Comments on: Modified version of Twitterlex

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:38 +0000

Hi Piet,
Thanks for your comments! I haven’t updated (nor used) TwitterLex since early last year… probably the Twitter API has changed, and the current version does not work any more. I don’t plan to support this widget anymore.
Sorry!

By: Piet van Oostrum

Piet van Oostrum — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:39:36 +0000

I tried your version of twitterlex, but it doesn’t work for me. It gets an exception:
03/08/2009 18:24:08 [0x0-0x7007].com.apple.dock[132] 2009-08-03 18:24:08.903 DashboardClient[183:10b] (com.webfroot.widget.twitterlex) file:///Users/piet/Library/Widgets/Twitterlex.wdgt/json2.js: parseJSON (line: 269)

The original doesn’t work for me either but I don’t even get a message.

This is on Leopard, 10.5.7.
Also there is no ~/Library/Preferences/widget-com.webfroot.widget.twitterlex.plist, which I would expect.

By: skooj

skooj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:14:29 +0000

lol, it’s really quite alright, I was just pointing out that there may be a problem for others. the other release found in the main comments seems to work just fine, it’s just that the layout was changed quite a bit (aka dashes after usernames) on that one. I may do a bit of sniffing later if time allows, but it’s not looking that i’ll have time to do anything myself.

once again, thanks for doing this =D

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:02:57 +0000

@skooj sorry if the widget does not work for you, as I’ve only used in my own computer, which does not constitute an extensive testing strategy at all.

By: skooj

skooj — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:12:27 +0000

it seems that one of the main bugs that bothered me in the original is worse than ever in your edit. The bug in question is the one where it will not show any tweets in the widget. With the original, I can fix this simply by restarting the widget and logging in again, this does not seem to be the case with your update. Thanks for taking the time to do this, as it really does add a load of functionality to this widget.

By: adrian

adrian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:31:06 +0000

Hi David :) Thanks for the comments. I am happy that you found this useful. I will send the modifications to the author, who knows! He might as well use them. It’s not perfect though – I’ve realized there are a couple of URLs that appear badly formatted… I should take some time to fix that! But when!?!?!? :))

By: David Swenson

David Swenson — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:04:48 +0000

Nice… found this after downloading twitterlex, and your tweaks are essential to usability. Did you send a patchfile to the original author? Maybe he’d include your improvements.

By: raphael

raphael — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:55:58 +0000

j’aimerais bien la même chose pour mon blog,mais bon pas prio….