Aignesberger Software GmbH

The first beta version of WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 has been released and comes with three major changes, the first two of them required lots of code changes:

1. Optimized and reduced memory usage, especially if you have lots of bookmarks with keywords or filter definitions.
2. Unicode support in all program modules. As I wrote in a previous post, we moved to a new compiler version to get real Unicode support. In WebSite-Watcher this meant removing hundreds of “Unicode workarounds”, but as a result we got a much cleaner code and many other advantages in handling web pages. Due to that change, the minimum OS that is now required to run WebSite-Watcher is Windows 2000.
3. A first version of the Plugin IDE (integrated development environment). The Plugin system was introduced in WebSite-Watcher 5.0, but it was only possible to use predefined Plugins that came with WebSite-Watcher. With that Plugin IDE, users can now write their own plugins. In the next few days I’ll make some posts about this Plugin system.

Open the Beta section to see a list of all changes and to download this new beta version.

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