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Date: 24/12/2007 | After pushing out a reasonable Win32 build of Scribe I'm working on the Linux and Mac ports. The linux port is building and running on Ubuntu but I'm getting a bunch of window resizing issues that used to happen every so often but now it happens all the time. So I'm not going to get a build out this year but I'll look at it again in Jan. As I'm not doing PC dev work over the Christmas / New Year holidays.
I am however going to look at the core issues on the Mac build. I'm talking about the lost messages between the worker and GUI threads. This is obviously a fairly core issue that the software relies on. Hence the lack of motivation to work on the Mac port... anyway I've got some time now so I'll have another crack at it. |
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Date: 21/12/2007 | After months of tinkering with Lgi on linux, trying to get it to play nicely with Gnome I've worked out what was going on and made a work around for the issue.
If you initialize Gnome in UI mode, i.e. gnome_program_init("Lgi", "2.0.0", LIBGNOMEUI_MODULE, Args, Arg, NULL, NULL);
Then it registers atexit handlers so the library image must remain in memory till the application exits, otherwise it'll try and call the atexit hooks back into Gnome (which has been unloaded) and it crashes. So I added a return parameter to the WmExit method that the parent Lgi app calls before unloading the window manager helper shared object and the WM helper can select to stay in memory.
There is still some question on how to read the right settings out using the Gnome API, but that is a minor issue compared to the ones I've already solved. I know I could've shipped a build of Scribe without any WM support, but I've been a) too busy or b) too sick to do a lot of Linux work lately. I had a virus a few weeks ago where I spent the entire week in bed. Which is unusual for me, as I normally recover quickly from such minor things. Maybe I'm just slowing down a bit in my 30's :) Speaking of intractable coding issues, I recently fixed (some) of the weird focus issues in Scribe. The recently releases were waiting on that fix. Basically I'm a dill and called SetFocus in the WM_CREATE handler if Focus(true) had been called before the view was attached. The problem with that is, if the view had the focus, you detach it, and then re-attach it later it takes the focus again. Which in my case was NOT what I wanted. But after some months of trying different things to work out the problem I hit on the issue and fixed it. And of course... what of the Mac port? Ah... the Mac port. Yes yes. Well that has it's own thorny issue that has me mostly beat. I'm losing messages between the worker thread and the GUI thread and I don't know why. Unbelievably painful. *sigh* |
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| Wikipedia Notability | |
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Date: 2/11/2007 | So now any trace of i.Scribe and InScribe has disappeared from wikipedia entirely, apparently because it's not "notable" enough.
The comparison page has had all the not notable clients purged from it. Wikipedia used to be awesome for looking stuff up. But I'm beginning to wonder it's imploding in on itself these days under the notability Nazis. I'm certainly no longer keen on putting any more of my time into editing wikipedia articles. |
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Date: 31/10/2007 | Spring clean, some stuff on ebay:
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| Scribe Stable Status | |
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Date: 23/10/2007 | I've been threatening to make a stable build of Scribe v1.89 for a while now and I'm basically happy with the codebase as it stands. For new users anyway, the situation for v1.88 users is a little grim. Apparently there are a lot of upgrade issues. And because there are a fair few users out there still on v1.88 I am going to focus on cleaning up the upgrade issues so that when v1.89 stable is released they get taken care of. |
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Date: 17/10/2007 | The Scribe page has dropped off Google.
It was listed on the 2nd page of results for "email client" but now it's not in the results at all. Not further down the results, completely not present. There is also a strong correlation between the change in Google ranking and a complete stop in InScribe sales. Oh well. There goes that business plan. The page hasn't changed in any significant way, and considering the inbound links to it, should still rank well. So I'm assuming Google is punishing me for some perceived slight, although I have no idea what. Update: It seems that the wikipedia page on i.Scribe/InScribe has been deleted and I would hazard a guess that it doesn't help your Google ranking when that happens. Are there any wikipedians out there that could create a deletion safe page for i.Scribe/InScribe? The text that was there for Scribe on wikipedia: 'Scribe' is a small and lightweight Email Program for Windows and Linux which first appeared as Freeware in 1999 and has been updated roughly once a month ever since. Previous versions ran on Beos as well. Scribe now comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe and a commercial version: InScribe. The commercial version adds multiple accounts and multiple user defined filters. |
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