Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

iTunesRater 0.6 has been released. Saving prefs works a bit better now, but the only way to change the maxRate and minRate variables is through:

defaults write iTunesRater maxRate <value>

AutoRating is working, and the program now remembers the last state for the AutoRater.

New feature is the inclusion of a preview of how the rating will look in iTunes, ie the number of stars.

iTunesRater0.6.zip (Note, this URL is broken for the time being, until I get around to uploading it to a site that can handle zip files, not just 3 types of image file…)

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While trying to bugfix a couple of issues in iTunesRater tonight, I found that the script stopped working altogether. I narrowed it down to a section of the code where I was asking the Finder to do something, and it was just freezing.

I thought that maybe the latest security update had done something, but changing users proved that otherwise. It was something with my setup.

I found it probably had to do with having a device mounted (the memory card in my Palm Zire), but having removed the device without unmounting it. The Finder had almost crashed, and wouldn’t respond to any AppleScript commands.

Incidentally, I suspect that AppleScript is smart enough to not actually send any message (even an empty one) to an application when there is no command (ie, just a tell application/end tell clause with nothing between it).

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I have the following code to display my most popular posts in the sidebar:


{popularposts}
{if $pposts != ''}
  <h2>Most Popular Posts</h2>
    <ul>
    {foreach from=$pposts key=key item=hits}
      <li><nobr><a href="{get_permalink id=$hits.postID}" title="{$hits.title}">{$hits.title|truncate:25:"..."}</a>: {$key}</nobr></li>
    {/foreach}
    </ul>
{/if}


However, it doesn’t work: the links are all to the least recent of my recent posts the last post on the page.

I’ll have to fix this.

(Note: a fix is in the comments).

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