Shoutbox

Well my plugin is finnished it took a whole weekend to make so you better like it .

You can read about it on this thread
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=17918

Thanks to all the people who helped me the last day and a half

Mnjul for helping me get past some starting difficulties
DJ Mysticje for helping me fix the echo bug
Dempsey for helping me beta test, helping with code and giving exelent feedback.
And last but not least Patchou for making Messenger Plus 2 who probably blinked and mist the entire development of this plugin

To Do...

[x] Remove Options Icon
[x] Create an installer
[ ] Fix character limit problem
[ ] Add password protection
[x] Add include files in sub folders option
[x] Correct my poor spelling
[x] Add /xrstatus command
[ ] Add file selection box
[x] Add file type filter argument to /xrlist

[x] Added shared folder only security!!!

I created a new installer that will do all the installation stuff for you. but unfortunatley it makes it alot bigger.

good work!

Yes, very nice work. Few things I would like to ask/point out to help improve this plugin even more .

1) Take a look at the installer by DJMystic http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=14...d=118243#pid118243. Seems quite easy to use, and would make installing your plugin a doddle

2) When there are lots of files in the shared folder, not all of them are listed. This is due to the fact that there is a limit to the amount of characters allowed per message. Maybe if there are too many characters, the file list can be sent as a text file. Otherwise there are many many files that could be left off the list

3) Being picky here. Can you get rid of the ugly program icon in the top left of the options window?

4) My last one is a question. I don't have a spare friend to try this on, but is it possible for more than 1 person to be accessing my files at a time? I remember an old plugin similar to yours that had the limitation that only one person could be using it at a time.

That's it for now. Will be able to provide more feedback as I use it more. Certainly its darn useful. Top work Pleh!!

EDIT: Again, being picky, but its Sharing . Also maybe have an /xrstatus? Handy box to pop up and say whether its turned on and what folder is shared? And maybe an /xrstats to see how much has been shared, who has got what etc? And and and....

maybe the ability to password protect certain files?

Would go like this....

AlecD - /xrlist

*List appears here*

AlecD - /xfile C://Program files/Poop/log/ofdoom.exe

Other Person - Password Please?

AlecD - poopofdoom

*File is Sent to the other person*

downloading... sounds nice

Thanks for the feedback guys Jeronimo in particular, next weekend i will be doing some more work on the plugin. I will edit my first post to reflect a list of stuff to do.

Nice job noticeing that ugly program icon

I found a bug in this, you can get any file by the /xrfile command not just the shared, coudl take any file off your pc

not a bug, ive said this many times!

They would need to know the exact file name and path to access it tho (verry unlikley)

There are no doubt going to be some security features to clear up.

1) You can download any file - probably a way to check if the requested file lives inside the shared folder. If not, the request is denied. I know people would have to know the exact location and path, but even I could probably guess the location of my friend's chat logs for example. Of course he would see that I had transferred the files

2) Could also have some kind of allowed users list. Not on the list, you can't get the files.

3) Some kind of login, or password protection type thing.

In any case, nothing is totally secure. If you are worried about people getting your files, you would never connect to the internet

I'm sure Pleh will address many of these problems with future versions of his plugin

Could you also do a program that lets you search for the address of programs on peoples pc? to know what stuff you want to download, where it is