I wasn't planning on releasing this until next week but I managed to get everything finished today and fix a bug that was rather serious. Unfortunately snippets that shouldn't have been shared were put on codecollector.net. In a few cases these included rather private items, but I have removed these as they have come up.

The problem is that integrating with codecollector.net requires updates to be sent when many events occur including adding, deleting and editing a snippet as well as adding and removing them from groups. On top of informing the class that managed communication with codecollector.net, there need to be checks in place to find out whether it needs to be informed at all, and this bug was caused by me forgetting to put in one of those checks.

On top of this rather serious but are also fixes to snippet list, which now remembers the column size and sorting between launches and a new toolbar icon for adding a snippet from the clipboard. This isn't in the toolbar by default so you'll have to add it yourself if you want to use it.

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One of the best bits of Code Collector Pro 1.2 is the downloading of snippets. Click on a "Send to Code Collector" link on any snippet on codecollector.net and you'll see that snippet appear in Code Collector Pro. The problem is if people want this on their website.

The ideal situation is that when someone clicks on a link to download a snippet via a 3rd party site that it will download the snippet, otherwise provide users with the ability download Code Collector or at the very least view the snippet online. Now this is what codecollector.net does, but it did require a bit out of the box thinking.

I'm not going to claim credit for this, the suggestion came from my friend Jerry Nummi (www.nummi.org). The problem is that when Safari, or any other browser for that matter, sees a protocol it doesn't recognise it starts to complain. People who don't have CCP 1.2 or higher installed will see an error, and so think there is a broken link. I tried PHP redirecting, which worked fine for people who had CCP but again failed for those without.

The solution was the humble iframe. Load the link in a hidden iframe, let the browser complain to itself and let people view the default web page. Incidentally, this doesn't work with the "Send to Code Collector" links. This is to make these links as seamless as possible. If you're wanting to link to a snippet to download directly to Code Collector Pro on your site then I urge you to use the links on the right of every snippet page.

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3 months ago I told you all that “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. Well today you get to see everything as we are releasing Code Collector Pro 1.2. This version features loads of great new features such as the locking of the code area from editing, an improve source list and enhanced drag & drop. But by far the biggest new addition is integration with our new snippet sharing service, CodeCollector.net.

One of the biggest feature requests we’ve had is integration with snippet sharing sites. We’ve had several alternatives recommended to us, but none of them could have given us the integration that we’ve achieved with CodeCollector.net. Once you have enabled sharing your snippets are shared seamlessly with your online account. And it works the other way as well, with all snippets online having a “Send to Code Collector” link that will download the snippet directly into Code Collector Pro (or Lite) for you.

We’ve also bumped the free version of Code Collector up to 1.2 and given it its new name: Code Collector Lite. Code Collector Lite gains the enhanced drag & drop functionality of CCP 1.2 as well as the vastly improved syntax highlighting engine that was introduced in CCP 1.1.

In other news, we have decided to end of life Transceiver. We’ll leave the disk image on our servers but we will no longer be providing support for it. Why end of life it? Well it hasn’t been updated since last January and wasn’t going to be updated anytime in the foreseeable future. It also allowed us to clean up our site a bit and move Code Collector Lite to the Code Collector Pro page.

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Code Collector Pro 1.2 is coming along nicely so I thought I would give you an update. CodeCollector.net is nearly complete and we’ll be giving you more a preview of that in a future post. But in this post I want to show off two small but highly useful features, one in the app and one on the website.

Locking, without the need for keys

We’ve had a few requests for the ability to lock snippets from editing, to prevent you accidentally changing a snippet. As it was an easy feature to add I thought, “Why not?”. So in the inspector (currently at the bottom but that may change before release) you now have a little checkbox to lock a snippet. This only locks the code area so all over parts of a snippet can be edited, but hopefully it will help prevent any accidental slips

“Web calling Desktop, can you hear me?”

Up until now all that I’ve mentioned about the integration between CCP and CodeCollector.net is that the former will be able to sync it’s library with the latter. But if you are sharing with others, then they will likely want to put some of your snippets into their libraries.

Instead of requiring you to copy and paste useful snippets from your browser into CCP there’s a rather neat link labelled “send to code collector”. And it does exactly what it says on the tin. Click on this link on any snippet and it will appear in your snippet library, ready for your consumption.

And to finish with, here’s a little image we’ve made to help advertise CCP 1.2. Remember, sharing is good:

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