Long time no see.
This site and I'm surviving somehow tentative. However working status has been still a little uncomfortable since last year. Also I'm a little uncomfortable for that reason.
In another side, I really get into a drumming lately, because I purchased the Roland V-Drums. And this summer, I purchased the Gretsch drum set I was dreaming.
Despite this, I have not been playing the drum for these two months, because I have no private time. For that reason, I can not update not only web-site but also my plug-in. ( But this is not to say that I gave up the plug-in development project )

Today, I used the RapidWearver after a long interval. Also I updated it to version 4.1.3. And I checked the SimpleViewer plug-in on the RW4.1.3. because I received a comment which reported that the SimpleView plug-in is not running under RW4.
I can use the SimpleViewer plug-in without any problem.
But I need to update plug-ins... ( also include AutoViewer and TiltViewer )

tag : drums , rapidweaver , simpleviewer , autoviewer , tiltviewer

I have to say that I'm sorry for writing down same topic over and over again but my work is still as very hectic as ever.
However, the situation has been better than last month. So I restarted to develop the SimpleViewer plug-in for release version. But, Sure enough I forgot a usage of the Xcode and the Cocoa. So it takes long time to recall these things. The release version shall support new features as follows...

• Blocks support
  Isaiah has been supported to make my plug-in correspond to the Blocks since last September. (Thanks Isaiah) But I had no time to make plug-in.
  On release version, the SimplerViewer plug-in will support the Blocks.
• No-resize mode
  On bete version, resize function is implemented with NSImage and it's very simple and rudimentary method.
  This method is good enough for generating thumbnail images but is poor to resize main photo image.
  I had a lot of opinions about this matter from the blog comments, the RealMac forum comments and my friend who is professional photographer.
  So I will add the "No-resize mode" on release version.
  If this mode will be enabled, the plug-in will generate thumbnail image only. The main photo image file will be uploaded to the host directly.
  So you have to resize the photo image manually for upload. Conversely you can use more excellent imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop for resizing the photo image. It's good for the person who has a discriminating taste in photograph.
  Also if you disable this mode, you can upload the image file as quickly and painlessly as possible.
• CoreImage support
  Anyway, the resizing method which is used in beta version is poor and slow. So I will re-write this functionality to the CoreImage. That way, I think that it can speed up thumbnail image generating and resizing.

So I has been recently learning the CoreImage technology. "Core" and "Image" are popular foreign words in Japan. And I feel the feeling for language "CoreImage" is very cool.
Also the technology itself is more cool. However, it's not so easy for "Xcoder on Sunday".

tag : simpleviewer

Campaign ads which is "Mac and PC" are broadcast on TV and Apple's website of Japan lately. Also these campaign ads had been translated to Japanese.
I had watched the original campaign ads of an English version on the Apple's website of USA some time ago.
However these campaign ads was difficult for me to understand. It's really difficult to understand this kind of humorous cynicism.
At this time, Japanese version of the campaign ads are only three kinds.
I think each advertisement to be translated very well. I'm looking forward to translating to Japanese other stuff.

BTW I'm writing this topic in my office now also serves as a coffee break because my schedule of main job is really really hard now.
I was developing v1 of SimpleViewer plugin by the end of November. However, it remains interrupting.
At this rate, I'm afraid to forget where does this end.

tag : simpleviewer

I am really glad to be pleased more than the expectation with you in the support forum.
However there was a fatal problem in the public beta 1 as wrote in the support forum. I could not notice at home while developing because I did not use PC (Windows) at all. Therefore, I was disappointed when I saw the sample site in my company. (I'm a windows user in my company)

So I fixed major problems and released the public beta 2 today. Please check it out if you are interested in it.
If you have some problems on public beta 2 please contribute this entry's comment.

tag : simpleviewer

Today, I release my first plugin for RapidWeaver, because it has been completed as first beta earlier than originally planned. It's not only my first plugin but also my first Macintosh application. This really simple plugin was named SimpleViewer plugin. Yes, It's SimpleViewer page builder for RapidWeaver.
I seem that I'm a long way from being able to completely understand the architecture of the plug-in and Cocoa , and program it freely. However, being able to achieve this "Completed Something" was a huge gain of self-confidence for me. Also this experience will make good advantageous effect for my future projects.
You can download SimpleViewer plugin from here. Please test if you like it.

In addition, The composition of the tools page has been changed with the release of this plugin. Please change the book mark if you had a book mark to directly link to the tools pages.

In case you didn't know, I'm NOT discontinuing the development of RapidWeaverBBS. This is something like a etude for my goal.

tag : simpleviewer

I seem that the roadmap of Isaiah who is great RW plugin developer was best way.
I would say, at a guess, He developed "Columns" first. Afterwards, it would be the order of "Collage", "Accordion", and "Blocks". Also each plugins are great but I guess it's in ascending order of difficulty of programing.

The development of RapidWeaverBBS plugin has various hurdles for "Sunday Xcode programmer" like me as weblogged before. It may seem like a hassle, but I thought I ought to go back to the basics and review my roadmap. Haste makes waste, they say.

For such a reason, I have started developing another plugin for practice of plugin architecture since few weeks ago. Don't worry ! It doesn't mean I give up developing the RapidWeaverBBS. It's one step of the development roadmap of the RapidWeaverBBS.

Actually I scheduled to make this "Practice Plugin" at first. However I thought that it was more difficult until I learnt SDK, so I left it on a back burner.

The "Practice Plugin" is still under developing. However main function has been completed. My remainder jobs are parameter setting function such as a background color etc. Also these jobs are not so complex and it's good practice exercise for me to understand the Cocoa architecture.

So, I will release the first beta version within two weeks. I will inform in this weblog and the support forum.
Which kind of plugin are you going to release ?
Just wait until you see it ! (I think that this "Practice Plugin" is a little bit attractive for you)

tag : simpleviewer