Filed under: Cool tools, Odds and ends, Apple, Leopard, Developer
Dashcode beta expired on schedule
Niclet sends a note that yes, Dashcode's December 2006 v0.9 beta did in fact expire as expected last night. That sound you heard around 12:01 am was actually widget developers everywhere crying out in pain.Well, not exactly everywhere, as apparently there is still a working version of Dashcode in the Leopard developer beta given out at WWDC. And of course all of us will be able to get our hands on the official release of Dashcode when Leopard comes out in October. So cry not, developers-- the real thing is only months away.
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Jon said 3:31PM on 7-15-2007
Remember that Dashcode was released in 2006 when Leopard was still on track for a summer 2007 release. Maybe they'll release another one that lasts until October.
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Justin R said 4:16PM on 7-15-2007
my original leaked verison still works.
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Robert S said 5:58PM on 7-15-2007
I use Dashcode to debug during my Widget development (if the error isn't completely obvious that is) and nearly died when it stopped working yesterday (I'm in Australia and therefore the future).
Good thing is, it started working again after i rolled my clock back. The tried and old school way of stopping things expiring. So if you really need to use it, roll your Mac's date back a year.
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artifex said 6:09PM on 7-15-2007
So only the developers who paid Apple for a better membership are legally allowed to keep working with Dashcode. Maybe they should stop in protest, so there will be fewer widgets at launch for Apple to brag about. I guess that's like suggesting they stop working on "iPhone apps" until a real SDK comes, though.
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marcosmalo said 6:23PM on 7-15-2007
What Jon said. This is too important for Apple. They want people developing on Dashcode. They'd be stupid not to release another beta.
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Alex said 6:47PM on 7-15-2007
Dammit, now I can't update my widgets at all & I don't think it's right to pay the price for and ADC account to continue to work on my widgets :(
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Greg G said 1:22PM on 7-16-2007
Oh sure, THIS is on schedule -_-
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Remy said 9:09AM on 7-30-2007
Even though Dashcode did expire, there's still a way to run it without having to wait for Leopard.
I've written an AppleScript that will launch Dashcode and get around the expiry problem - you can get it from the link below:
http://remysharp.com/2007/07/30/lets-get-dashcode-working-again/#script
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Remy said 9:16AM on 7-30-2007
In fact, forget the AppleScript way - here's the right way to do it - a patch directly in the binary (solution for both Intel based and PPC based):
http://alex.clst.org/dbd/?p=561
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