@

Sunday, March 24, 2002

I got a little help with my perma-link problem on the discussion group. I forgot you can put arbitrary scripts between the <%%> tags. So you can write a script in there that will give you the link. But to get it to work for categories will be a bit of work. comment ()  4:34:06 PM  #   Poop. Perma-links aren't as easy to fix as I thought. There's just one macro that spits out the html. So I'd have to go muck with my copy of Radio to fix it and I don't really want to do that. What would be better if there was another macro that returned the URL for an item. Then I could build a custom perma-link myself as part of the item template. comment ()  2:45:21 PM  #   I found out something icky about Radio's default perma-link. It's a gif. Why is that a problem? When I drag it I'm dragging a gif, not the link. I want the link to drag so that I can drop it on Radio Poster's glossary and have it pop right in. Earlier today I tried to drop a perma-link into a glossary and it didn't take. Turns out it isn't my fault. Other weblogs have text for their perma-links so they are easy to drag-and-drop. Of course, the whole thing is easy to change, but most people aren't going to do that. comment ()  2:41:54 PM  #   So it looks like Dave is still working on the OPML coffee mug. Cool. I can't wait till it ships. comment ()  2:39:27 PM  #   I've got Radio Poster working pretty well. It can save and restore document files. I decided to use XML as the format of the document files. And I used my recently developed SimpleXmlParser to parse them. Of course, I had a bug in the XML, so it wouldn't parse. But I didn't support any error reporting in SimpleXmlParser so I had no idea where the problem was. I had to step through the code in REALbasic to find out that I was writing out an end tag that didn't match its beginning tag. That experience prompted me to add error reporting directly to SimpleXmlParser. It was easy to add and now I can get an error message and error position when a parse isn't successful. And I now save the state of a Radio Poster document, which includes the address/username/password stuff. I can have one to my weblog and one to Dave's test weblog. You can even see my first test post. comment ()  10:40:31 AM  #   This is a test post from Radio Poster, a REALbasic app I'm developing that will post to a weblog that supports the MetaWeblog API. comment ()  9:43:54 AM  #

© Copyright 2002 Will Leshner. Last update: 3/24/02; 10:42:44 AM.