Smitter R3 - Coming Soon

Posted in Randomness by Will on September 13, 2007.

Okay, I’ve settled on the changes and new features for Smitter for Release 3.

I need to clean up the code base, and change how certain things work. So, it’ll be a few more days - possibly Saturday/Sunday before Release 3 is ready.

New Features:

  • Automatically convert long URLs you send, into short URLs with urlTea (Intercepts pasted URLs)
  • Minimise to Notification Area (”Task Tray”) Icon.
  • Balloon Alert when your Twitter ID is mentioned in a tweet, or when you recieve a Direct Message (Configurable in Settings)
  • Replies Tab
  • Direct Messages Tab
  • Automatic Check for new Direct Messages (Default: Every 10 minutes)
  • Links Tab - Gathers all URLs that appear in new Tweets.

Changes:

  • First Start shows the full settings page,  enabling you to set the proxy at the same time.
  • Option to use proxy server from Internet Explorer
    (NB: If your proxy requires a username/password - you may still need to specify it)
  • Longer Image Cache period (4hrs)
  • Refresh Times for Friends List
  • Limit of 50 Tweets kept
  • Fix multiple “Loading…” messages, and displaying of errors (errors go to an Logging tab)
  • More obvious seperation between Tweets
  • (Updated) Now responds to Mouse-Wheel scrolling

Known Issues which won’t/can’t be fixed yet:

  • Dynamic resizing of tweets
    (I need to figure out a fix for this - resizing + Flow Layout Panel = ugliness)
  • Proxy detection from Firefox
    (Not sure if I can do this correctly - esp. difficult if using Auto Detection and/or a proxy.pac config file.)

Moving to a WPF Front end and .NET 3.0 are off the cards for the moment.

The good news is that I’m feeling fairly comfortable with C# now - I’m missing not having certain things that VB just does for you automatically.  The whole “sprinkle in some curly-braces and semi-colons” thing is getting to be natural though.