Building a native Twitter Client for Windows
I was using daily a Mac. On OS X, you have a several really nice native Twitter clients. The most famous is Tweetie (which has been then acquired by Twitter and is now called Twitter for Mac). Using...
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Day 1: The tools and general UI architecture
I do not want to buy additional development tools so I will use the one I already own: Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (c++). Even if it becomes quite old, I am pretty sure it will be enough for...
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Day 2: Building a UI toolkit
Today, I realized that the challenge is bigger than expected. I started to code the general architecture of my UI Toolkit. To window of the Twitter client will contains a big custom user control which...
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Day 3 : Mouse support and first widgets
Managing events means to cascade down all window events in order to have widgets aware about the mouse. I’ve only implemented a basic support, mouse wheel, acceleration and over state are currently not...
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Day 4 : ImageView widget
Again, it was more difficult than expected. There is nothing existing for managing PNG images with alpha chanel neither to load them from resources. I’ve ended up writing a small class able to load png...
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Using Preview Templates
We can enjoy writing in Markdown but having a nice preview is a must have. More than a CSS styling In general, you can modify a CSS style sheet in order to customize the HTML preview. I’ve decided to...
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Markdown footnotes support
One of the Markdown features I’m intensively using are footnotes1. However, I never found an editor managing them the way I want. The keyboard way SmartDown 1 was supporting snippets and version 2...
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Markdown tables support in SmartDown II
SmartDown II provides support for MarkDown Extra like tables. SmartDown I had also a such feature but I really wanted to improve to user experience when manipulating tables. Create them using a...
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Post to your WordPress Blog directly from SmartDown
SmartDown has been designed for writers. For all writers, like you or even myself. A lot them are writing for the web. Today a big percentage of website are running under WordPress. Hence I wanted to...
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SmartDown configuration options
One of the biggest weakness of SmartDown 1 was the lack of configuration UI for customizing the appearance. With the version II, I decided to provide a first class customization capabilities and also...
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Using goals and statistics
Sometimes we just want to write, without paying attention to any metric. However there are a lot of situation where you need to produce a text of a given size and where you want to monitor your...
View ArticleFirst private beta version of SmartDown 2
Hello, After several months of works, the first private beta of SmartDown 2 is available. It is a total rewrite from scratch of the application with new modern technologies. If you subscribed to the...
View ArticleSmartDown 0.8.2 released
I’ve just published a new version of Smartdown: version 0.0.2. I would like to say thanks to all of you who gave your feedback or reported issue. This is an important update which contains more than...
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Smartdown 0.9.0 is now available
The weekly release of SmartDown is now available. It fixes a certain number of bugs but also introduce a brand new dark theme. For more info, the full changelof is available here...
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SmartDown 0.9.1 is now available
I’ve just uploaded a new version of SmartDown. This is v 0.9.1. The “Preview bug” introduced in previous version has been fixed. I’ve focussed my work on theming and you have new themes with a better...
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Easily share your markdown documents using the Textpack format
If you ever tried to exchange with someone else a markdown document containing links a media stored locally in your computer (sometimes in multiples places), you know that this is not an easy task....
View ArticleSmartDown II is available
After one year of development, since I took the decision to rewrite it from scratch and after several months of beta testing, I am proud to announce that Smartdown II is now available. Beta testing I...
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Markdown comments and TODO with SmartDown
Writing is not a sequential process. Often you need to add later additional information and that for different reason: The idea is there but you know that it required rephrasing. You need to perform a...
View ArticleSmartdown 1.1 is coming – introducing preview version
After the last release I’ve got a lot of feedback and improvements ideas. Thanks a lot! I really appreciate that you take the time to write me in order to make Smartdown and even better place to...
View ArticleSmartdown keyboard shortcuts
Edit your markdown even faster! Here is the list of keyboard shortcuts Version 1.0.9 – 2016 05 15 File operations Ctrl + N : Create a new empty file Ctrl + O : Show the open file dialog Ctrl + S :...
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