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I love this program. Sure, it's probably been out for a very long time, and a big thank you goes out to Ben Pierce at the University of Pennsylvania, but only recently I discovered that I have a significant need for this type of program. How? I was updating files across systems to the point where I finally had had enough and since I remembered that I use a synchronizer with my music collection I decided on the idea of finding an adequate and all purpose synchronizer application for my storage.

After much trouble trying to understand how to produce a second window, specifically for showing the game window, I have finally come to an understanding concerning wxDialog. Creating the separate window is actually quite simple. Much easier than I was originally making it. Instead of using the wxDialog's constructors, I make a descendant of wxDialog called MyGameWindow to customize the properties. Keep in mind this is very basic. I figured I would list this on here for an easy quick reference. 

I'm happy to say that Lozzi Solutions is now powered by Movable Type 4.0, upgraded from the previous version 3.3. It's been an educational and pleasurable yet difficult experience(at times) this past week after playing around with the MT4 internals. True, plugin support is not up to par yet due to the new version, but it eventually will be. In fact, I foresee MT4 being heavily supported in this area due to its increased ease of use and design efficiency(modules to name only one). MT4 is not just the best version to date, it's going to be the version that will attract more non-MT-users in MT history.

For a while now I have wanted to create my own version of a chess application, not just the GUI but the engine as well. The stalemate in my planning has been which language to use. For my purposes, I was torn between Java and C++; Java because I wanted to learn more about the language as I am no expert in it(I can maneuver around in it alright but not to my satisfaction), and C++ because I am experienced in it and I've realized a few nice GUI libraries to use.