kosertech

Couple important new features in 0.08 version

• avatar caching for friends time line
  • cache to directory of your choice refreshes icons every 24 hours
• better error checking on some network transfers
• much faster time line reloading when avatars are in cache

If testing goes well tomorrow will release Friday morning

The much anticipated 0.07 release with tons of new features is now available on the downloads page. If you notice any bugs please follow me and report through twitter or use the contacts form here on the site.

New Features:

• Resizable time line item height
• Avatar display
• Ability to disable avatar loading
• About screen with some limited help
• Timeline screen title bar now reflects timestamps of last load time
• Center button on a highlighted timeline tweet opens a zoom box of the tweet and avatar

Hit the download page to get it while its hot

I did some work tonight making the timeline a bit tailorable. I thought it might be nice to be able to zoom it down to smaller size if you wanted to. This should also allow for a bit of adjustment for people with screen layouts that don’t quite work well at the defaults.

I also implemented a zoom window on “enter” which is the center button on your direction pad. If you select a tweet and hit the center key it will zoom it up in a window so you can have your timeline small showing only a few words to fit more tweets on and then zoom in on items of interest. The same context menu from the timeline works on the zoomed popup to allow link opening / replies etc….

Turning off avatars is good for your bandwidth usage if your not on an unlimited plan or just want faster loading times and is configurable from the account screen.

There are a few screen shots below. I should get my tilt tomorrow, once I have it I’ll do a complete regression test and then release it.

Been doing allot of work this weekend redoing the timeline to allow for display of avatars. It’s working pretty well so far. I haven’t tried it on my actual phone because it’s still stuck in the mail somewhere. It seems to be a tad slow in the loading of the timeline but that could be the fact that the network is going through an emulator and virtual connection. I’ll be really interested to see how it works on the phone. I clearly need to implement some caching before making it generally available and also allow for disabling of the avatars all together.

Also I need to decide if i’m just going to cache in memory for the current application setting or cache to storage.  i’m leaning more toward caching to memory for now its a max of 20 48×48 images which is pretty small amount of memory.

This is primarily a bug fix release correcting the following

• incorrect screen_name shown on direct and direct sent timelines
• menu item checking went funky when you changed from timeline to timeline while auto refresh was enabled

As always download it on the downloads page on the left

0.05 released hit the download link on the left for the download, full wm6 version will come in a day or so after I have some time to migrate the new features into the codebase.

Updates:

• New keep awake option to prevent phone sleep (good for dashboard viewing)
• Title bar now indicates “Fetching Timeline” so you know its accessing the network
• Status page deactivates auto refresh while updating status to prevent lag

Features for 0.05 to do:

• display timeline name / task in titlebar

smartphone bugs:

• sending an status update doesn’t re enable the timeline

Well, I broke my 8525 last night so it became more important for me to get the smartphone version working since I have a blackjack as a backup. 0.04 fixes a few bugs with the key handling and form switching and added smartphone support. The smartphone is actually a parallel code base that leverages some of the same code libraries for data access and submission.

Pro version with the context menu uses up and down to select items in the timeline and right to open the context menu.

Smartphone version use up and down to highlight a timeline item then menu/actions to act on that timeline entry.

Get it on the downloads page on the left. Enjoy, as always ceTwit’s totally free.

I wasn’t properly handling passed in KeyDown events so you actually had to click an item to get the context menu. I corrected this and the new behavior is up and down move through the items and the right keypad button opens the context menu.

private void ceTwit_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
  {
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Right)
    {
      contextMenu1.Show(timeline2, new Point(10, (timeline2.SelectedIndex * timeline2.ItemHeight) ));
    }
  }

New Features:

• Context menu for reply/open link/direct message/profile
• Direct and Sent timelines
• Direct message Sending