Wickr - the widget for Flickr, Browse photos on Flickr Options

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Wickr is a widget for browsing through photos on Flickr. I've already submitted it to the gallery, but it's waiting approval. While waiting approval, I think I'll let you guys check it out and see what it's like, make changes to it if required, and have an update ready by the time it's in the gallery. I'm still adding features to it. I've also made a website for Wickr at http://shirazlabs.com/wickr . The download a bit more information can be found at the site. There's a currently an empty forum for it at http://wickr.wikidot.com/forum:start . Looking forward to any comments or suggestions.

Quick Guide
To search for photos, enter in tags. Each tag should be seperated by a blank space. Tags with multiple words should be in quotes or joined together into one word. For example, the tag new york should be "new york" or newyork. A blank search will give the most recent photos uploaded to Flickr. To view photos from a user, just enter the username or email.

EDIT: It's already up in the gallery at http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=38172

*NEW*
Wickr v 1.5 Beta: Wickr v 1.5 Beta.

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Hello there, this is not much of a test for a beta, but a call for a test on a Mac. My widget is Wickr, and when I first submitted it to the gallery, I submitted it as a general dual platform widget, but it was approved as a Windows widget. I assumed that some code didn't work on Mac. I have an idea of what code might be causing the problem.

But now, my latest release, version 0.99, has been approved as a general dual platform widget. I didn't change any of the code that I thought that was causing the the incompatibility on the Mac. My worry is that there could a mistake done in the approval process that they mistakenly marked it as a dual platform widget. So, what I ask here is help from anybody that has a Mac to download my widget and try it out for sure whether it really works on a Mac.
Link: Wickr
The code I that I thought that was causing the incompatibility was a "mkdir" command. I thougth the escapePath function that I used was only functioning on Windows, and the forward slash was a Windows-only thing too.

CODE

runCommand("mkdir " + escapePath(system.widgetDataFolder + "/cache"));
function escapePath(s) { return s.replace(/([\W])/g,"\\$1"); }

It could be that some changes were made to the engine to fix this problem. So, does it really work on a Mac? Please tell me.

[Ricky Romero]

But now, my latest release, version 0.99, has been approved as a general dual platform widget. I didn't change any of the code that I thought that was causing the the incompatibility on the Mac. My worry is that there could a mistake done in the approval process that they mistakenly marked it as a dual platform widget. So, what I ask here is help from anybody that has a Mac to download my widget and try it out for sure whether it really works on a Mac.

I wouldn't have marked it as a generic Widget if it didn't work on both platforms.

From my testing, Wickr runs great on the latest versions of both the Mac and Windows Widget Engines.

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I wouldn't have marked it as a generic Widget if it didn't work on both platforms.

From my testing, Wickr runs great on the latest versions of both the Mac and Windows Widget Engines.

Nice... Now I can safely claim that it works on a Mac. w00t

[Rob Marquardt]

The code I that I thought that was causing the incompatibility was a "mkdir" command. I thougth the escapePath function that I used was only functioning on Windows, and the forward slash was a Windows-only thing too.

CODE

runCommand("mkdir " + escapePath(system.widgetDataFolder + "/cache"));
function escapePath(s) { return s.replace(/([\W])/g,"\\$1"); }

mkdir functions on Mac, but system.widgetDataFolder is a separate folder for each Widget. Is there really a need to make a cache folder inside of it? It's a good idea to get out of the habit of using Unix utilities (or do a platform check and use the Unix call on the Mac and DOS under Windows).

The forward-slash is the Mac path delimiter.

P.S. If version .999 is still using that Javascript md5 include, I'm changing it to the engine's native md5 myself.   

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P.S. If version .999 is still using that Javascript md5 include, I'm changing it to the engine's native md5 myself.

Haha . Okay, I promise I'll use the engine's md5 in the next release.

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The new release is ready. I'm releasing version Wickr version 1.5 soon, but I'd like to make sure it can run on the Mac first, so here's Wickr 1.5 Beta.
Mentionable new features:

• Add tags, notes, comments.
• Full blown slideshow module.

The new slideshow module has 3 new slideshow modes in addition to the existing Normal mode:

• Badge: similar to the Flickr flash badge.
• Mosaic: a mosaic of of square sized thumbnails.
• Ticker: photos that scroll across the screen.

Slideshows are now able to be maximized to fullscreen like a screensaver. All that, plus some minor features in the new version. Check it out, tell me if it works, if you encounter a problem tell me about it. Thanks.
Download: Wickr v 1.5 Beta.