
WITH A FLICKERY GLOW SOFTWARE
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WITH A FLICKERY GLOW UPDATE
Version 1.9.45 of flickery is a free update for existing customers of the app, both on the Mac App Store and from the website. I wanted to keep supporting macOS Snow Leopard (10.6) with flickery 1.x, but I would have had to take out video playback for that build, and I didn’t want to.
WITH A FLICKERY GLOW CODE
Updating the remaining code turned out to be a couple of hours of work (it wasn’t all that difficult, to be honest), but resulted in increased system requirements, as AVFoundation is only available on macOS Lion (10.7) and up. I’m guessing they were rarely used anyway, if at all. Other parts where I used those APIs were recording photos and videos with your Mac’s FaceTime camera and trimming videos that were longer than allowed for upload, but I decided to scrap those features for now so I could release quickly. The most critical parts were, of course, video playback so you could watch videos posted to flickr. So back to Xcode I went, assessing how much work it would be to move everything from QuickTime/QTKit over to AVFoundation. Trying to compile that code lead to several errors, as the frameworks are not available anymore on macOS High Sierra (possibly earlier), so (with invaluable help from Phil Dennis-Jordan ( twitter) ) I had to copy them over from macOS Snow Leopard, since that’s the version of macOS I was targeting.īuilding worked, and I was confident I could release right away, but then this happened:Īpparently, Apple no longer accepts apps that use the QuickTime or QTKit APIs (even if you’re targeting very old versions of macOS).

I admit, flickery hasn’t seen an update in quite a while (the last one on October 24th, 2014 – it’s quite embarrassing). What’s flickery?įlickery is a full-featured desktop client for flickr, allowing you to manage your photo stream, favorites, albums, galleries and more.

Flickery v1.9.45, a critical bug fix release, has just been released both on the Mac App Store and via the app’s update mechanism.
