Haiku News ~ Print: #00279 Darkwyrm Runs Into Some Problems While The Coding Continues.

Darkwyrm Runs Into Some Problems While The Coding Continues.

Mar 09, 2003 22:55 UTC, by Daniel, Senior Journalist.
From the rl sucks sometimes department...

Darkwyrm has updated his site, this time with some not so good news like the ones he has us acostumed to. Better to read from his own words:

I've known that this day would come for a couple weeks now, but I didn't want to think about it. For financial reasons, I need to ditch my current ISP and, thus, cable internet access. It almost like cutting off a hand, but it's for the right reasons. NetZero and Juno are evil, but they won't cost me anything, so things will just slow down for me instead of completely stop. The app_server and Seeker will continue to be developed. I will still be posting news, but more than likely not as often. In the future, I can be contacted at darkwyrm DOT netzero DOT net. Also, because I won't be monitoring e-mail while I'm at the keyboard, e-mail responses may be slightly slower - 99% of replies coming in 24-48 hours. *Sigh* Development is really hard when you have no money.

On a slightly happier note, development has gone pretty well this week. Marc Flerackers (a fellow member of the Interface Kit team) has been working on a BPicture implementation and I have adapted some of his code to allow the app_server to play BPictures. It's not finished, but most of the needed functionality is there. I've also been working with Adrian Oanca, the IK team's BWindow guy, to get a lot of things worked out. There should be code committed to the tree soon, from his comments. In other news, I've also begun work on Seeker 1.1, which now has an Address Bar, a user-configurable Send To menu (not to be confused with Tracker's Open With menu), localization support, and the ability to navigate the your PC's entire filesystem from the root directory. Suddenly, we'll be able to look at /dev and /var without jumping to the Terminal. :) A Send To Seeker Tracker Addon is in the works with equivalent functionality if started via Tracker's Open With menu.

Yep... "rl" sucks sometimes, preventing us from doing what we most want... or from being with someone else... Though he keeps coding and makes good progress, it's still a shame when something like this happens... a reminder to those who sometimes forget there's more to life than a computer, and code lines or even an OS...