Time to Move On...

Well, two months (and a little less than 6000 downloads!) later, its time for a new release.  

Actually, its time for two releases, but the first one (b10) was fatally broken due to a mis-handling of preferences when preferences didn't exist.  Silly Brendan, testing is for kids...

Well at least I found it before I advertised the new release.  I don't think anyone actually downloaded the broken files (sorry if you did...).

Anyway, DroidDraw-r1b11 is now available (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Platform Independent .jar)  The higlights include:

• New support for saved preferences (for now: snap-to-grid, default screen size, default root layout)
• Removed redundant XML namespace declarations
• Added support for drawing the ScrollView scroll bar
• Fixed my support for opening URLs from inside DroidDraw (previously all URLs went to my PayPal donations page [oops, how did that happen ;-)]
• DroidDraw now checks for updated versions on startup
• It now handles the layout_margin* family of xml attributes.
• A bug in the Color selector button/property has been fixed.

As always, please post any new bugs that you may find or features that you'd like to see (I'm running out of things to do!) to the issue tracker.

And if you're feeling generous, feel free to donate!

DroidDraw-r1b3

New release as promised.  It includes some bug fixes, and enhancements including:

• Support for the Gallery widget
• Support for line breaks in TextViews, Buttons, EditText and AutocompleteText
• Misc. bug fixes mentioned previously.

I'll package it up into an .exe, etc. eventually.  For now if you're impatient, the .jar file is a double-clickable executable.

As always bugs/comments/donations/insults -> brendan.d.burns on gmail.

Later!

Beta 2...

Well, a release a day keeps the doctor away, right?

The big changes for this release are:

• Padding now works correctly (background colors, and sizing)
• You can now drag and drop widgets between layouts [pretty cool, huh?]

I'm not going to make apps of this release.  (can't have too many standalone versions...) but for those interested in the bleeding edge, the .jar file is a double-clickable executable.

More Bugs (pt. 2)

Well, I spent another hour wiping out miscellaneous bugs, including:

• support for android:layout_span which allows table entries to span multiple columns
• the properties panel's apply button is now outside of the list of properties
• the properties panel updates when properties change
• eliminated an ill-fated lengthening of layouts which did bad things

I think I will definitely release a beta tomorrow.  I really need to streamline my application-building process.  I'm sure eclipse can mostly automate it for me, but I need to figure out how. Now I'm off to play with my Kondo KHR-2HV (which can now walk!)

A couple more bugs bite the dust (and another is found...)

Well, this holiday break is something less than a total break ;-)

After a day spent mostly ineffectually trying to get my Kondo KHR-2HV to work with Mac OS X, I decided to fix a couple of bugs in DroidDraw to actually accomplish *something* for the day.  The bugs I fixed were:

• TextView widgets now correctly (I think) break into multi-lines if they are too long
• FrameLayout and ScrollView objects can now actually be dragged onto the layout.

Changes checked into SVN, release sometime next week.

Of course, in the meantime, I found another bug... *sigh*

Later...