Raster finally agreed with me on some issues regarding icon placement and referencing 🙂 Clearly embelished and tidied there is now a new format for application icons .eapp – this contains the icon (can be animated) along with meta data such as name, exe and window class. If anyone cannot be bothered creating their own and want more than those in CVS you can use … Continue reading E17 moves to .eapp
OK, so it was not the ideal circumstance, but a bug I discovered last night whilst posting make me look at my content management system again (Rectang XSM) this is now nearly all ported from the php origins and starting to look good. However the nasty function for generating the main page view/edit screens is still looking like php, so I finally got round to … Continue reading XSM work 🙂
OK, so it’s the big one! E0.17_pre10 is now in cvs and we have all started to pull together on it! After an initial look around I put together a clock module to find out how the api was going, that was easy and thanks to raster it looks damn cool too 🙂 Next was to get a few e16 nicities working a.k.a app transparency … Continue reading E17 gets into full swing
Travelling all going well – having a fantastic time. Sitting in a cybercafe in Christchurch as it is no longer baking hot outside today. Hopeto catch some skiing tomorrow 🙂 I try to cope! Continue reading Travelling NewZealand
Due to the E code all using the BSD license it is proving difficult to get a nice iconset to use by default in E apps. This is being looked into by the E team and over time we expect to have a nice solution involving user contributions etc, but for now I have uploaded some icons for engage. This is a collection of .eet … Continue reading Engage icon file license difficulties
Well, now engage is using rasters excellent e17_pre5 code for configuring the iconbar aspect it is time to have some fun, so now if you add or remove an icon from the configuration engage will automatically adjust – cool no? 🙂 Continue reading Engage uses E_App watchers
Finally the long haul of learning the X system tray (or “notification area”) specification has reaped some benefits. The code has pulled together to provide us with the tray you see below – it may not be perfect yet, but it certainly rocks!!! Continue reading Engage gets system tray
Well, more of the same really, but I thought that this was looking so nice it deserved an entry. The control center now has two modes, buttons as shown before and icons as per: . The modes switch using a cool little animation too 🙂 Also of interest is the nice detail I added to the corner of each note vis: cool no? 🙂 Engage folk … Continue reading More Enotes themeing
Enotes the desktop notes program based on the EFL has obtained a new lease of life this week! With the addition of some features I requested and a tidyup of the display comes my offering – the postit theme 🙂 Looking like a postit tm note this theme offers new compact notes to your desktop with many new features still to be added. A screenshot … Continue reading Enotes gets a new lease of life
Well, this tour is rocking! the music is going very well and we have been performing to 9000+ people on a good night – crazy. Got a new digital camera which I have loads of pictures to download from when I get back 🙂 Although all is well I cannot wait to get back… there is a great lego store with an apple store next … Continue reading Chicago Tour
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