Tea Timer 1.8 beta1
Monday, September 26, 2011
It’s been a while since I released a new version of Tea Timer. But finally, here it is: Tea Timer 1.8 (beta)!
I resolved (or rejected ;-)) most of the issues that arose during the last couple of months. Unfortunately, I could not reproduce all bugs, so that’s why there is this beta.
Things that have changed:
- Alarms are now called asynchronously, so the sound, voice and Growl message appear all at the same time (instead of sequentially after each other as before).
- The list of alarm sounds and voices is now created dynamically and thus contain Lion’s new voices.
- Fixed a bug with keep alarming and sticky Growl messages. You won’t get flooded by them anymore. Instead, there will be only one sticky Growl message when keep alarming is activated.
- Editing the fields for the timer target (e.g. “Tea”) or ready in / in during a countdown will now longer reset the countdown. However, editing the countdown time during an active countdown will reset the countdown accordingly.
- Finally, there is a pink background!
Thins I didn’t change:
- I could not reproduce the rendering problems on Lion.
- I could not reproduce issue #15.
If you find any bugs and have Dashcode installed, please also test the widget there. It might help to reproducing (and fixing) the problems. Dashboard widgets are just HTML/CSS/JavaScript, so don’t be afraid. ;-)
You can find the issue tracker at bitbucket.
Comment
Bjarne on October 3, 2011 at 23:03:
Tea-timer is my most used Widget, again thank you!
charles on October 8, 2011 at 04:50:
The current update of TeaTimer causes some issues in leopard 10.5.8
Sound & Voice are both set to off, and have no drop down list of voices to chose from.
Elbryan on October 8, 2011 at 11:01:
I have problem with Tea timer and Growl 1.3. The notifications are not shown. Is it just me or is it a known issue?
Stefan on October 8, 2011 at 11:23:
@Bjarne: Which version of Mac OS X do you have? And as far as I know, it is not possible to stop the alarm by clicking on the Growl message.
@charles: Thx for the heads-up.
@Elbryan: Yes, this might be an issue. I don't have Growl 1.3 yet. Maybe its Apple Script interface has changed.
Bjarne on October 9, 2011 at 08:10:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard,,
Stefan on October 9, 2011 at 10:59:
I’ll try to setup a 10.5 and a 10.6 VM the next days and run some tests there.
Regarding, Growl: Maybe I’ll look into it, but it has no high priority for me. If you really want that feature, I welcome you to provide a patch for that.
james_marc on October 31, 2011 at 04:09:
Love this app. Glad you are working on it again. Manage dinner, my dogs and my life in general with it all the time!
Fred on November 1, 2011 at 23:50:
I'm having the same problem as Bjarne, also in OS 10.6.8, also running Growl ( v.1.2.2). No text, button does not work, no "info" button.
Stefan on November 18, 2011 at 16:10:
@Fred: Have you tried uninstalling the widget from ~/Library/Widgets/ and removing the pref. file ~/Library/Preferences/widget-org.sofa-rockers.widget.TeaTimer.plist?