Friday, January 19, 2007

more progress

MaxUpdater is progressing quite well. It now loads, parses and displays lists of Updates and Applications. It even creates categories on the fly and puts all applications belonging to a category on the correct Tab.

Next step will be to know what applications you have already installed, so they will be checked by default and shown on a different tab with installed apps. Unchecking them would mean unistalling them. Installed updates will not show on the list by default.

Now if anyone can help with making the interface better looking (I am a software engineer, not an artist) I would be very grateful.

2 comments:

Leszek Lesner said...

Nice progress.
I have one design tip for you.
Get a rid of the tabs. It doesn't look good.
So better would be an listbox on the left with the (software) categories and on the right an list with applications (to install or update).
Below it an progressbox which keeps the user up2date what is happening.

PS: An small fast Auto-Updater only with an progressbox in it and an abort button would be fine too.

andrea.anzani said...

I also dislyke Tabs.
Maybe on the left a tree-view (BOutlineListView) with all the categories and on the right a list view..