Updates
July 28, 2002
If I have ever sent this program to you in the past, there is one major change in this version. This version is set to minimal logging... i.e. this program has been set for the lowest level of logging possible - which means it will execute quicker and not output a lot of logging files to your harddrive. There will still be a few logging files, but the output to them will be minimal.
July 30, 2002
Due to the lack of user feedback -i.e. a description of what the program is currently doing, I have added a feeback panel on the left side of the application. Currently it is just text and there are only 4 different states that a thread can be in... but it is an improvement over no updates at all.
August 1, 2002
Due to the amount of time the first thread takes to parse up the originating web page (depending on the size of the page, your processor and your connection to the internet), I've given the user the option to make the program more processor intensive (under edit->preferences). The option is specifically called "Use high processor usage version of the program". This will result in the program using more threads to accomplish its tasks. Basically, if the user uses the high processor usage option in preferences, the portion of the program that validates and organizes links will be able to execute concurrently while the controlling thread looks at the links it has found so far.