VDLMidi

Last week I was finally able to release a little app I've been working on - VDLMidi. A couple of links:

VDLMidi announcement on the tapspace forums
VDLMidi product page

I also happened to get my Subversion repository up and running again, which makes me feel more secure while doing development.

The app is only really useful for people that own Virtual Drumline 2 - the description line could make it sound like it would be useful when only using a music notation program, but it is specifically for using a notation program WITH Virtual Drumline 2. You can check it out without the other apps, but at that point it's just eye candy :)

It's an interesting experience trying to put all this together - there's all kinds of stuff to do that I normally don't have to think about at work: I needed to get a website up and running, create a quick icon, make a readme file, put together a disk image, figure out build versions, etc.
With that finally done I got the app listed on MacUpdate.com and VersionTracker.com, and started getting feedback from users that saw my original forum post.

It turns out that it crashes in Panther because the search field has a binding that is new to Tiger (and the IB compatibility checker didn't warn about this), so I created a version of the app without the text field so people could run _something_ on 10.3.9. Eventually I will just check for the OS version and dynamically hide the search field (for Panther) or enable the binding (for Tiger)

I will probably have more development posts about this going forward, and link here from the product page so people can see what I'm planning next. Let me know if that's too annoying for anyone, because I could always create another blog just for that... (even with the high costs of these blogger.com accounts :)