Shoutbox

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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
I'm pretty sure I had a beta where it looked like this before SS4 was released.

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Ya but remember those images I posted, regardless the language panel was completly ripped off. If he used any of our code he better credit us and -dt-.

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Originally posted by Matty
Ya but remember those images I posted, regardless the language panel was completly ripped off. If he used any of our code he better credit us and -dt-.

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Correct, I used parts of SS4, and the language panel is almost identical. You are credited in the script itself, is that good enough?

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Originally posted by CookieResized
A solution to all this is doing as if you can't use regular expressions:
find the first occurance of any tag, replace it if it doesn't begin with "\" and move on from that point forward in the string to find the next occurance of any tag.

In that way you don't have problems when the tag "%dw" actually contains the text "%hw" and you do:

cStr = cStr.replace(/%dw/g, DayWord);
cStr = cStr.replace(/%hw/g, HourWord);

I know it is a bit far fetched (that people will use %hw inside the word text), but this is stuff to consider if you want to make a total fool proof plugin.

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Hmm... well, I think that's the best I can do to make it work...

* Matti gets to work... stay tuned!

Countdown Live 1.0.120 is released! (with an hour of delay )
See the first post...

WOW, no replays yet... BUT I LOVE IT, THANK YOU... Ill gona do a german translation...

i put the refresh thingy to 1 second it said it couldnt and changed to dutch and i cant change it back
is this a bug or me not knowing how to change language

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Originally posted by boston
i put the refresh thingy to 1 second it said it couldnt and changed to dutch and i cant change it back
is this a bug or me not knowing how to change language

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That's clearly a bug, but the 1 second is too short, you can't update your PSM that often, I believe you can only do it 5 times a minute or something like that.  So set it to 20 seconds, or better, a full minute.

I really like this script. You can clearly see a lot of effort and time has gone into it, and it just looks and feels professional . Good work

German Language File:

I didn't have had a detailed look at the script, but after an extremely quick glance I saw you use a function called
addslashes(). That function can be done extremely shorter:

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//Adds slashes before special characters of regular expressions
function addslashes(str) {
    return str.replace(/(\W)/g,'\\$1')
}

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I'm sure other optimizations can be done.... However, as it is now, this is the best countdown for Live I've seen.


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Another thing (rather important) you want to implement (but it will require recoding major parts): If a tag is not used, the value should be incoorperated with the tags that are used.

This means, for example, when you have:
  %d days %h hours %n minutes => 2 days 5 hours 3 minutes
and you leave out the days tag it should become:
  %h hours %n minutes => 53 hours 3 minutes

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Suggestions (mostly GUI related):

- Update interval must be 15 seconds (or even higher) or higher
- The countdown tag is restricted in size, remove that
- Wrong wording in "reset my psm when countdown is activated" ? (=> 'activated' must be 'deactivated').
- The nickname checkbox is too close to the psm checkbox. psm checkbox might need more space too for other translations.
- The menu after the countdown tag combobox is good, but seems a bit strange that it pops up. One could expect it to pop down. (dunno if this is intended or if this is Plus!'s doing)
- Change the wording "countdown tag" to "tag" or "(!CD) tag" (or let it also update to countup when a date in the past is selected)
- Make it possible to use \n (new line) and \t (tab) in translation texts.
- Even if same language is selected and one presses ok or apply, read the file again and apply the new translations (very usefull for translators).
- If an error needs to be shown (eg: the interval is too low) do it in a messagebox, not a toast
- I would change the order of the context menu to:
1) activate
2) refresh
3) -----------
4) options
5) About
6) --------
7) check for updates
in anyways, putting options before check for updates as options is more important and more used (the check for updates isn't needed in the menu though imho, as it is available in the options screen already)

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Also, here is a correction for the Dutch language (some things corrected, other things replaced so it closer matches Plus!'s translation).

And also the English language (also with some stuff fixed as listed above)

When I exit out of MSN and restart it, my language automatically switches to Dutch.