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A little early

by Prometheus 6
December 13, 2003 - 7:00pm.
on Tech

Taking a deep breath…

First the bad news. Because I used a relational shotgun to handle my mosquito–sized storage needs here, the first version of MTClient, zipped into an archive with a single subdirectory, weighs in at a hefty 3.1 megs. There's a chance that version 1.0 can come in at less than a meg. To compensate for that, you uninstall it by deleting the directory. I just noticed the spell checker leaves an entry in the Registry, but that will change.Now, MTClient:
MTCMain.gif

Anyone who's posted to a Movable Type blog should be able to figure out how to work this already. There are only two things I want to be specific about here: To set up a blog account, you click the Configure menu button and select Account Setup.

MTCAccountSetup.gif

The other thing is, icons are mandatory, but not always clear, so:

MTCToolbar1.gifmtctoolbar2.gifMTCToolbar3.gif
MTCToolbar4.gifMTCToolbar5.gif

Mouseover the toolbar buttons to see the hot keys that do the same stuff. Saving a post and the image tag builder aren't implemented yet, but you might not care.


This is pretty much the last time I'll post something about MTClient here. I have the nerve to think it worthy of a support site and just for the hell of it, here's the blog I'll been testing it on. XREWare is going to be an ongoing experiment.

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Submitted by Al-Muhajabah (not verified) on December 14, 2003 - 3:42pm.

Sounds cool. I don't really have a lot of need for a client of this nature since I'm usually always online when I'm at my computer, but I'm sure it will be useful for a lot of folks :-)

Submitted by P6 (not verified) on December 14, 2003 - 4:30pm.

It certainly will.It's not a blog maintenance tool, sis. It's a writer's tool. It's a pretty rudimentary HTML editor but tweaked for me, to make it easier with all the volume I generally produce, considered numerically or by length.It correctly handles Microsoft extended ASCII characters that are cut and pasted into your post…those characters choke posting with every other client I know of, and even when pasted into MT's web interface they display poorly on non-Microsoft OSes.All those tool bar buttons have hot keys so, for instance, you can highlight some text, hit Ctrl-Alt-A and build a hyperlink around it without mousing or hand-typing HTML. And it's got spell checking. And a thesaurus (told ya it's for writers).It will also provide the HTML for lists and tables, and the version under my fingers right now has a rather cool file upload capability. Within the limits of XML-RPC, you can upload any type of file and tell the wizard whether it's an image (in which case it produces an <img> tag) or a data file (in which case it produces an <a> tag).