After trying some command line and GUI based SVN applications I think I finally found one that works well. It looks great, but even more importantly it works great. The tool would be svnX, currently available only on the Mac.
Two of my favorite features would have to be the Repository Inspector and the Working Copy Inspector both of which offer greater control over your files.
If you are looking for a powerful Subversion tool then I highly recommend svnX
The CS3 icons have been a topic of discussion around the graphics world. Some like the stock icons, others find them to be a poor example from a creative company… I am with the latter on this one, the CS3 icons just aren’t a great thing, especially on the Mac OS X dock where there are so many great icons.
That being said, some others have built custom icon packs, such as a simple rounded rectangle and others that tie into the branding of CS3. Those new icons really do look nice on the dock, as shown here:
This is what the second option looks like, kind of harder to see a difference in at smaller sizes, but still cool:
I noticed an article on MDM’s website where they are comparing Zinc to Apollo. Now that in itself isn’t a bad thing, but I should point out Apollo is in alpha. Interesting that they forgot one of the most important points which would be the price. Why can’t Apollo play external video? I mean it can load files locally, so what gives? I also know developers are experimenting with SQLite support so that point isn’t 100% true.
Figure from www.multidmedia.com
Basically I think mdm is pushing their own product and that isn’t the best way, especially considering how much you have to shell out for Windows, Mac and Linux development kits so you can make it “cross-platform”. Just my 2 cents. Thanks for reading.
Last night I launched spLounge which is a scripting community forum that is run by the Scriptplayground team. Basically it is where you can ask questions about the tutorials, request new ones or just chat with other programmers. It is also the place to post your work or get some help with your code.
I look forward to watching it grow, but of course that can’t happen without support so please register if you find it of interest.
I have been working with the scripting in Photoshop CS3 a little more and quickly found some very useful resources and tools.
First in the list of useful resources is the scripting listener which can be found in “Scripting Guide/Utilities/”. In order to make this work you drag the “ScriptingListener.plugin” into the “Plug-Ins” directory and restart Photoshop. Once the listener is installed and restarted you are ready to start script watching.
Photoshop will spit out a log file (named “ScriptingListenerJS.log” on the Mac) to your desktop. Here is a sampling of what that listener returns
var id1 = charIDToTypeID( "Opn " );
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var id2 = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
desc1.putPath( id2, new File( "/Users/mkeefe/Desktop/Picture 4.png" ) );
executeAction( id1, desc1, DialogModes.NO )
Basically what that does is opens an image “Picture 4.png”on my Desktop. Of course at first glance you are probably scratching your head, but don’t be alarmed it is fairly simple to understand.
Lets go through it line by line.
Line 1: setup character id of “Opn ” which is “Open”
Line 2: set an action for photoshop to reference
Line 3: make a path reference for the file we want to open
Line 4: Last but not least, we actually call the desired action passing in the variables we set in the last few lines.
I will be writing up some more in depth articles on scriptplayground.com once I get some more free time.
Thanks to Jeff Tranberry and Thomas Ruark for answering my list of questions at PhotoshopWorld. In fact Jeff is hte one that alerted me to this scripting listener at his “Photoshop for Geeks” session at PhotoshopWorld Boston.
In the next part I will explain the “Object Library” browser.
