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NatsuLion

About NatsuLion

NatsuLion is a simple Twitter client for Mac OSX.
Note: Leopard (10.5) is required.

News: NatsuLion for iPhone is rolled out!

Its goals are the follows:

Be simple
Feature icons
Easy to use for Twitter light users

You can download the latest version from.

Beta Version

There is a beta version also. If you are interested in it, try beta.

Screen Shots

screen shot 1 (light color scheme) screen shot 2 (dark color scheme)

Main Functions

Display your friend timeline
Post a message
Create a favorite
Replies including messages contain @ are emphasized
Input support for "@<ID>". By clicking icon, @<ID> apears in the message input field
Growl Notifications (replies are notified with a higher priority and stickied by default)
Manage unread tweets

Help Wanted

English messages to make it easier to understand
patches to fix bugs
Beta testers

Helps would be appreciated.

License

NatsuLion is published under the Modified BSD license and shipped with Sparkle, Growl, CTBadge and OpenSSL. Please find these licenses here.

License acknowledgment (OpenSSL): "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)"

Source Code

http://www.physalis.net/repos/natsulion/trunk/

Bug Tracking System

If you find a bug or have new feature ideas, please file issues to JIRA. Or tell me on Twitter.(@NatsuLionEn)

Special Thanks

@yusukey has been partifipating from early development phase, filed a lot of bugs and brought nice ideas (e.g. To use Sparkle is his idea.). Thank you very much!

Release Notes

Version 1.9 (2008/10/28)

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This version has a few minor improvements and fixes.

News: NatsuLion for iPhone (former name is NatsuLiphone) has been released on AppStore! Please visit http://iphone.natsulion.org/ for more details.

Bug

[NTLN-221] - command + Y on DM prints reply template in the input field
[NTLN-224] - clicking timestamp of DM causes 404 Not Found page

Improvement

[NTLN-225] - need toolbar icons for conversation and search

Version 1.8 (2008/09/24)

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added three main new features - DM, API limit check and conversation filter (inspired by NatsuLiphone)

Improvement

[NTLN-204] - line space for non-Japanese text is too short
[NTLN-207] - support count and since parameter for friends_timeline.xml
[NTLN-208] - auto refresh timer should be reset by manual refresh
[NTLN-210] - check created_at is valid (not future value)
[NTLN-214] - better support direct message for Growl
[NTLN-217] - message count on the status bar should honor view and filter
[NTLN-218] - improved message length label (starts from 140, TooTips)

New Feature

[NTLN-206] - direct message support
[NTLN-215] - show remaining API count
[NTLN-216] - automatically added "D <username> " when repling to DM
[NTLN-219] - show conversation (filter by screen names)

Version 1.7 (2008/09/16)

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there's a slow behavior when retrieving timeline in version 1.5 and 1.6. this is a fix for it.

Bug

[NTLN-205] - slow when retrieving timeline

Version 1.6 (2008/09/15)

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version 1.5 has a major bug NTLN-202 which minus value is shown on the app badge. This is the version just fixes the problem.

Bug

[NTLN-202] - number of unread tweets on the app badge appears as minus value

Version 1.5 (2008/09/15)

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now replies is refreshed automatically every 10 times of friends_timeline refresh

Improvement

[NTLN-198] - auto refresh for replies
[NTLN-199] - make tweet unread when growl notification is clicked
[NTLN-200] - friends_timline now support count parameter up to 200

Version 1.4 (2008/08/04)

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Twitter changed API for manipulating favorites recently. In this version, NatsuLion follows those API changes and supports destroying favorites.

[NTLN-169] - destroy favorite feature

[NTLN-194] - adapt new fav API (favourings -> favorites)

Version 1.3 (2008/07/31)

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This is a maintenance release including several fixes. Thanks: @Psychs (patches for NTLN-183, NTLN-190, NTLN-191), @chap_py (idea for NTLN-185)

[NTLN-137] - input text field does not change its background color when over 140 characters are input
[NTLN-174] - difficult to recognize IME's underline in dark color scheme
[NTLN-183] - Cant' insert é,á,ó, etc
[NTLN-184] - use case insensitive matching for screen name
[NTLN-188] - "next" button in account input sheet is not japanese localized
[NTLN-189] - "next" button in the last welcome page should be "finish" or something like that
[NTLN-190] - Rendering problem of the input text field
[NTLN-191] - Memory leaks

[NTLN-192] - since parameter for friends_timeline

[NTLN-185] - show "sad" app icon when error

Version 1.2 (2008/05/30)

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To avoid timeout caused by Twitter's overload, now NatsuLion wait 30 seconds until timeout (NTLN-176)

Friends and Sent icons has been contributed by @epytwen (NTLN-118).

[NTLN-118] - use icons for "message view" tool bar buttons
[NTLN-176] - Timeout is occurred frequently

Version 1.1 (2008/05/17)

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Improvement

[NTLN-171] - smaller line spacing (thanks @takuma104)

[NTLN-172] - word filter feature (thanks @mootoh for the patch http://blog.deadbeaf.org/2008/05/01/hack-natsulion-to-filter-messages/)

[NTLN-173] - new app icon

Version 1.0 (2008/03/31)

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Bug

[NTLN-52] - password should not be required when the user changes username at account info panel
[NTLN-159] - changing account is not applied immediately (restart needed)
[NTLN-162] - need to change the filter predicate for "sent" view along with user switch

[NTLN-161] - need better mouse over effect for icon

Version 0.34 (2008/03/24)

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Bug

[NTLN-160] - message disappears just after press enter key in input field

Version 0.33 (2008/03/24)

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Bug

[NTLN-137] - input text field does not change its background color when over 140 characters are input
[NTLN-157] - Some Japanese resource is not applied (view naems, ...)

[NTLN-151] - want Dock icon!

[NTLN-156] - [Refactoring] make TwitterStatus deprecated (move to NTLNMessage)

Version 0.32 (2008/03/20)

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Bug

[NTLN-47] - An error message is sometimes shown twice

[NTLN-85] - better error handling using http status code
[NTLN-87] - don't repeat the same error messages
[NTLN-93] - omit duplicate error messages
[NTLN-150] - need internationalization work for all messages (at first English and Japanese support)
[NTLN-152] - make "show <3 as heart" not configurable (always do so)
[NTLN-155] - reflect ctrl+enter for POST setting to the placeholder text of the message input field

[NTLN-153] - make autoscroll configurable

Version 0.31 (2008/03/14)

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Bug

[NTLN-123] - wired white border in message input field
[NTLN-143] - NTLNMessageInputTextField does not release NSColor at changing color scheme

[NTLN-139] - better Growl notifications
[NTLN-144] - no message area is not drawn by trasparent color
[NTLN-145] - menu bar should not be highlighted when press j, k

[NTLN-146] - ability to increase transparency when inactivated

Version 0.30 (2008/03/11)

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Bug

[NTLN-142] - crash when change color scheme

[NTLN-141] - use graphical indicator to show timeline speed

[NTLN-136] - new feture to change fonts

Version 0.29 (2008/03/10)

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Improvement

[NTLN-130] - freeze at arriving new messages cont. (NTLN-128)

[NTLN-134] - summarize Growl notifications when a lot of notifications
[NTLN-135] - ability to know the number of messages post

Version 0.28 (2008/03/07)

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Bug

[NTLN-131] - not displayed tweet is made unread
[NTLN-133] - unread count badge switches 0 and 1 frequently at a boot time

[NTLN-129] - count only unread replies for the badge
[NTLN-132] - "view mode" toolbar text does not work when text only mode

Version 0.27 (2008/03/06)

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Improvement

[NTLN-127] - slow when clicking a tweet with a lot of tweets in the view
[NTLN-128] - freeze at arriving new messages

Version 0.26 (2008/03/04)

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Improvement

[NTLN-125] - need shortcuts

[NTLN-126] - post with command + enter

Version 0.25 (2008/03/01)

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Bug

[NTLN-119] - number of new message on the badge is not updated when new message
[NTLN-120] - lack of read mark for light color scheme

[NTLN-124] - star image update

[NTLN-41] - Emphasize newly arrived messages
[NTLN-121] - Unread tab
[NTLN-122] - mark all as read feature

Version 0.24 (2008/02/16)

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Bug

[NTLN-115] - crash on sending message
[NTLN-116] - refresh interval value is not shown
[NTLN-117] - not applicable messages are shown in "replies" tab when new message arrived

[NTLN-109] - hide replies shown at the previouse runtime

[NTLN-71] - download replies at startup

Version 0.23 (2008/02/16)

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Improvement

[NTLN-112] - move Refresh menu item under View menu
[NTLN-113] - add version number to the plist file

[NTLN-108] - provide dark color scheme
[NTLN-114] - display <3 as a heart mark

Version 0.22 (2008/02/11)

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Bug

[NTLN-111] - only show 1 message at the boot time and stop

Version 0.21 (2008/02/11)

Bug

[NTLN-105] - duplicated message can be added when selected filtered view

[NTLN-77] - hide the progress indicator for updating timeline.
[NTLN-102] - refactoring connection callbacks
[NTLN-104] - need View specific colors
[NTLN-106] - add menu for message view
[NTLN-107] - better progress indicator
[NTLN-110] - make setting "always expand message to show all text" non-configurable (enabled only)

[NTLN-86] - ability to refresh tweets manually
[NTLN-103] - switchable message view

Version 0.20 (2008/02/04)

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Bug

[NTLN-35] - the background color of the message area changes to "not-focused-on-window" color when select some text in it
[NTLN-43] - whole text does not appears even when message field is expanded

[NTLN-101] - refactoring (introduce class name prefix, ...)

[NTLN-100] - ability to configure window alpha

Version 0.19

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Improvement

[NTLN-18] - keep focus on the message input field
[NTLN-74] - enable auto scroll only if the newest message is shown
[NTLN-83] - better focus management after clicking icon

Version 0.18

New Feature

[NTLN-99] - allow POST for timeline

Version 0.16

Improvement

[NTLN-97] - star mark behavior improvement

Version 0.15

Bug

[NTLN-92] - NatsuLion does not retrieve just after input username/password at the first startup
[NTLN-95] - descending sort order is not working

[NTLN-91] - add/remove to favorite feature

Version 0.14

Improvement

[NTLN-88] - slow at new message arrival

Version 0.13

Bug

[NTLN-80] - window width calculation is wrong

[NTLN-85] - better error handling using http status code

[NTLN-84] - code improvement: make a stub of Twitter to make tests easier

Version 0.12

Bug

[NTLN-81] - hang with "attempt to insert nil value"
[NTLN-82] - cannot post + (plus)

Version 0.11

Improvement

[NTLN-72] - look and feel improvement: make status bar thin
[NTLN-76] - permit narrower width
[NTLN-78] - emphasize image while mouse is on
[NTLN-79] - ) should not be regarded as a part of URL

[NTLN-55] - "message always expanded" feature

Version 0.10

Bug

[NTLN-60] - 0.8 is too slow and its memory footprint is too large
[NTLN-67] - timeline request is issued every time refresh interval spinner is clicked
[NTLN-69] - mouse cursor remains as the pointing type even after leaving name or timestamp field

[NTLN-63] - swap screenname and username's location
[NTLN-68] - display once if name and screenname is the same

[NTLN-62] - clickable area is too large [clickable link to a user's timeline page (http://twitter.com/<user>)]
[NTLN-64] - link to status page

Version 0.8

A critical memory leak bug was fixed in version 0.7 and auto update function should work in this version. I'm proud to annouce to release this version as a beta version (prior versions were alpha). Thanks.

[NTLN-53] - 2nd try - reconsider colors

[NTLN-51] - ability to configure the sort order of the messages
[NTLN-58] - link for reply

Version 0.7

Auto update might crash duaring its work. Please download manually from this page. Thanks.

[NTLN-48] - some code improvements told on Twitter
[NTLN-50] - < and > are shown as < and >

[NTLN-16] - skip a Growl notification just after launched
[NTLN-39] - inform entered text length in a status bar

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NatsuLion

About NatsuLion

Beta Version

Screen Shots

Main Functions

Help Wanted

License

Source Code

Bug Tracking System

Special Thanks

Release Notes

Version 1.9 (2008/10/28)

Version 1.8 (2008/09/24)

Version 1.7 (2008/09/16)

Version 1.6 (2008/09/15)

Version 1.5 (2008/09/15)

Version 1.4 (2008/08/04)

Version 1.3 (2008/07/31)

Version 1.2 (2008/05/30)

Version 1.1 (2008/05/17)

Version 1.0 (2008/03/31)

Version 0.34 (2008/03/24)

Version 0.33 (2008/03/24)

Version 0.32 (2008/03/20)

Version 0.31 (2008/03/14)

Version 0.30 (2008/03/11)

Version 0.29 (2008/03/10)

Version 0.28 (2008/03/07)

Version 0.27 (2008/03/06)

Version 0.26 (2008/03/04)

Version 0.25 (2008/03/01)

Version 0.24 (2008/02/16)

Version 0.23 (2008/02/16)

Version 0.22 (2008/02/11)

Version 0.21 (2008/02/11)

Version 0.20 (2008/02/04)

Version 0.19

Version 0.18

Version 0.16

Version 0.15

Version 0.14

Version 0.13

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