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Apologies for the download problems and thanks for the emails - badly-timed maintenance on peacockmedia.co.uk. I've added a temporary mirror at http://stgl.co.uk/Integrity/integrity.dmg |
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I'd take issue with 'false information'. If Integrity reported code 503, then that's what it received from the site. 503 is a 'service temporarily unavailable' message from the server. The fact that it was a temporary problem is proved by the fact that 200 codes were given when you re-checked. (No web server has 100% up-time.) There are a number of reasons why a link checker may not get the right answer first time, and it's for just that reason that there's a 'Re-check Bad Links' option under the File menu. Given that a 5xx code doesn't necessarily indicate a broken link, but a problem with the server, you might prefer to go to prefs and set these to be highlighted in a colour which is less alarming than red. |
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Thanks for your feedback. I've already had a suggestion of a 'check this page only' checkbox, as well as an 'only follow links containing...' feature. These things would allow you to limit the crawl to one page or a specific area of a site. Look out for these features fairly soon. |
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Your persistence with an app that continues to crash on you is admirable. In this case, (noting your username and history of comments on other apps) makes me suspect a clash with something else you're running, which is a very difficult problem to get to the bottom of, but once again, if you have problems then please, please send the address of the site that you were trying to test to my support page. |
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I've been testing Integrity with a number of sites, but being the very first release, it's probably not going to be 100% stable. If you do have problems (or enhancement suggestions), please, please, please use the report form at http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/support/form.html - tell me which website you were checking. |
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Thanks for your comments, Jedik. Yes, I do seem to have a memory leak, though for me it seems to start at a couple of meg and creep upwards. I haven't seen it at 20meg yet though, but I will experiment on different systems (and fix the problem of course!). MacUpdate have edited my original description in which I explained that the first 'real' version (when I'm confident enough to move it outof beta) will offer at least 3 styles of bin - 2 pre OSX and the OSX basket. You'll see that the prefs window has a gap where the selector will be. I agree that the 'eject drive' feature will be great and is on my 'to do' list too! Thanks again. Shiela |
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Thanks very much for your support and suggestions, jlaro, and to everyone who's sent suggestions and encouragement. This is exactly what I hope to get from putting out an early beta, and I've had a much bigger response to this app than anything I've done before. The save location is an interesting one. It was quite a conscious decision to leave out the standard save dialogue, and one I thought about long and hard. I settled on the way that I've done it for two reasons: 1. My mum isn't technically-minded at all, yet she gets a huge amount out of her mac - photos, music, email and internet. For ages she was blissfully unaware of files and folders. I think it was a clever move of apple to take that stuff out of apps such as iTunes and iPhoto - it makes them far more usable, and I can see Gates following suit. The flip side of this is that people like you and I like to be in control of where our stuff goes and I can see where you're coming from. 2. I wanted to be able to see a list of saved routes and switch between them with a single-click for comparison - the neat answer to this was to store all routes in the same place and display a simple list of all routes (like the library in iTunes or iPhoto). I certainly do take your point - and as I store more routes, I'm going to need some flexibility here too. My suggestion is that I allow the user (in prefs) to specify where the routes are stored (as iTunes does), and also allow some kind of categorisation (sub-folders, if you like, or like the albums in iPhoto and playlists in iTunes). It's really interesting that you've asked about the presets including the tracing window. That's the way that I had it working when I started to build in the presets. I can't explain why I didn't like it - it felt a bit confusing and messy. I've also thought about a separate preset on the window settings. I'm open minded on this and welcome further input. I love the idea of being able to save your own presets - I've had this in mind already and will put it on the 'definate' list! You're quite right about the prefs window staying on top - I tried it both ways and the reason for bringing the tracing to the top is a long and boring one involving drop shadows which isn't an issue any more. For the record, other things that I'm thinking about putting in before the first 'real' release (v1) will be a 'twistable' scale - so that you can calibrate using a vertical scale, or any other known distance regardless of orientation (several people have suggested this). It'll also float on the tracing window - I hate the current separate scale window. Also the ability to attach comments on the route, in the form of little sticky notes or pins or something. I'm also thinking about some kind of option to take a snapshot of what's under the tracing window and saving that with the route. Further feedback will be much appreciated! |
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Thank you very much for your kind comments and suggestions - look out for v0.3 which will contain many of these improvements. Shiela |
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There are a large number of business tools built for Filemaker, and this is what I had in mind when I made my comments about 'applications' built to run on a proprietary database, and to be honest those tools would probably be more suitable for anyone looking for a multi-user envronment and wanting to building up a massive database. I'm all for open and free systems such as mysql and anyone with the technical knowledge and time to build their own custom database would do well to look at that option. Organise is aimed at those who wish to download a small, inexpensive application, double-click the applications icon and start working. I'd dispute that Organise is slowed up by its choice of file format. What is a mysql database if not a file on a hard drive? When you're using Organise, your data is stored in memory - file operations only occur when changes need to be saved, which incidentally is handled by another thread. I suggest that these principles are exactly the same when using sql. Note that all of the data (other than attachments which are not stored in the database file) is plain text which takes up a negligable amount of memory / hard drive space. Even if a user manages to get their data into megabytes rather than kilobytes, a meg is still nothing in today's terms. I'm going to be absolutely honest and say that if scrolling through very long lists gets sluggish (which none of my registered users has reported) then it's more likely to be down to my sort routines or the fact that I've used Java-Cocoa rather than Obj-C. Version 2 is already underway which is a complete rewrite in Obj-C. (I should point out to anyone interested in registering, that a licence key will be good for all future versions regardless of price increases!) To answer your last point, migrating data to a different system - you'll see that all tables can be exported to csv. In my experience, importing data into tabes in a proprietary database from a csv file is a piece of cake. Thank you for your points. I welcome the chance to discuss these things. |
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