These enhancements sound very, very interesing!!....

You've aroused my curiosity... anxiously waiting for the beta!

Keep us posted Adam!

I'm running Mac OS 10.2 and i just downloaded LimeWire 2.6.3. Upon startup, it goes throught the wizard startup direction--whre it asks your connection speed and if you want it to search for any files to share. it's done this every time i've started it up. two documents also came up named, err.txt and out.txt. i'm also not getting any search results. i dont know if this is just me, but i just wanted to know what's out there.




Derk

nice one... the EXE launcher you got from FreeWire!!

Hey, just found 6.2.3 on download.com. I sorta gave up on LimeWire once the Morpheus invasion was in full force, and Gnutella was almost useless. Gnutella seems WAY better with the new Morph out, even if it is based on an outdated core.

Second, nice on the new version. I love the extra stats - it gives LimeWire a real 1up on the other apps around. The only beef I've (still) got is that those title bars don't remember where they were put. It's kinda worse now that there's so many bars on my old low res monitor, that some can't even be read. As I recall, you said that there was an opensource dev working on that, but I suppose he gave up or didn't finish yet. Meh. Just hope I don't have to wait two years to fix it once I start my Java course.

Other than that, happy on the bug fix that I couldn't download to anything in the My Documents folder (or maybe XP SP1 fixed that, who knows?). Not that it matters who dunnit as it works fine now.

Cheers!

i'm in the process of reworking a lot of the code behind the tables shown in the gui. part of that includes a common way to hide/add columns, remember which ones are displaying, and order & size them correctly.

right now, only the search results do this.

i'm also playing around with an idea i think philippe mentioned first [on the gui mailing list] of making the download window include expandable trees (like the search window), so you can see the individual connections that are downloading in a swarmed download (the ones that say download from 2+ hosts). but, this is last on the list, since it'd require everything else to be working first.

once the ability to choose your columns specifically is added, it'd be nice to add a whole bunch of other column specifiers, so that people can pick exactly what they'd like to see. (like a 'chat-enabled' style browse-host indicator... and queue information in the future, etc...)

granted -- i'm doing this all as an open-sourcer, and am a full-time student, so my time is down a bit. if school hadn't started, i'd be finished this already.

sam

Ok, that's cool. Understand with the school n all, I know that homework thing is pretty bad . Great to know that someone's working on it. Thanx for the update.

Cheers!

Ahhh....no. Actually, I wrote it up the day before we released it to address some installer issues. The exe makes everything a little nicer -- particularly finding the newest JRE each time you run dynamically.

I didn't know that FreeWire had an exe. If I did know about it, I wouldn't have used it. If a company doesn't trust their own coding abilities enough to write their own competitive piece of software, I would pretty much never trust any of their code enough to incorporate it into anything I was working on. Call me snobby, but that's the way it is.

just to keep you updated, dividend... i sent phase 1 of the patch off to the developer's today... included are:

- improved memory usage.
- the 'download', 'upload', and 'library' tables can have their columns hidden/displayed
- the buttons & menu items on the library now grey out if they are unusable are the current state.
- the 'size' columns in the 'download', 'upload' and 'library' sections will display either KB, MB, or TB [and with decimals if appropriate] depending on the size of the file. [thanks to another open-sourcer, philippe, for providing the code to dynamically create a size string based on the size]

the change was fairly large, the patch file being 90KB, in addition to roughly 48KB of new files [20+ of'm].

coming in phase 2+ will be:
- the connection & playlist tables will work like the newly modified ones.
- column preferences will be stored throughout startup/shutdowns [thanks to another open sourcer, chance, for providing a really good way of storing the settings]
- the results window will be rewritten to behave more appropriately.

note that it might take awhile before the changes make it into the live version. the LimeWire developer's have got some interesting things up their sleeve in terms of network usability, finding of rare files, and the overall searching scheme used... these obviously take a bit more precedence, since they let us get the results we want to see.

hopefully you'll enjoy.

sam