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Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

well, I installed effing after PR 1.3 but when I tap the icon nothing's opening :(

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

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Originally Posted by raverpol (Post 861618)

well, I installed effing after PR 1.3 but when I tap the icon nothing's opening :(

Try to upgrade again. I uploaded a version late tuesday night that had a bad path in the .desktop file. I fixed it Wednesday morning with a new version, and you may not have the catalog updated yet.

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

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Originally Posted by CasTTeLLo (Post 861589)

i cant update via app mang coz conflict with the new firmw updater...i'm still with pr 1.2... so how?? need pr 1.2 ver...thanks

I have upgraded my qt creator and it is putting a dependency on Qt 4.7 in the control file. It should work with 4.6, but the packaging won't let it now. I am not going to repackage for backwards compatibility (I am not even sure how to make it downgrade the QT dependency, let alone how to do it so it will work for 1.3 users with no problems).

You can download the .deb, crack it open, and install the files manually. An easier method would be to upgrade to 1.3. It really does fix a bunch of bugs--one in particular that was plauging the login page on this app.

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Originally Posted by elie-7 (Post 861378)

if only this was a widget where i can update my status from my desktop....
but great app man.

this app is brilliant!!! but deffinatly needs to be a widget! is there any chance??? cheers snake

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

I just posted an update...should show up in the repo soon. I fixed the problem with international characters (accented, umlauted, tildefied, etc.) disappearing.

For those that are actually interested in the technical parts (and in case someone searches for this very problem) here are the details:

the facebook graph api allows you to submit status updates (or other feed info) as post data in an HTML request. I was submitting the raw request string, which works great for gringo-speak. But when people whose languages were not simplified by the rough journey across the atlantic ocean tried to use characters with accent marks, these marks would disappear.

The solution was to "percent encode" the string before placing it in the post data. This was done in Qt with the following:

Code:

QString encodedStatus(QUrl::toPercentEncoding(status,"",""));

Where status is the plaintext and the resulting encodedStatus is the encoded value to include in the post data.

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Originally Posted by rmerren (Post 864543)

Code:

QString encodedStatus(QUrl::toPercentEncoding(status,"",""));

Where status is the plaintext and the resulting encodedStatus is the encoded value to include in the post data.

Thanks - not just for the update (those enhancements are good, but not used by me), but also for the code pro-tip.
I used to URL encode and then pull out the relevant parameters. Your method is more elegant.

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

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Originally Posted by uvatbc (Post 864563)

I am a very elegant man.

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

the fastest way i know to update youe fb satus.
it would be faster with a widget ;)

Re: [Announce] Effing - Facebook Status Updater

Is it possible to have "via effing N900" under wall posts? Does this app already do that?