CrazyBerserk

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  1. Posted

    Well, request #1 ("real-time" userlist filter) is already included in preview 0.2.1, very good solution to make it optional. Thanks to the Devs team. :)

    Requests #3 (optional 'Refresh filelist' button) and #4 (away message that is capable of multiline and random message) is rather fancy, not very important. Though they both are available in one or another client. #3 is/was i.e. in .PhantomDC++ 1.19c and LDC++ 1.00 v2a, #4 can be found in McDC++ 036.

    #2 (a tab completion of nicks that on one hand works with any part of nickname, independent of a prefix, and on the other hand in all windows - as PMs and OPchat windows - that belong to the hub where the user to tab-complete is online) and #5 (real direct downloading), these are the most important requests for me, actually. As for #2, this was only available in .PhantomDC++, as far as I could find out. #5 was, as mentioned above, once a standard feature until DC++ 0.401 and it's mods. Only afterwards it was changed. So this should be found in the source of any older client versions and must only be adjusted to the "Don't share forbidden files" feature present in newer clients.

    Here again a links collection to client's source codes:

    • .PhantomDC++ 1.19c (outdated): source:
    link1, link2

    LDC++ 1.00 v2a: source

    McDC++ 036: source

    DC++ all versions and sources: link

  2. Posted

    I'll take a look into most of your reqs... but i can't quarantee them being in ApexDC++.

    Sorry for appearing impatient... But can you already tell if the features are likely to be added? Just to know if I shall wait for next release of ApexDC or continue with my search, you know? I don't really like to settle with something less good (because of missing features) than I have now...

    (BTW: I'm still talking about all 5 of my requests mentioned and explained in posts above :huh:)

  3. Posted

    @2 - Copy Path/Filename

    I agree completely with that request. Actually, I find such feature very important and useful as well. Though I didn't really notice yet that it's not present in ApexDC since I'm still stuck with my old client which has features I don't wanna give up.. :huh: (and therefore hoping for them to be added in next version of Apex)

  4. Posted

    Not a bad idea, but I think that requires the client to be in hub 24/7 if possible since the hub does not do such logging, as far as I know. Though, I have no idea how it works in eMule&co, whether this feature there is client or server based...

  5. Posted

    Well, or you could just start adding latest texts on top of your notepad... :huh:

    But anyway, not a bad idea, if it's possible at all. But I think if it should be implemented, so better with an option to switch to old-style notepad, as well...

  7. Posted

    I do like that feature. But I find it rather complicated to view my file list in current clients. In my old client (.pDC++, based on BCDC++ 0.306, had it long before any other client I knew...) I just press CTRL+M (feature there is called "Open my file list") and my own list pops up. I really like it that way.

    Would such a shortcut be hard to implement into ApexDC? Though I think that CTRL+O (Own list as it is called nowadays) wouldn't be the best choice since in browsers, editors and some media players it normally stands for opening an URL or document or other file...

  8. Posted

    Is there a clear chat button as was available in peerweb or I can't find it how to turn on

    I do realise that /c is working but some times it better to use a button while not using keybord for and only mouse

    Uhm... what about right-clicking chat windows > "Clear chat"? Shouldn't that do it as it is already there?

    This has been a common request, but Crise wants to see more requests before implementing it as an option. :D

    Is this one of the secret features even you forgot about, Lee? :)

    But well, it's not a button as requested, though I actually prefer it the way it is (especially since I never ever needed such feature...).

  9. Posted

    @Pedja:

    As far as I understand your post, you have control over your hub. So my suggestion would be to use a nickname prefix system based on the ISP's IP ranges in your hub software. I don't know what hubsoft you are using, but there are some where such feature is built-in, as YnHub and I guess also Ptokax. At least that's what we are doing on our hubs in our LAN to recognize users with slower uplinks to the rest of the LAN and therefore minimize uplink traffic and make them prefer users from their own hostels, which is also much faster for them.

    Furthermore, I guess in most hubs it's not activated that a normal user can see the IP addresses of all other users right after logging in. He will only see the IPs of users he already connected to, which would make such feature in the client rather useless. But well, from our LAN I cannot connect to internet hubs, so I don't know for sure. :-)

  10. Posted

    Thanx for supporting this request.

    @2 The tab completion of nicks from any part of the nick from any main or pm chat window of the hub would be awesome. Excellent suggestion, well worth doing IMO.

    Yep, that's why I don't want a new client without.. ;) Actually, this was the main reason why I didn't switch to another client yet. You can get so used to it.

    In case the source of .PhantomDC helps, since this feature was built in there: At least the download section of the old .PDC homepage is back online or you can find it here.

    I hope the guys can and want to do it...

  11. Posted

    @2 - Tab completion of nicknames:

    Since I just tested all the new clients but didn't really use them because I was too disappointed and went back to .PDC, I didn't notice this earlier:

    In .PDC the tab completion even worked in a PM window and in OP-Chat windows. So in what window ever you were you could tab-complete a nickname from the hub the window belonged to. And you could do that by typing ANY part of the nick, just like the userlist filter does it. So you could enter 'ber' and press the tab key to complete to 'hostel1.CrazyBerserk' and press it another time to complete to 'hostel3.strawberry' or '[prfx]bernard' - no matter what window you where in! I found this very useful, especially in Op-Chat, when talking about or quoting someone. (And also I demonstrate the prefix style on my hub, where the nowaday's tab completion doesn't work usefully since it only works after [prfx].)

    Just wanted to mention that to illustrate what I don't like about the currently common tab completion.

    @5 - direct downloading to target drive and folder:

    In .PDC and also in older versions of DC++ itself this was actually realized by just leaving the field "Unfinished downloads directory" in "Downloads" empty. Until DC++ 0.401 this field was named "Unfinished downloads directory (empty = download directly to target)" - does someone remember? :ermm:

    And again back to something older:

    @5:

    In ApexDC 0.1.0's settings in the Advanced section, there is an option "Remove forbidden (Unfinihed Kazaa, Win MX, GetRight, eMule, ApexDC++). So I think the not-sharing should already be there.

    I Just found this in the Changelog of StrongDC++ 2.01:

    *.antifrag and *.dctmp files are always unshared regardless the "Remove forbidden" settings

    As far as I understood, ApexDC is based on the latest version of StrongDC, so this should definitely not be a problem.

    So far,

    CrazyBerserk

    EDIT: Addition to @5

  12. Posted

    Hey, for those who might be interested, I just updated my DC clients checklist, according to my wishlist for my new client after .PhantomDC. You can see the list here.

    I'll take a look into most of your reqs... but i can't quarantee them being in ApexDC++.

    Crise, you give me hope. :ermm: I'd really be glad if you could find a way to include especially features 1, 2 and 5 from my wishlist in the first post. (Though I'm afraid these would be the harder ones....)

    So far,

    CrazyBerserk

  13. Posted

    zmDC++ has lua and is based on 0.691. it also has the tab complete function which was mentioned

    Nope, it doesn't.

    The tab completion is just like any other current client that I found recently - unhandy for non-[iSP]-style prefixes. And neither I could find LUA in zmDC.

    But well, it's late here, or actually, early in the morning. I'll test the client later a little more for it's features and update it to my checklist. :)

    Thanks anyway for the suggestion. I'm still hoping for Crise's positive opinion. :)

    So far, good morning and good night,

    CrazyBerserk

    Oh, one more thing @Greg, concerning your question about modern LUA clients:

    I just noticed that CZDC++ and BCDC++ still seem to be in development. At least it appears so according to this list of DC clients.

  14. Posted

    Good morning. :(

    @3:

    If Crise thinks it's worth doing, and the source for a client that already does this is availble and easy to put this into ApexDC++ then i guess it will happen.

    Since I couldn't find .PhantomDC's sourcecode in the internet anymore, I just uploaded the SRC of .PDC's last version. Though I actually thought that there were more clients that did it once. I guess you're right, there might not be much demand for that, but still, I do think that there are more hubs, probably LAN hubs without any access to DC in the internet, that might have prefix styles other than [iSP] as my hub does.

    @5:

    This may not be a problem, as we have an option "Don't share unfinished files". Probably it's enough to add *.dctmp there, if it's not already (or adding a field to type, f. ex.: *.dctmp; *.tmp), so you could easily correct the list for your own needs.

    In ApexDC 0.1.0's settings in the Advanced section, there is an option "Remove forbidden (Unfinihed Kazaa, Win MX, GetRight, eMule, ApexDC++). So I think the not-sharing should already be there.

    Well, I'm gonna search for some breakfast now.

    So far,

    CrazyBerserk

  15. Posted

    Wow, good morning Greg, that was fast. :) Thanks for your reply.

    @2 - tab completion:

    I don't quite know what you mean because it's late and I don't wanna re-read multiple times until I do, but I'll probably udnerstand when i re-read this thread tomorrow. However, I would like to note here that I would like to ahve the option maybe for it to take away the prefix at the beginning when doing prefix completion... Normally when I'm going to mention someone's name, the prefix does not need to be included too, I'm sure I've seen clients that do this.

    Yes, in some clients there is an option to cut away the [iSP] style prefix. But that's not what I mean. For a better illustration, please read the part of my thread in another forum I mentioned: For faster finding just search for the red words. ;)

    @4 - multiline and random away message:

    Sure, but I wouldn't put it as a top priority. Maybe instead of random it could jsut rotate through the options you give it, I cna imagine that would be simpler, and perhaps more useful to some. As for the multipleline thing, if Crise can do it fairly quickly and there's some demand for it, then there's no reason not to do it. Crise is already doing a lot however though, and I'm sure all these relatively small things add up to be the biggest thing of all to code, and there's also some pretty major features which will be worked on for the client too I would think.

    In release 0.1.0 of ApexDC multiline away messages are already possible by pressing [CTRL]+[ENTER] in the away message field in the settings. Just no random yet. But yes, I think a rotating message would do it. And yes, it wasn't really meant as a priority, rather as a fancy goodie. :)

    @5 - direct downloading:

    So basically you want to be able to set the temp-file location of files too? I can see the advantage of this, but not too sure how you would change the GUI to make use of this... If someone can think of a good way to put this into the GUI, and Crise is willing to implement it and has time and it's fiarly easy.... then sure. the problem is, as previously mentioned, all these possibly simple things add up, and some of them probably won't be as simple as expected. If this is in the client you are using now... can you explain how it is implemented into the GUI?
    No, I don't wanna set it explicitely. It's just that I have several harddisks in my computer, some of them mounted as NTFS drives into other folders. And normally I'm not downloading files via double-click but via right-click > "Download to..." and choose a destination folder other than the standard drive:\folder. So I want the temporary files to be created exactly there where the file will end up after downloading. This makes it unnecessary for the DC client to move the files afterwards. With the %[targetdrive] parameter in the "Unfinished downloads directory" field files can at least be downloaded directly to the destination drive (works with some clients, also ApexDC) and will only be moved to their destination folder, what normally is done immediately. But when the destination folder is actually another drive, mounted as a subfolder, moving the file will take some seconds or even minutes, depending on the computer and on the filesize since it still needs to be copied from HDD1 to HDD2. And furthermore, by being able to download directly to the destination location, you will never face troubles like "DC says not enough space on HDD but I have plenty of free space", just because the temp drive might be full. :P

    As for LUA scripting.... yes I'd like that, especially in the OP clint, but I'm not too sure how easy this is? ...Any modern clients that include this that you know of?

    Hmm.. I guess that the latest versions of BCDC++ and CZDC++ could still have it. But I don't know if these clients are still in development, at all. I guess they aren't, otherwise I think I would have tested and documented them together with the first ones on my list.

    Well, I hope my feature requests can now be fully understood. :)

    But now, good night.

    CrazyBerserk

  16. Posted

    Hey guys,

    it's a nice and fancy client you made there, congratulations.

    Lately I've been searching for and testing new DC clients and was actually waiting for your release of ApexDC. I've compared many clients, so I did with ApexDC 0.1.0.

    Actually I'm still using Twink's and Phantom's .PhantomDC in it's last version 1.19c, based on BCDC++ 0.306, as are many other users in my LAN hub. As you can see, it's quite an old client and due to recent mobbing of old clients by the DC++ programmers (NMDC-style filelists no longer supported) we are now more ore less forced to upgrade. But most of us aren't willing to change to a client that lacks in many nice and handy features that we have in .PDC. Neither I do intend to ban the new DC++ versions and it's mods just because they don't wanna deal with our old ones.

    So on my search for a worthy new client I've put together the most important features of .PDC and checked what the newer alternatives can offer. You can see my testing status here. For further explanations of the features please read my post in this forum.

    So basically we're missing the following features in ApexDC 0.1.0. I don't know how much you care, but it would be nice if they could find their way to ApexDC (and for some of them their way back to the DC community):

    1 - Userlist filter that is activated
    without
    having to press [ENTER]. Meaning a real-time filter, just the way it was back in PWDC.

    2 - Tab completion of nicknames that works with
    any
    part of the nick, not only with the first letters or the first ones after a [prefix]; not all hubs use prefixes the [iSP] style.

    3 - A refresh filelist button in the toolbar, would be nice and fancy
    :)
    , but not elementary.

    4 - An away message that can do both, multiline and random message. If I understand the
    right, this seems to be planned. (Well, the random was not in .PDC, but still sort of fancy.)

    5 - real direct downloading, e.g. with a parameter like %[targetdir] additionally to %[targetdrive]. So it wouldn't be necessary for downloaded files to be moved from temp folder to destination on another drive, what really sucks with a 4.5GB DVD image. Temp files can be recognized easily by their .dctmp suffix.

    Well, apart from the random away message feature, that's about all the features we're missing to have found our new allround DC client (presupposing ApexDC will not mysteriously lose some of it's features already present. ;)). For some of those desired features it's actually a real shame that they disappeared from the DC community since they once had existed, many of them in even more clients than only .PDC.

    With hope for positive response,

    CrazyBerserk

    EDIT: Added numbers for better reference