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Sherm Pendley - 25 Mar 2005 21:05 GMT

The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta1.dmg?
download>

What is ShuX?

ShuX is a Cocoa-based Mac OS X update to the MacPerl Shuck tool.
Naturally, if you've never used MacPerl or Shuck, that's not
extraordinarily helpful to know. :-)

ShuX (and Shuck) is a POD reader. POD is Perl's "plain old
documentation" format. All of the documentation that ships with Perl -
and there is a LOT of it - is delivered in POD format. The docs for a
module are written in POD format, and embedded within the module's .pm
file.

What's new in beta2?

Two major crashing bugs have been fixed:

Running ShuX from a location with a space in the path name no longer
causes a crash.

Adding a DocSet by running a perl to get its configuration info
will no
longer cause a crash if the target perl hasn't been configured with
one
of the requested paths.

A number of things have been added and/or changed:

An "Introduction to ShuX" document is displayed at startup by
default.

An interface to type a full or partial POD name to select it in the
browser has been added.

The interface for selecting a perl to use when adding a new DocSet
has been overhauled.

Several new options have been added to the Preferences panel.

The menus have been cleaned up, with several menu items that aren't
relevant to a read-only document viewer removed.

Some minor display glitches have been corrected.

What new additions are planned for the beta3 release?

A "shux" command-line tool, written and contributed by Alex
Robinson.

Active hyperlinks in document windows.

A "history" function in the Browser window.

An "Open POD" item in the Services menu.

sherm--

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Sherm Pendley - 25 Mar 2005 21:10 GMT

> The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:
>
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta1.dmg?
> download>

Naturally, I didn't notice the typo until three seconds after I sent
this to a fistful of lists. :-(

The correct URL is:

<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta2.dmg?
download>

sherm--

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Rick Frankel - 26 Mar 2005 17:06 GMT

>The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:

The new perl... button works much better. One new problem though:

If any field in a Document Set is left blank, that top-level node
in the DocSet Browser becomes a file system browser anchored at '/'!

I think it would be better if the top-level entries either did nothing
or (my preference) removed from the browser entirely if not set.

rick

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Lola Lee - 25 Mar 2005 23:41 GMT

> The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camelbones/ShuX-3.0.beta1.dmg?
> download>

When I go to /usr directory, everything's greyed out, so I can't
navigate the path to the installed perl.

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Sherm Pendley - 25 Mar 2005 23:52 GMT

>> The latest release of ShuX, 3.0.beta2, is available for download at:
>>
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> When I go to /usr directory, everything's greyed out, so I can't
> navigate the path to the installed perl.

D'oh! The filter at the bottom is applied to both directories *and*
files, but it should apply only to files.

Easy workaround: Choosing "All files" will let you select
subdirectories. Or, you can hit cmd-shift-G and enter the full name of
the directory you want to navigate to, for example "/usr/local/bin".

sherm--

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Lola Lee - 26 Mar 2005 00:04 GMT

> D'oh! The filter at the bottom is applied to both directories *and*
> files, but it should apply only to files.

Sounds like a bug . . .

> Easy workaround: Choosing "All files" will let you select
> subdirectories. Or, you can hit cmd-shift-G and enter the full name of
> the directory you want to navigate to, for example "/usr/local/bin".

Working like a charm - I like this feature. :-)

Now off to expplore the features . . .

BTW, seems I was a bit off as to where 5.8.6 is installed - it's
actually the binary that was installed into the /usr/local/bin directory.

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Sherm Pendley - 26 Mar 2005 00:44 GMT

>> D'oh! The filter at the bottom is applied to both directories *and*
>> files, but it should apply only to files.
>
> Sounds like a bug . . .

Yep. It's a bug in ShuX though, not Cocoa.

That's what the "D'oh!" was about. :-(

Ah, well. At least it's a pretty easy fix.

sherm--

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Peter N Lewis - 26 Mar 2005 11:09 GMT

According to the documentation for PerlMagic, Get('orientation')
should return the orientation tag for the image. I can't seem to get
any result back for this (ImageMagick-6.1.8, PerlMagick-6.20). I
checked the Magick.xs code, and it does not appear to actually
mention orientation in the code.

Am I confused, or is this not supported?

I tried contacting the author directly with no luck, the email bounces.

Any other suggestions for reading the information?

Thanks,
Peter.

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Ricardo SIGNES - 28 Mar 2005 14:01 GMT

* Peter N Lewis <peter@stairways.com.au> [2005-03-26T05:09:41]

> Any other suggestions for reading the information?

Not with PerlMagick. I'd use Image::EXIF.

Please, please, PLEASE don't reply to a message if you're not really
replying! Sane mail user agents show your message in the middle of a
thread on ShuX. Start a new message thread, instead.

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