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The Handlers and Makin' Magic
Now Makin' Magic is out it's time to update my The Neighborhood Handler and The Add-on Handler as well. I'm working on both, but because my time is quite limited I'm not able to finish it very soon. I'm working on a new feature in The Add-on Handler, which will take quite some time. The Neighborhood Handler probably won't contain any new features, except for the Makin' Magic compatibility. However, both programs will have some major changes when it comes to installation and the DLLs. I've switched from the regular InstallShield to the open-source NSIS, which is used by WinAmp and very many other applications. This new installation makes the download file a bit smaller than with InstallShield. That's necessary, as the new DLL files take up more space than before. Because of an upgrade of my programming software, you will have to redownload the DLL files once the programs are released - otherwise you won't be able to run the programs. They will be released together with the tools. A final change is that I've included all necessary DLLs into both programs. Before, the Add-On Handler (TAOH) didn't require all of the Neighborhood Handler's (TNHH) DLLs. If you installed TAOH before TNHH, you'd still need the full version of TNHH to get the few DLLs not needed by TAOH. It did work properly the other way around though.

I cannot say when exactly I'll be releasing the new versions of both programs. It'll take at least a few weeks, I'm estimating about a month. Stay tuned for more.

Written at 21:30 on Friday, 31 October 2003 by ChEeTaH.


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