James's Programming Page — News

HIDSharp 2.6.4 released.

2025-10-14T14:38:32Z

I've posted a new version of HIDSharp, 2.6.4. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/hidsharp

This version fixes a bug in how negative physical and logical ranges on HID items are encoded.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

RemoteViewing 1.1.0 released.

2025-10-14T13:58:20Z

I've posted a new version of RemoteViewing, 1.1.0. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/remoteviewing

It fixes some bugs (one potential crash bug in the VNC client), but mainly, it adds 8-bit color support (ugly) and Zlib support (useful) to the VNC server.

With Zlib support, the VNC server is actually practical to use over the Internet. It uses about 10X less bandwidth, at least when using normal desktop applications. CPU usage is a bit higher when using Zlib, but you can always turn off compression in the VNC client if this is a problem.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

RemoteViewing 1.0.1 released.

2025-10-09T16:16:17Z

I've posted a new version of RemoteViewing, 1.0.1. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/remoteviewing

It drastically speeds up the VNC server, and fixes some bugs in it as well. Basic Hextile support is in, so 16x16 regions which are a solid color now take 5 bytes to transfer instead of 1024. This helps on text-heavy pages.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

DeltaSCP 1.1.1 released.

2025-09-29T17:03:19Z

I've posted a release of DeltaSCP, 1.1.1. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/deltascp

This is a simple Linux differential copy utility that operates over SSH. Mostly it is useful for backing up virtual machine images over the Internet.

I wrote it in 2010, and posted it on SourceForge briefly -- it appears to be gone now -- but never made a proper release of it. At any rate, this version uses SHA-256 hashes instead of SHA-1 and has some basic versioning in the protocol so I can improve it in the future if I want to. Documentation is included.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

HIDSharp 2.6.3 released.

2025-09-26T15:51:53Z

I've posted a new version of HIDSharp, 2.6.3. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/hidsharp

This version improves the shutdown behavior on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It also adds a ManualShutdown() method to trigger that shutdown behavior. If you're doing some custom behavior loading and unloading assemblies, this version should be a great improvement for you.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

RemoteViewing 1.0.0 released.

2025-09-24T15:05:40Z

I've posted a new version of RemoteViewing, 1.0.0. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/remoteviewing

It adds support for 16-bit color mode. I found one of my virtual machines used this mode, and RemoteViewing did not previously support it.

It also fixes mouse coordinate scaling on the Windows Forms control. Thanks to mike10 for reporting this bug!

Enjoy!

God bless.

James

HIDSharp 2.6.2 released.

2025-09-24T11:03:01Z

I've posted a new version of HIDSharp, 2.6.2. Here's the link: https://software.seekye.com/hidsharp

I've been using HIDSharp for device testing and programming through Raspberry Pi devices, so Linux support is greatly improved by this version:

HidDevice.GetSerialPorts() lets you get the serial ports corresponding to a USB composite HID device.
HidDevice.GetUsbPort() lets you get information about the USB port to which the HID device is connected. You can use this for visual displays where you have a number of USB devices connected to the same hub, and don't want the connected device list dancing around.
SerialDevice.GetManufacturerName(), GetProductName(), and GetSerialNumber() all work on Linux now.

There are other improvements and bug fixes as well.

Enjoy!

God bless.

James