Hello Lebeau-Software subscribers,

I just wanted to let you all know that earlier this morning, Lebeau Software
regained controlled of it's domain, lebeausoftware.org, once again. Which
means that http://www.lebeausoftware.org is now up and running again for our
website, and so are all of the <user>@lebeausoftware.org addresses. We're
quite excited over this, after not having our domain for the last month or
so due to expiration.

As long as I'm writing this, I'll go ahead and give you all an update on
what's in development right now:

The ICQ Chat Player is almost finished. I'm still working on implementing
the rest of the User Interface for it, mainly working on the support for
viewing of the chats in IRC mode. I'm also re-coding the support for the
Split, Horizontal, and Vertical modes as well. I'm still looking to have
this ready for public testing soon.

I've also been working on my first-ever screen saver. Nothing fancy, just a
full screen display of flashing lights organized in user-defined rows and
columns, with custom coloring and flashing speed. For the most part, this
is fully working, but I did notice a small quirk when running it under WinNT
when for some reason it didn't respond to the user moving the mouse around
or pressing any keys on the keyboard. I don't know why it did that. Worked
fine when tested under Win98 and Win2000.

I've also gone back and started working on one of my original projects from
a long time ago - my own peer-to-peer chat system. It'll be an
instant-messager system similiar to ICQ, only much more user- and system-
friendly, and will only have the essentials: online/offline messages, file
transfers, URLs, and possibly real-time chats (not sure about this one yet,
though). I'll also add support for user-selectable database engines, with
the first supplied plugins being for MySQL and possibly also SQL Server, and
I'll release a spec for users with programming experience to make their own
database plugins for whatever databases they want to make support for. One
of my friends has the server hardware to support a chat system, and my
partner here at Lebeau Software has some database programming experience.
So hopefully this project will actually take off eventually.

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


Gambit
Lebeau Software