MTClient 1.5 RC1

NOTE: The links have been changed to point to the release version.

MTClient is a Windows-based desktop blogging client designed for Movable Type weblogs. It has several advantages over the web interface for entering posts:

  • Intuitive, easy-to-use interface is close enough to the web interface as to be immediately familiar
  • Manually entered and autodiscovered trackbacks and web service pings work as expected.
  • 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
  • Spell checking (including the title)
  • Edit previously-published entries
  • Remembers last used category, text filter, allow comments and allow trackback settings for each blog account
  • Offline operation
  • Save posts on your hard drive
  • 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

    • MTClient can be downloaded as an installation file. The installation file creates an uninstall. Installation of the zip file can be done by simply extracting it into a directory, and uninstallation can be done by deleting it.

    Potential issues

    • You cannot have two users post to the same weblog using the same installation. Multiple installs are possible, though.
    • Dropped search and replace due to time constraints.

    1.60 - added: Spell checking configuration
    added: Minimize to tray option
    added: Hide extended text and/or Movable Type-specific fields at startup
    added: Img tag formatting dialog can be called from the File Upload dialog
    changed: default toolbar setup
    changed: the Insert Table Cell and Insert Item commands have no hot key until I create an acceptable rational assignment pattern
    changed: Tagged text remains selected to ease application of multiple tags
    changed: Bold and Italic commans use <strong> and <em> instead of <b> and <i>
    fixed: Font and line spacing change when text is dropped from rich text and HTML aware programs
    fixed: Controls flowed uncontrollably when editor form was resized
    fixed: File upload form mangled manually entered destination directories

    Posted by Prometheus 6 on April 3, 2004 - 6:45pm :: Tech
     
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    I'm all laying in the cut and hadn't paid attention in 4 days, and see what I miss?! Pulling it and testing now.

    Posted by  ej (not verified) on April 4, 2004 - 9:43pm.

    I'm getting a "Socket error 11001. Host not found" error every time I try to do account setup. For server I'm using same url I use to get to mt.cgi. For port I'm using the default, 80. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

    Posted by  Glen (not verified) on April 6, 2004 - 2:56am.

    For the server, use:

    www.whatever.com

    no http or anything. The rest of the URL to mt.cgi goes in the CGI Path.

    Posted by  P6 (not verified) on April 6, 2004 - 9:36am.

    Earl,

    I just starting using your app. Well done! I have a couple of questions though. I see that a ping was sent (to weblogs.com), but I 'm not sure where it came from. Are you using the 'notification' URLs that are already in MT on the server? Also, is there a way to preview an entry before it's published?

    Thanks,

    Mike.

    Posted by  Michael (not verified) on April 17, 2004 - 12:53pm.

    The ping was done by Movable Type; as long as MT does something right I see no reason to interfere.

    Previews will be in version 2.0. Though you may not need them because it will also be seriously WYSIWYG, to the point of using your blog's stylesheet.

    Posted by  P6 (not verified) on April 17, 2004 - 5:51pm.

    I totally agree with point #1. I was hoping that's how it worked.

    WYSIWYG, what a concept! Sign me up as an Alpha tester.

    Posted by  Michael (not verified) on April 17, 2004 - 7:06pm.

    Could you provide more lines in the keywords field? I am using MTKeyValues and need more than one line to store my keywords.

    Posted by  Antonia (not verified) on April 29, 2004 - 4:30pm.