Another feature added! There’s now a new tab on the Add URL dialog called Favorites. On this tab you’ll find a list of bookmarks that your have on you Favorites menu in Windows/IE. If you select a URL from this list it will be added into your Draft. Download 1.3 Beta 3 here and read the updated FAQ.
[God, I wish the new season of the Sopranos would start… I’ve been tinkering too much, lately.]
Actually, the list on this tab is a bit more complicated than just a list. Because the Favorites menu can have nested menus within it, this list acts like a directory browser. The list will include only URL files (Internet shortcuts) and directories. If you select a directory and click OK or double click a folder, it drills down to a subfolder’s links. To return to the level above there is a folder at the top a subfolder’s links called “..” – this will take you up a level.
When selecting a link – either by double click or by clicking OK – if you leave the Text field empty, the name of the Favorites link will be used as the Text. The Title and Target fields are also used when adding a link from this tab.
Download SharpMT 1.3 Beta 3 and check the FAQ for more information.
Cool! Now that could be useful.
Thanks again
I am not a MT guru but was wondering; Is SharpMT able to post to TypePad blogs seeing as they are powered by MT?
thanks.
@Paul – Got me. If they are MT based and MT’s XML-RPC interface is exposed (it is on “regular” MT installations) than it should work OK. I’ve had no experience with TypePad, so I couldn’t tell ya otherwise.
@Doc – Thank Scott – was his idea :)
Thanks! Favorites work like a charm!
Thought of another one, but it’s really just moving something that’s already there. Could the default images directory be included in the options dialog? Perhaps if you think it would be needed, in the Upload Image dialog, offer a choice via radio button selection, of the default directory or uploading to a different directory. But at least we’d have a default one set – a little less typing and remembering unix paths is always a good thing in my book! :)
Ok here’s one, that I think would actually be useful: an ‘Import Pocket SharpMT posts’ feature. That way, a Pocket #MT user at home would have the choice of: cradling the device, then selecting ‘Post to Server’ for each entry, or just import the new drafts into #MT and post from there. Either way, #MT would need to be updated to reflect the new posts on the server, so importing them directly would eliminate the need to refresh from the server.
@Scott – I think ya might have missed something between the versions or I’m misunderstanding the request… #MT and Pocket #MT both use the same format in the Drafts file. So if you shuttle the XML file back and forth, it can be read by either. However, the performance of the Pocket PC is not that of a PC so a large XML file can take some time process on the Pocket PC.
Having said that, the intent of PPC is strictly for posting and shorter posts at that. At least that’s the intent. The intent of the Blog Links list that the desktop version of #MT is strictly for link insertions; the fact that it has edit was something I added later on because I don’t consider #MT to be a replacement to the MT pages… this is why #MT doesn’t have an edit feature in the first place: too hard to keep the local PC “database” in sync with the MT database and I’m inclined to not even try to tackle that… the only sync-ing that I think would be an issues are locally stored drafts and that’s a bit of a mess anyway, given the XML parsing issues. The Blog Links can be sync’d for inserting purposes and there’s options for only sync-ing one or two at a time, if need be.
Lemme know if I’ve missed the request, on this one… I might be a couple of cans short of a six pack.
Of course, I have a way around this, too, once 1.3 of both ship, but I’m still gnawing on that one. The author of FeedDemon send in a feature request that sorta made me go ?! in a cartoon bubble above my head, but I like the idea and it’s a major change, so it’s gotta wait. :)
Yeah, I don’t mean moving the XML file around – I don’t want to have the full file loaded into the Pocket version.
I always try to keep #MT’s links updated. Typically, I use #MT to post, but if I happen to post directly from MT, or now from Pocket#MT, then I have to refresh the links from the server again, so that #MT’s links are up-to-date. So I’m only proposing that the desktop #MT be able to import any new drafts from Pocket#MT and insert them into the link list. I don’t want a full-blown inter-application transfer; as you said, Pocket#MT would slow to a crawl parsing an XML that size.
Refreshing from the server isn’t that big a deal, but since the whole point of #MT is being able to write your entries while offline, it’d be nice to be able to import the Pocket#MT drafts into the main program just to keep it synchronized with the Pocket version. Kinda makes Pocket#MT more of a true mobile companion version to #MT when there’s a measure of interoperability between the two.
Ah, except that the Links don’t work that way. The links are built with the values that MT stores; not #MT. When you post a draft via #MT, it doesn’t move it into the Links box – it gets the post ID from MT and then adds the Link. If you watch the Posting process, this would be the fourth transaction to the server; the one that follows the rebuild… if I just moved the Drafts the Add URL nor Edit wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t have the ID.
Hi, it looks like you’ve got a great product here, but I’m having some setup trouble. I can’t get connected to my blog!
I read in the faq that IIS users should add a line of code to the HTTP.pm file, and that it should go directly before
@XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::CGI::ISA = qw(SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI);
I did this, and I still can’t get through?!! Everything else is correct — user name, password, cgi directory, etc.
I’d love to be able to use and recommend this software! Help!
@Matt – what is the exact error that you’re getting? The change to the PM is a definate must but it might not be the only problem… also, what version of MT are you running? Thanks!