Kevin Wells’ application for displaying information about your local representitive, MPdata+, has gained another new feature – it can now tell you when there are upcoming elections in your local area. The program uses wget to fetch data from remote sites, parse it, and then present it in a RISC OS window, and for the new feature the data is found on the Who Can I Vote For website.
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News bit: Lcheck receives some bug fixes
Kevin Wells’ multi-lottery result checking application, Lcheck – which uses Wget to fetch the results and then parses and displays them in a user friendly format – has been updated to squash a couple of bugs.
Read MoreNews nybble: Build your own virtual keyboard
Kevin Wells has released a new version of VKeyboard, his application that presents the user with an on-screen ‘virtual’ keyboard, driven by the mouse. A click on a given key causes the relevant character to be inserted in the keyboard buffer, and thus sent to whichever running application has the cursor, just as if the equivalent key had been pressed on a physical keyboard. The update adds the ability to create and edit new keyboards, with the number allowed in theory limited only by the number of files that can…
Read MoreSnippets – 28th November, 2015
With the end of November rapidly approaching, and with it the deadline for preparing the RISC OS Awards poll for 2015 (coming soon, folks), here are some news items that have previously either slipped under the RISCOSitory RADAR (it came with the bunker, doncherknow), or which were held back for a snippets post. Like this one!
Read MoreMouse driven keyboard gains multiple keyboard support
Kevin Wells has updated his virtual keyboard application VKeyboard to accept multiple keyboards. The application presents a keyboard display on screen, and the action of clicking on any of the displayed keys will either result in the represented character being inserted wherever the cursor is or, for special keys – such as page up/down, tab, etc – the relevant action is carried out. With v1.02, users can now add additional keyboards. Creating and editing the keyboards is currently a manual process, involving editing files in the application’s innards, though a…
Read MoreMPData+ at ROUGOL, Monday 20th July, 2015
Announcement from ROUGOL, 16th July, 2015. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: MPdata+ Presented by Kevin Wells, KevSoft Monday 20th July 2015, 7:45pm
Read MoreSnippets – 27th June, 2015
You heard it here first eventually! With a ridiculously busy period now over (mostly – and until/unless things get silly again), it’s time to round up what’s happened in the intervening period in the world of RISC OS.
Read MoreSee what they look like with MPdata+
But do try not to have nightmares! Kevin Wells has released a new version of MPData+, his application for keeping tabs on UK local MPs. The software is designed to retrieve a variety of information about local MPs from the TheyWorkForYou website, displaying some of it – such as their name, constituency, party, the date they entered the House of Commons, and more – in a window on the desktop.
Read MoreKeeping tabs on more MPs
Big brother is you are watching you them. Kevin Wells, who seems to have a bit of a penchant for writing applications to keep tabs on MPs, has added two more to the line up.
Read MoreSnippets – 31st December, 2014
Because while no news is good news, some news is better. Or something. Keen eyed readers of RISCOSitory will no doubt have noticed that for the last couple of months they have in fact not been keen eyed readers of RISCOSitory at all. As is sometimes the case, the workload here at the Soft Rock Software office became somewhat hectic for a while – moreso, I think, than it’s ever been before – leaving no time for any updates to the site. And to cap that, a nasty bout of…
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