Network Pinger Changelog

What's new in Network Pinger 1.0.1.0

• Check-for-new-versions function added - As I was changing things, specially due to the bug I describe below with the Name Resolution and others, I thought something like: "and now? all the people that may have that bug and I don't have a way to tell them". So, I've decided to add an update checking system to the software, as it's important that people know when new versions are released. I've added a button that users can click and also an option on the Help Menu, so that when users click it, it'll instantly search on Network Pinger's website for new versions, and if it finds something new, it will warn the user of new versions and if no new versions were found it will tell the user which is the last version and its release date. Also, it comes with a new auto-check for updates functionality. By default (if the "config.dat" file is deleted), when it creates a new one, comes with the auto-check function with the monthly check chosen, to check once per month for new versions. You can chose also the weekly auto-check option, of disable auto-checks at all on the help menu, and in that case no automatic checking for new versions would ever been done unless the user clicks on the check-for-new-versions button. So you can disable or configure or even use it anytime. It's specially for this new function that I jumped the version to 1.0.1.0 as this time it wasn't just some minor bugs that were corrected;
• Corrected an important bug in Name Resolution - I was using Network Pinger to do Reverse DNS to some IPs, and noticed that sometimes it failed. Sometimes I thought it was my computer lacking memory or something (you can't imagine how I use it), but it happened a lot. I've tested and I've found out a simple mistake. There were some important tables with data that were only populated on the Whois functionality, and not the DNS one. So if you ran the DNS tools after using the Whois tool, it would work perfectly, but if you used the DNS or Reverse DNS tool before the Whois one, as the data wasn't initialized, the Name Resolution would fail and even the domain names not recognized sometimes... It's curious how I used it so long without noticing this big bug! It is corrected now;
• Five new languages added - I decided to translate it to some other languages. The initial four (Portuguese, Spanish, English and French) I was able to translate them well on my own. I've had help on the Traditional Chinese translation. So I've added that language to the top five of the list. But I decided to translate the software to four new languages: German, Italian, Simplified Chinese and Russian. For these four, I'm using on the software, automatic translation, and only on German and Italian was I able to improve some things on my own. So these last four translations aren't as good as the other five, that's why they have "automated translation" on the menu.
• New change languages sub-menu on the main menu - An insignificant change, the option to change language is now available also on the view menu. Nothing special;
• Wrong text - An insignificant bug, the "text document" words were never translated, so you would see always "documento de texto", in my mother language, Portuguese. Nothing special;
• Improvements in the configuration file - Nothing special, just some improvements in the method I used to save the configuration file in its binary form;
• Homepage button and option added - Something insignificant, I've added a homepage button on the toolbar and the same option on the Help menu. For that I had to change "Change Language" to "Language" on the tool bar, so that it all fitted. It's just a button to take you to the Network Pinger website. Nothing special;