New features:
* inline term lookup in stitch pattern directions. Terms such as psso will be highlighted; clicking on them shows the definition for that term.
* ~40 new images added
* performance improvements
* splash screen images
I’m pretty happy with this update – hopefully the users are too 
I’m trying to decide what I should port Stitchopedia to first… Mac OS (via the Mac App Store), or for Android (Google Marketplace, not Amazon). Anyone have any preferences?
The next major feature I plan on implementing in the new update of Stitchopedia is inline abbreviation lookups. So if you are a viewing a stitch pattern, any directions in that pattern that are defined in the abbreviations library become hyperlinks. Clicking on one of these will show the abbreviation window for that term.
This has been a harder undertaking than I had anticipated, but I think it is going to be cool. Here is a rough screen capture of what the code is generating so far:
Last night a user emailed me offering to help make swatch images. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, since it is taking so long to get all of the images in there. My wife was helping me at first but we have two young kids who demand a lot of her time and she is also buried by knitting projects for the holidays.
So here is what I am thinking:
1) if you make 3 swatch images, I will give you one promo code for Stitchopedia. Unfortunately, I can not refund a purchase that has already been made, but you can use the promo code as a gift for someone else.
2) for consistency, the swatches need to be knit with worsted weight yarn on size 8 needles.
3) in addition to the promo code, I will add a list of image contributors to the ‘About’ section of the app.
4) for every swatch image you submit, you will have one entry submitted to a drawing for a $50 Knitpicks gift card. After all of the images are submitted, I will email the winner with the gift card information.
5) when you supply an image, you are agreeing that the image is owned by me for the explicit purpose of being displayed in Stitchopedia.
If you are interested in this, please email me at ben.rimbey@gmail.com to talk over what swatches you would like to help with, so that we can make sure multiple people aren’t working on the same swatch
Thanks in advance!
I got kind of buried by my day job there for a few days but I finally found some time to fix the bug in Stitchopedia that was making the app crash on iPads running versions of iOS under 5.0. To those of you that were affected by this – my apologies… Stitchopedia 2.0.1 was just submitted to the app store. Hopefully it gets approved in the same amount of time as the last update (2.5 hours)!
On the plus side… I learned A LOT about debugging multiple versions of iOS
So the new version of Stitchopedia looks like it is crashing on devices running anything lower than iOS 5.
I just about bricked my iPads trying to put 4.3.5 onto them. Apparently Apple doesn’t authorize installs of iOS that are lower version than what you already have… Essentially, you can’t downgrade. Which is making this really hard to debug, as it runs fine in an emulator.
I am currently searching the house for an old iPhone 3G I gave the girls a year or so ago. With any luck, I can get that up and running and hopefully be able to replicate this crashing behavior so I can debug it.
The universal build of Stitchopedia got approved and pushed to the App Store last night (in record time – ~2.5 hours!).
I’m pretty excited about having this out there. However I have received one report so far about the application not launching after pulling the update down to an iPad 2. I’m not sure what is going on here, but if you happen to see this problem, please do the following:
1) delete the Stitchopedia app from your iPad/iPhone
2) restart the iPad/iPhone
3) re-download Stitchopedia from the App Store
Please note that when you go to re-download the app from the App Store, it might look like it is going to charge you again for the download. It won’t – you already own it, and it will notify you to that affect after the download has started.
I am looking into what is causing this – I hope this was an isolated event but these types of issues are rarely (if ever) singular in nature.
Well I started over from scratch and I’m making a lot better progress now. Still hoping to be done by this Friday. Here is what the app looks like in landscape view so far:
I’ve been working on the next revision of Stitchopedia which is going to be a universal app that runs on iPad, iPod, and iPhone. However I have found that I need to rewrite most of the app and it is taking me longer than I had expected. There is a scrolling bug in the version that is currently in the app store that I have fixed in the new build. However since it is taking me much longer than I had expected to get this out, I am thinking of just doing a stand along iPhone app update to resolve that issue.
