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leojab	2010-07-08 , 09:43
Posts: 102 \| Thanked: 23 times \| Joined on Apr 2010	#551

Thanks for this great and functional twitter app.
I have few comments:
1. Support multiple twitter search screens
2. Please support caching of twitter searches
3. Support manual rotation instead of auto rotation. Maybe we can have an option to disable auto-rotation in settings

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	dwould	2010-07-08 , 10:55
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#552

Originally Posted by skr0

No Bugs noticed.
I do however notice that Witter hangs at random times, normally when launched, I do notice this with Gwibber as well and assume it is a Twitter or network thing and happy to put up with it.

In theory all requests to twitter happen on threads (accept sending a tweet) and so you should not experience a UI hang if twitter is unresponsive. this *may* be some horrendous coding fail on my part, but I choose to believe it is just the n900 occasionally not responding. I get similar freezes in all apps depending on what else if going on at the time.
If anyone is able to more directly point the finger at something specifically witter, then I will look at fixing it.

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If Witter isn't working for you, eg crashes/doesn't start, gives errors etc etc. Please run it from x-term using:
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This will generate diagnostic output. Without this I cannot help you.

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	dwould	2010-07-08 , 10:58
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#553

Originally Posted by anapospastos

I 've noticed that sometimes witter "loses" some tweets. Anyone else faced this problem?

I've heard others complain about the same thing. The only thing I can think of is that twitter doesn't always give me every tweet I've asked for.
Witter works by remembering the most recent tweet it has in a given timeline. When you refresh it asks twitter for all tweets more recent that this id.
If it for some reason doesn't respond with every tweet, but I go get some. Then the 'most recent' id gets moved fowards and I don't see that there is any whole.
I'm not certain this is what happens, and certainly if it is, it raises the question of how other twitter apps get around this problem. If I figure out a way to definitely avoid this issue, then I will certainly fix it.

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	dwould	2010-07-08 , 11:02
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#554

Originally Posted by dscobsct

love this app, and havent found any bugs, but the only thing that i can ask is that the scrolling be made smoother, its the only thing that lets the app down, its kind of the same choppy scrolling as conversations suffers from, is there anything you can do about it or is it limitation that you are faced with?

This is basically a limitation of the fact that I'm using stock GTK to implement the app. I use what's called a 'PannableArea' to provide the smooth scrolling. So there is no 'code' from my point of view to implement this, it's just provided by Maemo. Certainly if the same issue affects the build in conversations, then there is really not much I can do. Other than completely re-implement in C and learn how to write my own awesome smooth kinetic scrolling algorithm....(unlikely)

The only other thing I can think of is I could try to do some performance analysis to figure out if I'm doing unnecessary calculations during scrolling.

I'm open to ideas on optimising the performance of python code. If someone can categorically state that moving to QT rather than GTK will improve performance then I would certainly consider the effort in making the switch.

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	dwould	2010-07-08 , 11:07
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#555

Originally Posted by leojab

Thanks for this great and functional twitter app.
I have few comments:
1. Support multiple twitter search screens
2. Please support caching of twitter searches
3. Support manual rotation instead of auto rotation. Maybe we can have an option to disable auto-rotation in settings

1) it's something I'm mulling, as part of a larger consideration about supporting lists and other ways in which you might slice'n'dice the specific tweets you're looking at.

2) caching of twitter searches? you mean like I do for timeline/mention/dm or something else?

3) yeah yeah yeah....seems like every feature these days has some who love it, and some who just want me to switch it back off/make it configurable to switch off.
Next time I'm in the code I'll see if I can figure out an automatic/manual switch.

There has been little progress recently because
a) I've been very busy with actual real paid work
b) it's been summer, and I've had much better things to do with my evenings than sit in writing code
c) it's been summer, and I've had much better things to do with my weekends than sit in writing code.

If the weather is rubbish this weekend I might get some more done, but other than that I have a pretty hectic schedule for the next couple of months.

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	mscarrot	2010-07-11 , 22:05
	Posts: 105 \| Thanked: 46 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ The Netherlands	#556

Hi Daniel,

I've been using Witter a long time but since a few days it crashes on me every time I wanna use it.
i start it and get a blanc screen with the waiting 'spinning' signal on top, after that it just vanish and bring me back to the last screen I was using...
Can you think of anything other then deinstalling and installing cause that didn't help.
Hope you can help me, am missing my favorite app so much !!

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leojab	2010-07-11 , 22:21
Posts: 102 \| Thanked: 23 times \| Joined on Apr 2010	#557

Originally Posted by dwould

1) it's something I'm mulling, as part of a larger consideration about supporting lists and other ways in which you might slice'n'dice the specific tweets you're looking at.
>>Thanks. maybe a list box wherein i can add and remove my twitter search text

2) caching of twitter searches? you mean like I do for timeline/mention/dm or something else?
>>Yes.. the same idea as in timeline

3) yeah yeah yeah....seems like every feature these days has some who love it, and some who just want me to switch it back off/make it configurable to switch off.
Next time I'm in the code I'll see if I can figure out an automatic/manual switch.

There has been little progress recently because
a) I've been very busy with actual real paid work
b) it's been summer, and I've had much better things to do with my evenings than sit in writing code
c) it's been summer, and I've had much better things to do with my weekends than sit in writing code.

If the weather is rubbish this weekend I might get some more done, but other than that I have a pretty hectic schedule for the next couple of months.

>>You have given as a wonderful app and I am really happy using it on my N900. Trust me I use this a lot, especially during summer time

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	dwould	2010-07-12 , 09:39
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#558

Originally Posted by mscarrot

Hi Daniel,

I've been using Witter a long time but since a few days it crashes on me every time I wanna use it.
i start it and get a blanc screen with the waiting 'spinning' signal on top, after that it just vanish and bring me back to the last screen I was using...
Can you think of anything other then deinstalling and installing cause that didn't help.
Hope you can help me, am missing my favorite app so much !!

I just updated my sig so that instructions are now visible every time I post ;-)

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	mscarrot	2010-07-12 , 22:50
	Posts: 105 \| Thanked: 46 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ The Netherlands	#559

Thanks

I've tried and it came back with:

Line 11: python2.5/opt/witter/witter.py : not found ?????

Sorry can't make more of that??? hope it helps (i doubt it ...but hope it does)

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	dwould	2010-07-13 , 06:29
	Posts: 529 \| Thanked: 262 times \| Joined on Dec 2008 @ Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK	#560

Originally Posted by mscarrot

Thanks

I've tried and it came back with:

Line 11: python2.5/opt/witter/witter.py : not found ?????

Sorry can't make more of that??? hope it helps (i doubt it ...but hope it does)

there needs to be a space between python2.5 and /opt/witter/witter.py