That is not happening in version 17 and it should not happen.

Once again:

A new version should be compatibel with the previous version.

Discussion closed.

Thanks for spotting this change in behavior André! Let's call it a bug as it goes against the specification. I now see what caused it and will try to fix it.

Yes. The two of you are actually in agreeance. This is a typical case of "I don't hear what you say, I hear what my perception of you says. You have a history of heated arguing and that made André defensive and wanting to defend a standpoint both of you, and me, actually share . This is so common. Guess why politicians can't ever agree with each other even though they eventually execute the same politics? :-D

Not sure if it is because Groovy 3 is in beta, but

import groovy.swing.SwingBuilder

fails. I was having a quick look at a simple interface for external tools, rather than a full-blown skin GUI.

I've now updated the beta to b5 at http://jalbum.net/download/beta/jalbum-core.jar
Changes:

• Include mechanism adjusted. It was cacheing the first page found and reusing it for other includes, even if the subsequent includes referred to other pages. Thanks André for spotting this. Now included pages are always loaded via a global cache which naturally won't deliver anything if the page isn't found.
• Fixed problem on skin info page when trying to access the skin page for skins having spaces in their names (Classic Aligned 2 for instance). This also fixed problems with accessing the links on the skin update notifications. To test, open the system console and issue:

  JNotification.forgetAllDismissed()
  

  This causes jAlbum to forget about dismissed notifications and, again, show the notification about the update to Classic Aligned 2 if you select that skin again (assuming you haven't updated it either)

Well, I'm liking a lot of it, though it is different it doesn't seem that you need to start again from scratch - so picking it up should be easier - famous last words . What I'm liking is that it is easier to read what you have written, for example I like not having to use the get methods

count = 0
AlbumObject[] cao = JAlbumContext.getInstance().getExplorer().explorer.getSelectedAlbumObjects();
for (AlbumObject ao : cao) {
  println count++
  println ao.title
  println ao.included
  println ao.category 
  println ao.vars.cameraMake
}

I've downloaded all of the Alpha-3 binaries, so if I need anything else I can try adding those resources.

Of course, it needs more users to take an interest in it to make it worthwhile - unless Beanshell suddenly gives up the ghost and another language becomes mandatory. For now I'm happy having a play with it.

The splash screen says b4, but the "About" page reveals that it's b5.

Well, you'll just have to get a real PC. Actually, for the price of a Mac, you could get two pretty powerful PC's.