Dmblogger (for V1.4.1 And Later)

[eji]

Rather than stick with the old 1.3.2 thread, I've started a new "official" one that will deal with all versions after 1.4.1. It's important to have a single thread, I think, because each version requires a new English translation and DMblogger users should know exactly where to find it.

Anyway, 1.4.1 is out and it's a fairly hefty code overhaul. The translated GUI is attached... just unzip and use it to replace the existing gui folder in QtPalmtop>bin>dmblogger

This translation should work out all the inconsistencies in previous versions, but keep in mind it's "Engrish" of sorts. Not being a coder myself, I can't always follow what the Ruby code is instructing, and I have to use a lot of trial and error to see which messages should go where. If, for example, it tells you an RSS clip is saved when you know it hasn't, please let me know right away. The Japanese messages still appear when I was stuck scratching my head.

1.4.1 appears to have significantly revamped the Item List, which is a way of posting to Moveable Type blogs and managing entries straight from DMblogger. I don't have an MT blog, so I can't figure out what on earth DMblogger is attempting to do. Any help here would be appreciated... unless, of course, no one is even using this feature.

[xjqian]

thanks for the update. problems:

1) configure rss. "category" still in Janpanese.
2) open in opera crashed it.
3) feeds url not saved after exiting.

[eji]

thanks for the update. problems:

1) configure rss. "category" still in Janpanese.
2) open in opera crashed it.
3) feeds url not saved after exiting.
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1) I think you mean the first "default" category in the dropdown list, no? If so, I can't find it anywhere in order to change it. It might be buried in one of the Ruby files <i>not</i> in the GUI folder, and I haven't gone near those.

2) This has been a recurring bug and AFAIK has nothing to do with my tweaks. It's best to leave a bug request on the DMblogger website -- though I somehow doubt the developer speaks much English. Some potential workarounds: a) First download the full post, then open the story in Opera; or  First launch Opera independently, then open the story in Opera. I've found that one of these two will typically keep DMblogger from crashing.

3) Sorry; don't know what you mean by this because I can't replicate the problem. I changed feed categories, deleted and added single feeds, and tinkered with existing ones, all without any problems. Again, though, this might be a bug to bring to the attention of the developer himself. My unofficial involvement with DMblogger is only in the capacity of turning the wacky Japanese into some kind of understandable English. I have no coding skills whatsoever.

Hope I at least helped you on the Opera problem.

[spartan]

Is there any way to force DMBlogger to always download the full post?

Also, thanks for the GUI work.

[eji]

ken PM'ed me this morning to say that v1.42-1 was out. He wasn't fibbing.

But as far as I can tell, the update only changes two or three lines of code to patch a vulnerability when blogging to a Nucleus account. To my mind, that change isn't significant enough to warrant a new GUI translation.

Is anyone even using this Nucleus feature? Or would any move to 1.42 be just to have the latest and greatest?

[ken]

Is anyone even using this Nucleus feature? Or would any move to 1.42 be just to have the latest and greatest?

I just said heck, "banzai" and just installed the new one and put your gui for 1.41 on top of it.  Seems to work fine.

[bam]

anyone get this to work with wordpress?

wordpress v1.52
dmblogger latest rev

[witzgall]

OPen SSL;

Any word on a fix that will resolve the Open ssl conflict?

Chris

[eji]

OPen SSL;

Any word on a fix that will resolve the Open ssl conflict?
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I wasn't aware of an OpenSSL conflict. What exactly is happening? What version of OpenSSL are you running and on which ROM? Or have you resolved it in the three months it's taken anyone to respond?

I'm still getting occasional crashes when viewing a post in Opera, and Atom XML feeds aren't (and have never been) working properly for me. I'd really like the dev to tend to some of this, but it looks like he's pretty content with v1.42.

[eji]

Opera crashing issues

I think I've solved the dmBlogger/Opera crashing issues.

Does everyone who's seeing dmBlogger crash also have Opera 7.55 "multimodal" installed?

The reason there may be a problem is the conflict with two Operas residing on the same system. Opera 7.55 installs into home/QtPalmtop/bin, which still leaves the preinstalled Opera at usr/QtPalmtop.com/bin installed. In addition to wasting 4+ MB of space on internal flash, the "old" Opera also, I believe, confuses dmBlogger when it tries to launch it to view the post.

So...

Delete Opera 7.25 (and its related folder) from usr/QtPalmtop.com/[bin]. Do this by changing the protected files to read/write (see this thread) and, just to be safe, symlinking both the folder and the app to the home/QtPalmtop/[bin] location.

Once I did this, Opera 7.55 launched about 50% faster and dmBlogger hasn't crashed once. Good news all around.

[edoc]

Has anyone compared dmblogger to thingamablog?

Just wondering as I have used thingamablog (requires Java) under Puppy Linux on an older laptop and it works really well.

Would be neat if it worked on my C1000.

If dmblogger is better then I could switch to that on both platforms.

Thanks!  doc