A prelude to v2, this version includes numerous fixes and updates including:
- Completely revised update-checking system.
- Upgrade to Share This 1.3.1
- Enhanced integration between Share This and Gregarious.
- and a few spelling mistakes have been corrected.
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p>Click “check for updates” under your options page, or download it from here.
Version 2.0 of Gregarious is currently in development and is shaping up to be the biggest, best looking and easiest to use social bookmarking plugin going around. Seriously, it’s good. The biggest change will be the interface - I’m reusing bits of the Rapidweaver “Placeholder”, so expect some real goodness as far as the UI is concerned. Extra options, as well as many requested features will make their debut and Gregarious will go from being a plugin to a critical extension of Wordpress. I’m even thinking of adapting it (later) to work on other CMS systems and even standalone PHP pages. I’m very excited about the latest developments, and eagerly looking forward to hearing your suggestions for the next big thing in social bookmarking. Let me know if there’s any features you’d like to see added to the plugin, and I’ll be sure to work them in if they’re doable. If you’d like to stay updated with pre-release versions of Gregarious, just let me know and I’ll regularly send you updates to try out before the big one!
Thanks to all of you for making Gregarious such a big success!
A lot of people seem to be having trouble running the Gregarious plugin, though it’s working fine on my site - or is it? This is just a test to see if the plugin picks up the referrer as Digg. If it doesn’t, that means that the change at Digg was big enough to warrant another overhaul of the plugin. Since Gregarious is one of the more advanced plugins, it checks back to Digg to ensure that the referral was really from the Digg page and not from a comment. Could this be the cause of the complaints, as Digg just went through another update? If the Digg badge shows at the bottom of this post, it’s proof that the plugin still works. Otherwise, I need to bury my head in code again to make a few more changes to this social bookmarking plugin.
So, is it working?
Scott Stevenson, creator of CocoaDevCentral has just created a brand new website - CocoaBlogs.
Scott has been providing Cocoa-related articles since 2001, and is need of donations, so if you have a buck or two (or twenty) to spare for this great cause, do head over and help out.
This is mainly for developers, but if you’re a Quicksilver user and want to get a taste of the upcoming Fumo interface, feel free to tune in.
Nicholas Jitkoff, aka Alcor, the developer of Quicksilver has been extremely generous in providing assistance and code. A developer by the name of “ytrewq1″ has also been very gracious. Sincere appreciation to both of them.
Well, let’s take a look at how Fumo is shaping up. I’ve added a sliding transition for when it’s activated so it shoots down from the top of the screen. I’ve also made the contentView of the window transparent, and added a custom view to which the rendering of the background is done. Trust me, it’s easier that way.
The transition for the window exiting (by sliding out) is very crude and you’ll notice that I’ve had to use the “reallyOrderOut:” method on the window since orderOut makes it fade out, and it looks weird if the window slides out of the screen, then reappears and fades.
Final thing, (actually the first real thing I did) was the subclassing of the “activateInTextMode:” method. Try activating the interface in text mode (you’ll need to have a trigger for Command Window in Text Mode). Hopefully you get a very nice warping effect.
Next on the agenda is changing the background and text color of the actual searching views. Take a shot at it if you like. Here’s the source code:
Fumo Source
Update: Download a (still unstable) version of Fumo from this post.
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