[RELEASE] Forum Browser - Programs Addon

Thanks for all the testing John.
A lot of good issue catches. Most are now on my TODO list.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  When in Subscription View subscribed forums have no description in info pane at
bottom of screen.

The description isn't in the data when I get the list of subscriptions, so I can't do anything about that.
By the way, before you notice, forumrunner doesn't handle forum subscriptions at all, so that's why that isn't on any of the forumrunner forums.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Unsubscribe from thread/forum works fine, although you have to go out and back in to see
its' removal, and subscribe to thread/forum works fine.

I wasn't sure whether I wanted to remove them from the list when unsubscribing, and went with leaving them because it was easier
I think I'll go ahead and have them get removed, as it helps lets the user know that it worked.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Image viewer is excellent, left and right arrows work great, as does the red cross/close button,
however, image viewer seems to go a bit wrong when I switch off mouse support in XBMC
settings, the image viewer doesn't allow left and right image browsing and the central cross
disappears, which is used to close down image browser.

I'll fix the arrows issue, but the close button is supposed to go away with mouse support disabled. In fact, that should be happening on all the windows. You would normally just use the normal previous menu button to close the window when not using the mouse.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Cached logos are working okay but what is the desired extension? as I'm getting .ico, .png.gif & .jpg.
The online database icon for Forumrunner forum is not displaying in the forum selection window, this
is saved as a .ico on my machine.

Previously all of the images had a .jpg extension even though the actual images might not be jpegs. I fixed it to get the extension from the url so that the file is named with the correct extension for the image. XBMC was giving a message in the log about the images not being jpeg, but it displayed them anyway.

Forumrunner didn't have a usable logo in the list because it's in a style sheet. Also, when there is no image set, it tries to use the favicon.ico instead, which forumrunner also does not have, so you just get a 0 byte .ico file. I'm going to have the logo selection dialog pull images out style sheets as well when I get to it, and then I can fix the logo.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Square skin animation for activity indicator is working great.
The round busy icon on the dark skin looks different to light skin icon,
but works great.

I've had a hard time getting an animated gif with a transparent background to work correctly (and the one in the light skin looks terrible on the dark skin), so I had the idea to use skin animation instead for the dark skin. Now it actually just rotates the image. I liked the gif used in the light skin, so I kept it. That's why they don't match. I do plan to make the image the same across all views in the dark skin (right now it is the gif on the forums view) and it will probably look different since it needs to be on both a dark and light background.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Nod smiley doesn't show a smiley.

Not all smilies are going to work yet. I handle all the ones from MyBB and vBulletin right now, but don't have actual smilies for all of those. Other forum types may have smilies that I don't handle, but I'll get to those after the repo release.
Since I can't animate the smilies, I'm not sure how to do the nod smiley, which is why it just shows *NOD* colored yellow right now, because I don't want to put a smiley that doesn't express the intended meaning.

(2012-05-07 12:58)hasselhof Wrote:  Not sure what you meant about sub forums being indented?

Well, they are just indented a couple of spaces, which may be less noticeable with your skins font. When I finish extending the modified font to all windows, that may change. It's supposed to be subtle, just enough to help set them apart.

Hi ruuk

made myself a member on the celebforum (forumrunner), I can login in a browser no problem
but in forum browser it wouldn't allow me to log in. (this forum has some adult content which doesn't require a login to see
so maybe this is best removed from the online database)

also while clicking around I made XBMC crash to a black screen with a little white cross
in the center which then rebooted xbmc itself. This has happened many times on other addons etc
so maybe an xbmc problem

see log file :- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.hanselman/xbmc.log

The very end of the log is where it crashed, but I cant remember what exactly I was clicking on as it surprised me.

a.t.b

John.

Hi ruuk, just test the latest build on TVC's forum to see if I can delete a post and I can't. I get an error saying "I might not have permission". I've posted my log for you here. Hope it helps

Thanks for all the answers.

(2012-05-07 20:28)dj_gerbil Wrote:  Hi ruuk, just test the latest build on TVC's forum to see if I can delete a post and I can't. I get an error saying "I might not have permission". I've posted my log for you here. Hope it helps

Was it your own post (this probably shouldn't matter, but is useful to know)? There's no more info in the log than the message you get (and there's no error)
It may be that either it's not enabled in the Tapatalk config for the forum, or that it doesn't work on some plugin versions. I'll probably just leave it as is as it may work for some situations, and only moderators are going to be able to do it right now anyway.
It was perhaps useful to see some flags that are set when your a moderator.
You at least confirmed that it's detecting your moderator status and allowing the delete option to show.

(2012-05-07 20:50)ruuk Wrote:  

(2012-05-07 20:28)dj_gerbil Wrote:  Hi ruuk, just test the latest build on TVC's forum to see if I can delete a post and I can't. I get an error saying "I might not have permission". I've posted my log for you here. Hope it helps

Was it your own post (this probably shouldn't matter, but is useful to know)? There's no more info in the log than the message you get (and there's no error)
It may be that either it's not enabled in the Tapatalk config for the forum, or that it doesn't work on some plugin versions. I'll probably just leave it as is as it may work for some situations, and only moderators are going to be able to do it right now anyway.
It was perhaps useful to see some flags that are set when your a moderator.
You at least confirmed that it's detecting your moderator status and allowing the delete option to show.

It was my own post, although as you say, it doesn't make any difference as I'm a super mod. I've deleted posts before using the TapaTalk app on my phone so it should have worked. Glad the rest of the info was useful, let me know if you need me to test some more

(2012-05-07 20:54)dj_gerbil Wrote:  

(2012-05-07 20:50)ruuk Wrote:  

(2012-05-07 20:28)dj_gerbil Wrote:  Hi ruuk, just test the latest build on TVC's forum to see if I can delete a post and I can't. I get an error saying "I might not have permission". I've posted my log for you here. Hope it helps

Was it your own post (this probably shouldn't matter, but is useful to know)? There's no more info in the log than the message you get (and there's no error)
It may be that either it's not enabled in the Tapatalk config for the forum, or that it doesn't work on some plugin versions. I'll probably just leave it as is as it may work for some situations, and only moderators are going to be able to do it right now anyway.
It was perhaps useful to see some flags that are set when your a moderator.
You at least confirmed that it's detecting your moderator status and allowing the delete option to show.

It was my own post, although as you say, it doesn't make any difference as I'm a super mod. I've deleted posts before using the TapaTalk app on my phone so it should have worked. Glad the rest of the info was useful, let me know if you need me to test some more

Thanks for telling me about your previous success with the phone. I'll have to look closer I guess.

Version 0.9.37

Changes:
- Forumrunner: Fixed a bug causing an error with no message on login failure
- When 'reverse posts' and 'open thread at newest post' are enabled it no longer jumps to the bottom
- Reversed PM listings so that newest is at the top.
- Fixed new bug with boxee error when showing private messages

On my REPO.

hasselhof - try this out. It might still fail to login, but should give a login error.

(2012-05-07 21:21)ruuk Wrote:  Version 0.9.37

Changes:
- Forumrunner: Fixed a bug causing an error with no message on login failure
- When 'reverse posts' and 'open thread at newest post' are enabled it no longer jumps to the bottom
- Reversed PM listings so that newest is at the top.
- Fixed new bug with boxee error when showing private messages

On my REPO.

hasselhof - try this out. It might still fail to login, but should give a login error.

Hi ruuk, very quick update

Here is the log :-http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.hanselman/xbmc.log
it contains the error message
just tried in a browser to log in and it did, but not with forum browser

the reverse post etc issue is now fixed

thanks

John

(2012-05-07 21:42)hasselhof Wrote:  

(2012-05-07 21:21)ruuk Wrote:  Version 0.9.37

Changes:
- Forumrunner: Fixed a bug causing an error with no message on login failure
- When 'reverse posts' and 'open thread at newest post' are enabled it no longer jumps to the bottom
- Reversed PM listings so that newest is at the top.
- Fixed new bug with boxee error when showing private messages

On my REPO.

hasselhof - try this out. It might still fail to login, but should give a login error.

Hi ruuk, very quick update

Here is the log :-http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.hanselman/xbmc.log
it contains the error message
just tried in a browser to log in and it did, but not with forum browser

the reverse post etc issue is now fixed

thanks

John

It says username error. Did that show up on the main screen by the logged in indicator?

In any case it would seem your username is perhaps entered incorrectly.