Screenshots for Finch PocketBlogger
I have the basics working pretty well now, so I think this is the time to post some screenshots of a walkthrough. When I have figured out how to do a good installer for PPC, I will post the binaries as well. After that, I will try to get it set up on SourceForge and continue work there.
So when you fire up Finch on your Pocket PC, it will look like this:
In this screen you see the most recent blog posts at the time of last synchronization. You can choose to synch up (posting only your changes to the server), down (getting a fresh state of your blog down from the server) or All (this is effectively Synch Up + Synch Down in that order).
To change or add postings, you can use the context menu:
The editing dialog is fairly basic, offering only a text interface for the body and title. No WYSIWYG or advanced options:
For setting up your connection, you can enter your .Text Url and credentials in the Options dialog (support for other blogging APIs is on the wishlist):
Note that after adding or changing any of the postings, the UI indicates this with a little red tickmark. Deleted items are grayed out. This way, you can see at a glance which changes must still be sent to the server. You can still undelete items as long as you have not synchronized.
Known issues:
- There is a problem with times and timezones. Posting times come out wrong when the .Text server is in a different timezone from the PPC that runs Finch.
- No help available