Third new process watchdog action added

Process Lasso v3.99.10 will have the ability to temporarily change the CPU affinity of select processes if they exceed a specified CPU quota. This temporary CPU change can vary in duration, or be undone on other conditions (coming soon). Of course, Process Lasso's ProBalance also already offers this feature, though implemented in a different way and not unique to an individual process.

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Flicker-free dual releases: v3.84.7 final and v3.99.9 alpha

For those who don't know, a backport release is one where I migrate important changes from the latest alpha/beta to the older final version. Having parallel development environments enables this. I've therefore released v3.84.7 final. It eliminates the GUI process list flicker seen in some circumstances, has some translation updates, and backports a couple other minor things. I am pushing it on out.

v3.99.9 alpha also lacks the annoying GUI process list flicker found in earlier builds, amongst many other changes. I'm going to concentrate more on coding now, less talk. v4 must come soon, the changes in the latest alpha series are just too important to wait. We'll be in beta soon, and hopefully be able to test it quickly if enough people are involved.

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Per-process CPU history now also graphed when viewing Active Processes

I just completed the little bit of code to allow the per-process CPU history (white line) to be drawn whether you are in the All Processes or Active Processes tab. For those unfamiliar with this feature, when one or more processes are selected in the list, the cumulative CPU history is drawn on the graph as a white line.

In compliment to it, I also enabled the CTRL-A accelerator for this tab. Yes, these are little things that I should have done in the first place, but they are done now.

On to more important items, and I really must quit posting such trivial improvements here, lol ;). If I keep writing a page on every change, this is going to be a long blog. It won't slow me down though, I type much faster than I think ;p.

(changes to be in v3.99.9)

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Accessibility improvement

A user emailed me to let me know that the keyboard focus wasn't being put on the process listviews, and there was no way (via keyboard) to navigate to them. In v3.99.9 (unreleased) I have temporarily corrected this by putting the keyboard focus on the process list when you open the GUI or switch views. Later, I'll properly allow tabbed navigation between the child controls of the main Process Lasso window.

Anyone who finds similar accessibility problems should email me. I'll do what I can to aid in any way.

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RegNow order automation completed

After I had more integration difficulties than with either PayPal or TrialPay, I finally finished the code for full RegNow automated order processing. This is the payment processor we use as our 'alternate form of payment', but it may eventually become our primary form of payment. Small anomalies may exist, and will be ironed out as/if they occur.

I appreciate all those who continue to support the work here at Bitsum Technologies. I know for many customers RegNow was a more viable payment processor, so I hope this helps you to help us ;).

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v3.99.8 alpha released

Version 4 continues on its way to be the best build of Process Lasso ever. Virtual memory usage of the GUI in v3.99.8 is sharply lower, as I indicated in my previous post.

I've even made more improvements to ProBalance. Some of the improvements aren't present in v3.99.8, but will be in v3.99.9. It is all coming together fast.

I'm shooting for beta by the end of the week. Anything not done by then will have to wait until v4.1 (sorry).

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Rewrote process icon extraction code

Rewritten process icon retrieval code means:

• Faster process icon retrieval times
• Asynchronous process icon retrieval (for faster initial GUI load time). Icons will be retrieved in low priority background threads and displayed when they become available. In previous versions, I slowed the load of the icons on all systems, but now we can go 'full speed' without slowing anything down.
• Further optimization to reduce virtual memory usage

Last night I ran into a glitch and finally quit working on it and fell asleep. Naturally, as soon as I woke up, I saw the glitch and fixed it up. Its all good now and it will be in v3.99.8 (coming soon).

I have some really neat surprises I want to unveil, but won't mention them just yet. I know competitors monitor this blog and my web site, as I often see exact replicas of what I say on some 'wanna-be' apps developed for profit (please note, I am not speaking of freeware or other legitimate apps written by people like myself). Just remember, competitors are going to be coming from every direction as people try to make a buck. I'm making SURE Process Lasso v4 represents the best Process Lasso can be. Trust me when I say it will perform better in real world environments without any user configuration changes than any previous version ... not to mention all the great new features ;).

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