The SE4 companion - Why the long wait?.

[Ruatha]

Now the companion can upload aswell.
have spent almost all day after work to bugtrack a bug whendeleteing a favorite in the favorite settings window.
Will have to check all download options now and see that they work as expected before finishing the mail options!!

It's going good right now.
Now off to pick up the kids from school.

[geoschmo]

I wonder though if the .plr file will be in C:\temp\ on everybodies computers? Is that something that varies from machine to machine depending on your setup? Would it be preferable/possible to give the program a path setting that you can configure so it knows where to locate the savegame folder?

Geoschmo

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I wonder though if the .plr file will be in C:\temp\ on everybodies computers? Is that something that varies from machine to machine depending on your setup? Would it be preferable/possible to give the program a path setting that you can configure so it knows where to locate the savegame folder?

Geoschmo

Don't worry.
It takes the path that the plr file has, I was just using that TEMP path at work to test it out.
At home it uses different paths for 1.84 and 1.91 games.

[geoschmo]

Cool, so when are we going to have a beta we can try out.

[Ruatha]

Soon very soon.
Uplaods seems to be working, mail download and zip unpacking seems fine (Have only tested with one mail at a time yet).

To do:
Mail upload.
General Error handling.
Check for obvious bugs.

Release beta 0.7 and write the documentation afterwards(?)

If so.. perhaps.. tomorrow (Dangerous, don't trust this statement!!)

Now off to dinner with my boss!

Release schedule:
0.7 rough beta.
Help files
0.8 Bugfixed beta and eventual new features.
0.9 bugfixes
1.0 Final

[ June 07, 2004, 16:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

A very ROUGH beta 0.7 without documentation.
Will do documentation next and upload that.
Then fix all bugs and implement the features not yet implemented:
-Deadline alert
-Delete downloaded turns from mailbox
-Delete nagmails from mailbox.
-Alert for PBW game news at PBW server and/or in mailbox.

A recommendation:
If you are alone at your computer:
Set a master password and check the "password not needed to login" checkbox.
Then all passwords will be shown in clear text instead of "*".
Don't forget to check the alert checkboxes, otherwise it will only show a listbox about turns it has scanned.

I will answer questions, but please experiment first.
It hasn't been extensively tested, nearly not tested at all.
Remember that the PBW servers mail functions are down, but when they come on-line again they should work with the companion as it is today.

All bug reports welcome, and any new features wanted must be suggested before ver 0.8, after that there will be no new features.

Good luck:

http://ruatha.homelinux.org/companion07.zip

[ June 08, 2004, 08:17: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

Bug report 1:
Got invalid filename while downloading files from PBW
Had checked:
Scan for PBW turns
Do not scan while in event game page
Use on-line mode instead of mail
Download turn automaticly
Autostart SE4 if game is favorite
All alerts

made a manual on-line scan and at second game it said invalid filename and still shows DOWNLOADING game as title.
It only downloaded first game.

[ June 08, 2004, 08:26: Message edited by: Ruatha ]