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Nathan Oates
 
 
 

Thu, 20 Apr 2006

MacTF-EPG 1.2
I've released a new version of MacTF-EPG. The main added feature is a grid view that is generated by a script from the intermediate XML files that the Oz grabber creates. Unfortunately, the UK scripts go straight to TGD, so I currently can't make a grid from that data. The grids are just a html page and are not interactive at all (no setting timers etc). However, because of this it is quite easy to edit the CSS file (which will be put in the folder in App Support), or edit the settings (to mark favourites on the grid in a different colour, or different genres) in the xmltv2htmlrc file. As examples, news shows are marked as slightly blue, while "The Simpsons" is a favourite and should show up bold.

The other major changes is that I've compiled it as a Universal binary. I'm not sure whether it will make much difference as the scripts used by the app are either Java (and therefore native already) or compiled for PPC. I've also not had an opportunity to test on an Intel-based Mac, so I have no idea if it will break anything. Please tell me if it does.

Sun, 16 Apr 2006

Blog back
Sorry for the blog downtime. It seems something went pear-shaped a few weeks ago, and I've only just had the time to investigate and fix the problem. But it should be fine now I hope. I'm still quite busy, the move went well but I'm now in thesis-writing mode so don't have much time for much else. However, I did manage to hack in a HTML grid-preview into MacTF-EPG, and hopefully I'll look into some of the crashes in MacTF 1.3 some are having.