| AnimeCollector 9.1 beta is out! "Standing near the just erected milestone, thinking: that was a long journey.." So the beta is out. It really is beta -- meaning it works. You can manage your anime lists off-line, update them and sync with the MyAnimeList server. It even has a limited support for tracking your currently played files (this one is still a bit experimental). And it works most of the time. It most probably won't eat your data. There are still a lot of bugs though. So whats new?
Thanks to Necrotex for developing the recognizing engine. The rest was done by me based on the work by Lattywire (sill inactive). Download tar.gz is in the download section. If you try the AnimeCollector beta, please use the GitHub issue tracker to point out bugs. Developers fixing said bugs and porting the application are welcome. |
skriticosApr 24, 2009 8:30 AM
| PyGTK, PyGObject and PyCario fail to install, saying Python 2.5/6 was not found in the registry (I installed it) |
| nm, got that sorted now, but it won't work: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Hatsumi\Desktop\animecollector-9.1-beta\releases\animecollector \animecollector.py", line 8, in <module> import os, sys, Queue, pickle, webbrowser, \ File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gtk\__init__.py", line 38, in <mod ule> import gobject as _gobject File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gobject\__init__.py", line 30, in <module> from gobject.constants import * File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gobject\constants.py", line 22, in <module> from _gobject import type_from_name ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. C:\Users\Hatsumi\Desktop\animecollector-9.1-beta\releases\animecollector> |
| Thanks. Well, seems it's even more cross platform than I thought. That's good. The typo, ups.. my bad -.- Will get corrected :) The HTML character encodings were slipping my mind a bit. Hm, you are right. There are one or two, but only a few. Will put it on the schedule. Thanks for pointing it out. Unicode is handled fine, but apostrophes are encoded as HTML, makes life more interesting.. I put up the GTK looks now because it is portable and because GNOME uses it as widget set, but the whole architecture is designed in a pluggable way, and maybe someone will develop a wx front-end some time so it will look more native on other platforms too. I was just pushing a bit to get the core things done and release a beta to establish a good development basis for interested people. It's supposed to be a community project ^^ Thanks for taking time and testing it on Mac OS X, I'm quite happy about it :D About the tracker, well yes, as you saw it stand in the README, that it is quite platform dependent by nature. An lsof version would probably make it seamlessly portable to Mac, but that's still an idea I had in a little design brainstorming a few days ago. We'll see if someone wants to do it or not. The windows port would also need a similar tool to lsof, and I found one called handle, but as I neither own a Mac nor a Windows machine (no, don't want to), so this task will be given to other community members :) The tracker and recognizing engine are experimental anyway, so until they don't get more elaborate it is only of limited interest to port it. Think this will improve shortly. @Kotori: Thanks for interest. Was not interfering in the Windows discussion because of the above mentioned reasons. If someone makes a port, then there will be one, but that's still in the future. Right now it seems that the interface and synchronization can be loaded with a lot of fiddling, but it was not the major target so far. Getting out the beta in a somewhat consistent state was. |
skriticosApr 24, 2009 1:28 PM
| Hehe, yea - that is my experience too. Hm, I have a lot of technical books (programming languages, cg and os-es), but none of them happens to be about python. Bit ironic, I know. Only got into python a few months ago myself and it's fun to code with, though it also has it's issues, as everything has. As for books, there are the O'Reilly books, but none of them got astonishing reviews for python. For starters, there is of course the The Python Tutorial which is quite well done and covers most of the syntax, program flow and standard library with nice examples. What I was enjoying was watching the Google TechTalks videos about Python form core developers explaining more advanced topics and this one about the design philosophy of python. Reading the reviews on Amazon is always a good idea for this kind of stuff. Edit: I correct myself, I have a python book, but it is actually about Zope 3 (Web Component Development with Zope 3) which is a web application server framework built with python -- incredibly powerful, ugly and totally lacks good documentation. Most of the other libraries have quite good documentation on the web and where not, there is mostly no good book either. That's why it is a good idea to stay close with the standard library: it's supported, powerful, well documented and portable. |
skriticosApr 24, 2009 3:00 PM
| Thanks for the beta. Trying it now. Is the data suppose to synchronize automatically when i make a change in AC or I should press "Synchronize" every time? |
| For the time being synchronization is only manual and on startup. Auto update and similar features will be added once the basic system is tested and no critical bugs are left + some of the GUI code has to get a bit of polish. Also have to make async processing working with the mal module and clean data interface so we get non blocking callbacks. Or more simply, it's in planning, but not there yet. |
| i had no real issues installing this on win vista (yes, I know you hate me)... hadn't installed pygobject and got the errors of above users, but downloaded the windows installers for that and cairo and I was good to go. results: |
 I am a banana. |
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