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A comment on the question "Desktop appearance" in Dale Lane:

What default icons? – Dale Lane, on November 09, 2009 07:54

Dale Lane replied on November 08, 2009 22:41 to the question "personal target" in Dale Lane:

I'm sure it was 9.1??, when I had to down load the current version because I updated parallels and the old version would not work.

Sorry... like I say - the code looks identical to me, and I don't think I've changed it.

But if you prefer behaviour from a previous version, the old versions are all at http://code.google.com/p/currentcostg...

As my supplier changes their cost to me yours is static, it assumes that everyone is on the same tariff if I assume right

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean here.

A comment on the question "Desktop appearance" in Dale Lane:

Would you be willing to design them? – Dale Lane, on November 08, 2009 20:54

A comment on the question "Maximum Page Length" in Dale Lane:

It would be nice if there was a setting in the menu so that we could modify it ourselves (like the nested page limit--we can modify this from 0 to 9) to have file sizes ranging from say 32kb to 32mb. That way users could modify it based on the platform they are using.

That's not a bad idea... it's a bit fiddly to make sure that all the classes get modified and restarted in sync, but should be do-able.

Not sure when I'll get a chance to do it, but I've added it to my list.

Thanks, D – Dale Lane, on November 08, 2009 20:11

Dale Lane replied on November 08, 2009 20:02 to the question "personal target" in Dale Lane:

I'm a little confused by what you mean...

When you say "old version", the target stuff was added in December 2008 (see http://code.google.com/p/currentcostg... ) and hasn't been changed since - you can see that the current code (http://code.google.com/p/currentcostg...) for the enableUsageTarget function is identical.

What "old version" are you talking about?

Dale Lane replied on November 06, 2009 12:38 to the question "Blank page when [^%INDEX%] is inserted" in Dale Lane:

strange... I can't recreate this bug.

can you give me more information about "blank" please?

if you look at the source of the HTML generated by the wiki (right click on the blank page and click on 'View source') what is in there?

Dale Lane replied on November 05, 2009 16:31 to the question "Maximum Page Length" in Dale Lane:

Several of the .NET classes used internally by the app require a limit to be set.

For example, most obviously, the text editor used to enter text into has a mandatory maximum size property.

I could just pick some random very-large number, but I'm reluctant to do this... largely because I use this primarily as a mobile app, and I don't want the app to allocate big chunks of memory for handling large strings.

I guess I could try and workaround this by providing some way to modify this on the fly - so if you do something that would exceed the limit, modifying all of the runtime classes to set a new maximum. This would be a less trivial piece of work. Something to think about, but not something that I've got time for at the moment, sorry.

A comment on the question "Vista 64 Possible Driver Problem, error 'Access is denied'" in Dale Lane:

eek... I faced a similar problem (spending ages debugging why stuff wasn't working only to find the cable was broken inside) so I can sympathise – Dale Lane, on November 04, 2009 19:44

Dale Lane replied on November 04, 2009 19:43 to the question "corrupted encrypted page when adding [^%SECTIONS%]" in Dale Lane:

Sorry about that... my bad. I've uploaded an updated version. Hopefully we're finally there!

Many thanks for your patience

Dale Lane replied on November 03, 2009 23:11 to the question "corrupted encrypted page when adding [^%SECTIONS%]" in Dale Lane:

I think I've fixed the bug - please try version 3.7.4.

Sorry again for the inconvenience. I hope that it didn't cause you to lose any data.

Dale Lane replied on November 03, 2009 14:51 to the question "Maximum Page Length" in Dale Lane:

Maximum page size is now 64k

Dale Lane replied on November 03, 2009 14:50 to the problem "Pages longer than 32K cannot be edited." in Dale Lane:

Maximum page size is now 64k

A comment on the question "corrupted encrypted page when adding [^%SECTIONS%]" in Dale Lane:

Very sorry about this... not sure what caused this regression. In the meantime, I've built a modified version of the app which ignores the section tag... this will hopefully allow you to retrieve your page until I get around to fixing the app properly (which I will try to do soon)

http://dalelane.co.uk/files/wmwiki-tm... – Dale Lane, on November 03, 2009 14:45

A comment on the question "Increase page size beyond 32k?" in Dale Lane:

Maximum page size is doubled to 64k in the current release – Dale Lane, on November 03, 2009 00:38

Dale Lane replied on November 03, 2009 00:37 to the question "Does bLADEwiki mobile need an INSERT menu ?" in Dale Lane:

Done in 3.7.3

Dale Lane replied on November 01, 2009 14:01 to the idea "Insert image link" in Dale Lane:

It would help things along very nicely if there was a dialogue for inserting online images, as there is for an offline image.

I think the problem is probably less the lack of a dialog, and more that I've never added support for this to the wiki markup.

I guess you could do [< <img src="http://target.com/img.gif"/> >] although that's a little clunky.

I suppose I've never seen a need for such markup because I spend so much time using the wiki offline - so if I want an image, I take a local copy.

I'll think about adding it, though.

Dale Lane replied on November 01, 2009 13:56 to the question "Increase page size beyond 32k?" in Dale Lane:

Okay... I'll increase it.

It'll be a little while before I release the new version with this change, as I'm in the middle of making several changes to add support for running on Linux, and it's a bit broken as a result.

Dale Lane replied on November 01, 2009 13:48 to the question "Backlinks (Dock and [^%BACKLINKS%] does not list everything" in Dale Lane:

Yes, the backlinks macro is fairly simple - it just looks for any page's text file that contains [pagename].

To work the way you need, it would need to also look for any backlink tags, and then look at the contents of those pages, too.

I'd rather not add this, as I think it would reduce the performance of the mobile wiki too much for what would be a relatively minor benefit (to me, at least - where seeing the included page in the backlinks list is good enough).

Dale Lane replied on November 01, 2009 13:42 to the question "Exception "PAL_ERROR" on HTC Touch Pro2 with WinMo 6.5.1 EnergyROM" in Dale Lane:

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but other than googling for hints on the source of the error (which I've tried), I can't think of any way that I'd be able to investigate this.

The stack trace shows that there was an internal error thrown when my code tried to call the "Navigate" method on the .NET web browser object. This shouldn't be an unusual or risky method to use... it's a pretty basic thing to do. If this doesn't work, then there isn't much that I can do.

And short of trying to put this custom ROM on my own personal mobile, I have no way to recreate or investigate this.

Very sorry for the inconvenience - I hope you have better luck tracking down the .NET problem on forum.xda-developers.com

Dale Lane replied on November 01, 2009 13:34 to the question "css sliding door stype button?" in Dale Lane:

I'm not a CSS guru... but in theory, you should be able to do anything that Internet Explorer supports in CSS.

The only issue is whether you want it to work on the mobile wiki, which uses Internet Explorer Mobile - with it's very limited support for CSS.