideas and suggestions. Really fast.
• Launching forums: they are a great way to discuss and fix issues. Forums link is now located in the top navigation menu

Today, I have upgraded the CMS engine that powers our site from version 4.7.x to 5.16. We should now be more secure and better armed against spam, which has been a very annoying issue I've been fighting recently. Most stuff has been ported over and fixed, but if you encounter a problem, just use the [+] Feedback form at the bottom right of the screen to report any issues. The feedback form can of course be used to submit general questions as well.

To completely refresh the website in your browser, hit Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+click on the Reload button.

After three years, we have finally broken the 10 000 visitors barrier, thanks to the move to a new server, able to accommodate for a larger traffic. Also, thanks to recent mention of Menu Inventor on fileforum.betanews.com and the Spanish forum taringa.net, more than 500 users have visited micron in one week.

Another poster commissioned by the Vietnamese Society at the University of Warwick. And again for their Vietnamese Culture Night, this time with the topic "Time River". I tried several approaches (this one is idea #5 out of 6), until settling on this generic vector/splat combination. Few of my works that have a bright background.

Menu Inventor is now officially being rewritten in C++!. The new tree system from the current development in VB6 has been successfully ported (though not yet extensively tested) and all of Menu Inventor system is undergoing re-design in proper OO fashion!

After some quick research and experimentation, most GUI toolkits were rejected, in favour of wxWidgets, chosen mostly for it's mature development and design paradigms. And because it's the only one I managed to get running under Visual C++ 9.0 . Also, some tests have been carried out: the click-drag-anywhere Trigger feature is already implemented with success!