Pictu 0.2 released
Posted on October 30, 2003
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Long, long ago (somewhere back in the OS 9 days) I had an idea: a utility that stuck a menu widget into the menubar and popped down the image of your choice when you clicked on it would be pretty cool. I finally got around to building it and voila! Pictu was born.
I’d planned to spend about four hours on Pictu the other evening…which of course meant that by 9am the next morning, 11 hours later, Pictu had far more bells and whistles and was far more polished than I’d ever intended. Hell, just the multi-layered Preferences window transparency alone probably consumed about four or five hours of figuring out, building and testing. Then came the tweaking over the next few days and finally - public release at 0.2. It takes a surprisingly long time to create such a simple application; creating the hard-to-use, complex, not-so-simple 0.1 version was pretty straight-forward by comparison.
Sometimes it’s good to just get lost in a project like that.
For those who are interested: Pictu was developed using REALbasic 5.2.1, the Monkeybread Software Plugin and a handful of direct Carbon declares. Pictu requires Mac OS X 10.2.x or greater.
Update: Over 100 downloads in two hours. Not bad - I should’a charged a buck for it 
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RealBasic is a pretty cool development environment. I have been working on a project for the last week using it. So far I am pleased with it, except Windows always leads to problems. Grrrrr.