Just when I thought I was out...

Last week I made some changes to Web Helper Browser, and it felt good. As a user of the software, I was happy to have removed some little irritations, and as a developer I felt a little prouder to call it my own.

I expected that to be it, and to move back onto my regular work this week...

Then I played a delightful new Flash game, Bugs by Ferry Halim. You might remember that one of the things I fixed last week was an issue with Flash background music continuing to play after the window was closed. I hopped around happily in the game for a few minutes, then I closed my browser window. As you can probably tell, the music kept playing.

At first I thought maybe I was running the wrong version, or that there was some kind of error, but everything seemed okay. Thinking I'd just messed up, I tried one of the games I'd been "using" in my "tests" last week, Pixel Field, but I found that it still closed down perfectly. A bit more experimentation with a few more Flash games (a tough afternoon!), showed two clear camps, about half closed, the rest left music playing in the background. Clearly, Web Helper Browser had pulled me back in.

I'm hoping to have this sorted this week and post up a new version of the software, either that or I'll pull out the rest of my hair trying. I'm also taking this opportunity to clean up a lot of work I did earlier in the year for saving images, adding several beta options.