With all the features (and more) of SLumpEd, and (hopefully) all the bugs from beta gone, it's finally time - for SLADE v3.0.0 :) Go grab it at the downloads page!

The only real new feature added since beta7 is an 'Export to PNG' function for gfx entries, to alleviate the hassle of having to convert manually before exporting. Apart from that, many bugs were fixed and various interface-related oddities were fixed up, and the entry type detection code was optimised significantly.

To coincide with the release, the old SLADE/SLumpEd forums have been cleared, and in their place is a new SLADE3 set of forums. Feel free to post any bug reports, feature requests, or anything else SLADE-related there.

I figure it's about time I released beta 6. It's been a few months since the last one (so much for monthly betas :P), but hey, the SVN builds should be enough to keep those most interested in development up-to-date. Many things are improved over beta5 in this version, so be sure to get it asap if you're still using 5.

New stuff? Here:

• TEXTUREx editor is fully functional (not entirely complete yet though, just needs a proper patch selector)
• Implemented proper mass rename/import/export
• Support for opening/viewing more archive and image types: Shadowcaster, Amulets & Armor
• Implemented 'recent files' (in the file menu and also in a tab in the Archive Manager)
• New Bookmark system: In a fourth tab in the Archive Manager is a list of bookmarks. You can right-click on an entry in the Entry Panel to bookmark it. Then you can quick-jump to it with a double-click
• Massively improved entry list speed
• Entzy list can now be filtered by name
• Added a basic preferences dialog
• Added a proper hex viewer
• Entry extensions are automatically updated if their type gets changed somehow (via gfx conversion, file import, etc)
• Base resource archive can now be selected from the toolbar
• MANY bugfixes, minor features and general improvements

3.0 is getting closer, gradually...

Well the SLADE website has been down for a week or so, during that time a few things have happened.

Gez has setup an SVN builds page over at DRD Team. So if you're feeling adventurous, try out the latest (win32) SVN build of SLADE while waiting on the next proper beta version :)

I've also setup a Wiki for SLADE over here, which will be added to over time with documentation, tutorials, information etc etc.

That's all for now, hopefully within the next few weeks I'll get beta6 up, if all goes well...

Well I didn't get everything I wanted finished before this release, but it's been longer than a month so it's time for beta 5.

New stuff in this release:

• The usual bugfixes and improvements (and possibly new bugs introduced :P)
• TEXTUREx editor redesigned, now is opened by double-clicking a texture related entry. The editor itself still isn't finished, though
• Basic colourisation (comments+strings) and line numbers in the text editor
• Gif support
• Detection for a bunch more entry formats
• Ability to import multiple files at once (with 'Entry->New from File')

The list isn't all that impressive I know, but a lot of the work since beta4 has been under the hood, so to speak. Anyway hopefully next beta will have the TEXTUREx editor done (finally), and perhaps the text editor too...