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Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#21

What does the on/off slider do? Another handy tool for managing Pow is the ruby gem "powder". It's command line only however.

The on/off slider turns Pow on and off. We love powder too!

Why does the on/off functionality look like a slider when it functions like a button?

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#23
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Your "Install Pow" doesn't work with a drive name which has spaces. eg. /bin/sh /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Downloads/Anvil.app/Contents/Resources/InstallPow.sh; exit needs to escape the space. App itself looks polished, checking it out now!

Rats. Thanks for the report - I'll push a new version shortly. I sure hope nobody minds all the updates. (Edit: fixed!)

I for one think it's great you're doing updates quickly and often as things come up that warrant pushing updates in the first place. Keep up the good work. This looks like a nifty little tool!

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The on/off slider turns Pow on and off. We love powder too!

Why does the on/off functionality look like a slider when it functions like a button?

I don't think it does. It mimics the look of the iOS "switches" which are universally used for on/off commands

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#25
This looks really nice.

I have 67 apps symlinked into ~/.pow, but only the top 29 are shown on my laptop screen, and scrolling sadly doesn't work.

Any chance of adding "Open in $EDITOR" to the context menu? And .xip.io URLs?

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#27

This looks really nice. I have 67 apps symlinked into ~/.pow, but only the top 29 are shown on my laptop screen, and scrolling sadly doesn't work. Any chance of adding "Open in $EDITOR" to the context menu? And .xip.io URLs?

More than 29 apps is Doing It Wrong.

Just kidding! I'll add this to the to-do list.

Re: Anvil - a Mac app for Pow

#29
I love the app already :D

Little bits of feedback:

* The Anvil icon on the menu bar doesn't show itself as being active when I click it.

* When I click on the + to add a new app, make anvil lose focus to the file dialog.

* The "About Anvil" dialog insists on hiding behind all other windows.

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