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OGL Explorer Changelog

What's new in OGL Explorer 1.1.14 Beta

Aug 17, 2011
  • Implement a bookmarks system
  • Move the code to Java7
  • Add Japanese autocomplete indexing
  • Fix : autocomplete component does not hide when clicking outside of the popup or when pressing escape key
  • Fix : Autocomplete conflicts with Japanese keyboard
  • Fix a NPE when closing the application
  • Ensure Thread safety on the IndexWriter of the AbstractIndex

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.13 Beta (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Implement autocomplete. The values suggested are given by the previous search values indexed with Lucene, and by a Wikipedia search (which is the most pertinent autocomplete terms provider that I have thought so far). The autocomplete values given by Wikipedia depends on the language defined by the user for the search engine
  • Create an abstract Index Layer implemented by the local search engine and by the autocomplete
  • Use Liquid Look And Feel instead of Nimbus (which has a bug on JMenuItem) Performance enhancement : On SearchResult, replace the dispose mechanism of old search results by the use of SoftReference.
  • The show hidden nodes action is moved from the North panel to each node of the Tree
  • Correct a bug on the clear of the Search Index which crashed the indexer. Correct a bug : the tooltip which were light weight were not visible over the GLCanvas
  • Refactor/Remove useless code
  • Reorder search engine in the Tree

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.12 Beta (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Add Wordpress search feature. The Wordpress API is not very stable, so the results are not always available.
  • Improve local search engine powered by the Lucene indexer
  • Fix a bug in iTunes search results, when thumbnail is not available
  • Does not allow multiple instances to run (if not raise some trouble with Lucene index)
  • Dialog displayed when the application is closing (which now take some time due to Lucene index purge/optimization)
  • Code refactoring and simplification

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.11 Beta (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Add Wiktionary search feature
  • Add the auto restart of the application when changing user interface language

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.10 Beta (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Add iTunes search feature
  • Allow hiding nodes in the tree, this param is save in the conf file so that it is reloaded when relaunching the application.
  • Allow to restore all node visibility
  • Add a random image and a message when the search return no results
  • Fix various bug on pagination and navigation. Delete, factorize and simplify code

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.9 Beta (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Add Myspace search feature for images, videos and people
  • Fix bug : when changing search engine quickly before search is completed, the old search results interfered with the new one.

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.8 Beta (Jun 15, 2011)

  • Add flickr search feature
  • Fix a bug when loading jogl (regression).
  • Fix a bug that when canceling the search, the descriptor panel remains disabled

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.7 Beta (Jun 15, 2011)

  • Add Bing news search feature
  • Fix a bug on the cancel of the search
  • Fix a bug on browsing the last page
  • Sturdiness with void result
  • Don't use debug in the OGLPanel and reduce fps to decrease CPU usage.

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.6 Beta (Jun 11, 2011)

  • Add wikipedia search feature managed with Gson
  • Add French and Japanese interface language
  • Add result language parameter used during search (choice between English, French and Japanese)
  • Add full support of UTF-8 contents (URL, text displayed, and URL open into the browser)
  • Fix a bug : when change search engine, busy mode not activated
  • Preload n-1 image when browsing in previous, to minimize loading and displaying time
  • Add the license dialog
  • Add tooltips on tree and buttons

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.5 Beta (Jun 11, 2011)

  • Redesign the ergonomy of selection of search engine and search type. Replace the archaic 2 JComboBox by a friendly JTree
  • Add Google books feature.
  • API keys used are these of the users and no longer mine. The ConfigDialog allow the configuration of these keys.
  • Busy events are managed by the SearchListener mechanism.
  • Performance enhancement. In the SearchResult, replace the default ThreadPoolExecutor by a parameterized one, with 10 threads and a keep-alive of 1 second. This allow a dramatic improve of performances when scrolling results.
  • Doesn't copy dll in the local folder if already there (which reduce the starting time of the application).
  • Fix a bug of display with Twitter user's thumbnail that sometimes was bigger than 48x48. In this case, resize the image.
  • Synchronization blocks more precise in the SearchEngine to avoid long blocking time.

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.4 Beta (Jun 6, 2011)

  • Add Twitter feature
  • Adjust the camera in function of the index of the search result rendered, to have a better render (especially avoid to deform the image due to perspective)

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.3 Beta (Jun 6, 2011)

  • Add support for Linux and Windows x64 arch

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.2 Beta (Jun 6, 2011)

  • Enhancement of performances
  • Create ByteBuffer from BufferedImage take quite some time, so cache of the pending file to improve performances
  • Bug when browsing the last page of the search
  • Bug in the conversion of image to bytebuffer, the transparent color of png or gif resource file was render black
  • Improve the FileSearchResult, when a picture is found, draw a thumbnail of the picture instead of the icon
  • Busy component that is activated when searching (replace the GlassPane that cause some trouble with the OGL component)

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.1 Beta (Jun 4, 2011)

  • Implementation of SystemFileSearchEngine
  • Simplify draw image process in the abstract SearchResult class
  • Add a CancelMonitor system in the search algo, to be able to stop the search
  • Synchronize the SearchProvider
  • Synchronize the OGLPanel
  • Delete useless code

New in OGL Explorer 1.0.0 Beta (Jun 4, 2011)

  • Design and implementation of the SearchEngine, the SearchResult Implementation of the GoogleSearchEngine integrating Google Youtube API, Implementation of the BingSearchEngine integrating Bind Web, Image and Video API
  • Implementation of the OGLPanel to display results in an OpenGL panel
  • build.xml
  • DescriptionEditorPane displaying results in an HTML format
  • Rest of the GUI