Shoutbox

The development of the next version of Hopper will begin soon (soon = as long as I am not inundated by studies = some months later ). The next version will be completely reconstructed/recoded and yes, that means reshaping of this little proggy. I made it too hasty coding/releasing Hopper³ (some of you might remember that it was used as one of my projects when I applied for university last year), and thus I didn't consider what functions to obsolete. But now I think spending some time thinking of what features to stay and what to discard would be worthwhile

That being said, "reshaping", for now, does not mean taking into consideration possible new features to bring to Hopper. Currently, reshaping is to port only popular or userful functions from Hopper³ to the new Hopper (it's a safe guess that the new version will be named HopperLive, if I follow the Live trend). That is, little-used functions in Hopper³ will be unavailable in the new version. This can help me from being distracted from little-used functions and make Hopper easier to maintain, too.

Hopper, unlike Plus!, does not have any internal statistics function, so I don't know overall what functions my users do use and what functions they never even take a look at. However, making a poll on the forums should be a way for me to have some basic idea of the usage of Hopper.

Here is the list of functional components of Hopper. Please choose the functions you've SELDOM/NEVER used, and ARE UNLIKELY TO USE in the near future when you use Hopper. If in the list you see any function you never know to exist in Hopper, that's an option you definitely have to choose.
By the way, to help me determine how many people have voted, it is important that you vote "I use all the functions" if you do love every piece of Hopper and want everything to be kept.

If there is anything you can't express by voting only, please reply this thread. And yes, I'm still open for new feature suggestions, but I can't promise anything, because I haven't even started designing the new structure (and actually, unlikely in a short while). I'm making this poll much early because I want to make sure it has enough time to gather meaningful data. Meaningful = having many people vote.

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One final question: The user interface of Hopper³ looks dull for me (again it's because I had no time for GUI), agree or disagree (please reply if you have ideas on this question and even better, ideas for new GUI)?

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Any comment would be much appricated

a good program but once i used the features once they get old and the time restriction sux

so ive never reallly used it

I don't often use it,
never now because I have WLM and no plus!
But when I had plus! i did use it,
the only thing that madew me dislike it was the way it blocked/unblocked contacts or changed your status to online and (appear) offline.
This meant that i couldnt not use it when i was having an interactive conversation (webcam, voice, video, games etc)
It would be really cool if in the new version it didn't do that and just send toasts (if it is possable, i have a feeling that it wont be )
anyway - it's a great plugin so keep up the good work and i look forward to the release of yet another great product

i just used that plug-in once, but worked good good job.

Only 15 votes? That really disappoints me...

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Originally posted by DJKAL
This meant that i couldnt not use it when i was having an interactive conversation (webcam, voice, video, games etc)
It would be really cool if in the new version it didn't do that and just send toasts (if it is possable, i have a feeling that it wont be

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No, it's not possible...time to use PH-Toasts then

i have already vote for this one:

In-Program Help (not the readme on Hopper website)*

hopper is cool the 2-3 times you use it... but i dont see any sense in this plug-in....

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Originally posted by Mnjul
Only 15 votes?

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Its 31 now
I love it ..... All the functions ... so now hopper is going to be a script or something ?

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Originally posted by John Anderton
so now hopper is going to be a script or something ?

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Mainly it's a script. There will still be a DLL for some advanced features. For example, I haven't found a way to integrate system-wide hotkeys (I'm talking about HopKey, yeah) into scripts, so I'll have to do that in a DLL.

I wasn't able to use any as every time I would load it, it would crash MSN Messenger. Not sure why though? prehaps it didn't agree with another piece of software I had at the time???