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[Pythoncard-users] textRouter

[Simon K. <si...@ki...>]

Hello Everyone,

The basic weblog app I posted a note about a month or so back has been
progressing quite nicely of late, and has evolved in to "TextRouter". 
It's basically a generic-ish weblogging app, so it may not be too useful
if you don't maintain a website with either Blogger or Manila, but if
you want to check it out it is now in the CVS samples dir under
textRouter/

I use Linux day to day, and while Kevin has been helping me test it out
on Windows quite a bit it there may still be a few issues.

If there are any problems, just mail me, the readme.txt in it's
directory explains the concept of the app a bit better (I hope).

bye

Simon

[Pythoncard-users] textRouter readme.txt

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

                            TextRouter README
                            =================


What is it ?
============

  TextRouter is a generic weblogging and text "routing" application. 
  It's main use is for posting to Blogger and/or Manila maintained
  weblogs.  It is designed to be the sort of app which is kept running
  the whole time; the idea being that if you find a piece of text you'd
  like to send somewhere, you can simply copy and paste it into
  TextRouter and send it on its way.

  Some screen shots are available at:
  http://simon.kittle.info/stories/storyReader$116

Features
========

  TextRouter can curently:

    1 New/Edit/Delete posts on Blogger accounts.

    2 Flip/get/set/add to Manila homepages. (Multiple accounts
    supported)

    3 Email text. (prefdefined addresses supported)

  Things that are planned:

    1 Multiple Blogger accounts.

    2 more support for Manila specific features.

    3 routing to RSS Files on the local disk

Blogger
=======

  Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) is a free service which allows a
  user to easily maintain a weblog on their website.  When you update
  your weblog (either via a web based form or a client like this one)
  Blogger takes care of updating all the HTML, archiving old posts, and
  FTP'ing the data to your website.

Manila
======

  Manila (http://manila.userland.com) is a Content Management System
  from Userland Software, Inc. While Manila can manage whole websites,
  it has a number of specific features for maintaining weblog type
  sites.  There is a list of companies that provide Manila hosting at:
  http://www.edithere.com/directory/22/websiteHostingServices/manila.

Requirements
============

  TextRouter is written using the PythonCard framework
  (http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net) which you will need to download
  if you didn't get this app as part of PC.

  PythonCard in turn relies on Python (http://www.python.org),
  wxWindows (http://www.wxwindows.org) and wxPython
  (http://www.wxpython.org).

  The only other requirement is the Python XML-RPC library from
  PythonWare (http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/).

Details
=======

  Availability: Get the sources from the CVS repository on the
  PythonCard Sourceforge page.	When the app is a little more stable, a
  windows exe package may be assembled.

  Last Updated: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:24:02 GMT

  Contact: si...@ki...

  Latest info: http://simon.kittle.info/textrouter

RE: [Pythoncard-users] textRouter

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Simon Kittle
>
> The basic weblog app I posted a note about a month or so back has been
> progressing quite nicely of late, and has evolved in to "TextRouter".
> It's basically a generic-ish weblogging app, so it may not be too useful
> if you don't maintain a website with either Blogger or Manila, but if
> you want to check it out it is now in the CVS samples dir under
> textRouter/
>
> I use Linux day to day, and while Kevin has been helping me test it out
> on Windows quite a bit it there may still be a few issues.
>
> If there are any problems, just mail me, the readme.txt in it's
> directory explains the concept of the app a bit better (I hope).

I posted the readme.txt as a separate message, so everyone could get a
better idea what textRouter does. Future news on the app should appear here:
  http://simon.kittle.info/textrouter

The sample is in cvs now, but will be part of the next release.

I'm really excited about the textRouter, since it is one of the most
complicated samples done in PythonCard so far and I didn't write it. It also
shows off using XML-RPC. Simon has brought up some issues where the current
framework is lacking such as dynamically adding and removing menus that I
plan to address soon. Feel free to discuss any ideas or problems you have
with the sample on this list. If you want to set up a free blogger account,
I think there is info at:
  http://www.blogger.com/howto/free_host.pyra
but I'm currently unable to reach the site to double-check the URL.

ka