New Version 0.8.4

- Added full Audio CD Support
- Added a visible rank feature that displays the rank of a file (in tile mode) as shaded in bubbles (i.e. a mid-rank shows up as 3 shaded bubbles and 2 unshaded, high rank would be all shaded in)
- Fixed Bug: Video didn't exit when finished
- Fixed Bug: Up and Down sometimes broken in CU
- Fixed Bug: Playlist mode wasn't being turned on for Audio
- Fixed Bug: Directories weren't sorted
- Fixed Bug: Pictures had a resume button

Six Months Progress

The first version of NovaMC ever compiled was compiled on April 5, 2005. It could only play videos. You typed in the path of a video, hit play and it would play it. That was it. The GUI was a text box with a play button. Within a few days we had a preliminary GUI up which we kept for a couple months. The picture below compares a build of NovaMC 0.0.6 compiled on April 27, 2005 with the current build of NovaMC, exactly 6 months later. The amount of progress far extends what one can see, with support for TV, timeshifting, pictures, database support, amazon support, etc etc being added in those 6 months. It's been a rough ride, but we're at the final stretch...

New Version 0.8.3

- Used the new DataBase in order to implement the following:
- Ability to view a top 100 list in all modes
- Ability to see a most recent list in all modes
- Ability to resume position in music and video
- Abstracted out audio functions to AudioControl
- Now possible to continue playing Audio outside Audio, for example, to listen to music during a slideshow. Space Bar universally toggles the audio

Potential Icon Design for NovaMC

New Version 0.8.1

- Added DVD Thumbnails for Video
- Added picture thumbnails in Tile mode
- Added details specific to Video (Duration) in Tile mode
- Added details specific to Pictures (Resolution) in Tile mode
- Added ability to sort music by artist/album/track and song name

New Version 0.8.0

- Added Amazon.com Support for Audio
- Added Amazon generated cover art album support and ability to cache them
- Added a tile mode for ControlUnit in order to see details and album art in the button
- Redid NovaOSD to make it much prettier
- Added a top bar to NovaOSD with it's own label. So now NovaOSD supports up to 3 labels
- Added a progress bar to NovaOSD that is off by default but can be turned on with a method and updated with a different method
- Added preliminary support to support remembering position in video

New Version 0.7.2

- Fixed Bug: Got rid of major memory leak in Audio
- Fixed Bug: Left and Right didn't work in Control Units
- Fixed Bug: Sort by was broken
- Fixed Bug: Playing multiple songs was possible with Play in drop down
- Fixed Bug: Page Up and Page Down wrapped when they shouldnt
- Fixed Bug: Navigation error in menu on CUs
- Fixed Bug: Returning from Slide Show mode didn't turn off slide show mode
- Fixed Bug: Enqueue Menu didn't auto highlight Cancel button
- Fixed Bug: Enqueue Menu didn't disappear after it was done
- Fixed Bug: Returning to main screen didn't highlight any buttons
- Add the ability to dynamically make slide shows faster or slower with ff and rr buttons

New Version 0.7.0

- Added DVD support, almost fully complete, only lacking a few cleanups
- Added classes DVDControl to control the DVD, DVDStream to render the stream from the disc and DVDDisplayUnit to display the stream onto the screen
- Added an icon for pictures
- Fixed a bug with control unit navigation
- Fixed a few other bugs

New Version 0.6.3

- Added a shuffle mode for playlists
- Added a shuffle option to main menus and playlist menus
- Replaced buttons with NovaSmallButtons in TVControlUnit
- Relocated a lot of code dealing with controllin the TV out of TVControlUnit and into TVControl
- Added the ability to expand past 1000 items for playlists
- Rewrote the TVControlUnit keyboard handler
- Rewrote TVGuidePanel from scratch, right, left and scrolling work. Down and Up broken again
- Added thread support for enqueueing directories in the background for playing them, i.e. if one clicks on "play" for a directory it starts playing immediately and begins enqueueing up the rest of the directory in a seperate thread so the user doesnt notice
- Added a message popup for enqueueing items to the Playlist for later playing
- Capped the playlists at 5000 due to enormousness of them
- Added support for NovaMessage to change it's text w/o recreation
- Rewrote how NovaLists are handled past 680 to fix a bug that wouldn't show images past a certain point. We now support infinite length lists
- Fixed a bug that created lag between directories. Opening a directory is now instant

New Version 0.6.2

- Huge fix in the scrolling speed of the program. It now speeds fast, as fast as it should as opposed to slow
- Took out the minicontrols all together on AudioControlUnit, realized its pointless with a remote control
- Made a class NovaNullButton as placeholders to make all pages divisible by 8
- Put the functionality of the minicontrols into the keyboard handler
- Added lots more functionality to VideoControl class
- Abstracted out Keyboard event handler from the individual control units and placed it in the ControlUnit class
- Added virtual functions for the individual control units to override in order to have specific control over key presses
- Migrated all changes and bug fixes from Audio into Video
- Created a class PictureControl whos function is similar to VideoControl, to control pictures
- Completely rewrote the Picture classes, now both are fully working and complete (including slide show support), with a few minor bugs

New Version 0.6.1

- Added the ability to enqueue folders recursively
- Added the ability to play folders recursively
- Added the ability to save playlists as WinAMP playlists (.m3u's)
- Added the ability to load WinAMP and saved playlists
- Added class NovaMiniControl which adds a minicontrol (back, pause, stop, forward) to any panel. It uses NovaButtons so the Audio minicontrols are now NovaButtons as they should be
- Added variable icon support (i.e. now video's have video icons, audio has audio icons etc)
- Split up NovaButton into 4 new classes: NovaLongButton, NovaSmallButton, NovaSquareButton and NovaMiniButton. They all inherit NovaButton. It was getting ridiculous having conditionals in the constructor logic
- Cleaned up a lot of code
- Added the ability to do multiple levels of RR and FF in AudioControlUnit
- Abstracted out the final bits of code common to Video and Audio ControlUnits
- With Chris: Finally fixed the evil scrolling bug we've had since version 0.0.1 where buttons scrolling fast wouldn't update fast enough cause the display to look crappy.

New Version 0.6.0

- Created a preliminary PictureDisplayUnit and PictureControlUnit which doesnt really work yet
- Created a class VideoControl which abstracts the Video object from the GUI
- Fixed the way we do the video thumbnail to retain the same instance of the video object, vs recreating it every time the user switched views
- Fixed a memory leak in Audio, ran audio for 9 hours straight to ensure no further memory leaks exist.
- Continued restructuring code:

New class: File
very simple class, has only a type and a name, MediaFile inherits it now

New class: NovaList
inherits Panel, has only the ability to Add buttons to it with Add(NovaButton button) function and keep track of where it is (property: int currSel)

New class: NovaMenuList inherits NovaList
Adds to the basic functionality of NovaList by adding a few properties and functions specific to a menu, not much, mostly just specifying the button widths and what not

New class: NovaObjList inherits NovaList
Creates a NovaList with an array of File objects and puts them in a NovaList, it also has support for a pop up menu using NovaMenu.

New class: NovaDirList inherits NovaObjList
Adds to the ability of a NovaObjList of adding File Objects by now accepting a path variable. It goes through the directory, sets the File.Type to Dir if its a direcotry, and File if its a file and then sends the entire File[] array to NovaObjList's draw function

- Moved all the new OO changes over to VideoControlUnit

New Version 0.5.3

- Created a class called Utils to hold basic utilities used anywhere. includes RoundTime, DateToDouble, and IsNumeric
- Completely restructured code into directories for easy access. Renamed ButtonList to NovaButtonList and MenuHandler to NovaMenu
- Created a NovaMessage class that handles info boxes
- Implemented the Information functionality with NovaMessage in Music/Video control units
- Created a class NovaOSD
- Created a class DisplayUnit which VideoDisplayUnit and TVDisplayUnit inheret from
- Implemented NovaOSD into VideoDisplayUnit for paused, ff, rr and general duration showing
- Implemented NovaOSD into TVDisplayUnit
- Standardized keymappings
- Added rtune support to TVDisplayUnit
- Finished keyboard handlers for both TV and Video DisplayUnits