transcendental petroglyphs

Maybe a diary of REALbasic app development. Maybe just stuff about REALbasic. Maybe nothing :)

@ Tuesday, April 23, 2002

instant outlines

I think the idea of instant outlines is pretty cool. But what I don't like (and I may just be missing the point) is that you've got to suck up an entire outline to see any of it. I wrote a simple IO client in REALbasic, but the performance sucked because it had to get the entire OPML file, parse it, and build a table. Actually, it was pretty fast, but it won't be when somebody's outline gets to be really huge. And what happens when you've got a bunch of people's outlines. I guess the idea is to only do the get/parse/display when you open up a level. But I still don't think it scales. I think there needs to be the notion of my right now outline and my archive outline.

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Using Radio Poster 1.1

I'm going to try using Radio Poster 1.1 for the rest of the day, just to make sure there aren't any problems before I release it. I already found one problem with the running it for the first time with the preferences for Radio Poster 1.0. I think I've got that fixed.

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ResPloder 1.1

Next up is ResPloder. I'm amazed at the number of people downloading it. I've had some good suggestions. I definitely need to add the ability to select which resources to include in the explosed folder. And I need to fix the PICT problem. Currently I just blindly copy the resource data to a file. But a PICT resource is not the same as a PICT file. The file has a 512-byte header. Without that graphics editors can't recognize the file as a PICT file. Another feature that has been requested is scriptability. If you could script ResPloder then you could probably find a number of intersting uses for it.

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Radio Poster 1.1

I'm hard at work on Radio Poster 1.1. I hope to have it out in the next day or so. The code is written, I think. I just need to work on the docs. Documentation will be a challenge as I need to add something about setting up to talk to Blogger and Movable Type.

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