The Recursive ISV

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Can’t believe it.  Monday week is the final “day” of this 30 Day sprint/challenge.  The month has flow by!

Well.  Today was….  Interesting.

Last night, right after final source code backup for the day, I thought I’d be nice and run the code through a source code formatter courtesy of Project Jedi.  Made all the source nice an “awwww, so pretty”. 

Until…  I started coding today and we hit bugs-ville.  Weird bugs that made zero sense.  Messed with these weird bugs (for to long) until I remembered the above action last night.  Renamed the “current” directory, restored the backup.  Bugs gone!

Seems this tool, on closer inspection, adds some nice Unix style end of lines to the code.   Well geez!  Thanks for that one guys!

Note to self.  There is a *reason* why I don’t use, if possible, open source software.  This is why.

OK.  So the special effects are all implemented now.  Cleaned up the little bits and pieces that make sure captions reflect current status through out the application and linked in nearly all the menus, if they weren’t linked before.  Took out extraneous long extinct now commented out code.

Made sure my inlined functions  were being handled right and not throwing warnings on compile. 

Added a way to have a project in editable mode or “performance” mode.  I decided to add this as a safety feature.  Basically a project really shouldn’t be scrolled through during a performance (with the exception of the active playlist and any special effect toggling if the user changes their mind on these).  So that can be done now via a menu option or via a text hot link on the top toolbar far right - where I temporarily had stuck the “clock” previously.  A small lock/unlock icon goes with it.

Still got to get to replacing the file Explorer pane.  Moving that to Monday along with template generation.

Yet to re-do archiving.  That’s an easy job.

Also got to do update and finish the help file/docs. 

Not as far forward application wise as I’d hoped today, but then the “best laid schemes of mice and men” <g>

However…  I did manage to get a nice web designer to take on website work for the application in terms of design.  In fact, one of our own 30 Dayers - Sue from Alta Webworks.  Sue’s done some absolutely stunning designs for website’s, another link here.  So I spent a part of the afternoon emailing and getting some graphics, design ideas etc together for that.   I’m *very* pleased about this.

OK.  I’ve got a few things to take care of before turning in tonight, so hopefully a bunch of the remaining items will be completed by tomorrow nights update.

Quote of the day:
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. - George Eliot

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