ANN: Grapple Released

[Sivakatirswami]

  [If revision control of a publishing team's documents are not your 
thing, please ignore.]

Grapple, Really Simple Revision Control for Indesign Files

  has been released. (Mac Only)

Please, if you have time and interest (and use InDesign and have a 
server on the LAN) feel free to read and download and test:

This page is so far unpublished.

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/livecode/grapple/

Being an xTalk hacker for 30 years, my stuff rarely reaches the point of 
being made available for general use, so I imagine there are many GUI - 
HIG and general deployment framework flaws. So, I put out a "no holds 
barred" invitation for constructive criticism.

Note that Grapple is a pretty simple widget, code wise... not more than 
600 lines of core handlers in the stack script. It just uses shell "cp" 
and "mv" to manipulate files on the server and the local user's 
documents folder. But, it leverages 40 years of experience in a team of 
editors, so we know what is needed and it works. Minimalist UI and 
simplicity were key requirements...

For the Livecode community it is again, a ho-um simple gadget, but for 
some publishers it could be a God send, especially if they have not 
pulled out of the nose dive of file management post Adobe's "end of 
life" for Version Cue.

Anyway, being in the non-profit, help-the-world business, I wanted to 
offer this to everyone, Live Code developers included. If you have 
friends or know people in the publishing business, you could adopt 
Grapple and then become the point person for support.

This could get you a toehold into the publishing production world where 
they could use LiveCode widgets all over the place and promote LiveCode 
to another "vertical market" that really needs it while getting paid to 
create cool stuff to make life easier for journalism.

Sivakatirswami

Have Fun, You Are Immortal Being