Shoutbox

Seems we are back in business after a short period of halt-iness . Let's resume where we left, at the drawing board.

Tweak Plus! is an add-on for an even greater add-on, Patchous Plus!. Tweak Plus! will tweak and tune Plus! to the fullest possible extent (that is, to the extent Patchou will allow us to).

Hope and all Patchou will support Tweak Plus! as being the tune program by standard . Let's all pray.

Now here is the part were u help us. Support anything that you think Plus! could use to improve it's usability or userfriendlyness.

What we have so far:
•   General tweaks (run at startup, startup priority force...)
•   Log tweaks (encryption, sorting and searching...)
Maybe even add Ginge's log viewer.

What we have so far on screen:
[edit] See my last post [/edit]

Greetz

looks pretty good, keep up good work

Cool

btw. one tweak I really don't want you to add is to change the logging date format, that would really complicate the log viewer (I know you know the key for this)

Any chance of seeing either some code or a copy of the program? I think everyone would be interested if you posted what you used to take the screen shots.

hahaha Ginge, and why not?

I just saw that the second option is to force Plus! to load before Messenger.... I wanted to add that to the next release so, tell me, how did you do?

Currently the date format is complicated but I can say with certainty which date corresponds to which text.

If you allow the formatting people will be able to have
01/02/03
for
1 Feb 2003
2 Jan 2003
1 Mar 2002
3 Jan 2002
2 Mar 2001
3 Feb 2001

Which is really hard to figure out (currently I use the assumption that dates are in incrementing series and the date format changes infrequently, but that doesn't make it easy)

I really think you should adopt the international standard
yyyy/mm/dd date format, and just tell your users to be happy - but I prefer the dictatorship approach to software engineering

Something nice and tweaky perhaps summit to allow you to change the boss protection icon

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Originally posted by wabz
Something nice and tweaky perhaps summit to allow you to change the boss protection icon

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Okay you can add that but isn't it already a function of plus:

Plus!--->preferences--->boss protection than click the boss protection icon.

So adding it is kinda double work

that's all folks (for now)

to load plus before messenger? i'm not a coding expert, but i figure it would go:
check registry if msn autostart is enabled
if it is, get the filename of msn
check if msn is running, if so close it
load msgplus
load msn

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one tweak I really don't want you to add is to change the logging date format.

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Heh heh, but fair enough, I'll remove it.

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Any chance of seeing either some code or a copy of the program? I think everyone would be interested if you posted what you used to take the screen shots.

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Yes and Ptr Sc (-key). All screens are unedited, except for the bottom tag. I have written two libraries for my own use, one called gil (for alphablending and such, written in pure C) and one called det (for xp styles in earlier versions of Windows).

[edit] I'll release the source code under the GPL license, and put it on a SourceForge.net server. However, both libraries will NOT be open source![/edit]

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I just saw that the second option is to force Plus! to load before Messenger.... I wanted to add that to the next release so, tell me, how did you do?

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Two ways, both disabled for now (the option is grayed), but working, I have to determine the right one, or the best one, since they both come with a problem.

1) Remove MSN from the registry, add Plus to the registry and add MSN to the startup folder (registry has a higher priority) or detect when Plus has started (a small spy) and run MSN manually using the API. Problem: detect.

2) Create a batch file on the fly (easy enough) and force execution priority in the batch file. Remove both entries from the registry and add the batch file to the startup folder. Problem: slow.

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Something nice and tweaky perhaps summit to allow you to change the boss protection icon.

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Exists already in Plus.

Greetz

BTW, the bottom tag on both screens is wrong and should say:

"Created in VB6 on Windows 2k"

Greetz