{"id":235,"date":"2010-11-15T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T01:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-11-29T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T03:06:42","slug":"trowl-0-6-2still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/trowl-0-6-2still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Trowl 0.6.2–Still Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right, so it has been a while since the last update to Trowl.  For that, I apologize.  I needed a break from the development a bit, and the summer was happy to oblige.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy with various things, including a bit of experimentation with WPF. (The fruits of those experiments will be available shortly. But, if you follow me, you probably have a clue as to what<\/a> they might be<\/a> already.)<\/p>\n

But fear not, I am still working on Trowl.  After all, I use it as my primary Twitter client, so I like to see it improved as much as anyone else.  There are some longer term, more ambitious things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to do with Trowl \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the top of this list being a switch over to User Streams.  While these are things I have set my sights upon, they are not in this update.<\/p>\n

Instead, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been focusing on usability stuff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c things that have been suggested by users, and things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed myself that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve wanted fixed.<\/p>\n

So, with that introduction, let me detail the changes planned for this next update.<\/p>\n

User name suggestions<\/strong>
When writing a tweet, you sometimes want to mention another user.  Up until now, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had to know their name offhand (or have had to look it up elsewhere) in order to use it in Trowl.  But now, when you type \u00e2\u20ac\u0153@\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, you will get a pop-up list of users which will narrow down as you type.  Right now this list contains all the people you follow, as well as anyone you reply to.<\/p>\n

Tweets & Search Results are Decoupled<\/strong>
You may or may not have noticed that, although \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Tweet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Search Result\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are two separate types of notifications in Growl, they are displayed together as part of the same stream of tweets.  This was good in that it kept everything together, but it was mostly bad because it reduced the flexibility you had in customizing displays and display preferences.<\/p>\n

In 0.6.2 they are completely separate entities.  You can configure how many tweets appear on screen  at once separately from how many search results appear on screen at once.  You can browse all of your tweets before moving on to the search results.  And so on.<\/p>\n

Higher Resolution Profile Images<\/strong>
By default, Twitter provides a profile image that is 48×48.  For Growl, this is usually sufficient. Most displays are small and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show anything higher res than that.  But some displays, as well as forwarded devices (like the iPhone or Windows Phone) are capable of showing larger images if they are provided.  So, Trowl now uses 73×73 pixel images \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bigger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d size, according to Twitter.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to bump this up to something larger, but that involves a little more testing.  But hopefully these slightly larger profile images will suffice for the time being.<\/p>\n

.NET 4 Exclusive! \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Location Support<\/strong>
What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that?  .NET 4?  Yes!  There will actually be two versions of 0.6.2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one for the usual .NET 3.5, and one for .NET 4.  If you are willing to take the jump (or already have), you will get a feature that is made possible by some of the new capabilities of the platform.  In this case \u00e2\u20ac\u201c location.  It will require your computer to be equipped with a GPS device, or some other location-aware service, such as Geosense<\/a>.  If Trowl detects this, you will get the ability to include your current location from the New Tweet screen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c make sure you have enabled location for your Twitter account!<\/p>\n

Various other bug fixes\/code changes<\/strong>
The usual.<\/p>\n

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I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it.  A preview version will be available for testing soon, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll update this post when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up.  Thanks for using Trowl! And as usual, feel free to ask questions or suggest features on the Google Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> The preview versions are now available<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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