Parcel Calculator Update 0.2.0
Feb 24th
Today I released the first major update for Parcel Calculator. What has changed? Version 0.2.0 expands Parcel Calculator by adding five additional shipping companies to the parcel tracking module. Now you can track parcels of the following providers: DHL, DPD, FedEx, GLS, Hermes, Parcelforce, Royal Mail, UPS. This should cover the most common global players in fact, of course I am still interested in adding more to future releases. The code itself did not change very much, I made a minor tracking string optimization which results in a few lines less code. Some changes were made to the integrated help, but nothing special to mention. Visit the Parcel Calculator section to grab yourself a copy. In case you already installed Parcel Calculator, just open it and hit the update button from the toolbar or the application main menu. If the ‘automatically check for updates’ option is activated, it will tell you anyway that there is a newer version available. If you are interested in exploring some source code you may want to fork it here: GitHub project page. I am very interested in your feedback. Parcel Calculator has an option for reporting bugs, please use it if you encounter something not working as expected. By the way, I published a gallery here on ByteProject, interesting if you want to see some screenshots of Parcel Calculator in action.
Parcel Calculator released!
Jan 28th
After some time of development I am very pleased to announce the initial release of Parcel Calculator. A native Cocoa application for calculating girth, volumetric weight and for tracking parcels. Integrated tools provide additional options. It is designed for Mac OS X and released as Open Source under a FreeBSD license variant. Please visit the Parcel Calculator section on this site for a detailed feature overwiew. Sourcecode and related stuff can be accessed at the GitHub project page. Future versions will support a wider range of shipping companies and the ability to save certain parcel IDs, so you can track them again later. More will be coming up soon, I have some great ideas. A huge thanks to everyone who supported me in the development of Parcel Calculator. Now grab yourself a copy, Sparkle will keep it up to date. I am very excited about your feedback. If you encounter any bugs, feel free to make use of the ‘Report Issues’ item inside the help menu.
ptarget.h
Jan 13th
Portable C header for embedding in your own projects. ptarget.h provides conditional compilation for it’s own functions, based on preprocessor directives. The compiler is asked to specify it’s target system, compiler information, compilation date and time. Works with cross-compilers, too. You can call these values with simple C-functions: portout(), compout(), compdate(), comptime(), from inside your application. With ptarget.h embed, you are able to detect major target operating systems like Mac OS X, Linux, BSD variants and Windows. Detected compilers are GCC, Borland / Codegear C, MSVC and MinGW32. On this page you will always find the latest variant, code is maintained at GitHub.
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switchtemp.c
Jan 13th
This snippet is meant as a template, written in highly portable C. On the basis of switchtemp.c you are able to create a command line tool that takes switches. Various flags are already set, for example -h for help output. A placeholder for your own functions is defined as well as a customizable switch counter. It serves the purpose to limit the maximum amount of arguments your appliction will process. General version information can be determined via a preprocessor directive for the entire application. On this page you will always find the latest variant, code is maintained at GitHub.
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