Hello Leebau-Software subscribers,

I have just released a new version of my TRegExtension VCL component for
Borland C++ Builder 3, 4, and 5.

The main change is that I added basic unregistering support, so now file
extensions can be unregistered as well as registered.

I've also added a new Monitor property and new OnAssocChange event. The
idea behind this is that TRegExtension can now monitor the system and notify
your program that the information for a file extension has been change from
other programs and the system. I haven't been able to do much testing of
this new feature, though, and it does rely on system notifications that may
or may not be issued reliably (ie, other programs didn't notify the system
correctly of changes made, etc), so do let me know if there are any problems
with it.

In additoin, another overloaded Add() method was added to TRegExtension, and
a new EditFlags property and constructor value was added to TExtInfo.

Let me know how things work.


Now then, about the other projects I've been working on lately:

- updates to my TMSAgent VCL component, to support speech balloons that
contain buttons and edit fields

- my Serv-U FTP Server v2->v3 INI file convertor has been integrated into
Serv-U v3's installation program, and v3 is expected to be released soon.
Now you don't have to lose your existing settings when migrating from v2 to
v3. Until v3 is officially released, a beta of v3 is available at
ftp://ftp.cat-soft.com/beta as well as a standalone version of my convertor
(I may add the standalone convertor to my site soon, too).

- I've been spending a lot of time lately working on figuring out the file
format of ICQ's chat files, so hopefully I should be able to start work on a
standalone playback viewer soon. Lots of people asking for such a program
from Mirabilis for a long time now, so I decided to take up the challenge
and it's coming along slowly but surely.

- I did a little work on my ICQ Message Catcher this week, so hopefully I
may be able to go into another beta testing session with that project soon.

- I have a full VCL wrapper of the ICQ API in the works, for easy access to
ICQ's (somewhat limited) API from C++ Builder projects.

and lastly...

- I've received a request for a launcher program for MSN Messager that is
similar to my ICQLaunch program (http://icqlaunch.da.ru). I haven't decided
whether I'll persue that project or not, though.

That's about it for now. Until next time...


Gambit
Lebeau Software
http://www.lebeausoftware.org