1. Forum: Textastic for iOS
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Transfer error login denied

carlos beukes 13 years ago in iPad • updated by jmbenedetto 5 years ago • 6

Hi -

I keep getting this error: 'Transfer error login denied'

Login details work fine in cyber duck, transmit etc on my mac so I do not believe problem is with login details.

Have tried different settings: active/passive...

I am worried that this app might not be for me. Would a refund be in order?

I'm willing to try a little more but at some point soon need to try another FTP app in the hopes it might work for me.

I heard good things about this app so I thought I'd just go straight ahead with purchasing it. I am not really knowledgable enough to use this app perhaps. I develop websites and never have problems with FTP related matters. This app has got me confused and a little disappointed.

Would be great to hear back from someone soon.

Thank you kindly,


Carl

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Double-Tap to zoom in and out

Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 0
"When I zoomed in I find myself instinctively double tapping to snap back out."
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Fixed

Text entry sluggish

Matthijs van Polen 15 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 11
Not sure if it's a bug, but text editing is quite laggy. I type the characters (Bluetooth keyboard or on screen, doesn't matter) and then I slowly see them appear. This is especially annoying when deleting text.
Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago
Textastic uses the CATiledLayer class to draw the text in background threads. This is the same class that is used in the Maps app which fades in Google Maps layers as soon as they are loaded from the internet.

So, the text isn't displayed immediately, but drawn in the background and then faded in. This makes it look slightly sluggish, especially because the screen is drawn in tiles and several tiles have to be drawn and faded in. This is especially noticable with external keyboards, because then there's a bigger screen areay that has to be drawn.

But, this makes scrolling and zooming very fast even with big text files and CATiledLayer makes good use of the limited memory available on the iPad.

I see what you mean, but I think it's acceptable. I'll see if I can improve drawing in a future version, but right now it's not a priority.
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I can work ANYWHERE now!

Dan Eveland 15 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 1
I was laid off in September after 21 in corporate America. I was actually in the hospital for an emergency c-section when they called me. Since then I have been doing freelance web development. With textastic I can work anywhere! THANK YOU!
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Excellent app

hemmasoft 14 years ago • 0
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Q: How to sync directory changes

Anne Brown 15 years ago • updated by Anne Brown 15 years ago • 2
I connected via SFTF to my server. What if the directory structure on the server or the iPad changes? How to sync directory changes?

PS
Xlnt App and web site.
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Text Expander snippets don't expand the first time if there is not a space before the shortcut

Brian Byrd 10 years ago in iPad • 0

My primary use of Text Expander (TE) is to insert HTML tags. For example, I have set up a snippet so that when I type p; it is expanded to <br><br>


In Textastic, when I type


Hello World.p;


the p; does not expand the first time. When I erase the p; and type it again, then it expands as it is supposed to. But when I put a space before the snippet shortcut, it works the first time:


Hello Word. p;


I think TE snippet shortcuts should expand immediately the first time, without having to erase and retype them, and without having to put an unnecessary and unwanted space before them.


Thank you for checking into this. BTW, I love your app ... keep up the awesome work!

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Syntax Highting for C

Koga Osamu 15 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 1
It seems preprocessor directive #else is not highlighted.
Also, directives often have some spaces between # and keyword for indent(like # if) but currently it isn't highlighted correctly, so i'd be glad if you would support it.
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Fixed

Auto-correct bug

Noel Rappin 15 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 0
Auto correct appears to have a problem when the corrected text is a different length then the original text -- the autocorrect replacement leaves some of the original text in place. So "its" auto-corrected to "it's" becomes "iit's".
Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago
This is fixed for Textastic 2.1.
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Fixed

Writing Japanese........

hiro 15 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago • 3
Thank you for great app.

To view source code that has Japanese character with Textastic is all right. I enjoy it.
 But, to write Japanese is in trouble.

I delete Japanese string that is not determinate, and Textastic crash.
Not determinate string is following.

How to write Japanese with keyboard.
1. Type phrase's pronounce (and hiragana string is displayed. The string is not determinate.)
2. If the phrase consist of only hiragana, press return key (The string is determinate). Return 1.
3. Else if kanji is included in the word, type space key (select from some strings) and press return key (The string is determinate). Return 1.
Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 15 years ago
Fixed problem for the next version.


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