Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs

geuess papers app

there's a few different ways to refresh things. If the thread's in a separate window, you can refresh with the weird button at the top right. Otherwise it's shift-apple-r to reload a thread, and option-apple-r to reload new answers. Do you want buttons for them?

hahaha

t-t-t-totally duuuuude @_@

this is amazing stet

(also things do refresh themselves automatically -- it can just be a bit slow if a thread's moving v. quick, but I don't want to poxy fule the server)
xp tx!

STET FOR PRESIDETN

gonna d/l when i get home, awesome

we need this ON IPHONE

Tried to post --

"Failed: For Mysterious Reasons"

Otherwise, very cool!

How do I post from it?

Can you make a new thread from it, too?

Looks way cool. The icon's a trucker hat!

iPhone app of this would, of course, be the coolest motherfucking thing ever. I'd sling 59p your way for it.

are you gonna post the code anywhere?

so maybe you are aware of this but the auto-refresh affects the thread you are currently reading and makes the thread jump down to the bottom so you have to scroll back up to catch your place again.

ok, now posting from zing...

cool!

Nick: no new threads yet. Press the pencil to show the post box, or double click thread to show in new window

WmC: that's usually the not-clicked remember me that causes that.

Tza: shit, thought I'd fixed that. Is it doing it in the main window or in a pop-out?

My post attempt timed out?

That's a new one, not seen that before. Are you on a slow connection?

in the main window

Jesus, this has grown legs somewhat since I last saw it. And arms. And got itself a hat.

Huge respect.

Broadband; uploads can be slow but I've never had a problem with posting or emailing without attachments.

tza: am finding it hard to replicate that scrolling bug. Is it doing it every single time?

Nick: that's very odd. I'll go on modem later and see if I can make that happen. Sorry!

You rule, stet. Love this.

tza: got it! It scrolls to end when the boards refresh, weirdly. will fix.

plz port to windoze

Can I post from Zing now, I wonder?

It seems that I can!

Huzzah!

plz to finish ifone app k thx.

This is a fucking awesome little tool. Any way I can increase font / fontsize?

xp "Hey guys I just spent untold hours building this really cool thing that you can now have for free!"

"Yeah, great. I want it to do this other thing."

Plz allow me to pay u money for iPhone app.

I only use ilx to sb these days where's my sb link fool!!!!!!

haha

poor pc-using me doesn't get to play with the cool kids' toys "-/

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/nelson-muntz.gif

Go play Flight Simulator, Rev!

I'm not sure about all the space that's taken up by the board list in the left column. I doubt most ILXers look at it all that often. Maybe a way to select your favourite boards from a drop-down?

if you press the circle button on the bottom left the list does go away, if that's any help?

(Ah! I haven't actually downloaded it. I'm just looking at the screen shot.)

You can also adjust that column to make it thinner. I use it reasonably often, if only to flit from ILE to ILM.

!!!!

I missed this thread earlier

holy shit

i am truly stunned

I haven't forgotten about this, but since the most asked for feature was an iPhone version I decided to have a stab at that. It's not *too* shabby, so far.
http://www.ilxor.com/~stet/zingimg/ZingMsg.png
http://www.ilxor.com/~stet/zingimg/Zingborads.png
http://www.ilxor.com/~stet/zingimg/ZingThread.png

arg forgot to resize them, sorry

ooh looks cool

at last, a reason to buy an iphone.

seriously, beautiful beautiful work. I want.

Thanks. Downloaded. I keep getting a color wheel of death when I try to load threads, both with the old build and new. Not sure if it is a proxy issue or some cache I need to clean or restart. Also having some problems loading virtual backgrounds on Zoom, maybe it’s related.

Aka Spinning Wait Cursor or Spinning Beach Ball of Death (SBBOD)

Got rid of all my bookmarks to see if that would help. Wonder if there is some other cache I can clean or delete. Before I resort to trouble-shooting 101, restart your machine.

The only cache relevant to Zing is that folder listed above, if you delete that you should be all set.

It does use the system networking so if you have system-wide problems I can see that affecting it.

What version of macOS are you running?

Monterey. Can't upgrade this old mac much further. But restart did the trick, restart was the ticket, fixed my other problem as well. Thank you for your support in this matter.

Build 101 has a NOT sign on top of the grayed out red trucker cap. Assuming that means it's not considered production yet.

One thing I love love love about MacZing is the persistence of the last search term.

Doesn't persist through a restart but I'll live.

Any new features I should check out. I see "History works a bit better" when I click Help>What's New? not sure what it means exactly.

It’s a euphemism for “the old history was incredibly buggy”

Lol

So now it should work as expected. I think.

I seem to remember that but had just stopped using it for ages.

I just redownloaded from the link above and reinstalled (now build 102), I still have the excess of bookmarks but I'll delete the account and see if it happens again. Thanks!

Oh also: don’t run it from the Downloads folder, drag it literally anywhere else first - there’s a special quarantine state for apps in there

I think deleting the cache was the key, thanks - it seems to be doing OK now.

Really enjoying using this now - thanks for making it! Stupid question: is it possible to navigate completely with the keyboard? e.g. I can go up and down the bookmarks list, and once I've clicked on a bookmark and then on the answers pane I can scroll up and down, but I don't know how do this from the keyboard (I tried hitting enter, for example).

That’s the ambition, but it has proved a bit trickier to implement than I expected. I’ll have a think about how to do it.

Great, thanks!

Also - any chance of killfile? I miss it from the phone.