Sunrise XP alpha 3 released

[Morgan]

Laurens, I'm a longtime Sunrise user and just switched to Sunrise XP 2.0a3b, set up my .sxl file. Its great to see a good program getting better!

Now the problems:

1. When I click on the Change button in the Hotsync Custom dialog for Sunrise XP conduit, it crashes Hotsync (same error as has been reported by others).

2. If I run Sunrise XP and fully update my feeds, then sync, I can see the documents synchronizing to my Palm T2 (RAM). But subsequent syncs do not bring up Sunrise XP and do "on demand" updates like the older Sunrise does. That was handy as I didn't have to specifically run Sunrise first and do an update. Is there a way to support that in Sunrise XP? (Or maybe it's really there, I'm just not seeing it go out and probe the feed URLs.)

3. If you don't use http: or https: as the start of a feed URL, it will hang the app upon updating. With WordPress 2.0 feed URLs use this new scheme that starts with "feed:" followed by a URL. So having "feed:" in front should probably be supported (tolerated).

4. If you select multiple documents, right-click and choose Properties, and then try to assign an update schedule to the group, only the first item in the select gets it.

5. WordPress 2.0 feeds render oddly, with a startng page in Plucker that has a few plain links rather than the blog text I would expect. Here's one to check: http://www.dtl.net/notes/index.php/feed/. Sunrise (pre-XP) would render a page in Plucker that looked more like the what you see at http://www.dtl.net/notes/.

6. This feed http://hicksdesign.co.uk/feeds/rss/ is rendering in Plucker with a lot of gargbage characters. This does not occur with pre-XP Sunrise documents. That feed is using HTML entities like ⇂ rather than ” Got a work-around?

One question:

1. Where can you go within Windows XP to see the Task Manager integration entry? I tried using the "at" command in the shell, thinking maybe Sunrise XP used this, but there are no entries listed.

Thanks for your continued support in providing this excellent tool.

--Morgan

[Laurens]

Originally Posted by Morgan

1. When I click on the Change button in the Hotsync Custom dialog for Sunrise XP conduit, it crashes Hotsync (same error as has been reported by others).

2. If I run Sunrise XP and fully update my feeds, then sync, I can see the documents synchronizing to my Palm T2 (RAM). But subsequent syncs do not bring up Sunrise XP and do "on demand" updates like the older Sunrise does.

You can configure the SXLs to update during HotSync in the configuration dialog, but since it crashes for you, you can't.

Originally Posted by Morgan

3. If you don't use http: or https: as the start of a feed URL, it will hang the app upon updating. With WordPress 2.0 feed URLs use this new scheme that starts with "feed:" followed by a URL. So having "feed:" in front should probably be supported (tolerated).

The purpose of the "feed:" scheme is to open an RSS reader from the browser. (Much like "news:' should open a Usenet newsreader.) Schemes other than http or https should produce an error message. Will fix that.

Originally Posted by Morgan

4. If you select multiple documents, right-click and choose Properties, and then try to assign an update schedule to the group, only the first item in the select gets it.

It's not possible to edit multiple document properties. (The document you're editing is the one that has the focus.)

Will look into the rest of the issues for the alpha 4, but it's going to take a few weeks. I recommend you stick with the Java version for now.

Originally Posted by Morgan

1. Where can you go within Windows XP to see the Task Manager integration entry? I tried using the "at" command in the shell, thinking maybe Sunrise XP used this, but there are no entries listed.

Scheduled Tasks in Control Panel.

[Morgan]

Originally Posted by Laurens

You can configure the SXLs to update during HotSync in the configuration dialog, but since it crashes for you, you can't.

Excellent. I'm looking forward to trying that in the next release.

Originally Posted by Laurens

Schemes other than http or https should produce an error message. Will fix that.

Maybe you can chop it off if its seen in the clipboard. I often copy a URL from a web site, then start a new document in Sunrise to take advantage of the clipboard read feature.

Originally Posted by Laurens

It's not possible to edit multiple document properties. (The document you're editing is the one that has the focus.)

If there's more than one document selected, maybe disable any context menu items that don't apply to multiple documents.

As usual, great work, and thanks for the speedy support!

--Morgan

P.S. Awesome looking Labrador you have. I have one (British Lab) just like it but with a red collar. :-)

[Laurens]

Alpha 3c fixes a regression bug introduced in 3b that causes a crash when rescaling images with a 1-pixel width or height. This occurs a lot, so be sure to install this over the previous release.

When you start introducing regression bugs in your software, it's time for a break.