Shoutbox

Not sure if i should post here or in 'MsgPlus General Talk' as it would involve changes to both.

My idea is that instead of recieving an email to notify you of new posts in subscribed threads a MsgPlus Toast message could be sent to you. This would work like alerts do in messenger. 

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Originally posted by rimmer
a MsgPlus Toast message could be sent to you.

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MsgPlus toasts can't be "sent"

Why don't you configure plus to check your emails. When you receive a notification from the forums, plus will display the toast with "X unread mails"

But if you want it more perfect, then that should be done with a plugin that checks you email account and detects the messages with "New Reply to..." in the subject and then show the toast.

It would probably be easier to make a plug-in that reads an XML feed from the forum server, wouldn't it?

I know this was discussed before, but I can't find the thread... It's a cool idea, having toasts for forum notifications...

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Originally posted by WDZ
It would probably be easier to make a plug-in that reads an XML feed from the forum server, wouldn't it?

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yes, but it'd easier for the programmer. you should do that xml

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Originally posted by WDZ
I know this was discussed before, but I can't find the thread...  It's a cool idea, having toasts for forum notifications...

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in fact the idea isn't bad, however I'd continue with the email notifications, i think

I do like the idea. I stick to the tradiashonal, check back every do often myself, but it is very nice

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Originally posted by rimmer
Not sure if i should post here or in 'MsgPlus General Talk' as it would involve changes to both.

My idea is that instead of recieving an email to notify you of new posts in subscribed threads a MsgPlus Toast message could be sent to you. This would work like alerts do in messenger.

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That would awesome couse I get over average about 20-90 emails a day (depending if I post alot) with replys..

I begun working on a thing similar to this a while ago, although it will require a "daemon" server program to be running in the background on the server which will allow users to login and will then contact them for the alerts.

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
I begun working on a thing similar to this a while ago, although it will require a "daemon" server program to be running in the background on the server which will allow users to login and will then contact them for the alerts.

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couldn't the daemon be replaced by a PHP script that would retun a list of threads with new posts?

Yes but that means querying the server every 5 minutes or so.. this way the daemon only sends out notifications when there are replies and will send them in real time.. And you only really want it to send one at a time.. Imagine if you hadnt visited the forums in 20 days, opened up the client program and were flooded with thousands of alerts

The daemon is also alot faster than the PHP script... but the daemon is actually written in PHP itself

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
way the daemon only sends out notifications when there are replies and will send them in real time..

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I understand... but in the client side there should be an always opened connection with the daemon...

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
And you only really want it to send one at a time.. Imagine if you hadnt visited the forums in 20 days, opened up the client program and were flooded with thousands of alerts

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the daemon should send one alert per each thread with new post, even if the client only displays one alert (and can be configurable to detail which threads have new replies)

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
The daemon is also alot faster than the PHP script... but the daemon is actually written in PHP itself

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!!

and how can a daemon run (in lunux i suppose) if it's written in php?