The TNT man cometh
My Mac OS X Tiger DVD arrived today, exactly as Steve promised. The box is awful shiny. I'm currently in the process of installing it on my iBook ("Time Remaining: About 14 minutes"). The big pleasant surprise so far is the included iWork trial CD (picture), which may actually persuade people like me who are still using ClarisWorks 4 (well, AppleWorks 6, but they're the same thing) to buy it. I've decided to delay Shrook v2.2 a few days while I make sure everything still works. I'm going to try hacking in some basic Spotlight support over the weekend.(If you're wondering why as a developer I had to buy my own retail copy, it's because Apple give away all the tools I actually need for free, so I can't see any other benefits to paying the rather hefty ADC subscription fee)
-- Graham, April 29th, 2005 11:20 AM.
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About making sure everything still works in Tiger....
I'm having a problem. It could be totally unrelated to Tiger, but I didn't notice it until after upgrading. Shrook is hanging on checking Shrook.com.
This isn't a problem with your server (I know that even as my copy of Shrook can't connect right now, Shrook.com is up)--my cable connection's just iffy right now and will sometimes fade out for 5-10 minutes. If Shrook tries to update distributed checking during one of these downtimes, then it won't stop trying even after my internet connection is re-established. It'll just hang on "Connecting to Shrook.com" forever, without timing out.
"Connecting to Shrook.com" appears at the top of the window and clicking the X button DOESN'T close it. Toggling "Work Offline" doesn't fix it. Trying to check every channel manually doesn't fix it (instead, it just makes every channel hang). The only thing that works is to quit Shrook and relaunch.
Also, I think there's something a bit off about the WebKit integration. Sometimes loading complex pages in the inline browser will crash Shrook and lose recent changes (like read items or new channels). This would happen on occasion through 10.3.9, but I noticed it again yesterday after installing Tiger. Should I report those bugs to Apple, or is it on your end?
Playing around with the improved System Profiler, I happened to glance through my logs (not that that part of the Profiler's been updates at all) and noticed Shrook accumulates errors pretty regularly.
The console.log shows these two messages over and over again:
2005-04-30 12:13:02.168 Shrook[1051] Could not create CGImageDestinationRef for output type 'public.tiff'
Apr 30 12:13:02 Jonathon-Rubins-AlBook /Applications/Shrook.app/Contents/MacOS/Shrook: CGImageDestinationCreate capacity parameter is zeroThat latter one also appears in the system.log twice in a row each 16-17 minutes
-- Jon Rubin, April 30th, 2005 4:56 PM.