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PictureWindow Update

a.j. — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:40:35 +0000

I found a bug in PictureWindow 1.5. It basically rendered the drop down absolutely useless. I’ve fixed the bug and everything seems to be working as it should. Download the latest version here.

PictureWindow1.5

a.j. — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:26:03 +0000

We’re happy to announce the release of PictureWindow1.5. There’s so much upgradey goodness that I jumped the version number a whole 0.4. Here’s the changelog:

- Added a preference panel that allows selecting the default image directory
- Added the ability to delete the current picture
- Added image information (name, size and format).
- Added keyboard shortcuts and menu items for next, previous and delete.
- Changed Open (cmd-O) to Open Folder (shift-cmd-O)
- Changed the UI around a bit
- Fixed a bug where the app would crash on startup if ~/Pictures was empty
- Some general code cleanup

Notice the “we” in the first sentence. Max Williams has contributed a significant amount of code and work to this release.

Enjoy the new release!

PictureWindow1.1

a.j. — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:34:40 +0000

I’m proud to announce the release of PictureWindow1.1. Besides some general code clean-up, this new release adds the ability to select a folder other than ~/Pictures/, which increases its usefulness about 1000 times. Download and enjoy.

Nope, not dead yet

a.j. — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:00:06 +0000

Been a while since I’ve updated. My apologies. But I have excellent news. I’ve written my first full-fledged Cocoa application. PictureWindow is a very basic image viewing program for OS X. In its current state of development it will only browse your Pictures folder. I’m working on changing that so you can select the folder you want to view. The code is pretty decent, in my inexperienced opinion, for a newbie. I plan on keeping this application in active development, unlike the other programs I’ve written, so if you try it out and think something is lacking, let me know and I’ll try to add it. It’ll be a good learning experience for me. Any feedback is, of course, welcome. Just shoot an email to aj [at] this domain. It uses the MIT license and the source code is included in the .zip file. Finally, I’d like to thank Max Williams for the great job he did on designing PictureWindow’s icon. Significantly better than anything I could have come up with.

I’m a little scared…

a.j. — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:12:20 +0000

For the past week+ I’ve been reading Programming in Objective-C. That’s not the scary part. The scary part is that I’m thoroughly enjoying it and I might actually like Objective-C better than I like Python. At least so far. “How can that be?” you may ask. “Python’s syntax is so much nicer. And you can do so much with so little typing. And don’t even get me started on memory management. Are you insane???” Perhaps I am. The long and the short of it is I grok Obj-C’s object model better, even though it requires more typing and having explicit getters and setters. And if I use Obj-C, I can use Xcode [yes, I know about PyObjC]. I haven’t gotten to working with files or strings or lists yet, so my opinion my change at a later date [you really can't beat list comprehensions].