Sunday, February 3, 2002

Oh, it should be obvious, but just in case... I don't have time for working on ICeCoffEE tonight either, and the bug I found in F-Script Anywhere (don't close that window!) will have to wait. 10:17:46 PM | reply [] OK, getting there. I went to look at my fileWriter source, and I cmd-J'd to user.html.fileWriters. Nothing there. Oops. Turned out I installed in system.verbs.builtins.html.fileWriters. That's UserLand's table. Nobody pointed this out to me. Will fix in the next version. Showstopper: My WebDAV code doesn't support DELETE, and unlike the fileWriters, deleting files is a needed ability of upstream drivers. Recursive deletion of collections means 207 status (Multi-Status) responses, which means XML, and namespaces, which Frontier's XML verbs do not support. No more time for this tonight. 9:50:03 PM | reply [] Wanted to subscribe to the Radio-Dev mail group so I could ask my question, but subscription is restricted. Ergh. 9:25:38 PM | reply [] I'm having problems getting my tool's Web site to use the weblog's template, instead of the old Frontier 4-vintage one it seems to want to use. I can't see what's different from my tool root and the others. Anyone? Answer: Nothing. See here. You have to reinstall the Tool for files to be written out onto disk. Now I've done this, renderObject doesn't seem to work any more. Blah. Nope, that's wrong too. You have to reinstall the Tool after any change to the tool's Web site. This is very annoying behavior, Frontier used not to do this. I guess the files are being served out of the filesystem instead of the ODB, but... yuck. 9:12:05 PM | reply [] Upstreaming in Radio: Upstreaming driver architecture. Beta fileSystem Upstream Driver. Mmm, a template. #upstream.xml is the equivalent of the ftpSite table. Need to find a way to map this to the WebDAV tool's specifications. Argh, Can Combine Icons is fun!. Definitely worth the $5, which I sent David Remahl's way. I've been playing with it instead of working on Radio or "work". 6:15:27 PM | reply [] Some useful things I could have used yesterday while I was making the F-Script Anywhere icon (in Photoshop and Iconographer, FWIW.) IconFamily class: provides manipulation of Mac OS X icon families in Cocoa. Can Combine Icons 2.0. Combines icons, as it says. The interface takes a bit of getting used to; I don't like the use of hierarchical pop-up menus, but the results (especially the ability to adjust perspective to put an icon label on a folder icon) are wonderful. 5:42:21 PM | reply [] OmniWeb tip: If you are sick and tired of having the return key enter a partial URL instead of selecting from the autocompletion list, press control-return instead. Oh, another one. Try option-dragging a link on a Web page. That's been there for some time, but I had forgotten about it. Now that OmniWeb's speed and CSS support is improving, I'm using it a lot more recently... not to mention it's so much better than anything else on the Mac to write in. 5:39:41 PM | reply [] Working on getting my WebDAV fileWriter to work with Radio 8. 5:21:30 PM | reply [] Wow, am I ever bad at predicting how long things will take. I estimated two hours for cleaning up and releasing F-Script Anywhere, it ended up taking seven. Version 1.0 is out now. I got some great feedback from the initial test version. F-Script's author called it "brilliant". IMO, that's a bit of an overstatement, but it's nice to be appreciated. Unlike ICeCoffEE, this one is unlikely to be useful for non-programmers, though it's certainly going to be a big help as I develop new versions of ICeCoffEE. I'll spend a few minutes after I get some sleep, and put out ICeCoffEE 1.1.1 with a couple of minor changes. Definitely no more work on any free-time projects this weekend as I need to get a proposal to my advisor on Monday morning. 4:06:35 AM | reply []