This release addresses the issues I had with releasing a Universal version that fixed the image issues. Now PowerPC users can get the fix as well. Intel users will want to get the update as well as pages are now displayed much faster. Technically, I had to write a Textile converter and a template engine in Cocoa so I could remove RubyCocoa. RubyCocoa was the culprit that was keeping me from building a 10.4 universal version of the app. This is also why the page rendering is faster.

Version 1.6.2 contains some bug fixes for attachments and images. When Backpack was updated it changed the URLs for attachments and images. The Backpack API doesn’t support images or attachments, so we have to reverse engineer this. The changes broke our code. One of the fixes restores the ability to click on an attachment or image and get the original. This only works when you are online and this has always been the case. The other problem was displaying image thumbnails. Before PackRat would simply access the thumbnail images when you were online and they would be saved in its cache and the images in the cache would be used when you were offline. This no longer works because images and attachments are now secured. You have to be online and logged in to access them. Again the API has no way of retrieving them. Because of this Packrat no longer displays the image thumbnails. It just displays links for the original images. I apologize for the loss of this feature but its beyond my control. I plan to add support for displaying the images in Packrat 2.0. 37signals has also said they will add image download support to the API but it will be awhile. I don’t expect anything within 6 months, probably longer. I don’t plan to wait for 37signals unless I have to but I don’t expect to.

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This release basically brings everything up to par with Backpack 2. Syncing is faster and handles errors better. The various objects, including dividers are displayed in the same order as they are in Backpack. I know a lot of you have had syncing problems with 1.3.2. This fixes all of those, so if you’ve had syncing problems give this one a try. Backpack 2 really messed things up and I apologize for that. All that should be behind us now and I can concentrate again on adding some real value to PackRat.

• Made it clear that what is needed in the preferences is the site name and not the user name
• Better catches login errors and reports them properly.
• Fixed a bug in uploading delete list item changes
• Fixed a bug in uploading completion status list item changes

Works with the newest release of Backpack.

This one fixes a tabbing issue in the Add Items dialog as well as adds some help text, reminding you of some common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts for when you are on a multi line text field and want to tab out of it or press the default button (they are ctrl-Tab and cmd-Enter respectively).

Also, I fixed another bug in syncing. If you have something on your page or in a email on your page or something like so

href="www.infinitenil.com

with no closing quote, then PackRat could become confused and say there is an error on the page. Technically there is, but you still need to be able to get your data. I added some more smarts so PackRat can handle this.