[RELEASE] Forum Browser - Programs Addon

Version 0.9.42

Changes:
- None - some files were missing from the zip on the repo

On my REPO.

Don't know why some of the files were missing from the zip, weird...

Hi ruuk

Have tested the new v 0.9.42, it now doesn't have a script error on startup thanks

After editing a post for the 1st 2nd 3rd times my subscription to that thread stays active on my machine, and I also get a green confirmation window
Just for your info myBB plugin fix was enabled when I was losing the subscription.

There are two entries for the celeb forum on the online database by the way.

Context menu subscription captions are great and informative.

VBulletin forum is really smooth as is Boxee, great work on your new parsing engine
I couldn't on the surface find any major if any problems with the VBulletin forum, good job.

When clicking options button we get a nice solid black background, could this be taken onto the settings screen, to possibly fix the Transparency skin problem where by you can see through the layers making the screen hard to read because you can see the screen underneath (Hope that makes sence)

When adding & removing a forum to favs the confirmation window is black should it be green?
Also the following confirmation windows are all black should these be green :- "Forum removed from local list", "Forum added from online database", "Login set"?
The addition of colour to the confirmation windows etc really gives it a lift.

Boxee - I can login ok, I can post ok, I can delete post ok, Captions in activity splash are very good.
When I've logged into Boxee I have to refresh to see green light
Have to refresh to see the unsubscription of thread/post/forum
I couldn't find an edit option to edit my posts in boxee

Red contrast seems to be pulseing, from very dark red to very light red, can this be made a constant contrast, of very dark red upon very light red], (This was also like this in previous versions, maybe that was your intention)

The message editor white board when filled in with text doesn't shift up screen when full, so you are typing of the screen blind until you click done and go down to the preview pane to see your input

The fanart is a masterpiece...........but...how much of a problem would it be to have a go with the following, just to see what it would look like, if it's no good revert back to it........The forum browser square turned into a long blue icon like the rest twisted also, then all the icons halfed in length to fit more icons on screen to included the Boxee, xbmc4xbox & tvcatchup icons.?

Thanks for the great update, keep up the top work.

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Also inside your repo when you click your way to the screen where you can uninstall forum browser, your description still says "Translate via Google translate"

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  There are two entries for the celeb forum on the online database by the way.

Yeah, I improved the logo parsing and saved it to the online database. One of the problems with the database though, is that it doesn't recognize things such as http://www.site.com and site.com as the same. I'll delete the extra one. I'll doing some sort of fix to prevent those sorts of duplicates.

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  When clicking options button we get a nice solid black background, could this be taken onto the settings screen, to possibly fix the Transparency skin problem where by you can see through the layers making the screen hard to read because you can see the screen underneath (Hope that makes sence)

The settings screen appearance is controlled by the XBMC skin, so I can't change it. I'll add a full screen overlay when opening settings which will sit under the settings.

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  When adding & removing a forum to favs the confirmation window is black should it be green?
Also the following confirmation windows are all black should these be green :- "Forum removed from local list", "Forum added from online database", "Login set"?

Well, the idea was to only add color to things that could possibly fail. I considered the others as information. For instance making a post could fail so green on success yellow on fail and red on script error. Removing a forum from the local list should always work so the message is just information. I'll think on it though

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  When I've logged into Boxee I have to refresh to see green light

I'm assuming you mean when you add login details when already on Boxee? That's the only time I could get it not to show when set. Anyway I'll look at it

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  Have to refresh to see the unsubscription of thread/post/forum

I'll check it out

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  I couldn't find an edit option to edit my posts in boxee

I'll add that

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  Red contrast seems to be pulseing, from very dark red to very light red, can this be made a constant contrast, of very dark red upon very light red], (This was also like this in previous versions, maybe that was your intention)

The transparency skin seems to pulse all buttons. I'll see if setting pulse to false in the addon skin will override that.

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  The message editor white board when filled in with text doesn't shift up screen when full, so you are typing of the screen blind until you click done and go down to the preview pane to see your input

Unfortunately that has been a limitation of the text view in XBMC. It has a method 'scroll()' which allows you to scroll to a certain line, but I've never gotten it to work. Perhaps I will test it again and if it still doesn't work, report the bug to the XBMC team.

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  The fanart is a masterpiece...........but...how much of a problem would it be to have a go with the following, just to see what it would look like, if it's no good revert back to it........The forum browser square turned into a long blue icon like the rest twisted also, then all the icons halfed in length to fit more icons on screen to included the Boxee, xbmc4xbox & tvcatchup icons.?

Well, I'm not going to do it before the main release, but it seems like a nice idea. If you want to gather the images for me that would help

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  Have to refresh to see the unsubscription of thread/post/forum

Not sure exactly what your referring to here. Where is this happening and in what way? I can't find it
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(2012-05-11 19:43)ruuk Wrote:  

(2012-05-11 18:32)hasselhof Wrote:  Have to refresh to see the unsubscription of thread/post/forum

Not sure exactly what your referring to here. Where is this happening and in what way? I can't find it

Sorry ruuk

covered in previous post, sorry to have wasted your time. Ignore.

Regarding the fanart, don't be too dejected by my comment about it, it is well impressive, might even be one of the best i've seen around

Hi ruuk,

here are the banners/icons for you

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.hanselman/

Version 0.9.43 RC1

Changes:
- Disabled the pulsing of the stop button over the progress bar
- Added dark overly when opening addon settings so XBMC skins with transparent settings windows are easier to see
- Fixed: when selecting forums listed in the threads view, stop button was not getting focus
- Fixed not logging in and logged in status not showing when setting passwords on boxee
- When editing a post, the post title now displays on the title button on editor open
- Boxee: Edit posts
- Fix: Delete now shows up for private messages
- Deleting now asks if you are sure
- Private messages view now shows 1 of 1 on the page button instead of 1 of 0
- 'www.' removed from name when adding forum both in Forum Browser and on the database. The database also now checks against '.com' and '.net' duplicates

On my REPO.

What the heck, let's call this RC1. We'll see if we can get it to release without getting to RC8

I removed www. from all the names in the database. This means if you add one of those forums and you already have it you will get a duplicate. Just delete it. The www. prefix will be removed whenever forums are added from now on, so this will no longer be a problem.

I just made the database return the list alphabetized.

(2012-05-13 00:12)ruuk Wrote:  Version 0.9.43 RC1

Changes:
- Disabled the pulsing of the stop button over the progress bar
- Added dark overly when opening addon settings so XBMC skins with transparent settings windows are easier to see
- Fixed: when selecting forums listed in the threads view, stop button was not getting focus
- Fixed not logging in and logged in status not showing when setting passwords on boxee
- When editing a post, the post title now displays on the title button on editor open
- Boxee: Edit posts
- Fix: Delete now shows up for private messages
- Deleting now asks if you are sure
- Private messages view now shows 1 of 1 on the page button instead of 1 of 0
- 'www.' removed from name when adding forum both in Forum Browser and on the database. The database also now checks against '.com' and '.net' duplicates

On my REPO.

What the heck, let's call this RC1. We'll see if we can get it to release without getting to RC8

I removed www. from all the names in the database. This means if you add one of those forums and you already have it you will get a duplicate. Just delete it. The www. prefix will be removed whenever forums are added from now on, so this will no longer be a problem.

Nice one ruuk, will check it out now

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Hi ruuk thanks for the update

The red pulsing progress bar has stopped pulsing and is much better.

The dark overlay on setting screen is perfect.

Boxee - cleared my login details, refreshed screen so I was logged out, filled in my login details, cliked ok, green light came straight on automatically.

"Post reply" window now displays post title ok.

New confirmation message upon deleting my boxee post appeared ok "Are you sure you want to delete post ?"

Haven't got any private messages on Boxee to try the new delete PM's maybe you could send me one, The delete PM context option wasn't available on xbmc.org

PM's now show page 1 of 1

Online database is better alphabetically, cleaning the database of all the www.'s looks better. I deleted all my local forums containing www., and re enabled them.

Could the rectangle around the forums on the choose forum window be changed to a different colour to be better seen ?.

Got a red window to appear In Boxee when editing my post got an error "errno2 no such file or directory /home/ruuk/test.txt"

All looking really good thanks.

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I have got a yellow box on my last two posts saying "error getting posts, please try again" "No posts"
I then click ok, click refresh from the context menu and my post appears ok.
Maybe it's something to do with my internet or traffic on the forum.