What is this?
This is the main page for RoboCrop, successor to the program JPEGCrops. RoboCrop will provide the same cropping goodness as JPEGCrops and provide some better functionality, that was hard to attain with the JPEGCrops architecture.
What about JPEGCrops?
JPEGCrops will eventually be discontinued. The astute reader will no doubt have noticed that I haven't done much with JPEGCrops for a long time. There are several reasons for this, but mostly it's because it became a chore, instead of a fun thing. The JPEGCrops program will be available "forever", but I'll probably only do bugfixing and no real updates.
What's new, doc?
I've changed to Java (as opposed to Delphi for JPEGCrops) and I'm counting on GCJ & SWT to deliver executables with native GUI. What this means is...
- Cross-platform: SWT should work under Windows, Linux and OSX, plus lesser known platforms.
- Better code: My Java skills has surpassed my Delphi skills. I've used Java professionally for some years and it seems that it will be my primary professional langues for the next couple of years.
- Motivation for me: I only really used Delphi for JPEGCrops, so working on JPEGCrops required me to "go back". Delphi has no garbage collection, poor unit-testing support and lacks other features, that I've gotten used to with Java under IDEA. Using the same language professionally as well as personally, makes it easy to use ½ an hour here and there on RoboCrop.
Status?
This is where the blog-like thingie comes into play. Down below, I'll write from time to time. Feel free to comment on my ramblings.
