MTClient version 0.4 is ready and very solid. It's good enough to be a release candidate...the only reason it's not is to give myself the extra two days to shake it out.

Why it's good

• Intuitive, easy–to–use interface
• Post entries to your Movable Type blog
• Edit previously–published entries
• Easy text and paragraph markup. Add bold, links, blockquotes, and paragraph alignment quickly and easily.
• Support for Movable Type all entry fields including:
  • Title
  • Body
  • Extended Entry
  • Excerpt
  • Keywords
  • Multiple categories
  • Comment Status
  • Send TrackBack pings
  • Edit entry date
• Offline operation
• Save posts as draft
• Manage multiple blogs on multiple sites
• It correctly converts between the high ASCII characters that choke most other desktop clients and HTML entities. In fact, it has a pop–up (Ctrl–Alt–E) that pastes Latin–1 entities into a message for you
• File uploads (Ctrl–Alt–U) copies the URL of the uploaded file to the clipboard

Things to note:

• First thing you have to do is run the Account Setup dialog (Ctrl–Alt–S) that gets your blog information
• There's no way of editing the configuration within the program at this point. Some things can be manually edited. However, I came up with a much easier way of handling program configuration for the next version that won't be much grief now but will be if I have to change a user interface as well as an engine.
• It's written such that multiple installations, installing new versions over old ones. This is because it doesn't touch your registry at all. There's an undelete program, but all you really need to do is delete the directory it's in.
• Spell checking works.
• Thesaurus works
• Pasting richtext (from IE or MS–Office) is done using the Edit|Paste unformatted command

Bad things:

• There's no documentation or help files yet, but I honestly don't think anyone will need them. Just mouse around the menus and toolbar.
• Configuring the spell checker requires going through the context menu or dialog box that pops up when you actually do a spell check.
• Several things that the program would profit from remembering across sessions, aren't.
• No post preview

Good things

• All the bad things will be fixed next version