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Remco shared an idea in EaSynth on August 20, 2009 01:40:

Support copying of vector image to system clipboard.

I now cannot copy a window to the clipboard. The only way I can get my drawings into a Word document (as far as I can see) are copy/paste using a screen capture utility (not good, also copies red flags for actions plus resolution is low) or export to PNG and dragging the PNG into Word (also not good, because it contains a lot of white around it for the rest of the "page" the window was drawn on.

I'm working on OS X Leopard.

Remco asked a question in EaSynth on August 20, 2009 01:29:

How can I use checkboxes in a table column?

How do I use checkboxes in a table? I want to use a column with checkboxes in it, that can be selected/deselected.

Remco reported a problem in EaSynth on August 18, 2009 13:52:

Actions not being executed during simulation

I have a screen that's full of objects of which I want to change the state/visibility when a certain button is clicked. Specifically, I want to enable a quantity of objects that are disabled, some elements turned from invisible into visible, and some elements from visible into invisible.

However, this does not seem to work as you can see here: http://www.cygno.com/remco/2009-08-18...

It somehow only seems to execute the *first* action and ignore the rest. What gives? It looks like a bug to me, or am I overlooking something obvious?

Remco replied on June 11, 2009 13:17 to the problem "Delicious Library spontaneously hangs" in Delicious Monster:

This problem also occurs with the latest version from DL2 (v2.1 beta, v11416). Strangely enough it seems to happen mostly when I leave DL2 alone (doing something else). As long as I'm working with it things seem to run smoothly.

When it hangs it is so bad it slows the entire system to a crawl (Macbook Pro 2,4 Ghz, 4Gb, OSX 10.5.7, 90Gb free disk space). It took me 10 minutes to force quit Library (a few minutes before the screen popped up after pressing the key combination to bring up the Force Quit Window, minutes to scroll down to Library, a minute before it responded to the click on Library, and then a minute before it actually went away). And then a few minutes before the system calmed down enough to be sort of useful again.

On the other hand, I fired it up later, played around, synced my entire library with the iPhone and it all works ok. It really seems to happen only when I leave it running in the background.

Remco replied on June 11, 2009 13:04 to the question "Love the app but cannot pair iPhone with Mac (yet). Help?" in Delicious Monster:

I did not get the pairing number and relaunched DL2 and iPhone app several times, it didn't show. I noticed the iPhone's name in DL2 was shown incorrectly. It was Remco's iPhone, and it only showed Remco. So I suspect a quote issue here. I renamed the iPhone and then I could pair it.

Remco replied on June 07, 2009 16:21 to the question "Will Wallet for iPhone be available in other countries?" in Acrylic:

There used to be questions about this in the comments on the posts in their blog (http://www.acrylicapps.com/blog/). When pressed several times for an answer, Dustin acknowledged there were "problems", never stating what those problems were (which left me rather unsatisfied). I just went over there to see what's up, and I see that comments on blog posts have just been disabled. I guess comments are only meant to give *positive* feedback.

That did it for me. Moving to 1Password as we speak. I stalled for a long time fearing the conversion process, but I've had it.

Remco started following the question "Will Wallet for iPhone be available in other countries?" in Acrylic.

Remco replied on June 01, 2009 20:04 to the problem "iPhone app not available (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/XXXX)" in Delicious Monster:

That sounds promising! I now indeed saw his tweet. Thanks! For now I'll just close the issue then.

Remco marked one of joe's replies in Delicious Monster as useful. joe replied to the problem "iPhone app not available (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/XXXX)".

Remco reported a problem in Delicious Monster on June 01, 2009 13:24:

iPhone app not available (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/XXXX)

After downloading DL2.1 and starting it up again, it offered me to download the iPhone app. However, it redirected me to http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/XXXX (the XXXX at the end just doesn't look like it should be there to me).

Don't know if it's important: I'm on the Dutch iTunes Store (so I guess the "international app store").

Remco asked a question in metaquark on April 28, 2009 18:24:

AppFresh is showing updates that are already installed.

AppFresh is showing a bunch of software updates that are already installed. It's currently showing 46 potential updates. Out of which maybe 3 are really true - the rest is already updated to the latest version.

Remco replied on January 03, 2009 14:48 to the problem "Delicious Library spontaneously hangs" in Delicious Monster:

Hi Terry,

Thanks for coming back to me on this.

I am not loading libraries from friends.
I have nothing plugged in.
I included a small screenshot with the counters here:


Yesterday I have tried again for example. It was running in the background fine for a few hours, and then suddenly it slowed my system to a halt (really, it takes me minutes for the "Kill task" screen to appear so I can kill DL2). In the meantime my HDD is really busy.

The strange thing is that I've used DL1 and DL2 without any problem for so long. This just started not so long ago. The only thing that I've changed (IMO) are two things: 1) I've started to use smart shelves extensively and 2) I've configured the FTP export to publish to a web site.

Maybe there is a log file that I can consult?

All the best for 2009.

Remco reported a problem in Delicious Monster on December 30, 2008 14:10:

Delicious Library spontaneously hangs

Today suddenly DL2 starts to crash on me and the only thing that I can do is to do a force quit (which is even very difficult as it slows the entire system).

I've seen it happening 6 times now. Once it just started and never responded (beach ball), and the other times I can do some things without problem, then I'm in another space working on something else and suddenly my system becomes amazingly slow and it's Library that's not responding anymore. Killing DL2 is the only option, and then my system comes back to life.

I'm using the current beta (2.0.5 (v10864) in the about box) as suggested by Terry, since the regular DL2 is giving me problems using FTP publish. I've been using that beta for a week without any problem though.

Any ideas? Some log file I can consult?

Remco started following the question "When is the three-column display from DM1 coming back to DM2?" in Delicious Monster.

Remco replied on December 30, 2008 02:41 to the idea "Smart shelves - add option to search for null values" in Delicious Monster:

That would be cool indeed. It would be cool to have the iTunes solution for that: if you can select items in a shelf based on other shelves and have boolean conditions on that, that could work. In general I'd like that feature by the way, it makes it possible to "fake" parenthesis and make relatively complex queries.

Remco shared an idea in Delicious Monster on December 29, 2008 18:46:

Smart shelves - add option to search for null values

I'd like to have the "negative" option in smart shelves. For example: "show books without cover image", or "show books without the language field set". I like to use smart shelves as "automatic workload queue's" and this would be helpful.

Now I use sorting, and as a workaround that is ok, it just could be nicer.

Remco shared an idea in Delicious Monster on December 29, 2008 18:10:

Improving the iPhone web interface

It's nice I can publish and get a "special iPhone" look. However, there are two things I'd like to see improved:

• The magnifying glass to see a bigger version of the covert art doesn't work; it takes me to amazon.com instead:
  
  


• The iPhone really shouldn't try to download PNG's of about 100 Kb per image just to show a very tiny thumbnail which I might want to enlarge but probably won't. I think it would work better if it published small thumbnails and images in JPEG instead of the 100% quality PNG's it does now. IMO this would be an improvement for the normal web template as well, but here it's less important because bandwidth is bigger and I can go back a page without it actually reloading the darn thing like it does on the iPhone.
  

Keep up the good work!

Remco started following the idea "DL2 on iPhone" in Delicious Monster.

Remco replied on December 26, 2008 20:13 to the question "Checking for null values in shelf rules." in Delicious Monster:

The answer is clear, but indeed I'd like to have the "negative" option in smart shelves. For example: "show books without cover image", or "show books without the language field set". I like to use smart shelves as "automatic workload queue's" and this would be helpful.

Now I indeed use sorting, and as a workaround that is ok, it just could be nicer.

Remco started following the question "Checking for null values in shelf rules." in Delicious Monster.