First of all, I put the latest build of Snipper online as Snipper 1.0. You can get it here or from the link on the sidebar. The feature set is not complete since I don’t have snippet definition importing and I’d also liked to have had some sort of documentation to go along with it but things are becoming a bit hectic at work (I’ll get to that rant/whine in a bit :p) that I don’t even have time in the evening to complete any of that work and might not for a while since I have to work Saturdays till the end of July or so … Anyway, hopefully the method of defining a snippet should be self explanatory since it a new snippet definition leads you through a sort of a wizard-like interface and since there is already a snippet Collection in there for some of my favorite comics, anybody who is interested should be able to figure out how the definitions are done by looking at the existing definitions. At least I hope so – and of course, if anybody finds it interesting and wants to suggest features or simply wants help with it, let me know … but be warned, creating snippet definitions does require a bit of HTML knowledge …
Now to the whine :p My latest responsibility at work has turned out to be something which keeps me constantly on the go – as well as at work late 🙁 So far we’ve always found ourselves right-smack on top of deadlines since it all started around last Wednesday and since then I’ve gone through setting up and getting out three different newspaper pages in three different languages. Yesterday was the Sinhala page’s turn and while yesterday we should have sent the final copy to the paper for printing, we weren’t able to do so since some of the articles were being typed out only yesterday. I stayed late with another guy and the assigned graphics guy and we worked on the layout till we got it right but we found out that the first proof-reading session didn’t catch all the errors and by that time, the graphics guy was eager to go home. So I’m planning to get to work, correct the mistakes caught in the second proof-reading and then rush out the copy. Of course, in the mean time, the next English and Tamil pages are ready to for layout and that begins today *and* we have to get started on the articles for the next Sinhala page which has an internal deadline of Friday! So it looks to me as if I’m going to be constantly in this cyclical struggle to get the pages out weekly and since my other project is already behind schedule and we are working Saturdays to try and finish it by the end of July (which I don’t think we’ll be able to do – my estimate is the second week of August … purely because we don’t have all the footage in-house and are still shooting stuff or expecting stuff from stringers), I don’t think I’m going to find much time for coding in the next few weeks … Of course, I could be wrong :p
So how do you get Snipper to actually download a comic, then Fahim? 🙂 Is it supposed to be automatic? If so, it’s not working here atm.
not working here either. Nothing shows up on in the right pane.
actually, I just got it working. I just had to collapse the “comics” node, then re-expand it. And it downloaded the comics then. So a slight bug there 🙂
Here is one for Calvin And Hobbes 🙂 Fahim, message me when you get online. I have several bugs for you to fix. This is a way cool app btw! 🙂
Name=Calvin & Hobbes
URL http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/
Full=False
BTag=IMG
BPos=1
BVal=end comic nav
ETag=
EPos
EVal
Oh yes, collapsing things seems to make it work. Neat, another fab product from the Fahim stable. 🙂
Great stuff! How about using a text string not an image, form, or table? Or perhaps a larger tag set? For instance ? Maybe make it extensible as a text (XML?) file so that we could make our own definition set? Just some wild and crazy thoughts. Also, I know it’s early to say so, but I always need proxy support. 🙁 I’ll be trying it at home tonight!
Sorry, I forgot to mention that you simply had to double-click the root node (Comics in this instance …) to get it to download … I could have set it to download on opening but thought the user might want a choice 😛
You can use any tag you want not just IMG, FORM or TABLE – those were the ones I decided to put in by default – that combo box takes values you type in as well … But I didn’t see the value to starting off with text since this is going to go inside an HTML page that I construct on the fly … but I might be wrong :p I’ll be adding proxy support in the next release …
It doesn’t resolve relative paths. B.C image tag look like this: /creators/bc/archive/images/bc2002261210704.gif
So, you need to add an option for us to specify an image path, as well as a website url. Keep up the good work!