Date

Version

Author

Description

12^th September 2009

1.0.0.26

Sean Ryan

Installer Fix

• Now including a dll that was missing unless the machine had Visual Studio installed. The DLL is Microsoft.mshtml.dll.

15^th August 2009

1.0.0.25

Sean Ryan

Cosmetic Fix

• The Advanced window once again has a minimum size.

11^th August 2009

1.0.0.24

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Made the main window and the Advanced window be resizable

  Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug where certain websites could not be downloaded, because of empty HTML elements.
  This occurred only when the website was setup to use links.

27^th May 2009

1.0.0.23

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Better detection of cancelled website downloads. This can occur with low bandwidth or with poor network connectivity.

  Minor Fixes

• When the main window is re-opened, the Last Checked text in the status tray of the main window is updated.

8^th April 2009

1.0.0.22

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Now easier to see which sites have changed:

  • The main window now has a wee globe beside each site, to indicate its current status.

  • When viewing changes in the internal browser, you can see which pages have changed, by looking for the yellow coloured tags.

  Minor Fixes

• Corrected the tooltip text for the status tray icon, when in the idle state. The tooltip text now just counts the number of enabled web sites.

• Corrected the text at the top of the Links tab, on the Advanced window.

22^nd March 2009

1.0.0.21

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• New option to Save images and stylesheets

• For pages with links, the main page is now also checked for changes. The main page can also be seen in the local copy.

• Improved the Wee Web Browser scrollbars, when viewing changes

• The Change Detected column is only updated, for a site that has not already been flagged as having changed. This is so that you can see, when was the change first detected.

• When Wee Web Watcher is in the idle state, the tool tip in the status tray, now indicates when did Wee Web Watcher last check for changes.

  Fixes

• Fixed issue introduced in last build, where the view local copy feature would not work, for a site with no links

• Fixed issue where the maximum size of a file download was 64Kb. There is no longer a maximum size.

  • For very slow downloads, the existing timeout mechanism will come into play.

• Fixed issue where the View Changes feature could show an error message, if a site was reconfigured to have links.

  Documentation

• Updated the documentation. The basic features have been documented.

20^th March 2009

1.0.0.20

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Better support for network failure events

• When Wee Web Watcher window is closed, a balloon is shown to remind you that the application is still running

• Now it is easier to see items selected in a list

• If the import of settings fails, then a message is shown

• If changes have been detected, but you wish to discard these changes, you can now hit the Discard changes button. This is especially useful if errors occurred when reaching the website.

• The Wee Web Browser now has sync'd scrolling, so that you can scroll both the old and new version of a website at once

• Added extra info about Wee Web Watcher, to the assembly file

• When viewing a local copy of a web page, the local copy is filtered, so you can see exactly what data Wee Web Watcher is working with

  Minor Fixes

• The View changes in external browser menu item is now disabled, if no path has been set in the Options tab

• Fixed an issue, where application would not exit, if it was already minimised

• On the Advanced window, the edit box for homesite is not related to the pre-url checkbox

19^th February 2009

1.0.0.19

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Closing the main window will now cause the window to minimise, rather than causing the application to exit. To exit the application, you must right-click on the icon in the status tray, and select Exit.

Cosmetic Fixes

• Removed dark edging at top, left and right sides of main window

• Removed some empty space in main window, and in advanced window

• Status bar on main window now uses space a bit better

• The title of the advance window was corrected to read Advanced

• Some tooltip text has been shortened so that it will fit

• Fixed up the bullet points in this document

15^th February 2009

1.0.0.18

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Export and import settings

  • any machine specific details or credentials are not exported

• Only one instance of Wee Web Watcher is allowed to run

• New checkbox on main window, allows you to disable some websites

• Built-in web browser now disables scripting in order to avoid warnings

Fixes

• Fixed issue, where a site with links would be reported as having changed, the first time it is checked

• Regular expressions are now multiline by default, so that the operators ^ * and . operate over the entire contents of the web page, rather than per line

• If one web site has changed, then clicking on the baloon will open that web site. Fixed issue which caused a warning to display for some websites.

• Fixed issue where a problem with the log file could prevent the application from starting up

• Fixed potential issue in internal data with saved linked pages

10^th February 2009

1.0.0.17

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Assembly is now obfuscated and signed, to guarantee that it is an original version !

  Fixes

• If the log file cannot be created, then the application will run anyway

8^th February 2009

1.0.0.16

Sean Ryan

Enhancements

• Filter contents of a website, before we compare for changes

  • use simple phrases to detect changes

  • use Regular expressions to restrict what text is checked for changes

  • use Regular expressions to omit text which we always expect will change

• Where we are comparing two files, we use the term “Latest” as opposed to “New”. The term “New” is used to indicate that a new page was found.

• Option to use an external application to view changes in a website

• When showing the Wee Web Watcher window, the first tab page is always selected

• When the Advanced button is clicked, the same websites are selected in the Advanced window as were selected in the main window

• On startup, the saved linked pages are loaded, so that we can check for changes since the last time that Wee Web Watcher was executed

• Linked pages are now identified per phrase, which means that adding or removing links will be tracked per phrase

Fixes

• Some URLs would cause an error when we use the menu to view website in browser

• When Wee Web Watcher is checking for changes, the Advanced button is disabled

• Temporary files are cleaned up on exit

• For web sites set to automatically browse and download links:

• Engine can cause an issue where Internet Explorer apears with several Navigation Cancelled tab pages. This occurs when the website cannot be reached. We now detect changes in network connectivity in order to avoid this issue.

• If a web site appears to have a linked page which is new or is missing, then this is now considered to be a change

• If a homesite phrase is given, then we only navigate once to the website, and from then on, we just click links!

5^th February 2009

1.0.0.15

Sean Ryan

Fixes

• For web sites set to automatically browse and download links:

• Engine can now distinguish between links found using the same phrase

4^th February 2009

1.0.0.14

Sean Ryan

Fixes

• For web sites set to automatically browse and download links:

• Auto browsing now works continuously, not just on every second check.

• Corrected change detection engine when looking for old files.

• Removed the minimise button on the Advanced screen.

1^st February 2009

1.0.0.13

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• Added an Advanced button for settings which are not normally used

• The local copy and any changes to a web site can now be viewed with a built in browser, which is somewhat faster to use

• Added feature to automatically browse and download links from each web page. The links are identified by searching for phrases given by the user.

• This feature is still somewhat experimental, and can be disabled as follows:

Select the Advanced button.

Select the Links tab.

Set the Also check websites linked check box to be unset.

Select OK.

14^th January 2009

1.0.0.12

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• You can now monitor a website which uses sessions, by simply setting PreUrl to the appropriate web address. Often you can simply use the same address as the main website.

• Minor changes to the GUI: moved the Go and Clear changes buttons.

• Removed the OK and Cancel button, and replaced them with just a Close button.

Licensing:

• A non-licensed copy will work forever, but will be limited to 3 web sites only.

13^th January 2009

1.0.0.11

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• added two new menu options to the list menu:

  • option to "View changes in browser". This displays the original version of the website, alongside the latest version of the website. Handy enough!

  • option to "View local copy in browser". This lets the user see exactly what Wee Web Watcher can see, which may help diagnose issues with sites using sessions or sites requiring credentials

• changed column title URL to read Website address (URL)

• basic licensing: on start up, Wee Web Watcher right now will refuse to run on unrecognised hosts. I still haven't decided how to distribute Wee Web Watcher, so for now am limiting its distribution ... so the massive public demand will just have to wait ... (!)

11^th January 2009

1.0.0.10

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• the list of web sites is a little easier to use

• a left click on a line will select that web site

• the right click menu now has an option to view the web site in a browser

Fixes:

• if the log file reaches maximum size, then the log file is started again, without having to restart Wee Web Watcher

10^th January 2009

1.0.0.9

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• We can now watch as many sites as we like, using the new list control!

• The list control shows some statistics about each website, such as when it was last checked, when we last attempted to reach it, etc.

• a second status bar, with the time we last checked for changes

Optimisations:

• downloading is asynchronous, so we can have many sites downloading at the same time

• Wee Web Watcher now avoids trying to check a web site which has an invalid or missing URL

6^th January 2008

1.0.0.8

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• Pause between retries is now configured from the settings file.

• Allowed time for all sites to download is now configured from the settings file.

• Added menu option to Check websites now.

• Added option to log processing results to a log file. If the maximum log file length is exceeded, then the file is overwritten.

Fixes:

• Fix so that the directory for new files is always present before attempting download.

• Fixed issue where the status was not getting updated, if the window was hidden.

• If a download fails, then we discard the local data file. This is so that we can still detect a web site change on the next successful download.

5^th January 2008

1.0.0.7

Sean Ryan

Fixes:

• Fixed issue where if a site is reached, but it could not be reached on the previous attempt, then Wee Web Watcher would report that the site had changed.

5^th January 2009

1.0.0.6

Sean Ryan

Enhancements:

• Now is multi threaded for better performance.

Fixes:

• the link on the About tab will bring the user to the Wee Web Watcher website

• tooltip text was out of date if a site had changed, and user had selected ClearChanges button

• enabling / disabling of Go button and ClearChanges button

• the timer interval is changed if the user change the schedule

31^st December 2008

1.0.0.5

Sean Ryan

Initial release:

• Created this documentation.