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QTM

If you are looking for QTM, click here.

http://qtm.blogistan.co.uk/

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• Crash: fixed bug which caused app to crash when trying to access non-existent web servers or servers (i.e. when server or location was wrongly specified)
• Qt 4.2 update: now has a system tray icon, which can be compiled in or not, as required. See README file for information on how to compile it in. Able to begin a new entry, open a saved entry, set whether to open a blank window on startup and to quit.
• Qt 4.2 update: new tabbed preferences window which also sets the editor, preview and console fonts using the Qt 4.2 font combo box (as specified here). The old preferences window is still present when Qt 4.1 is used
• New Edit menu action to set the console font (Qt 4.1 only)
• Can now post to Blogger blogs (but only as a draft; this restriction is at Blogger's end and is the case on all client applications)
• Bug fix: warning message which sometimes appeared when opening entries from files with the password missing is now gone.

I consider this to be a stable release; focus for development is now shifting onto version 0.4, which I intend will have multiple user accounts besides the one which is accessible now. When this will come out, I don't know.

I have now implemented a functional system tray icon. The STI works on any system which actually has a system tray, namely KDE, GNOME, IceWM, Windows and the Mac. There are, however, irritating glitches on all platforms. On KDE and, to a lesser extent, GNOME, right-clicking on the icon does not guarantee bringing up the QTM menu; it may bring up the environment's system tray menu instead. You may have to left-click a couple of times before you get QTM's own menu. On the Mac, when starting the app and only displaying the icon, as opposed to a new entry as well, it leaves you with an empty menu bar rather than simply handing back control to whatever you were running before; on the Mac and Windows, closing down from the STI does not always work as it should.

What I will probably do is release a version 0.3.10 as a stable release with the STI isolated. One Qt 4.2 feature which will be in 0.3.10 is a better font selection dialog, integrated into the main preferences window, which uses the new Qt font selector. The program will be structured so that the old preferences dialog will load instead on Qt 4.1.

And here are some screenshots, starting with the new, improved preferences window (so far only implemented for Qt 4.2):

CMake bandwagon, and a new version of the source bundle has been uploaded to SourceForge and KDE Apps which includes a CMake project file as well as the old QMake one. I don't intend to get rid of the QMake version yet; for one thing, it's still useful in preparing the Mac application bundle which doesn't require installing; it just needs dragging to the Applications folder, which is not the case on any other OS. This was built with the help of Jacek at Qt Centre, who wrote this guide at the Qt Centre Wiki to building Qt 4 programs with CMake. Note that the CMake project file example at qtnode does not work; I tried it myself and it didn't make it past the configure stage.

To build and install, you need to type "cmake ." from the directory where the source files are (note the dot, denoting the current directory). Then you type "make" and then, as root or with sudo, "make install" (without the quotes in each case). Note that Makefiles built with CMake give a concise, pretty and colourful output as standard, quite unlike the (to most users) incomprehensible list of commands the old Makefiles made.

You need CMake version 2.4.3 or 2.4.1; version 2.4.2 is not reliable. It can be obtained from this page on the CMake homepage, or (and preferably) as a binary from a repository specific to your OS. Note that Ubuntu Dapper has a 2.2 version which is not suitable for this purpose.

Downloads are available at SourceForge (with source also at KDE Apps if you prefer). Source, a Mac OS X universal binary and RPMs for Ubuntu Dapper, SUSE 10.1 and Fedora 5 are there now. (By the way, SUSE's Qt 4.1 RPMs are now located here for 10.1 and here for version 10. The binaries for 9.3 seem to have been deleted.)

Downloads are available, as ever, at KDE Apps and Sourceforge.

Version 0.3 is now a "branch" in the source repository; the trunk of the tree, or "HEAD", is now being used for preparing version 0.4. This will include multiple accounts and I hope it will be available within a few weeks; there may or may not be a version 0.3.9. Unfortunately I cannot get this application to work on Windows 2000 (the only version of Windows I have access to on a machine with network access); it compiles OK, but crashes when trying to fetch material from the network. When I get to the bottom of this I intend to start issuing Windows installers as well; until then, it's Linux and Mac only, unless someone else wants a try, of course.

Note: I have had to update this again, to fix another route to the aforementioned crash bug, namely the fact that network actions (like Blog This, refresh blog list and refresh categories) were enabled at start-up whether or not there was a useable account. This has been sorted in version 0.3.8.1, available at KDE Apps or SourceForge. Binaries to follow shortly.

Now that version 0.3.7 is out and the application has reached some level of stability and feature completeness, I thought the time was right to work out how to make a distributable Mac OS X Qt app and a disk image ... which involved a fine-tooth-comb reading of the Trolltech Deployment HOWTO ... I'll need to work out some way of automating those "install_name_tool" commands.

Anyway, the disk image is here. It is a PPC-only Universal binary built on a G4 with OS X Tiger. I can't give any guarantee that it will run on Panther or anything earlier. The application binary contains four Qt frameworks; I don't believe that an up-to-date Qt Aqua binary exists anywhere (there was a 4.1.0 binary, but version 4.1.0's text editor class never did cut it).

I expect this to be the last 0.3 release; work is about to start on version 0.4 and on a bit of documentation such as a FAQ (you might have seen the empty FAQ section to the right ...). I expect the next feature will be accounts, which will allow you to choose between different blog installations without entering all the details into the preferences dialog. I can't give an ETA on version 0.4 though. I'm also toying with the idea of migrating the project to CMake as this is what the KDE people are doing ... but I'm wondering how necessary it is for QTM as QMake is generally adequate.

• The ability to use a context menu to add the filename of the XML-RPC receiver script (they are nearly always called xmlrpc.php or mt-xmlrpc.cgi, so you can right-click and choose one of the two when entering the location).
• The ability to browse for a drafts directory (that greyed-out Browse button is now plumbed in and it works).

Downloads at KDE Apps and SourceForge. Binaries for SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper are now available.