Blogging pictures from your DS
About a year ago I had a cool idea: What if I was sitting in a cafe and felt the urge to capture the moment in a little painting and share it with the world? And wouldn’t it be great if my favorite handheld console could be used for that? :-)
Luckily, the wifilib with TCP support was just out, and so I started implementing it a proof-of-concept that uses the Metaweblog API, which is used in many popular CMSs. I was proud to post a picture of a coffee mug from an espresso house in Sweden :-)
Then, the app’s source code started collecting dust on my hard drive, because I didn’t have the time to make a “product” out of it, as I was too busy with NitroTracker already (not to mention real life!) With the approach of the Neoflash Spring Compo deadline, I decided to clear the dust off it and finally release it.
(I like drawing chameleons.)
The file is available from here:
http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,3937.0.html
Update: The current version is available from the filepile.
You can see some pictures people posted in this test blog:
http://pictoblogtest.wordpress.com
It’s still far from perfect (drawing functionality is very very basic, the settings cannot be configured in the app, etc.) but it works. I probably won’t do much to change this though, because I want to focus on NitroTracker and DSMI. Instead, I’ll release the source of my wrapper for the Metaweblog API, so hopefully someone will pick it up and make something out of it (Tassu, Davr, interested?)
Try it out, it’s fun!
Tob
March 20th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Metaweblog protocol + Davr Draw = art blogging
March 21st, 2007 at 6:19 am
:( i want to draw! i’m having a server timeout error mate :’( any ideas? do i have to do any setting up on the wordpress side of things?
March 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pm
The timeout problem is a bug. I’m on it. Just keep trying :-)
March 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I’m getting “Fat Init Error” every time the first non-comp screen loads.
I’m using Supercard SD and I’ve tried patched and unpatched with DLDI. I’ve heard that this error relates to not being able to load a file, and clearly this must be the .ini if that’s the issue.
Any suggestions, anyone?
April 1st, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Any chance of you releasing the full source for this app rather than just the wrapper? I’m interested in expanding the drawing capabilities, adding different colours, tools etc, and possibly implementing other API’s to make it compatible with more blogging software.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:06 am
plus.medic: Oh nice! I think I’ll fully open-source it. I just need to clean it up a little first :)
April 4th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I love this application. :3 I hope you (or someone with the knowhow when you open-source this) fleshes it out. My only suggestion is to make the image post so it’s web standards compliant (it’s lacking an alt tag). Other than that, it’ll be good to see where this program goes.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:54 am
How goes the work on cleaning up the code? Get in touch if you like, my posting name @ gmail.com
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