Scratchpad 0.2

This is actually a very old tarball, I never quite finished it to the point that I was happy with a new release. But since the old version is not available anymore and the next version with the project interface is quite a while off, I decided to release this now.

http://www.chorse.org/stuff/scratchpad/scratchpad-0.2.tar.gz

Scratchpad

Revision Browser

Scratchpad is a spatial text editor using Gtk#. It features a revision browser and real autosaving. In true spatial philosophy, it is not possible to create a new document from inside a scratchpad window, instead you will have to create a new document using your file manager and then open it. Other useful features in this release are a type-ahead search bar (which is quite common these days), intelligent wordwrap defaults and some advanced keyboard shortcuts, including ctrl+enter to create a new line and ctrl+C, ctrl+V and ctrl+X will act on the current line when no text is selected. That makes shuffling of lines very comfortable without having to learn any new key bindings. I intend to add a lot more features to make Scratchpad as convenient and efficient as possible for developers.

Notes for this release: You will need Gtk# and all that stuff, also the Mono bindings for dbus and gtk-sourceview. gconf apparently has to be killed once after installation…

Chessmonk 0.1

Now that Chessmonk is actually very usable as a pretty PGN viewer, I decided to make a release with the intention to generate some feedback.

Get it here:

http://www.chorse.org/stuff/chessmonk/ (hosted by Patrick Schnorbus)

Requirements:

You’ll need recent PyGtk and gnome-python libraries. It also uses GnomeCanvas. Gentoo users, make sure you have the SVG loader for libpixbuf installed. :)

Screenshot (click for larger size):

Chessmonk 0.1

Mirage, Chessmonk Progress

Meanwhile I released a new theme and created a project page for Chessmonk on Google hosting, so it now has a SVN repository. If you are looking for a pretty PGN viewer, I strongly suggest you give it a try.

I’m not sure yet whether I will release 0.1 once I took care of the remaining quirks, or if I wait until it has a wider set of features.

Edit: Fixed the links, sorry!