Saturday, June 21, 2008

Development Update


JSMS is going through some large changes at the minute. All for the good! We've been working hard to vastly improve the GUI.

We've added a totally new Phone Book window which makes adding, editing or deleting contacts a breeze. Also groups has been improved allowing drag and drop of contacts into groups. This is in addition to the recent addition of an import feature which allows bulk import of contacts from your Webtext account, Outlook, GMail and now from a JSMS export file. We've also added an 'Export' feature.


The Login dialog has been upgraded also. This gives JSMS a more complete feel and gives it a bit more polish! There are also some other visual improvements in the pipeline for the message sending window. In addition, we're looking into implementing a simple 'history' feature where the user can select previous messages that have been sent during the current session (since JSMS was last opened).


You will see all these features appear in the next couple of weeks as an automatic update after we give them a good hammering in testing! We're always looking for volunteers to help us test out new releases so give us a shout if you want to help out.

All the Best,

The JSMS Team

http://jsmsirl.sf.net/

2 comments:

Fintan Farrell said...

hi..i have a nokia e51 wifi phone..will jsms install on it?

Fin said...

Not just yet...

JSMS is written to run on Java SE (i.e. Java for PCs), and currently doesn't run on mobile phones.

We are currently looking into porting JSMS to the iPhone and there has been talk (but no action yet!) about making it work on Symbian phones like the Nokia E and N series. I'm afraid we just haven't found the time to get to it...

If you have experience programming then you're welcome to join us and help us deliver solutions for these new platforms. The text sending code can be easily ported from JSMS all we would need would be to design and implement an appropriate graphical user interface for the given platform.

Reagrds,
Keith.

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