Start to implement the new extended schema, and integrate the generator into the DLL - Work is going well here, but we'll not integrate into the DLL for M0.

Work on M0 deliverables : clipping text, and resizable property sheets (re-architecture required) - on track for M0.

Work on Slide deck for first 'big' review - first pass on review done, we'll need an hour, so review moved, date TBD.

Start to convert the RCML schema to use the "XML Schema schema". A more formal schema definition, big customer win.

Big news is that the Exchange Server (Peter Beinhardt) team loved RCML, and they said they'd sign up to be a customer. They asked hard questions, and we had the answers. They'll even supply a dev to help with the migration!

New schema implementation in design stages..

Met with CWD (consumer windows division) to extol the virtues of using GML. Good meeting, they seemed more interested in the features of RCML than GML. JeffBog was in attendance, and said Neptune would probably have something different to RCML.

Substitutable text is in (entity replacement). Has partial blessing from the XML team, but they're OK given our customer set.

Work on Slide deck for first 'big' review is progressing.

Started work on converting the RCML schema doc to use the XML schema schema with XSL for rendering - takes a while.

Did some memory investigation work, nothing looked TOO scary, we're cost the application about 80K or so.

Focussing on M0 (July 8th) deliverables.

Status Ending: 18 June 99

Produced concrete dates for code deliverables, M0 July 8th. http://rcml/scheduleupdate.htm

Improved the clipping text (single and multi line) with support for bigger, smaller font sizes for MSAA.

Complete removal of CString with LPCTSTR done and MSVCRT linkage.

Perf numbers, we continue to clear out the low hanging fruit before we publish numbers.

Last GML and Text+ meetings were a success, these two teams will own the localizable strings in RCML.

Had our first pure C customer use our stuff (JulieB), produced good feedback which we are rolling into our generator and SDK.

Status Ending: 11 June 99

Meetings:

• Met with Text+ and designers about layout systems.  Some interesting things that we have to make sure to consider:  Tibetan has big requirements in height (twice as many pixels vertically than we currently use).  Other problems might occur if we put multiple languages in one control (especially Edit)

Development:

• Removal of CString with LPCTSTR - 90% done.
• There were some improvements on the Perf Numbers.
• Removed VT_VARIANT property bag to a leaner key/value pair bag - may be used by Text+

• Will implement the attribute schema (What attributes correspond to what style bits)
• Start supporting GML spec
• Get concrete date for deliverables

Status Ending: 4 June 99

Meetings:

• Met with Text+ guys to discuss DrawFormattedText.  They need to talk with controls to figure out details
• Met with Control plus to determine implementation of RCML.  They seem excited to help us out and divert some resources to the project
• Met with MSAA team - Very productive meeting.  They are very excited with RCML and the advatanges it will bring them. They will be sending a list of requirements and features that they want RCML to support.  As soon as we get that, we will post it to this site.

Development:

• Property Sheet support is now in. 
• We're UNICODE internally. 
• Did some small perf improvements.

Process

• Perf numbers are a little bit on the weak side but it is nothing unusual.  Should be fixed by sometime next week

Status Ending : 28 May 99

Meetings : 

• Meet with MUI+ team - good meeting, they will be using RCML for the MUI+ resource format and are hoping to sign up as customers for their dialogs.

Development : 

• Mihai got ICECap builds so we can start looking at bottlenecks etc!
• STYLE and STYLEEX now support hex (0x...) values.
• Grid can now be painted on the background of the dialog for alignment reasons (pixel only)
• Fixed various bugs - leaks, perf, compiler warnings etc.
• rc2xml.exe is now selfhosted on the rendering engine - it's our first Win32 client.
• Simple version stamps in the exes, and <TESTINFO> element for tracking / testing ease.

Process : 

• Kiran has preliminary bug pages on the website

Test:

• Started 'dumping' system components (taskmanager) and filing bugs.
  

Status Ending : 21 May 99

Meetings : 

• Money Dev. They have similar functionality, though use the existing RC file format. They'd like to move to RCML file format, but support their own de-persisting and dialog functionality - as they already have this code today.
• Met again with GML (Globalization Markup Language) group (mailto:jsee) they are now aware that they should evangelize GML to more groups, and that RCML team will support this format for Localized text.
• Met with UIText team. They'd like to have development use RCML format as it allows them to do their jobs quicker. In addition they asked for side by side diff tools.
• WFC (tools) will not be using RCML as their persistance format.

Development :

• Delay Loading of Common controls and GDI+ 
• Met with XML development team. Since our last meeting, they are moving towards more Win32 support for size and speed reasons.
• Caching of GDI+ objects
• Now support pixel perfect dialog layout and GRID's.

Process : 

• Meeting notes will now be posted here!
• RDQ is now published on homepage. 

Testing : 

• Wohoo! We now have testing team (RCMLTest) and they are ramping up.
• RDQ is now published on homepage. 

Status Ending : 14 May 99

Meetings : 

• Controls (JeffBog), 
• Product Designers and Testing.
•  Got initial GML (Globalization Markup Language) spec from Localizers.

Development :

• Added elementary Border support for Images. 
• Fixed control clipping bug. 
• Fixed chaining of RELATIVE positioning
• Talked with Neptune over XML synergy, specifically layout / positioning.

Process : 

• Setup this site!
•  Setup weekly meetings, and schedule mail.
• Had RCML categories added to NT5 raid database (RDQ pending). 
• First stab at Dev Schedule

Status Ending : 7 May 99