Hi, I'm thinking of jumping ship from xJournal as the developer has abandoned it and I can't find source code/don't yet have the programming skills to update it myself.
There's one quirk of iJournal that is bugging me though.
When you load the program it fetched userpics off the server. The program is unresponsive until that's done. Is there a way to cache the userpics to the harddrive. Fetching userpics means there is a good 30-60 second wait after loading the program (over a hundred userpics) and means I can't use iJournal "offline"(as iJournal is unresponsive until it has fetched the pics) to compose a post to post later.
So can it either a) cache the userpics and just check for changes on login. or b) just fetch a list of pics and download the image when selected?
Other than that, the program looks great and having in several the features that xJournal didn't have.
There's one quirk of iJournal that is bugging me though.
When you load the program it fetched userpics off the server. The program is unresponsive until that's done. Is there a way to cache the userpics to the harddrive. Fetching userpics means there is a good 30-60 second wait after loading the program (over a hundred userpics) and means I can't use iJournal "offline"(as iJournal is unresponsive until it has fetched the pics) to compose a post to post later.
So can it either a) cache the userpics and just check for changes on login. or b) just fetch a list of pics and download the image when selected?
Other than that, the program looks great and having in several the features that xJournal didn't have.
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There's a little bit of work to change the flow of the code so that you can do 'offline for a current post', and a lot of code to do 'offline for the past 3 entries I've written while disconnected from the network'.
I have some cache code in for bug#22, but I'm not done with it, nor have I come up with a way to detect if are changes in userpics other than having the user click refresh (ala' logjam).
I haven't had a lot of time to work on iJ, but it is progressing, even if it is slow ;)