Re: [openhl-client] status update

[Jason T. <cat...@vi...>]

First I'd like to update people on the code progress since it has been a
while. I've been busy with other projects, but I just started waorking on
openhl again yesterday and I got file browsing working well. It uses the
icons stored in the Desktop database so you'll always get the right icon for
a file unlike Hotline's way of storing the icons as cicn's and only
supporting a few file types. I also added bookmark saving, updated the
LViewDivider to be theme comlient (thanks to dustin), finally made the
disclosure triangle in the session window work, started adding user editing,
and got a new WASTE wrapper class that supports a lot of really cool
features (thanks again dustin). I've been updating CVS with these changes,
but the source tree might be broken from time to time until I do another
binary release.

on 3/20/00 4:49 PM, kangoo at ka...@cr... wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm just a poor programmer by myself (but I'm working to change this ;-),
> but I want to send you some little suggestions, that *may* be useful when
> the app will support file transfert, etc.
> So, here it goes :
> First, you know that a lot of guys are still using 1.2.3 servers. These
> usually send "Transfert Failed" error. This has been fixed in 1.5+ servers,
> but.... So, May an option like "auto-restart failed tranferts" can be very
> cool (when you let the machine d/l, and you go to bed 4 example).
> Second, servers owner usually restart their computer once a day... but hey,
> we never know when ! So another option, like "attempt to reconnect if
> disconnected" with " '5' retries, with '5'minutes interval " and restarting
> all tasks. That may be a little boring to code, but ... ;-)

OpenHL will be scriptable and these features would easily be added with
applescript, similar to Hotlyin/DOGpoo.

> I also had a GUI suggestion. The original Hotline app let you move user list
> where you want to. In openHL, as in some clones, UserList is at right.
> However, some users prefer (like me) place the userlist a left. So, I
> suggest to make it "side movable"....

I'll look into a way of doing this. The GUI will hopefully change a lot and
is not set in stone at all, what is there now is just what was fast and easy
for me to do so the client would be useable and I'd have a way to test the
networking.

> To finish, another little thing.  I saw there's also a OpenHL server project
> on the way. May you can mail Cwis, the programmer of soja... Hmmm.. but
> hmm... may be not, after all, fintler may know him better than me ;-)

I have written two incomplete hotline servers in C/C++ and I've talked with
cwis quiet a bit, but last time I emailed him I never got a responce and the
#soja irc channel seems to be dead. I'd like to get hold of him, and a lot
of the source code for openhl can be used for a server also...in fact I
wrote the HLPacket and HLObject classes for one of the servers I never
finished.

- Jason T.

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