These updates add support for Visual Studio 2026 [feature-requests:#272] and Embarcadero RAD Studio/C++Builder 13 Florence [feature-requests:#267], as well as a number of bug fixes.
Updates:
2026-02-25
New version 1.1.6 of the FolderSize example is available in Windows Store:
https://shapeshift.azurewebsites.net/foldersize.html
Changes:
2026-02-08
Do you need to support multiple languages in your OWLNext application? The Lima VVA project demonstrates a clean, maintainable approach to multi‑language support based on Unicode.
See the Lima VVA “Language Support” page for detailed guidance for programmers and non-expert translators alike.
Below is a summary generalising the lessons into practical guidance for OWLNext applications.... read more
Folder Size is a tool for calculating the total size of all files in folders and subfolders.
It is a free open-source example of using the OWLNext C++ framework together with Modern C++.
What's new in 1.1.5:
Application page: https://shapeshift.azurewebsites.net/foldersize.html
Microsoft Store link: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P99P09FLLRF
2025-06-08
The journey of OWLNext is a tale of community resilience in the face of product obsolescence, as well as an interesting and enlightening example of the power of open-source collaborative software development and maintenance. From its troubled beginnings around the turn of the century to its current iteration embracing modern C++ standards, OWLNext has persisted and evolved. This history recounts the landmarks that shaped the project and its community.... read more
These updates address [bugs:#591] "Non-ASCII characters in source", as well as a few other minor fixes and corrections.
Updates:
As Microsoft celebrates 50 years, it is fitting to remind ourselves that the OWLNext project has now had over 25 years of service to the OWL community.
It started all the way back in 1998, with Yura Bidus's OWL maintenance project "OWL NExt 6". The classic 6.04 base version was released in 1999, with subsequent patches all the way up to 2007, when our veteran admin Ognyan "Jogy" Chernokozhev finally released the long awaited OWLNext 6.20. Since then we have had the 6.30 series, the 6.40 series and the 7 series. Read more about these milestones on our History page.... read more
These maintenance updates address various build issues.
Updates:
This maintenance update fixes a regression in TTreeViewCtrl::HitTest [bugs:#595].
You can conveniently download this update from within OWLMaker.
This maintenance update fixes a few bugs in OWLExt and CoolPrj. It also updates the Embarcadero C++Builder example projects to version 12.
You can conveniently download this update from within OWLMaker.
Folder Size is a tool for calculating the total size of all files in folders and subfolders.
It is a free open-source example of using the OWLNext C++ framework together with Modern C++.
What's new in 1.1.4:
2024-11-30
BlueSky is all the rage in the past two weeks, and so I have created an account for OWLNext there:
https://bsky.app/profile/owlnext64.bsky.social
If you are on BlueSky, you are welcome to follow it.
2024-11-27
These maintenance updates address the following issues:
New article about File and Folder Browse dialogs and their support in OWLNext is available in the Knowledge Base:
https://sourceforge.net/p/owlnext/wiki/File%20and%20Folder%20Browse%20dialogs/
2024-09-27
Folder Size is a tool for calculating the total size of all files in folders and subfolders.
It is a free open-source example of using the OWLNext C++ framework.
What's new in version 1.1.3:
2024-07-02
These maintenance updates add support for MSVC toolset version 14.40 in Visual Studio 2022 [feature-requests:#246], and they also fix a buffer overflow bug in TEdit::GetLine [bugs:#574]. Additionally, version 7.0.14 cleans up more warnings and fixes a minor inconsequential internal bug in "mdiframe.cpp".
