Scribbly Thoughts

TimeAndDate.com is a great site, but at some stage they changed what they do with their default language and started serving up your default language for your location. A great feature, but it broke TimeZone.

This release fixes the requirement to use English on TimeAndDate.com. Now you can use any language you like on TimeAndDate.com and TimeZone will correctly use the data.

This version also removes any limit (almost) to how many favourites you can have.

TimeZone will now switch views when the results are greater than the FARR Setting.

Download here: TimeZone Website


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TimeZone has just been updated to version 1.2.2.

This update fixes the downloader that wasn't configured to work with all the time formats that TimeAndDate.com were dishing up. Each time they dished up the times for me it was in AM/PM format, but thanks to IainB it finally dawned that my perspective wasn't the only one!

Download TimeZone here: TimeZone Website

Other information can be found on the DonationCoder TimeZone Thread.

NANY 2010 has started with a bang! NANY is a couple of weeks old and we've got:

• 27 Pledges
• 16 Teasers
• 6 Entries already!

N.A.N.Y. stands for "New Apps for the New Year", and is an event where we try to get all the coders who hang out at DonationCoder.com to release a brand new FREEWARE/DONATIONWARE application to celebrate the coming of the new year. The NANY event is a celebration of software - it's not a competition and there is no winner.

I've been hoodwinked into managing the Event again this year: and it's a real pleasure! It's wonderful to see such an active community achieve such great results.

There's still time to join in the fun and Pledge your commitment. Read the full Instructions and make your Pledge Here.

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FARR (Find And Run Robot) is a wonderful piece of software that has the ability of being extended with Plugins. TimeZone is just one of those Plugins.

TimeZone is built on the FScript Plugin that allows us to write FARR plugins in javaScript, vbScript, Ruby or Python natively.

The recent development of FARR and FScript has been fairly rapid and successive FScript releases extended the available functionality (great), and also created a bit of confusion (not so great).

The previous release of TimeZone updated the Plugin to the latest version of FScript.dll (1.19), but in the process some of the issues people were having with FScript and FSubScript became apparent.

One issue I was having was that the FARR window was left open after selecting a search result. This was partly due to returning a value of the correct type.

One of the problems with the FScript development has been that there has not been enough time for documentation, especially for the non-javaScript languages. Steps are in place to correct this, and to also bring the FScript Plugin into the main distribution of FARR. FARR is also about to get it's own wiki as well. This is great news for FARR Plugin writers!

Download TimeZone here: TimeZone Website

Other information can be found on the DonationCoder TimeZone Thread.

This release updates the FScript.dll to the latest version (1.19).

FARR is about to undergo a major overhaul where its scripting plugins is concerned, and all FScript Plugin writers were requested to update in this request.

Download here: TimeZone Website