MultiDC++

Hey
Sorry for the lack of updates as of late. I blame school for that, since it’s exam-period and everything. I do however have some updates to present quite soon.
The favorite hubs are complete (as far as I know :-P), and I’ve added a new Transfer-tab, where you can see all the transfers in a more pleasing way.
So to hopefully keep the hope up in some of you, here are some screenshots:

(Click for a bigger picture. Note; this is not the final interface, and it will probably change a bit or two.)

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I’ve also added a new settings-tab where you can change to port and password on the server. And the server will use those settings the next time it starts.

And as usual a lot of bug fixes. Though, like I said before, it won’t be out for another week or so since school is taking up so much of my time

Laters!

Hey,

Sorry that it took a while longer. Had some conflicts with the source tree on my computer and the one on SF, but that is solved now.

The source & the binaries are uploaded to SF, and is ready for download. Be sure to try this out and tell me what you think.

Cheers

Hey,

Got some pretty good news today! The new search interface is finally done (except for a few bugs and code cleaning)!!!

Here’s a preview:

(Click for bigger picture. Note; that ‘Video’ is selected at the same time as  ’Any’ is just because I accidentally had the cursor on that choice when I took the screenshot :-()

That’s pretty much the final design of the interface. And it comes loaded with quite some features, compared to other parts of MultiDC++ at least.

The filter & sort function is fully functional, though there is a bug when you try to sort something that is filtered, but that will be fixed later.

I will add filtering for hubs later on. I don’t have that on a really high priority since it can be done with the filter textfield.

So, why did I go through all this trouble just for the new interface you might think? It’s simple, first, I wanted to learn! The reason I started this project in the beginning was for me to learn how to use Cocoa and Objective-C. And with this I’ve come quite a bit further on to use it nicely. Secondly, I think this is a much better way to handle the search results, so I just had to do it

With this I’ve also learned how to handle sorting and filtering, so it will be added to all parts of MultiDC++ as of beta 1. This release will be Alpha 4, and will be released later tomorrow.

Hope you all like the new interface, and be sure to go on a big bug-hunt when you try it out!

Cheers!

Hey,

I’ve just updated Wordpress to the latest version, so if the site were down for some time today, it was because of that.
Either way, I’m having some troubles with the new Search-interface, it’s going forward, but quite slow :-(. I will probably release it when it’s done, as Alpha 3.5 or something, since it will need a lot of bug-testing.
When that is done I’m gonna start adding this:

• Favorite Hubs
• A password-dialog will show when a hub needs a password
• A dialog for changing the settings on the server
• A refined transfer viewer

And probably a lot of bug fixes and so on.

But the sad part is that I have a lot to in school right now, so I won’t be able to code on MultiDC++ for a week

But after that I will be back, and faster than ever

Cheers

Hey,

I hope that my last post got you a little bit excited, I’m starting to like this interface quite a bit, so here’s another preview, with some more graphics this time:

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Note; the information (such as files, nicks etc.) viewed in the above picture doesn’t represent any real files or persons, they have just been put there for the sake of showing how it works.

The features as of today:

• Grouping certain file-types into different categories when you search with ‘Any’, otherwise just the respective category will show.
• Very compact default view to get a quick overview, then a more comprehensive overview if you push the button with the magnifying glass.
• Grouping of results with the same TTH-value, such as the result shown above. The arrows allows you to view the information on different sources, and the value within the parenthesis on that result represents the number of available sources.

On another note: I’ve just updated the source with a bug-fix that solves a problem where the connected hubs wouldn’t show when you reconnected to a backend, I’ve also uploaded the binaries for Alpha 3 (finally!), I hope they work for you

As always, I’ll try to keep you updated on the progress.

Cheers

Hey,

As you probably have noticed I haven’t uploaded the binaries yet. It’s because I forgot to upload them the day I promised, it will take a couple of more days since I have an exam on Friday and I can’t let this disturb me. But it will come up eventually.

Yesterday I started with some pretty interesting stuff - rewriting the search, yet again. I just had to do this, since I’ve had this idea floating in my head for a long time, and I think it will be quite nice.

Here’s a quick preview:

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I hope that I get this to work a soon as possible so you can try it out.

I’ll try to keep you updated

Cheers

Hey,

Sorry for the big delay without updates.
Been a tough month, and Alpha 3 has actually been almost ready for upload for like 2-3 weeks, but I haven’t just had the time.
But it’s here atlast, and there’s quite alot on the list of changes.
I’ve only uploaded the source yet, but the binaries will come tomorrow.

I’ve noticed that there’s been some comments that I have missed, and I will get better on that from now on, so please feel free to leave comments on how everything is working.

More updates is coming, with some pretty interesting stuff

Cheers!

So I’ve finally uploaded the source for Alpha 2.
I’m quite happy with the release except that I didn’t manage to get the GUI to launch the multidcppserver with any problems, so you still have to start the server manually.
I’m currently uploading a .dmg that contains MultiDC++ and multidcppserver, both as Universal Binarys. So if you don’t wanna help out, you should just try that package out instead.

After this I’m gonna add the Filelist Browser, so you hopefully can start using this client somewhat normally.

Anyway, please report any bugs to the bug-tracker or send me an e-mail.

Edit: I forgot to add endian independence to the server, so it could not send any useful information to the client, but that should be fixed now. So if you downloaded the package, please re-download!

Cheers

Hey,

I’m sorry for not posting earlier but I’ve had quite alot of things to do.

The client is working really well, the new preferences dialog is done, and I’ve rewritten like 30-40% of MultiDC++ to use my new protocol. But it was totally worth it!

It’s so easy to add new functions and communicate between the server and the client, and there was some speed increase too, atleast it feels like it.

Either way, I’m having some mayor trouble with yaSSL and making the server a Universal Binary, so I’ve changed the DC++-core to use OpenSSL instead, which is delivered with Mac OS X. But I’m also having some trouble with getting OpenSSL to link correctly, so that isn’t working like it should either. But I’m working on it, and after that I will upload the code, and at the same time release a binary, so those who don’t wanna compile it has a chance to use it.

That’s all for now.

Cheers

Hey again,

So, everything is working great on my PowerBook, and I’m quite sure it works for others too. But I’m gonna try it on my friends Intel Mac in the next couple of days just to be sure. I’m also working on so that the server starts automatically with MultiDC++, so you don’t have to start it manually unless you wanna run it on another computer.

I will also upload a .dmg with MultiDC++ and the multidcppserver so you don’t have to compile it.

Anyways, while I’m waiting to test the client on a Intel Mac, I started rewriting the preferences dialog, so it resembles the ones in OS X more, here’s a preview:

Before you see it I gotta apologize for my poor artist skills, hence the ugly icons, they will hopefully be better with time.

And here’s a preview of the Download Queue (though the filter bar doesn’t work yet :-S):

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It’ll all be here in a couple of days.

Cheers!