Quote from: vbrilon at Jan 26, 2007, 02:22 PM
Hey Scotty, nice work on this. Very impressive.
If you’d like some help with Cocoa dev on this project, please ping me. I’ve been looking for an excuse to bust out XCode again
Victor, I have actually been meaning to do that. Thank you for the offer. I hope that I do not become your biggest annoyance!
Quote from: rthrash at Jan 26, 2007, 01:11 PM
1) Didn’t realize you had to double-click to bring up a document the first time. I’d like to see some logic that checks to see if a document is currently open and if not, to open one on clicking the menu tree. If there is one open, ask if you want to save any changes (only if you’ve made them) before navigating away.
You’re right, I didn’t realize that double clicking to open wouldn’t be immediately obvious. Do you think single click to open a doc would be better? I totally agree with displaying an alert to confirm closing if there are unsaved changes. Not sure how to best implement it yet, but consider it important enough to get done ASAP
Quote from: rthrash at Jan 26, 2007, 01:11 PM
2) HTML button should bring the window back to front when clicking on it. E.g., I’ve got a bunch of apps open and click on an app running in the bg. I want to go back by clicking on the page editing page. I don’t see my HTML window and click the HTML button, but nothing happens. Solution: bring all windows to front.
Hmmm. I didn’t even thing about that. Good one. Can do.
Quote from: rthrash at Jan 26, 2007, 01:11 PM
3) View should be labeled Preview, needs a corresponding menu entry, and use the cmd-U shortcut. HTML could get the opt-cmd-U shortcut (or vice-versa).
Well, this is stupid, and I only noticed it after I released 0.0.3, but I set the preview to cmd+V, which made sense at the time until I tried to paste some content into the RTE and the preview window popped up! It is changed to cmd+shift+U for 0.0.4.
Quote from: rthrash at Jan 26, 2007, 01:11 PM
4) HTML view does not preserve line endings or spacing (and could stand a bit of syntax coloring! ).
I am just beginning to understand that this "little" project I wanted to try is actually 4 pretty big projects.
1) An XML-RPC server to communicate with the MODx database.
2) A cocoa GUI for interacting with the data returned from the XML-RPC server.
3) A RTE for HTML editing (I am beginning to see why the TinyMCE is so heavy)
4) An FTP client for uploading / managing images to be included in documents.
I am sure as this project matures, and as I learn more about developing on OS X (Primarily done is AppleScript right now), this will really turn out to be a full featured program. I hope that development keeps unfolding as quickly as it has. (I started this thing 2 weeks ago
).
-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.