Month: June 2005

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Flickr.Net Source Release 1.2

Well I’ve finally got around to releasing the next packaged version of the Flickr Source.

Download Latest Version.

It features lots of changes including:

* POST methods – meaning methods which change things now work
* LastRequest property details last url sent
* FlushCache to delete cache details, either entire or per url (used with above to delete last request)
* GetCachePictures – provides information about already downloaded images – then simply use DownloadPicture to get the data from the cache
* new methods, such as PhotosetsAddPhoto (I think I’ve got them all in here now, let me know if any are missing).
* CacheTimeout and CacheSizelimit variables for managing the cache in a bit more detail (CacheSizeLimit is in bytes, defaults to 50MB).

I’ll try and post some example code using the above at a later date, but for now I’m off to finish off the screensaver.

Bye

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REPL for C#

Don Box wrote a little program which gives you a little command line c# intepreter. Unfortunately he wrote it for .net 2 beta so I tried to rewrite it for .net 1.1.

Things went fairly well, and I have a basic interpreter, unfortunately I think due to the lack of anonymous function support the Invoke command doesn’t work.

You simply need to remove the System.Collections.Generic line from the top (don’t know why its there anyway) and change the following line:

ICodeCompiler compiler = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider(“C#”).CreateCompiler();

becomes

ICodeCompiler compiler = new Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider().CreateCompiler();

If anyone has any ideas on how to get support for methods and other features (like a simple for loop for example) that would be great.

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Trackback Translation needed…

I get various trackbacks for the Flickr Screensaver posts. but quite a few seem to be almost identical posts on different web site.

Unfortunately they are in Chinese (or japanese, I don’t even know the difference!).

So if anyone would like to translate this page and let me know what it says I’d be grateful… (Lazyweb anyone?)

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FlickrScreensaver feedback

“A gentleman put it together” – quoting Major Nelson in recent blogcast.

Yes, you heard right, Major Nelson (Xbox Live Director of Programming, Larry Hyrb) uses the Flickr Screensaver.

On that note I’m trying to get some feedback on the screensaver. I’m very near to doing a new release, with some interesting new features.

The number one requested feature is for a shorter time between pictures. Currently the minimum time between photos is 1 minute. I’m considering reducing this, to say 15 second intervals.

I have noted all feedback in the comments and its all been good.

Thoughts, or other comments welcome.