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erengyJul 5, 2017 5:07 AM
| you might want to consider a cross-platform framework earlier rather than later if you are really considering it.... migrating a complicated app from VB .NET should prove rather difficult. |
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| That's correct indeed. To clear things up, Taiga is written in native C++. I'm not against using .NET or anything; in fact, it would be much more easier for me to implement the same features with it. But I didn't consider using it for the same reason you mentioned and some others. There are two main reasons for why I didn't start directly from a cross-platform framework. The first one is using that kind of framework means sacrificing some other things. I wanted Taiga to be a uTorrent-like application so to speak. I think I'm a bit obsessed about this "lightweightness" thing. ^^; That's why I also didn't use MFC, ATL or WTL and ended up writing my own simple, object oriented framework. I believe it's not going to be too hard migrating, but again, I don't consider doing that anytime soon. The second reason is I practically don't know anything about any operating system other than Windows and DOS. Shame on me! =p For example, I know that if I use a cross-platform library such as libcurl, it will work on every system as intended. But when it comes to things like checking running processes to identify media players, that's really something I can't manage to do on a multi-platform basis right now. As I also wrote in FAQs, I believe keeping this project as small as possible is the only way for me to maintain it at a reasonable level at the moment. |
| Yep, totally agree with you.... you've got a great philosophy and this project sounds exciting. |
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A few more really minor improvements I can think of...
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saka said: improving the sort on the Season column to weight the 4 seasons properly instead of straight string sort (MALU still gets this wrong too... custom comparison function should be fairly easy). I admit I took a shortcut there with reversing the order of season strings. ^^ I think it can be done, will try as soon as possible. (Edit: Done) saka said: I feel like the 'auto-login' setting under Program>General in settings should be grouped instead with the username and pass under Account... I can tell you're keeping the option open to have additional accounts with other services, and that makes it even more implied. After all, if I did have multiple accounts listed there, I probably wouldn't want all-or-nothing. Nice guess. (: Yes, that was the reason I grouped it with other start-up options. The way you put it makes more sense to me now, consider it done. (Edit: Done) saka said: Probably something for down the road, but I wonder if you're considering making an automatic torrent downloader? It's probably the feature I would miss most switching from malu.... some kind of secondary window to poll a list of torrent searches and download ones matching the list (with added filters). Torrent downloader is one of my favorites too and definitely going to be there. In fact, there was already one in the old Taiga (the one I wrote with VB6) which was able to check any source you want. I'm planning on a general RSS implementation this time which can be used to download torrents, to get news, to check airing times and so on. I'll probably keep this one for later though. I better focus on bug fixing and general improvements to get a stable release for now. |
erengyJun 11, 2010 8:22 AM
| I'm trying not to suggest too many new features, but nothing wrong with putting them off for later. Would you be able to add the ability to send an http request to a url when the player starts/stops or manual updates are made? Such a thing is useful for updating scripted forum signatures and notifying other services. It would also be helpful to send some encoded POST/GET info with the episode data and whether the player is starting or stopping, but not necessary. Also, I didn't see a manga list anywhere in the planned features... I imagine you're trying to keep it simple for now, but there should be one eventually. Edit: one more thing... might want to make some kind of simple update service to keep everyone up to date. It can just be a second executable that checks a text file uploaded somewhere and replaces the main exe plus a setting in the startup options to check for updates that can be enabled/disabled. I'll keep you as busy as possible... ;) |
sakaJun 11, 2010 9:51 PM
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| HTTP requests are very easy to do, shouldn't take much time to add as another announcement feature. I'll add this to today's build but as I don't have the means to test it, let me know if there's anything wrong or missing. (Edit: Done, but it seems like I need a design upgrade for my HTTP client to be able to handle multiple connections at the same time. This might take a bit longer.) Honestly, I didn't give much thought to manga list until you mentioned. Now that I think about it, without automatic updates it should be easy to add too. There it goes to my to-do list. Oh yes, keep me busy! (And people will think I'm an M. =p) |
erengyJun 12, 2010 2:22 AM
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| Okay, it shows "Could not find episode #" at the status bar now. Tooltips might be too obtrusive for this job. Event buffer or update buffer as its previous name is always active. When some update fails for whatever reason, Taiga tries them again after a successful login or another item is added to the buffer. Only way to disable it is to disable updates; you can also choose not to save them when you exit the program from the settings window. As for the login status indication, I think changing the icon is a nice way to do it. I'll probably add it to tomorrow's build. Edit: I tried to set the default format string of HTTP announcements the same as MALU's PHP signature plugin to support existing scripts. But it only makes the request with an automatic list update at the moment. I don't have much knowledge how these scripts work, is it necessary to post every time you open/close a player and something in your list is detected? Should it make an announcement with manual updates too? |
erengyJun 12, 2010 1:52 PM
| Oh, so that's what the event buffer is... I didn't know what it did when I saw it in settings earlier. From the name I had guessed some kind of logging functionality that was still being implemented. Maybe that setting should be labeled something else.... like "Save queued events" or something to that effect.... 'event buffer' could mean a lot of things. |
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| Changed all "buffer"s to "queue"s. Were there any other settings that you could not understand? Or any misleading texts? |
| Hmm.... now that you mention it I kind of dislike the name "Specific" for series folders. Also, in the settings window for them, it says "Double-click an item to set a folder, right click to open menu" but atm there are no context menus that I can tell. I just tried testing the HTTP Notification feature you added and haven't been able to get it to send anything. I've told it to send to my http server at localhost where I've got a php script to log the POST and GET info.... can't see anything in the access log though. What events trigger it to send at the moment? Does it need to be a new episode (that would trigger an update)? |
sakaJun 12, 2010 2:47 PM
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| If you cannot see a context menu then you must be using an older theme file, menus are stored in there too. Just overwrite everything with a new build, only thing that you'll lose is which media player is enabled and which is not. HTTP notification is only triggered by an automatic list update at the moment as I mentioned some posts above. Playing some random episodes wouldn't work. |
| okay... fixed my theme file, that was it indeed. Ah I didn't see that edit. It's sending a single request at update time, but there is no POST data for some reason. 127.0.0.1 - - [12/Jun/2010:16:05:48 -0700] "POST /taigatest/post.php HTTP/1.1" 200 - ====================== The episode data is actually much less important than the request itself. In most circumstances, the signature script is php based and simply ignores the episode data (in favor of simply refreshing the rss feed from mal). It is kind of nice to send something along with it though... and if the start/stop of an episode can be distinguished then you can do stuff like live "now playing" in the script logic. What is important is that any time mal is going to be updated, that the script get some kind of heads up so it can update the feed. So that means after an automatic update, a manual update, or even on login (since it might have missed an update). |
sakaJun 12, 2010 4:18 PM
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| I think I understand it now. As reading a feed and generating a new image every time someone requests to view it would be both too heavy on the server and slow, you only do it when you're sure the feed is updated and bring up the latest image. I can add a new variable that shows playing status to Taiga's scripts, so that you can choose to send it along with or instead of the episode data. Would that be suitable for you? Something like "user=saka&status=0/1/2" maybe for stopped/playing/updated. saka said: It's sending a single request at update time, but there is no POST data for some reason. I can see the data being sent with a HTTP debugger. Could it be that your format string is empty? Can you check it from the settings window? It is also possible that my HTTP class doesn't accept localhost as a valid host. |
erengyJun 13, 2010 1:00 AM
erengy said: Yeah, that would be awesome. No need for numbers though unless they're more convenient for you -- strings are more descriptive. It's bugged me for a long time that malu never got this right, so thanks for all the hard work.I can add a new variable that shows playing status to Taiga's scripts, so that you can choose to send it along with or instead of the episode data. Would that be suitable for you? Something like "user=saka&status=0/1/2" maybe for stopped/playing/updated. erengy said: I do have a format string with your defaults, but somehow it gets lost along the way. This is the (quickly written) php I'm using to test though it probably doesn't help:saka said: It's sending a single request at update time, but there is no POST data for some reason. I can see the data being sent with a HTTP debugger. Could it be that your format string is empty? Can you check it from the settings window? It is also possible that my HTTP class doesn't accept localhost as a valid host. <?php file_put_contents('postinfo.txt',"======================\n".date(DATE_RFC822)."\n".print_r($_POST,true)."\n".print_r($_GET,true)."\n\n",FILE_APPEND); ?> I've sent it posts from other sources and they're received just fine, so maybe your class hates localhost like you mentioned.... though that would be odd since I do get a request (with no post data). I'm heading to bed, but I'll check the http headers when I get up.... probably something simple. |
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| Alright, it's going to be strings then. I'll add this to today's build, let me know if you need any other data that you think might be useful. I set up a local server (never done it before but it was much easier than what I expected) and tested on that PHP code. It turns out the problem occurs because I send the data URL encoded as in "user%3Derengy" instead of normal text like "user=erengy". I can easily change this behavior and when I do, the data I posted is listed just fine. But isn't it supposed to be encoded? |
| Yeah, that would do it... = and ? and & are all valid in a query string and aren't encoded, but if you have values inside the query string that have one of those characters (or anything other than [0-9a-zA-Z_-.~]) then it needs to be url encoded into the %'s. The way you were sending it is equivalent to sending Array( 'user=blah&info=...' => NULL )..... in fact I'm kind of surprised it didn't come through that way. I guess if there's no = then they get ignored. |
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| New build is up. It should post HTTP requests when a media player opens and the playing file is recognized (status=playing), when that player or Taiga is closed (status=stopped) and also on an automatic or manual update (status=updated). Don't forget to manually add "&status=%status%" to the format string before testing as the new build won't overwrite that setting. |
| working marvelously, thanks. |
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| I wonder if it would be possible for delayed updates that there be a countdown in the status bar or something. |
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| It is possible but why would you need it? Normally delay time should be up as you're watching something and your list gets updated in the background. The clock doesn't tick if media player window is not active, which also works on "wait for media player to close" setting. The delay time is only there to prevent undesired updates, at least that's what I intended to do. I can still add it if you have a convincing reason though. (: |
| well, it's true that most of the time you would be watching your media player full screen and not care... but it's nice to know exactly when the update is going to come if perhaps you are debating whether to continue watching. The main reason for the request is that I have had an occasional bug with updates not being processed when in time delay mode... as if the timer is never created or something. The episode is detected perfectly but only shows as playing and never updates, nor are there any updates queued after the time expires. I wanted to perhaps get an indicator to make sure it's an actual bug and not my imagination. This occurred for me this morning repeatedly when I had the delay set to 45 seconds, and then it began updating normally when I set it back to 10s on the same file... I had previously left Taiga on overnight which may have contributed, though it happened again when I closed and reopened it. If I had a countdown it would help me troubleshoot. |
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| Okay, that's convincing enough. (: I added a timer to the right side of the status bar, you can find it on today's build. Keep in mind that I didn't include error checking to ease troubleshoot. It goes below zero and appears as "00:0-1" when the countdown ends, it also seems to be counting down when you're playing an episode you've already watched but with that of course no update will occur. I'll change this behavior or remove the timer later. |
| okay thanks, will grab the latest build. ...still waiting for some kind of simple updater btw *nudge nudge* edit: btw, I think it may have just been that the timer only decreases when the media player is the active window. I think that's actually a feature, though I had no idea why until you put the counter there. :3 (I use mpc-hc btw) |
sakaJun 15, 2010 12:17 PM
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| I've uploaded a new build every day for a week now. Just check it out once a day, it's good for your health. =p Joking aside, I don't think I can pull off a complete updater soon, maybe a notifier will suffice for now. (Edit: Done. It notifies you if there's a new version on startup and leads you to the related page if you want to download. There's also an option to enable/disable this feature.) There used to be a "check whether media player is active or not" option in the old Taiga but I made it as the default behavior in the new one. It's still not completely reliable since the player window can be active but the user may have paused the video, though I think it's still nice to have it. (It's the same for all players including MPC-HC btw.) |
erengyJun 16, 2010 10:53 AM
| I wonder if that's a good idea, though. I know a few people who watch anime on one monitor while chatting in irc on a secondary monitor. In that case the episode will not update and it's not clear why without an indicator. While I'm on the topic of updates, maybe there can be a "Do not update if episode out of range" option under Update settings. Then if you play episode 15 when you're only on 13, you'll get a warning and no update -- perhaps there could be a small red notice in the 'Watching' tooltip. This would also make the 'Play Random Episode' feature a bit more manageable when updates are automatic. MALU has a similar behavior. |
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| Oh great, people never cease to amaze me. I don't think I could do that even if I had two monitors, that's way too much for multitasking. ^^; Anyway, the option will inevitably return then. Thanks for the heads up. (Edit: Done) I actually checked out all of MALU's settings a while ago and tried to weigh their necessity. It seems like that out of range thing may also go well with the random episode feature, so I think I can add it sometime soon. Maybe even tomorrow. (Edit: Done) |
erengyJun 16, 2010 10:52 AM
| When updating an episode number (and other integer fields), it might be nice to have a spinner (box with increment/decrement buttons) there instead of just a text field. |
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| Done. Other integer fields already had an up-down control as their buddy, now input dialog has one too. You can also increment/decrement using arrow keys and mouse wheel. |
I have some tweak suggestions for the mIRC notification. You don't really have to address everything here, but I wanted to detail my thoughts:
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sakaJun 23, 2010 8:11 PM
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| Just a quick suggestion to the mIRC announce feature: There are more text formating characters than just colors. Now, I don't know the asci character # of these... so I'll type the hotkey then paste it inside quotes. I know it's possible to simply copy these characters into the text field... But since there's an option to add the color sign I feel like these would be a good idea to add as well ;) It may look empty, but there will be something inside it! Bold: Ctrl+B or "" Also... The ability to send a signal to another copy of Taiga running on another machine would be awesome! Example: I have my IRC on another machine but still watch some Anime on this one. ;) If you decide to implement something like that make sure both clients can still do all tasks. This becasue some ppl might preffer to have the machine they're watchin on to send the update to MAL, while I personally want the announce machine to send the update. Mainly because it occasinally acts as an HTPC ;P But put this on the horizon... get the basics in first ;) . . . So much for a quick suggestion. :P |
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| Additional text formatting characters are placed on the menu now. Since italic text doesn't show up in mIRC, I added reversed color character instead. I also added a "do nothing" option for double and middle click events as you suggested on IRC yesterday, they're both going to be in the next build. Your second suggestion refers to something like the network player plug-in of MALU, right? It seems reasonable to have it as a feature, now that you have explained why. Sure I'll try to add it when there's nothing else to do with higher priority. |
| Maybe it's only bugging me with every "listapp", but it would be good if I want to search in my list with the tags that it would treat the listed tags individualy ("exploding" by commas) and search them seperatly. Right now it searching them as whole strings. |
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| Done, will be in the next build. It splits search input into words and searches for them separately now. It's not possible to search for something by enclosing it with quotes yet though. I'm not sure if it's necessary or not. |
| Great, thanks. The sentence search not necessary, at least for me. |
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| you should probably make it impossible to launch extra instances... I thought it was like that in previous builds, but I accidentally clicked twice on my taiga icon this morning and got two windows. I don't see any benefit in having more than one window, and it can cause all kinds of consistency havoc. |
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| That's strange. It's still supposed to be a single instance application, I don't remember changing any part of the code that relates to it. Can you try it more than once and check if it opens a new window every time? It acts the same as before and activates the first instance for me. |
| hmm that's weird -- I managed to do it earlier but it's behaving properly now. I have a Taiga icon in my quick launch and I accidentally double clicked instead of single... probably just got a really lucky race condition but I did indeed have two list windows and could access settings and everything normally in both. edit: did it again  |
sakaAug 19, 2010 10:58 PM
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I've found that the torrent downloader is still a bit unruly in certain circumstances, so I wanted to offer some suggestions:
I know that's probably a lot to digest, but I think it would greatly improve the torrent functionality. As always, I'm available here or in irc to clarify or expand on these, and I could help with the UI layout too if you run into roadblocks. |
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| For detection of new local episodes, it might be better to use the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor for changes inside the anime root directories, rather than manually checking via menu. A non-.NET alternative would be polling every half hour or something adjustable in settings. |
sakaSep 7, 2010 11:09 AM
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| Might be useful to add a search bar in the upper right of the torrent search results window, so manual searches can be performed instead of only exact title searches. (no hurry for any of this btw, just putting my thoughts down for later) |
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| STOP. NOW. I haven't been able to work much on Taiga since the last release, and you sir, are making me feel bad about it. Now go on, ignore me, write down some new ideas. I'll just squat at this corner and continue to shrink... (Serious note: This post is half-serious.) |
| lol, can only do what you can. :3 |
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| I noticed that Taiga refuses to update if a show does not show as airing on the website (as of the last list refresh). At the beginning of this anime season I found a lot of first episodes not updating because I had last refreshed my list the day before they started airing, or the Airing status on MAL had not yet been updated even when the airing start date had passed. I wonder if there is any way to also check the airing date, or perhaps simply give an "update anyway?" dialogue when trying to update instead (and also player close if not a manual update). |
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| This was more of a bugfix than a new feature, but yeah, done. It didn't actually refuse to update if you tried to do so manually, but refused to recognize those titles as you watched them. Now it also checks the airing date, not just the airing status. |
| Please let me edit everything about my list under "Edit all..". Especially the following: - Total Episodes Downloaded - Comments - Rewatch Value |
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| Coding part is almost done, all that's left is putting it together nicely on the UI now. Should be finished by the time next update is released. Edit: Seems like I acted a bit hasty telling you that. MAL's API lets you update those values but there's no way to retrieve them :| |
erengyJan 11, 2011 1:10 AM
| I think it might be more intuitive if local episodes are checked automatically after a list refresh. The folder check itself seems fast enough that it shouldn't matter much, and I find myself doing that manually more than I should need to. I know .NET has folder monitoring via the FileSystemWatcher class, so if it checked once after bootup and then monitored the folder for changes afterward it would really be ideal. I'd write it myself if I could but still poking around for now. |
sakaJan 2, 2011 3:38 PM
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