Song download plugin available!

I haven't made much commits this weekend, but a lot of new features were added. How? Easy, but before I tell you how, I should say that plugins are just wrapper for libs. So, there is no need to actually understand a lot of python to make a plugin.
Said that, after finishing the urbandictionary lib, I spent a day or so teaching andresmcid some basic python and how plugins, configsystem and pluginsystem work, and he made both urbandicionary plugin and mp3-goear plugin.
I gave him SVN permissions, so you can even check his commits :)
And this is how both plugins look like:

I made some work on how plugins access their config. Before the actual change, accessing an item from a config was a real PITA. Config was saved as list with sublists, so you could perfectly have something like config[0][1][2][0][4]. Pretty scary for noobs, right? But now accessing an item is just as easy as everything else in Jake-PyQT4. You just need to call the config system this way: configsystem.value(config, 'plaintextcolor') and you'll get the value for the default color of plain text. I told you! A piece of a cake :p

Some options were added to main config, and also some bugs were fixed.
And finally, project status in sourceforge was changed from Alpha to Beta.
I'd really like to keep the good commit-rythm and make a stable release by the end of month. Of course, Not all plugins are going to be available, nor much skins, but that release will aim to a stable base release. Once that stability is reached, no major changes will be made to internal structure. This way we'll be able to start working only on plugins and skins.

Currently, I'm working on a filestube library, and once finished, andresmcid will make another plugin, so, just have a look from time to time to this page and you'll know it.

I'll write again this weeked. Until then, have a good time!

Bye!

New plugins and more problems...

It has been a week since my last post. I didn't though that I was going to spend that much time working on only two plugins, but I have an excuse. Let's start from the beginning.

As I said in my last post, I was going to work on !google-maps-streetview and !google-maps-route plugins. I finished them both and you can see them in SVN. That's how !google-maps-route looks like:

You can also read a short description on forums (Yes! Jake-PyQT4 has it's own forums now! And a few more things). After finishing them I started testing and I noticed that my current implementation of the text area can't handle images sizes, and that's a really big problem. I'm thinking in possible solutions, and till now the only thing that I see kind-of-possible is a complete web browser (QWebView). That won't be easy to implement at all, because my actual code relies heavily on QTextCursor. Anyways, I'll be working on it. Let's hope that I'll make it.

Good news is that, as some of you may have noticed, this page now has a Screenshots, Downloads and Forum areas. Also, now Jake-PyQT4 has a forum. I started writing in it. There isn't too much to read for now, but I'll keep writing.  andresmcid will be acting like moderator (I can't do everything because of lack of time). He has already written a few posts here, and the forum rules here, so, make sure you don't make him angry or he'll delete your posts :p

So, what now?
I'll be working on the QWebView thing, but not at full-time. Maybe some of you know that I'm working on aMSN2, and billiob and me (main devs) want to release 0.1 ASAP. Anyways, this doesn't mean that you won't see commits. It's just that you'll see 1 commit per day rather than 5.

I'll write next post probably after finishing that QWebView thing. Till then, feel free to write suggestions/ideas/comments/whatever in forums, enjoy released plugins, test Jake-PyQT4 and most important, have a good time!

Bye!