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The new UI has many changes in it over the old one, internally. Also, I was not using any fancy system to maintain multiple languages.

The result is that I need to re-request all the translations in order to make a new, and stable, but localized version of iShowU.

I’ll be putting up some help (another movie!) on this shortly, but I intend to use Localization Manager (click the image to visit the site that provides the tool) to manage the process. This will allow me to maintain an English version of the UI, plus a number of translation files. I can simply give the translation files to the translators, who use the wonderful Localizer (part of the suite) to edit them. The nice translator people then send them back to me, and I merge the whole lot back to create the end result.

Amazing, great, wonderful. Cool.

I’ll be posting something on the forum when I’m ready to proceed.

I’ve been spending a reasonable amount of time learning CoreData, getting into some more Bindings, using Managed objects, and the like. I wanted to use some of the new Tiger features, to make managing the data inside iShowU a little easier.

Here’s the result so far! This release (1.1a) contains :
* A funky new level meter,
* Presets
* A slight (but unfortunately not perfect) fix for the sprite black cursor problem.
* Quite importantly - I’ve fixed the jumpy capture that sometimes occurred when using larger capture rectangles.

CoreData is actually OK. Coming from a Java/Hibernate background, it’s a little odd, but I think if you put on the ‘it’s Apple, do it their way and it should work’ hat, then it does work well. Having to manually override an object so that you can have statically typed accessors is a bit of a pain (and really, I do want those when using these object within code and not via bindings). Overall I’m pleased with the result. Would I use them again? Yes, I think so, now that I’m more familiar with management of the object life cycles.

I’ve still to work out a nice way to share managed object contexts across nib files, but I’ve only worked with CoreData about 3 days, so I shouldn’t expect too much of myself just yet.

Go to the downloads page to get the 1.1a build.