Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

It was the carl agatha post about the Thousand Waves spa! It seemed to be corrupted, not entirely sure why.,

oops wrong thread, xpost

Oh man! I corrupted ILX! Can you delete it? Should I do a mod request?

Always thought you were a corrupting influence.

I'm strangely proud of myself.

This post breaks zing for some crazy reason: Specimen in the Jar

Similar to the carl agatha one. It looks like the character in "Complas" that looks like an "l" is not, in fact an l.

Sorry, that's my screen. I mean that there's something between the "p" and "a" in "Compas" that's buggering things up.

Which I'm guessing is the acute gone bad.

Yes. Exactly. It was a cut and paste of 'a' with an accent.

Seconding carls request to delete ilx

You guys forgot to ask politely, thusly- delete ilx now, please.

deleting.

while I'm here, does anyone use the bold/italic/quote/code/etc buttons in Zing's post composer? I'm doing the iOS 7-ication now, and it'll be a pain to do all those again if I don't have to

*raises hand*

I use image.

I use italic fairly often.

How hard is it to redo fat-finger trash can button? Because if it's too hard, I see don't go to the trouble and just leave it out.

hey stet fwiw zing is the one app i definitely wouldn't bitch about having to pay for again when a new version comes out

Thank you! I might actually do it as a new app, the iOS 7 look is pretty different from the old-school one, and I can see people preferring the old-school one, at the expense of getting any new features.

I've made the Trash button require two presses now. And fixed the Undo!

Thanks!

i seem to recall there were some challenges doing search in the app? that's the main feature i'd love to see.

Yeah; the version I'm working on has filtering of loaded threads, which is a step in the right direction (eg for any of the threads Zing knows about you can find them by name).

Actually doing Search is a little bit further off.

oh thats a good feature, definitely will help.

stet while i have you, do you know why sometimes clicking on a link from board to board takes me to a logged-out view of the site?

If I want to read something amusing if relatively clueless, Chuck Klosterman already exists.

Ha, wrong thread!

cad: do you mean on the site proper? It's because we're on both www.ilxor.com and ilxor.com and the code treats those as two different sites (mostly for historical reasons that sometimes prove handy).

If you're logged in on eg ilxor.com and someone makes a link to www.ilxor.com, when you click it you'll get the logged out view. And vice versa.

It's like that one Monty Python sketch where sometimes they are on film and then they go through a door and are on tape.

stet i love zing.

stet that must be it, thanks!

i use the italic button on zing all the time. Pls keep it!

While Search would be nice, it would be almost as good to be able to view all my bookmarked threads. (Same as clicking the Bookmarks link at the top or bottom of the web view).

Would pay for zing again, def.

deleting.

while I'm here, does anyone use the bold/italic/quote/code/etc buttons in Zing's post composer? I'm doing the iOS 7-ication now, and it'll be a pain to do all those again if I don't have to

I use them all the time.

Also I would gladly pay for the app again. I probably use it more than any other except email and maybe Threes.

> If you're logged in on eg ilxor.com and someone makes a link to www.ilxor.com, when you click it you'll get the logged out view. And vice versa.

could be solved if the links were coded relative rather than abosolute (ie leave off the hostname)

Yes, would repay.

Me too. Third most-used app behind email and Facebook for me...

word

me too

^

yeah of course

Would repay too.

Also, stet if you need some volunteer subcontracting work on zing (been Obj-C guy forever) let me know.

Thanks! One thing I could definitely do with the time to investigate is a fast way to get an NSAttributedString out of our limited subset of HTML. (There's a attributedStringWithHTML call, but it appears to spin up webkit in the background and takes forever. This needs to be incredibly quick as it'll be called for every message displayed). I can do it easily on Mac by applying Bold and Italic traits, but that's not supported on iOS. I've filed a radar and my plan's to wait for them to support that, as otherwise I can't see how to do it in any reasonable sort of time.

(I was also thinking I could store the NSAttributedStrings in the DB here and fire them straight at the client, but there doesn't seem to be a good serialisation of NSAttributedString that doesn't take a lot of work to deserialise anyway)

How are Zing Touch and Zing Lite differentiated?

Zing Lite is free, and I haven't updated since day dot, which means it works on the OG iPhone, but has fewfeatures. It has ads.

Zing Touch is pay-for, but has lots of features, including:

• it runs in the background/supports multitasking,
• it has a better composer
• it lets you customise the homescreen
• it has iPhone 5/5s support for the larger screens
• supports polls
• landscape support for composer
• has a dark mode and a serif font theme.
• It's betterer

Zing Touch (tm) will also:

• fix your parking tickets in certain jurisdictions
• get you a 10% discount when you buy rounds
• rate your excuses for being late to work on a 1-10 scale of believability
• find lost socks

Losing socks would be a better feature.

Also Zing Touch has a red trucker hat.

Zing Touch is well worth the $.

if you follow the zing touch money trail, it will take you to the front steps of the Brentwood Johnny Garlic's

Board listing doesn't load on Zing Lite.

Anyone else getting my problem?

Yeah this is a new thing tho. Only about two days old AFAIK.