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One of the new features in version 2.0 will be scripting support. Currently I have planned for the following commands but I am always open to suggestions for more.

Sync <job>
Backup <job>
Secure <job>
Delete <filepath>
Move <sourcepath> <destpath>
Copy <sourcepath> <destpath>
Execute <filepath>

Please note that this is not intended to replace batch file scripting, it is merely an easy way for you to tack a number of jobs together is an order, for example to run a Sync Update command before Encrypting.

Wow, it´s basically a whole month since my lat post, how time flies! Exams are done and my coursework is submitted so I am now able to make some good progress again and things are starting to come togther.

Currently I plan to have three development tests of Toucan 2.0 before the pre-releases, they will go something like tihs:

That's right, I have decided to drop the wizards from Toucan 2.0, however hopefully they will be back in 2.1. The reason is simple, rather than hard code the wizards into the program itself I would like to make the wizards user generatable, so that other people can create their own wizards and post them up in the forums for eveybody to use, however this means that if I tried to get this done for 2.0 there would be pretty serious delays (yes I do have a shedule, no I'm not going to tell you).

Just a quick heads up to say that I have got three exams next week so I probably won't be around much. If anyone is interested it's two maths exams and a physics exam, good fun or what

Progress is being made on 2.0, so I thought I better give you all a quick run down of what is happening.

Just a quick heads up to tell you all that Toucan had it's 100,000th download this morning So thanks to John for the hosting, and hopefully you'll all see some more Toucan developments soon. With regards to 2.0 work it progressing slowly and the menu bar has now been scrapped!

2.0 is the next major step for Toucan. As well as including a number of much requested features it also includes a complete interface rewrite. There is one main reason that I decided a rewrite was necessary, and that was because Toucan was becoming interface limited. For example translations are fairly difficult in 1.2 because it is a fixed size interface, this has also made it very difficult to add new features, short of changing the sizes of the entire dialogue and all of its components every time I need to add a new one.

The Toucan 1.x series is where we are now in the Toucan lineage, I'll split this post into two halves, what we have in the 1.x series, and what is coming.

In the next few posts I am going to lay out the future of Toucan, in this post I am going to give a broad overview to my plans for the future. Currently development of Toucan can be summarised roughly by this diagram:

Toucan 1.x Series
1.1->1.2 (Current)-->1.2.x (Planned)->1.3(Provisional)

Toucan 2.0 Series
2.0 (Planned)