Shiny droplets released into the wild!

What are Shiny Droplets?

Shiny Droplets are a bundle of small applications that integrate with the finder toolbar, providing a fast shortcut to your favourite text editor.

How do Shiny Droplets works?

Just watch our 1 minute screencast!

Features:

• Files dropped onto a droplet will make each file open in its own editor window.
• Selecting files and then clicking a droplet will open the files altogether in the same editor window (provided the editor supports that).
• Finder integrations (look and feel and items selection)
• Shiny Droplets are free and open source!

Feedback:

Your fave editor is not there? Would you prefer a different behaviour on drop - or perhaps you like the app just the way it is? Just drop a comment to let us know, so we can make Shiny Droplet even better!

Sneak preview of the new Img2icns version. There is nothing more to say, enjoy it.

Comments are welcome!

Img2icns sneak preview from Shinyfrog on Vimeo.

For end users every application has a version number. But for us developer, every application has also a build number too, that is used by the system (e.g. Launch Services) and is needed to track down the source code powering the application.

When creating a Cocoa application you can set these numbers by filling CFBundleShortVersionString and CFBundleVersion keys within info.plist. How to choose the right numbers? Some info on the web:

• Versioning Mac OS X Applications Best Practicies
• Chris Hanson - Xcode: Build numbers and versioning

We use Subversion to handle our source code, so we agreed it would be cool having the Svn version number synced to the CFBundleVersion. We've created a Python script that effortlessly does the job syncing the two numbers:

#!/usr/bin/python

from AppKit import NSMutableDictionary
import os

def increaseVersion():
    # reading svn version
    version = os.popen('svnversion -n').read()
    
    version = version.split(':')[-1]
    
    if not version[-1].isdigit():
        version = version[:-1]
    
    # reading info.plist file
    projectPlist = NSMutableDictionary.dictionaryWithContentsOfFile_('Info.plist')
    
    # setting the svn version for CFBundleVersion key
    projectPlist['CFBundleVersion'] = version
    projectPlist.writeToFile_atomically_('Info.plist', True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    increaseVersion()

How to use the script in Xcode:

1. Add a new build phase at the end of your target’s build phases: right click on your Target , Add -> New build Phase -> New Run Script Build Phase.
2. Double click on the new "Run Script" item and copy/paste the script in the Script field.
3. Make sure that the Shell field is set to: /usr/bin/python.

When you build your application, the Svn version number will be applied for the CFBundleVersion key.

This script is designed to run on Mac OS X 10.5; can run also on 10.4 provided you install PyObjC.