FeedTicker
Gee!This last weekend I've been sick. Somehow I was fortunate (?) enough to have it come on right before my last class on Thursday, right before a four day weekend.
I have cabin fever bad.
I've still have the chewy nougaty center but unfortunately I wasn't inspired enough to get any coding done like before. This is doubly unfortunate since I have programming assignments due Tuesday and Thursday. I've completed most of the Tuesday one and the rest isn't anything I can't handle.
On the FeedTicker side of things, I've completed the Preference Pane changes and the only thing holding me up is a damn memory leak. It has to do with the weird way I transition between info windows and reclaiming their memory after they disappear. I'm limited by the way the transitions work and I'm having a devil of a time getting it to release the windows without causing some kind of null pointer exception equivalent. I just had an idea that should help a great deal but as I said before I have other more pressing code to pound on.
One thing I added last week at the request of a user is to have the ability to start and stop the ticker without using the preference pane. In the next version you can toggle on an Application Icon so the ticker behaves like a regular application. Once it's running you can drag the icon in the dock to a position of your choice, giving the ability to start the app at any time.
I'm toying around with the idea of actually separating out the application entirely to give users finer control. This will of course require a two part install, one for the preference pane and one two drag the application to the Applications folder. Not a big deal. I kind of like the idea of having everything contained within the preference pane bundle but I did receive an email berating me for it :)
If anyone has a preference one way or another, please leave a comment.
In other news, my sweetheart has been very busy. Be sure to check out the Starz! Hare-raising Halloween Marathon Trailer! She rules.
In other other news, a few weekends ago I was able to meet one of my all-time favorite Science Fiction authors, Orson Scott Card at the opening of three short plays based on his work. He was one of the nicest people I have ever met. The plays were excellent.