Changelog for GHBM

First mockup I made of my ideas for Game Hunter’s user interface.

Some players use old computers. They want Game Hunter to be light on resources and so do I. Here is a timeline of the GHBM EXE size (GH1.491bm.exe).

2009-03-23:
496kB for official GH 1.491.
2009-04-06:
508kB after first set of changes.
2009-04-08:
496kB after removing all ImageComboBox controls and related code.
488kB after lots more changes.
2009-04-13:
484kB after removing Autosize! button and turning off drag & drop.
2009-04-14:
488kB after some more tweaks.
484kB after adding Help > Commands menu item and cleaning up some other code.
2009-04-17:
464kB after lots of dead code and notification features are removed.
2009-05-01:
464kB several minor GUI changes and adding 3 menu items.
2009-05-10:
548kB after embedding flag graphics into the EXE but it removed 88kB of files from the flags folder. (4kB overall saving.)
2009-05-15:
552kB after adding some test code for trying out different colours.
2009-06-05:
552kB after a few minor tweaks.
2009-07-03:
548kB after trivial-seeming code reductions.
2009-07-13:
540kB after replacing .ListSubItems with .ListItems.
2009-07-18:
544kB after making Status column sort dynamically.
2009-12-29:
548kB after chat formatting and history refined. Many comments.

Changes for 6th April 2009

Appearence & Theme

Lists

Host Game

Settings

System Tray

Optimisation

Changes for 8th April 2009

Appearance & Theme

Lists

Chat

Host Game

Settings

Changes for 9th April 2009

Chat

Credits

Changes for 14th April 2009

Lists

Chat

Create Game

IRC

Code Reduction

Changes for 17th April 2009

Create Game

Lists

Chat

Settings

Sektor’s Advice

About

Code Reduction

Changes for 1st May 2009

Lists

Chat

Tools Menu

Now has these common sizes:

Code Reduction

Changes for 4th May 2009

IRC

Lists

Chat

Create Game

Fixed Bugs

Changes for 15th May 2009

Chat

Flags

Lists

Create Game

Leaks & Bugs Fixed

Changes for 5th June 2009

Done very little to GHBM during the past couple of weeks.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Lists

Chat

Create Game

Changes for 10th June 2009

Settings

Lists

Enhanced GTA2 Network Screen (mpaddon.exe)

Changes for 3rd July 2009

Appearence & Themes

Lists

Chat

Code Reduction

Changes for 13th July 2009

Chat

Create Game

Lists

Code Reduction

Changes for 18th July 2009

Lists

Chat

Create Game

Settings

Changes for 29th December 2009

Chat

Appearence & Themes

IRC

Code Reduction