Tolon's Workshop

Reading an In-Memory SQLite Database

tolon — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:08:19 +0000

The distribution of your application can be simplified by embedding core, read-only data into your app. Here I give a quick overview of how to do this on Windows using Visual Studio.

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.10 BETA Released

tolon — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:49:49 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.10 BETA is now available for download.

NoteKeeper 0.10 Development Build 20120408

tolon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:41:53 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.10 DEVELOPMENT build 20120408 is now available.

NoteKeeper 0.10 Development Build 29032012

tolon — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:55:22 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.10 DEVELOPMENT build 29032012 is now available.

Recent Lessons

tolon — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:32:28 +0000

I've recently picked up development on TolonSpellCheckLib and Tolon NoteKeeper again after a long time away from it. In doing so I've been able to apply some of my recent software development experience to the existing code and gained an even greater appreciation of automated build scripts.

NoteKeeper 0.9.9 Released

tolon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.9.9 is now available. This release fixes a bug that stopped NoteKeeper 0.9.8 from working on Vista. Apologies for doing another release so soon, but this little bug had a big impact on Vista users. Thanks to George Fleming for reporting the bug. The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.tolon.co.uk/software/notekeeper/download. Best Regards, [...]

NoteKeeper 0.9.8 Released

tolon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:47:05 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.9.8 (build 20090817) is now available. This release fixes a few bugs and also brings a few long overdue updates. The first one you’ll notice is that NoteKeeper now supports Windows XP/Vista visual styles, so it’s now a bit snazzier. Similarly, the Open and Save dialogs have been updated. There’s a change to [...]

Integrating your application with Enchant – Part 2

tolon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:10:13 +0000

Welcome to the second article exploring how to integrate the spell checking library Enchant into your Visual C++ applications. I will be using this library with my freeware program NoteKeeper, which I am currently maintaining/developing in two versions of Visual C++. Visual C++ 6 SP6 with STLPort 5.1.5, Multithreaded DLL (cl.exe v12.00.8804, link.exe v6.00.8447) Visual [...]

NoteKeeper 0.9.7 Released

tolon — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:09:00 +0000

Tolon NoteKeeper 0.9.7 (build 20090101) has now been released. This is a bug-fix release that addresses a couple of issues that couldn’t wait for 0.10.0. The specific bug fixes are: Text conversion utils should now behave if there are no Microsoft Converter dlls installed. State of the MDI child windows should now be remembered between [...]

New Tolon Mailing Lists

tolon — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:05:33 +0000

For some inexplicable reason, I’ve recently started to feel a bit disconnected with all the NoteKeeper users out there. A few years ago I used Yahoo! Groups to keep in touch with users by discussing various features and announcing new versions. It worked well; users were able to tell me what was good and what [...]