Conquer Club

rotflmao.... yeah like angelic choir or something!!

Kevin,

for the PM thing, I thing there is a way for phpBB PM's to be checked externally, but not even 50% certain, so if you want, or have time, or if someone wants to look into it, head over to phpBB.com and see if someone over there can tell you how.

As for the refresh time, please dont let it ping the site every 2 seconds that being said, by pinging the RSS feed rather than the games page, it does save a lot of server time and speeds the site up, so thanks from me, as a player, for helping things go faster

Again, thanks much for the great prog. Keep up the good work

Twill

I don't know of any way to check the PM stuff externally. If there way a way to get an RSS feed of PMs then I could do it allright.

Personally I just have it set to email me when I get a PM. Combine that with one of the many email notifiers out there and you should be sorted.

hey, this was working fine for me before but today i've tried running it a few times and it won't go past the loading xml part, any ideas on how i can fix this?

I've no idea what could be causing it, i'm afraid.

I'll be releasing a new version shortly, and I'll see if I can write more descriptive errors into it.

There does seem to be some weirdness with the RSS feed from time to time. I've found, when you click on the link, it doesn't bring you to game, but to the forum. I don't see how that could cause any problems though.

it should bring you to the forum login screen when you are not logged into conquer club, but from there it should take you directly to the game.

This is good stuff. Really.

My wish list

I would like to see the following as optional via a program options window or at least via ini edit:

Start out minimized to tray (not task bar) and/or have a minimize button on the app itself (rather than right clicking on the task bar icon).
Flash tray icon on (selectable) status changes. That is, when it's my turn and/or when someone else is making a turn.
Show game number(s) of active game(s) in the app window. Make them active links the the games they represent.

Lastly, since you aren't charging for this (yet), would you give more info on what you used to do the programming and consider giving out the source so that some of us could help in adding changes. You would have final say in what changes are accepted, but having six or seven hands typing code is generally more productive than just two.

N0g - thanks for the suggestions. I do want to keep the app as simple as possible, so I'm not sure all of them will be possible, but some of them will definately be added.

Something like this konfabulator widget might suit you better:
http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=36039

Unfortuanately, it's built in Flash, and extended with SWF Studio (I'm a designer, rather than a developer you see) so I'm not sure if there's many people with experience with both of those. If you do, or anyone else does and wants to help out, then just give me a shout!

I installed it but all I get is "XML loading..."

lol. i had that same problem did u put in your number??

yeah your # is 6585 change the cog file (sounds like i know what i'm doing)

Magdamit, I've broken your notifier Kevinc

is the any possiblity to make it compatible with linux???

Ok I dont understand.the beginning?

Telvannia wrote:is the any possiblity to make it compatible with linux???

You could try running it using Wine. I've no idea if it would work though. I@m sure there's RSS readers, like on OSX that would be able to sort you out though.

Awesome program kevin. I didn't download it when I first saw this thread because I thought I needed the RSS reader and everything set up. And I was too lazy/intimidated to do all of that until today. Anyway you are the man for making something so simple and useful

Murph- When you click download the folder that saves to your computer will have a little zipper on the icon. Right click and hit "extract all" to unzip the folder. This will give you the notifier folder in which you edit the INI file so it contains your usernumber and not kevin's.

Thank u Kevin. Took me forever to get up and running, but well worth it.

Kevin, the program you put out has saved my sanity - I no longer hit refresh every x seconds (sorry Lack) to find out if I am up. A couple of questions/suggestions:

I noticed at one point, in my tool tray (where I have put a shortcut) there was the CC logo icon, but I don't see it now. Is there something I have done wrong?

sugg:

More standing out Ready number for a short period when a game BECOMES ready (ie flash the whole CC displu or change the colour of the inside of the star or the word ready)

countdown to next update

Always ontop as a default option

Can you use the XML feeds to set a watch list? ie look at this list of players' RSS (that use inputs - friends/opponents) to say if they are playing?

Phenomenal add on to CC!

Evan

My suggestion for a future update: Could you add an optional audio alert to the program? Sometimes I will be in the same room with my computer, perhaps reading (or sleeping) and a simple alarm would really let me know when I can begin my turn on crucial games.

There's nothing like waking up in the middle of the night to try and play an important turn while extremely groggy!

Anyway, I don't know how difficult that would be for you to code but I think it would be very useful. Thanks once again for the initial program though! Its awesome.

i also get the "loading xml" thing.... it just keeps there...

I have a few suggestions for the next version of CC Notifier:

1. To simplify installation, why not provide only the exe file, which will prompt you for the userid and create a config file automatically if one doesn't exist? Or better yet, it can prompt you for your username and I'll modify rss.php to accept either username or userid.

2. I researched your platform a bit and Zinc is a SWF2EXE that will let you compile Mac OSX versions - I don't know if it would work for you but you might wanna check it out.

3. The top pixel of the star is white (should be grey).

is the anyway you can make this compatable with linux (ubuntu in particular)???

lackattack wrote:1. To simplify installation, why not provide only the exe file, which will prompt you for the userid and create a config file automatically if one doesn't exist? Or better yet, it can prompt you for your username and I'll modify rss.php to accept either username or userid.

Good idea, would be better for beginners. I wonder if I can figure out a way to get rid of the config file entirely.

2. I researched your platform a bit and Zinc is a SWF2EXE that will let you compile Mac OSX versions - I don't know if it would work for you but you might wanna check it out.

Zinc sounds cool. I only have access to SWF Studio at the moment (in work) so unless someone feels generous, I won't be able to use it.

Although if there was anyone here with software development experience, perhaps they could write a version with REAL BASIC, or another multiplatform programming environment. I'm a designer so this was the only way I could do it. If anyone could do that, then I'd happily colaborate on the design of it.

3. The top pixel of the star is white (should be grey).

Wow - well spotted. I'll fix that!

Is there any way you could make it thinner? i usually have it "always on top" and now that microsoft have made there IE 7 and other microsoft office 2007 toolbars thinner it infringes on my work space. For the next update could you also allow it to minimise?

ive just downloaded it, but i aint come up with my games ect, just yours......help me please