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Welcome

Welcome to all that venture on to this web site, my name is David Hoyle and I'm a Civil Engineer and a Software Developer.

If you have any comments about this web site, its design, look, feel, ease of use, etc., then please e-mail me on the address below with your comments and I will take them into consideration.

Regards
Dave.

Jan 30, 2011

Check for Updates

From this point onwards I'm going to change the behaviour of the Check for Updates functionalilty in my applications. This is now going to be turned off by default with an option in the application (except the command-line apps) to switch this on.

The reason for this is that I've had feedback from a number of people where corporate firewalls are causing problems with the applications and in some rare instances MS XML isn't installed on machines. I've put more error handliing place to capture these problems but some people I think would like to turn the functionalilty off.

For the command-line applications (and manual settings in all applications) you can switch on or off Check for Updates by setting the Enabled key value to 1 for enabled and 0 for disabled. See below:

...
[CheckForUpdates]
Enabled=1
...

If the section doesn't exist then you will need to create it.

Location of INI files

I have also moved the location of the INI files away from the EXE directory to their correct location of C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Season's Fall\ (Windows XP). For Windows Vista and 7 they should be under C:\User\UserName\AppData\...\Season's Fall\.

The applications will move your existing INI files to this new location so that you will not loose any of you settings.

Jan 28, 2011

I've recently updated my machine to Windows 7 and Norton Internet Security 2011 and have found that Norton's SONAR technology is labelling some of my applications as suspicious.

These are false positives as I have submitted them and an example application to Symantec and they have verified that they do not contain any suspicious code.

I will continue to submit code so that Norton's definitions can be updated to not flag my applications.

Mar 25, 2010

I've eventually fix this web site to work with Google Chrome. It seems that Chrome does not implement the load() method of the xmlDoc object and needs the XML loading through a HTTPRequest mechanism.

The JavaScript for this web site has been tested against the following browsers:

Nov 14, 2009

I've notice that this web site's scripts don't work with Google Chrome. This I believe is the same bug that affected Firefox 3.0.1 and not my code.

Jul 14, 2009

I've updates some of the pages on the site corresponding to changes in the software. Previously it would have been difficult for you to spot the changes so I have started to highlight the changes with a light yellow background like this.

Apr 22, 2009

Note: Google are changing their web hostings with the effect of permanently breaking my website (and many other I suspect). Consequently I've moved my web pages to a dedicated domain, however, in doing so the Checking for Updates feature of all my software is broken as its hard coded to http://davidghoyle.googlepages.com/hoyld.xml. Hopefully over the next few weeks I can issue out interim updates which fix this problem allowing the software to use this new domain.