WebOn [project]

This project is intended to create a feed reader different from the usual feed readers. Its main feature is to check for any web page update and to use non-RSS pages like RSS feeds.

WebOn is programmed in Objective-C and uses the Cocoa framework and is for Mac OS X 10.5 only (intel CPUs, not PPCs).

It uses the wonderful and useful BWToolkit plugin for Interface Builder to design the Mail style bars.

At the moment, I’ve done design work (icons and interface) and set up some funcionalities:

• Add/remove items from the list (feeds, web pages and categories);
• Browse an item (more properly, its URL) in a webview;
• Customize the item properties: locked and/or favourite.

The next step is implementing drag and drop to sort and order items in the list and the capability to rename items (and edit them). Then, I’ll implement the feed parser, the pages parser, the user preferences, the capability for the app to save to disk and some cool features that I’ve already in mind

Here’s a screenshot of the main interface:

and here’s the add panel:

Project state: bugs and something else

When started, the garbage collector gives the following warnings:

WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x1034400, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x1035350, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x10361f0, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x1036d50, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x1038380, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x1038ef0, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x103a600, has non-zero refcount = 1
WebOn(745,0xb0103000) malloc: free_garbage: garbage ptr = 0x103b160, has non-zero refcount = 1

It seems to be a problem related to the garbage collector, so probably I haven’t no much to do…