Distractions

Nimster pointed me to Andrew Rilstone‘s reviews of the “Lord of the Rings” movie. The first is the niggly is Peter Jackson’s movie any good?, the second is the cool How to Mis-read Lord of the Rings. And yes, he liked the movie. But more importantly, he had clever things to say about it, and about Tolkien as well.

Does Hebrew work in Radio 7 as well? I’ve set radio.html.perfs.isoFilter to false, so let’s give it a go:

æä ðñéåï ìëúåá áòáøéú – åòí ñéîåðé HTML, ëîåáï.

Nope. It doesn’t work properly – the Hebrew is preserved in the weblog view, but is transformed into ´&agrav;&acrap; on my actual homepage.

So, that’s one good reason to upgrade (and pay).

Back to Radio 7 – converting templates

Just to complete what I wrote in my last post, I’ll add that converting templates involves changing Radio 8’s <% foo %> macros to old Radio 7 &#0123; foo &#0125; macros (in curly braces). You lose all the macros that invoke Radio 8 scripts (all the macros of the form radio.weblog.doSomethingCool()). Looks like I should get back to trying to write a version of the nice drawCalender script (the output of which can still be seen in my category pages) to PHP.

Oh, and when converting the item template (itemTemplate?), you should note that Radio 7 uses the variable text where Radio 8 uses itemText. Compare your Radio 8 templates (which are in the Radio 8 www folder, in files of the form #xxxTemplate) to the Radio 7 templates under myUserLandData.themes (look at the default theme for a simple reference of what the Macro names are.

That’s basically it.

How To: Migrate back to Radio 7

A brief description of how I downgraded my weblogging experience

First, you need to have Radio 7. I don’t think that Userland have the file on their download section anymore, but I still have a copy of the install file. Anyway, you need to install it somewhere, preferably without overwritting the existing installation. I put it in a folder called “Radio UserLand 7”.

Next, copy webLogData.root from the “Data Files” directory in your Radio 8 folder to the “Tools” directory of your Radio 7 installation folder.

Launch Radio 7, completing the installation if neccessary. From the Window menu, select webLogData.root and open it. Then, select myUserLandData.root and open that too.

Copy your posts from webLogData.posts to myUserLandData.blogs.default.posts. Set myUserLandData.blogs.default.nextPostNum to be one higher than the number of your last post (or you’ll overwrite your old posts)

Copy/Paste and convert your templates. Somehow.