macOS Test a little app I have written, please!

[Tinlad]

I've written a little bitrate calculator application, and I was wondering if people would be so kind as to give it a quick test for me? Testing on a PPC Mac would be especially useful as I only have access to one Mac; my MBP.

It's a Universal Binary and is available here:
http://www.mydarkmaterials.co.uk/bitcalc/bitCalc.zip (60kB)

I know it's not very impressive, but I'm just interested to know if it works for everyone. I personally find it quite useful.

Thanks.

 

[imacintel]

I've written a little bitrate calculator application, and I was wondering if people would be so kind as to give it a quick test for me? Testing on a PPC Mac would be especially useful as I only have access to one Mac; my MBP.

It's a Universal Binary and is available here:
http://www.mydarkmaterials.co.uk/bitcalc/bitCalc.zip (60kB)

I know it's not very impressive, but I'm just interested to know if it works for everyone. I personally find it quite useful.

Thanks.

Haven't tried it yet, but it looks good.

 

[elfin buddy]

Seems to work fine, though it's a bit unintuitive as to how it's supposed to work. So, you give it two out of three of the pieces of information (duration, transfer rate, or file size), and then you press "Calculate" next to the unknown variable, correct?

If so, it appears to work. I didn't do any calculations by hand to check, but I assume you know what you're doing there. I did find it annoying how the GB tab always rounds to the nearest 0.1 GB, but that's easily changed.

Are you writing this app just for yourself? To be released some day? Or just as practice for moving on to something more complex?

 

[stadidas]

It's probably worth looking at this tutorial on Cocoa Bindings. That way you could have all the fields update automatically instead of having to keep pressing the calculate buttons.

 

[wmmk]

works fine on my PPC mini, especially with the uno theme!

 

[Texas04]

Took me a few seconds to figure out what it was for exactly but once I did was like wow I like this and can see it becoming very usefull! Thank you!

 

[Mernak]

I only have one slight annoyance, when you press the red "X" in the main bar there is no way of reopening the window without restarting the app. A File>New Window would be very useful.

 

[Tinlad]

Fantastic, thanks for trying it and for the feedback everyone!

elfin buddy: I wrote it primarily for myself, but I've noticed that there isn't already an application like this for OS X, so that's why I'm considering releasing it for download. It's also practice for more complex stuff; it's pretty much the first thing I've done in XCode and with Interface Builder.

stadidas: Thanks for that link, I'll definitely check it out.

wmmk: Thanks for testing it; looks pretty cool with Uno.

Mernak: Yeah, I noticed that but forgot to fix it. Thanks for reminding me.

Suppose I'd better start work on v0.2.