Happy New Year 2026!
Guy Lonne
As we wrap up 2025, I want to wish each of you a joyful holiday season,
whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or simply the
magic of a well-optimized loop around the Sun!
I wrapped up this year with our Secret Santa Raffle challenge; why? As a
reminder how creative and talented this community can be! Thank you for
making our conversations in this Group so inspiring and even fun at time.
May your holidays be as smooth as a perfect XBLite program, and may 2026
bring you endless inspiration, flawless logic, and maybe even a few
unexpected features (the good kind that fly like falcons in the sky,
mind you!).
On your marks, get set, go for another year of coding, collaboration,
and perhaps a few more challenges to keep us on our toes!
Warmest wishes, Guy
Guy LONNE
Hi Xbliters!
I hope your 2025 ended on a high note for you, and the new year has started off well.
I'm happy to announce that viXen circa 2026 has a new background image in her "About" box: I had some fun with Nano Banana, which generated for me an absolutely adorable vixen! I'm really pleased with how she looks, and if you download viXen from https://sourceforge.net/projects/visual-xblite/files/latest/download, you'll see her for yourself.
This aesthetic change marks my intention to leave viXen v1.99u as she is: I've decided to stop enhancing viXen.
Why so? viXen is a tool made for quick prototyping of XBLite programs, and its crude interface reflects that mindset. Since I dislike when a familiar tool changes its user interface, I intend to "freeze" viXen's 20-year-old interface, with its keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+W to create a blank window, Ctrl+L to add a Literal field, Ctrl+E to add an Edit box, Ctrl+B to create a push Button, and finally Ctrl+G to Generate an XBLite GUI skeleton ready for XSED. Of course, I shall correct reported bugs, or address requests for interesting features, but no more.
For now on, I commit myself to my ambitious new project: FoxRAD. It is an attempt to create a development workbench optimized for XBLite. Unlike viXen, FoxRAD will be modular from the start, allowing for extensions via plugins, and centered on the concept of project in my so-called FoxRAD methodology. I will, of course, use my FoxRAD methodology to develop FoxRAD: a FoxRAD project manager with log and dashboard, a source code integration with Git, a module template manager inspired by viXen's, and much more. And I will start FoxRAD on SourceForge with a much more polished presentation than viXen's, which dates back to 2006 on SourceForge and it shows!
Wishing you again a happy new year!
Bye! Guy