gandreas software

m.o.t.e.s., the minute object twisted environment simulation is now available for download and purchase!

m.o.t.e.s. is a toy, not unlike one of those "executive" desk toys that features a mix of sparkly sand and water framed between two sheets glass. As you turn the frame, the sand falls through the water, making various patterns. Only instead of just sand and water, there's a half dozen basic elements, and a matching set of "generators". And it won't make a mess if you accidentally knock it over and break the glass...

The first beta version of JSKit, an open sourced (MIT license) framework for embedding JavaScript inside Cocoa applications is now available at .

JSKit provides Objective-C wrappers around the lower level JavaScriptCore (available on 10.5 and 10.4 with Safari 3.0) and provides transparent two way bridging technologies, allowing you to call JavaScript objects from Objective-C and to write Objective-C that can be called from JavaScript (including both simple functions as well as full type-constructors). JSKit is designed as a layered system with "opt-in" capabilities, making it well suited to using it as a macro/embedding/scripting solution for a Cocoa app, with explicit "exposing" of your Cocoa code code to JavaScript world (preventing malicious JavaScript from subverting your app). Additional layers can be added to expose generic NSObject classes, and later versions will include the ability to write entire Cocoa apps in JavaScript.

JSKit also includes a simple command line interactive interpreter (for making JavaScript shell scripts), as well as utility classes for simple JavaScript savvy editors, and a fun little "turtle graphics" sample app (demonstrates how to use JavaScript as a scripting extension language in your app).

JSKit can be built and used by XCode 2.4 running on Tiger (with Safari 3.0 installed), as well as 2.5 and 3.0 running on Leopard.

Version 1.1 of Cardographer is available. It fixes some bugs with images resolution, improves Leopard performance, and add support for PlainCard template stock (which makes it much easier to print out decks of cards with nice rounded corners).

The 2008 "art of quadrium" calendars are now available, in two different formats, just in time for your last minute gift giving needs...

MacSanta has come to gandreas software, and for today (4 Dec) everything is 20% off! Just use the coupon "MACSANTA07" when purchasing.

And if you've missed this, for the rest of month you can still get 10% off with the coupon "MACSANTA07TEN".

Be sure to check macsanta.com for more deals on software from other fine developers!

quadrium2 and quadrium | flame have both been updated, to 2.3 and 1.3 respectively. They've got some minor improvements, as well as some improved appearance under Leopard and the new gradient editor.

All just in time for MacSanta...

While most apps should work fine under Leopard (and there are publicly available betas for quadrium2 and quadrium | flame), some Widgets will have problems - I hope to have an update for them sometime soon. Note that there is no plan on updating Widgetarium to support Leopard (since Dashcode is freely available).

In the mean time, I've switch my main machine to Leopard, and I've been going through and making sure that everything at least recompiles with the latest set of developer tools (only a couple of very minor problems so far).

quadrium | flame 1.2 is now available for downloading!

This version includes performance improvements, richer rendering algorithms, extensive UI enhancements, more flames and topologies, and scripts to make it easier to create "kleinian limit sets" and much more.

This is a free update for registered quadrium | flame owners, so grab it now

Survived another year at WWDC, but unfortunately my main computer's hard drive did not - it failed while booting when I returned. Nothing is lost (except for my Safari book marks), but it is interesting to see just how go ones backup procedures are, and just how slow it can be to reinstall everything. And it is a good excuse to finally clean up my hard drive a bit as well, but annoying none the less...

Won't get into exact details yet, but something "fun" is in development.

Obviously with WWDC coming up next week, everything could change, so we'll see what is going on after that...

Today marks the release of Cardographer, a little utility that I've been working on that allows you to create custom decks of playing cards, which can be printed out or used in the mondo solitaire Widget (and there's an update to that which includes new decks as well).

A simple free utility svg Detective is now available for downloading. It will display svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) file, allow you to convert them to PDF, and inspect their DOM. It is universal and supports 10.3.9 and later (and no, this is not the new project hinted at previously, though it is related)

Now this is, in now way, a product announcement, but I can say that both SVG and CoreImage are really cool. I can even go so far as to say that both with make their ways into various existing and future products.

Thinks may seem quiet here at gandreas software (despite the massive amounts of snow that was dumped on my driveway last week) but rest assure, new product directions are being actively investigated.

Here's a little hint - think of it as an application add-on to one of my Widgets...

Which one? Well, you'll have to guess!

quadrium2.2 (the release so chock full of features it should be called 3.0) is now available for public consumption!

gandreas software now has several rss feeds. This main page that you're currently reading is based off the a general rss feed, and there's a progress log for the quadrium family of products, updated with various tidbits of future features and plans.

Hopefully they finally all work correctly...

2007 quadrium calendars are available, with a years worth of quadrium generated images - just in time for Christmas.

quadrium | flame 1.1 has been released!!!

quadrium2.1 has been released!!!

quadrium2.1 release candidate 1 has been reached, so hopefully it'll be available soon. After that, a beta for quadrium | flame 1.1 will begin testing, with some really amazing new features (such as 'layers', 'fake 3D', AppleScriptability, and new coloring algorithms). For a sneak peek at the results, check out deviantART gallery

ScrIDE 0.4 is now available, fixing various bugs and adding variable displays to rich shells, as well as contextual object information

Widgearium 1.1b5 is now available, supporting 10.4.7

quadrium | flame is now available - all the quadrium goodness (mutations, breeding, animation, etc...) but for flame fractals!

mondo dock Widget updated, with indication of running apps, easier adding of icons (just drop between where you want them), and support for copying into folders/disk when dropping.

quadrium2 is now available, with a complete UI overhaul, universal support, animation, and tons of new features