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Very slick code by the way. I don't like how the code is being used within Disco (as you might have been able to tell from the tone of my post ;-) But I love the effect itself. Very cool. Very interesting looking at the cikernel code too. Very slick indeed.
Wow, that just hit me as so funny. Thanks for the laugh!
Also, it's great that you made this post public so their lawyers can contact you easily.
Keep up the good work!
Dave: glad you enjoyed it.
Indigo: You're on your own :-)
class-dump Disco.app/Contents/Frameworks/Smoke.framework/Versions/A/Smoke
I don't know why they bothered to take them out.
(class-dump is available from http://www.codethecode.com/Projects/class-dump/ )
That's just silly.
But, if you've chatted with one of the developers and he/she says it's okay, no harm done. Have the developers really confirmed that they meant for other developers to use Smoke.framework? (Having removed the headers from the shipping product indicates to me that the answer is probably no...)
The DiscoApp developer I smoke (Austin) even mentioned sponsoring a contest for the best smoke related hacks with free copies of Disco to the winners. Basically I think that they look at this as extra free publicity.
Awesome hack, wish I knew Objective-C so I could actually make use of it, but still cool.
There's really only one feature of Disco that interests me, and that's "Spandex". Given the above statement, can Disk Utility do what Spandex does, and if so how? It's something I've been trying to figure out for some time.
Spandex is nothing special, it actually doesnt seperate large files, it just splits up the directories amoungst multiple discs... wupdidoo. So if you have one huge video file, it won't even be able to span.
That's quite true but there's a certain derision in the post about how Disco is charging for features that are available free in Disk Utility. I think there's some value in the streamlined interface that does automatic spanning and indexing and automatically chooses the type of disc to be burned based on the context of the files being thrown at it.
While most expert users would have no use for this I could see a lot of novice users finding a use for a utility like that (I don't know how many times I've had to explain that you can't just burn MP3s or VIDEO_TS folders as normal data CDs and expect them to work in the normal media players...)
I think the main problem though is that demographic is one of the least likely type of users to look on the internet for a third-party shareware solution.
However, it doesn't work when using the framework from Disco 1.0. I've taken another class-dump, but I can't beat the errors. Maybe I should've kept a copy of the beta version... Anyone got any ideas?