Archived News
We've now officially completed all of the 4th year project requirements for the project! :) Our report was handed in several weeks ago and now we're just finishing up our last exams before graduation. There are still a couple of bugs to fix before our first release of the application. We're hoping to get them done before we start full-time work. In the meantime we've setup our sourceforge page and migrated the web page to their servers.
Reading week is officially over and with its completion comes some huge updates to PSPoste. We're almost code complete for the features we wanted to have ready for the poster fair and initial release! Here's a list of features that we've added in the past couple of weeks:
- SMTP support for sending email and completion of the compose window
- On screen keyboard and cursor movement support with the text controls
- Full CText support which allows proper rendering of message body (with scrolling) and text input
- Support for forwarding and replying to emails
- Completion of the settings window including the ability to switch accounts on the fly
- Completion of the contacts window including the ability to add new contacts, edit them and send them emails
- General code cleanup and polishing
The next month will be spent getting ready for the poster fair and writing our final report. In the next week or so we will also be creating a sourceforge page and releasing the application. And don't worry, the project won't end with our graduation. Here's a peek at what we're hoping to eventually incorporate into PSPoste:
- Saving drafts
- Queuing outgoing messages
- True Type font support
- IMAP
- Folders
- POP3 SSL authentication
- SMTP TLS authentication
We wanted to thank everyone who came to our presentation last week. The presentation went extremely well! We've added the presentation slides to the documentation section and have also updated the screenshots page.
Now that the holidays are over, we're back in the full swing of things. Our oral presentation is scheduled for Friday January 27th at 2:00PM in 4359ME. Feel free to come by and watch. Here's a brief list of what's been accomplished in the past week:
- Local deletion of message from messages window
- Display of unread message count in messages window
- Display of body in view messages window
- Sub menu support in context menus
- Sorting functionality in messages window with sub context menu
- IrDA now supports input over 10 wpm
With the website up and running here's a quick update of the functionality that has been completed since the beginning of September. Additional details of our progress can be found on the wiki.
- Common control interface including the following controls: dialog box, context menu, label, select box, text box, progress bar and address entry
- Permanent contacts and settings storage
- Main window including the ability to load portions of the application
- Message list window including the ability to view, open and sort message
- Network connection using static ip and dhcp connections
- Initial creation of the settings window
- POP3 message receiving and sending
- Permanent message storage using the Maildir format
- Text input using PSprint and IrDA
The initial layout for the website has been created along with a new default color scheme for the appliction and logo. The site is now hosted on the Xperts project web server but is accessible though PSPoste.org. We will be adding content to the website over the next few weeks and using the news page to update the project's progress.
