Wednesday, February 13, 2002

I just committed the changes discussed in previous posts to RadioServices. I will cut a new binary as soon as I figure out remote posting issues (which, hopefully, will not be too hard). In any case, the source should build without a problem on any OS X box with the december dev tools installed. (Still does not process the first post if that was the one that caused the app to launch. I wonder why.) 11:51:12 PM

<>'";:[]}{.,/?!@#$%^&*()_+=-| The text above was created by typing '<>'";:[]}{.,/?!@#$%^&*()_+=-\|' into TextEdit and selecting the RadioServices 'Post to Blogger' Service. Radio Bug: I have to type '\\' to see a single '\' in the blog (which meant I had have to type '\\\\\' and '\\' to yield the aforementioned sentence...) This is what actually passed across the wire from AppleScript's xmlrpc interface to the Radio desktop server: <string> &lt;&gt;&apos;&quot;;:[]}{.,/?!@#$%^&amp;*()_+=-\| </string> (You don't even want to know what that looks like when entered into Radio) So, it would seem that the apostrophe-- the '-- is the only problematic character. It would seem that Radio does not want it escaped, but AppleScript escapes it. Honestly, I have no idea who should win. 8:12:11 PM

Carbon & Services As Jim says, it is not a bug... it is a feature. Carbon apps have to write code to specifically enable the services menu. BBEdit has (no surprise), most-- including Word and IE-- have not. Bummer. I'm going to see if I can workaround the problem by providing a means to quickly post-from-clipboard. Easy enough; all the support is already in the app. It is just a matter of figuring out the quickest way to activate the functionality. Some folks are having problems interacting with remote Radio installations. I'm not sure what is up with that. If you have it working, please contact me so I can gather info from a working environment (but I will try to duplicate the conditions on my home LAN at some point). (And it made me a liar-- I can't directly use Word as an editor... I have to copy/paste somewhere else) 8:50:58 AM