Cocoa on Angus Thinks

SQLEditor 1.4b2

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Another day, another beta. (Kind of)

SQLEditor 1.4b2 is now available, which is pretty much bug fixing against 1.4b1.

There were several issues with 1.4b1 including an annoying bug that would sometimes delete foreign key connectors when you deleted an unrelated table.

There are some fixes for other bugs which turned up and some improvements to undo/redo, to make it more stable when you undo or redo lots of things, one after the other.

HTMLValidator beta 2

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

HtmlValidator beta 2 has just been released. The new version offers assorted fixes and a slightly improved interface (a green tick or red cross now appear in the validation window!)

There is also a new downloads page which currently offers an Applescript to validate the source of the front page in Safari.

Usefully it validates the actual source that the browser received, it doesn’t download the url itself.

HTMLValidator

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

HTMLValidator 1.0b1 has just been released.

It runs on PowerPC or Intel Macs with Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

The current version expires 28th February 2007.

HTMLValidator is a new desktop HTML validator that works on both web pages and files. It’s something I’ve been working on for a while now in between SQLEditor releases. The main motivation is that I often seem to use the W3C validator, but I can’t always do that with files I’m working on locally. I also tried installing the W3C validator on a local web server and although it works, it seems to require a lot of installation effort, with different dependencies. So the idea occurred to me: what if you could have a drag and drop installation. From there came a web version using drag and drop and finally the application bundle version that is being distributed from today. The earlier application versions actually displayed the results in an html webview in a window, while the newer releases display the results in a table.

SQLEditor 1.3.1

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

SQLEditor 1.3.1 got released on Friday afternoon, this was really just a bug fix release which fixed a handful of problems that were identified. I think the only major fix was that the new UID system was slightly broken in that if you copied an object, or duplicated it in some cases, then SQLEditor would not always recreate the unique ID numbers that represent each object. This had the effect that if you copied an object, SQLEditor couldn’t distinguish between the objects when reloading and so all connectors would be attached to the original object and not the new one. An unfortunate bug. :-(

static link library to replace dylib in mac os x

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This post on the xcode-users list explains a neat trick on how to get xcode to link a static library instead of a dynamic library.

Imagine the circumstance: you want to use a particular non-standard version of a native library which is already part of the system; perhaps you want to use an old version with better compatibility, or a newer version with more features. The obvious thing to do is to take a static build of the library and add it your xcode project.