Thread: Welcome to Neon Boombox

Originally Posted by NeonBoomBox

•12 hour clock w day of week

Without having actually downloaded it, here is one suggestion I have.

Don't force your date preferences on others

Use one of the Date and Time formats from the International SysPrefs. That way the user can customize the format to look how ever they prefer (i'm a mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss man myself ). Here is an example of how to do it (though I am being bad and forcing them to use a date):

Code:

- (void) updateDateTime: (id) ignore {
	NSString			*path = [@"~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist"
                                 stringByExpandingTildeInPath];
	NSDictionary		*prefs = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path];
	NSString			*dateFormat = [[prefs objectForKey:@"AppleICUDateFormatStrings"]
                                       objectForKey:@"3"];
	NSString			*timeFormat = [[prefs objectForKey:@"AppleICUTimeFormatStrings"]
                                       objectForKey:@"3"];
	NSString			*date, *time;
	CFLocaleRef			locale = NULL;
	CFDateFormatterRef	formatter = NULL;
	
	if (dateFormat == nil) {
		// Default if the user doesn't have anything configured.
		// 2 digit month, 2 digit day, 2 digit year.
		dateFormat = @"MM/dd/yy";
	}
	if (timeFormat == nil) {
		// Default if the user doesn't have anything configured.
		// 24 hour 2 digit hour, 2 digit minute, and 2 digit seconds.
		timeFormat = @"HH:mm:ss";
	}
	
	locale = CFLocaleCopyCurrent();
	formatter = CFDateFormatterCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, locale,
                                      kCFDateFormatterNoStyle,
                                      kCFDateFormatterNoStyle);
	
	CFDateFormatterSetFormat(formatter, (CFStringRef) dateFormat);
	date = (NSString *) CFDateFormatterCreateStringWithAbsoluteTime(
                                                kCFAllocatorDefault, formatter,
                                                CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent());
    
	CFDateFormatterSetFormat(formatter, (CFStringRef) timeFormat);
	time = (NSString *) CFDateFormatterCreateStringWithAbsoluteTime(
                                                kCFAllocatorDefault, formatter,
                                                CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent());
    
	CFRelease(locale);
	CFRelease(formatter);
    
    [dateTextField setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@",
                                   date, time]];
}

Otherwise it sounds pretty good so far.

Do I recall correctly (from a previous thread) that you are not open sourcing this?

-dave

Originally Posted by iamgnat

Don't force your date preferences on others

it is a 12 hour clock by defalt because thats how most clocks are. and as we are striving for a very user personalized front end the date/time will have plenty of options, even for the most picky of users

Originally Posted by iamgnat

Do I recall correctly (from a previous thread) that you are not open sourcing this?

We are not making this project open source. But we will be releasing a sdk within the coming weeks so users have the ability to create their own modules.

Originally Posted by Cybix

doesnt launch on PPC 1.4 mac mini running leopard. bounces in dock about 15 or 20 times then just bails

if you can open up your console app, try and launch Neon Boombox, and post the output to the crash log thread that would be supper helpful! thanks!

Mmmmmm some fresh pics!

I meant to ask - what is the bar graph on the left? Will that be the volume?

yes it will tho I do think that the final volume control will look somewhat different as the next release will encompass some minor interface changes