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Bassam Abdul-Baki29-Mar-07 10:05

29-Mar-07 10:05

Shog9 wrote:
see if you can figure out what the real new feature is...

Aha, or actually, Aka. Big Grin | :-D

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Shog⁹29-Mar-07 10:12

29-Mar-07 10:12

Yup.

It's hardly perfect, since it'll only look at the last 50 posts by a user to determine what other names they've been using... and of course, it does nothing about users who just create new accounts. But it is handy when you see an unfamiliar name and are wondering if it's someone you'd normally recognize...

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Bassam Abdul-Baki29-Mar-07 10:33

29-Mar-07 10:33

Can't you just get the IP address from the database of each user and query against all names using that IP? What if the users changed names more than once, do you list all?

P.S. - The latest post in the Math forum tipped me off.

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Shog⁹29-Mar-07 10:56

29-Mar-07 10:56

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Can't you just get the IP address from the database of each user and query against all names using that IP?

Well, i don't exactly have unfettered access to that database. Smile | :)

But even if i did, that'd fall apart as soon as someone posted from a shared IP address.

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
What if the users changed names more than once, do you list all?

Yup. If you see a post by "Nathan A.", then bring up his bio - something like six different names across the last fifty posts.

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David Stone29-Mar-07 17:53

29-Mar-07 17:53

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Can't you just get the IP address from the database of each user

We actually don't get any information from the DB. CPhog just pulls DOM manipulation tricks and XMLHttpRequest magic against the same exact CP pages you get. Smile | :)

We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Bassam Abdul-Baki29-Mar-07 18:00

Problem with GM 0.6.8.20070314.0?

29-Mar-07 18:00

I always new magic existed. Now if CPHog can convert iron into gold, then we're in business.

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Michael Dunn28-Mar-07 7:56

Michael Dunn

28-Mar-07 7:56

I installed the above GM update a couple days ago, and now when I go to a new forum, I get this message about 1/3 of the time: clickety
Anyone else seeing this?

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Bassam Abdul-Baki28-Mar-07 8:36

28-Mar-07 8:36

Niet. Works on my machine. Not my code. Smile | :)

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David Stone28-Mar-07 8:55

28-Mar-07 8:55

Mmm...just updated. Let me see if the problem appears when I'm browsing around.

We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Shog⁹28-Mar-07 9:00

28-Mar-07 9:00

I've actually seen this a few times recently. But i updated something like five other extensions at roughly the same time i updated GM, so i didn't know what to blame. I'll have to take a closer look next time it happens...

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code-frog28-Mar-07 17:47

28-Mar-07 17:47

Wow, you installed GM and got Vista! I want a copy of that script. Big Grin | :-D

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Michael Dunn28-Mar-07 18:15

Michael Dunn

28-Mar-07 18:15

No wonder the download was so huge D'Oh! | :doh:

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Shog⁹2-Apr-07 18:22

2-Apr-07 18:22

Tracked it down to a slow regexp in the updated SyntaxHighlighter script (unless you're not using that script, in which case i tracked down my own little problem...)

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ignore (tests):

 TCHAR szSubject[1000];
 memset(szSubject, 0, sizeof(szSubject));
 _sntprintf(szSubject, _countof(szSubject)-2,
     _T("Error report for %s"), theApp.m_pszModule);

 TCHAR szSubject[1000];
 memset(szSubject, 0, sizeof(szSubject));
 _sntprintf(szSubject, _countof(szSubject)-2,
     _T('Error report \'for\' %s'), theApp.m_pszModule);

 TCHAR szSubject[1000];
 memset(szSubject, 0, sizeof(szSubject));
 _sntprintf(szSubject, _countof(szSubject)-2,
     _T("Error report \"for\" %s"), theApp.m_pszModule);

 TCHAR szSubject[1000];
 memset(szSubject, 0, sizeof(szSubject));
 _sntprintf(szSubject, _countof(szSubject)-2,
     _T('Error report \'for \'%s\'\'\\'), theApp.m_pszModule);

CProgressDialog progress;
EnableWindow(FALSE);
progress.Create(CProgressDialog::IDD, this);
progress.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
CProgressDialog progress;
EnableWindow(FALSE);
progress.Create(CProgressDialog::IDD, this);
progress.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
CProgressDialog progress;
EnableWindow(FALSE);
progress.Create(CProgressDialog::IDD, this);
progress.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
CProgressDialog progress;
EnableWindow(FALSE);
progress.Create(CProgressDialog::IDD, this);
progress.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
CProgressDialog progress;
EnableWindow(FALSE);
progress.Create(CProgressDialog::IDD, this);
progress.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

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Michael Dunn2-Apr-07 20:04

Michael Dunn

2-Apr-07 20:04

Kewl, thanks for taking the time to look into this. Smile | :)

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Forum Watch...

code-frog24-Mar-07 17:38

24-Mar-07 17:38

It would be kind of cool if we could forum watch our last five threads we posted in. So that over on the left the topmost forum watch would link to our last 5 comments in any forum not just the lounge. That would be kind of cool. Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out. Big Grin | :-D

Bassam Abdul-Baki26-Mar-07 4:24

26-Mar-07 4:24

code-frog wrote:
Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out.

Would be nice to see the sun burn out as a forum watch as well. Big Grin | :-D

Be cooler if it went nova, but it's unlikely to happen. Sigh | :sigh:

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Shog⁹26-Mar-07 6:47

Re: Forum Watch... [modified]

26-Mar-07 6:47

code-frog wrote:
Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out.

I actually want this feature, badly. I've been holding off on it as a means of motivating myself to do some other, less interesting, code cleanup - once that's done, this is gonna happen.

Ah, the joys of watching a quick-and-very-dirty script balloon into a full-fledged app... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

David Stone26-Mar-07 7:03

26-Mar-07 7:03

Do you know how much work that will be? Poke tongue | ;-P

I'd be willing to accept monetary bribes to get that to the top of the feature list. Wink | ;)

[update] Actually. We've got two options here. We can either assume that you're going to be using CPhog, keep track of the last five messages you've posted in unique threads, and add them to a list of threads to watch. Or, we could go off the Latest Comments[^] page for each user...which is cached it seems, and doesn't actually pick up stuff for a few minutes.

The second way is more reliable (assuming we can get Chris to embed the thread id in each of those links), but obviously going to be a bit out of date...which won't help if you've got a very current thread you'd like to watch. The first way is less reliable (in terms of accurate content), because you must be using CPhog for each post to get it to work and we'd be storing that information in global storage, so it would be machine-specific rather than portable to every machine.

Hrm. Things to think about...

Last modified: 10mins after originally posted -- And the latest comments page still doesn't have this post in it...

We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Shog⁹26-Mar-07 7:11

26-Mar-07 7:11

David Stone wrote:
Do you know how much work that will be?

~~about 30 minutes including testing~~
Days and weeks. Bribes should definitely be involved. Wink | ;)

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

David Stone26-Mar-07 7:14

26-Mar-07 7:14

Um...yeeeah...see my post again. I modified it with some brainstorming ideas. Poke tongue | ;-P

We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Shog⁹26-Mar-07 7:39

26-Mar-07 7:39

David Stone wrote:
The first way is less reliable (in terms of accurate content), because you must be using CPhog for each post to get it to work and we'd be storing that information in global storage, so it would be machine-specific rather than portable to every machine.

First off, everyone should be using CPhog. All the time. So that's a non-issue. Poke tongue | ;-P

The machine-specific thing is a bit of a problem; however, there are already a number of inconveniences when moving between machines / profiles, and this is hardly the worst of them.

Given that the whole intent of the feature seems to be a convenience thing (at-a-glance updates of the current post count in a thread), it's not exactly the end of the world if a thread goes missing.

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

code-frog28-Mar-07 17:46

28-Mar-07 17:46

I just noticed you can subscribe to an individual thread for the forum watch. Why not default subscribe to threads where you post and only retain the last 5? Just use a push-pop. Is it that easy?

Shog⁹10-Apr-07 15:21

10-Apr-07 15:21

David Stone wrote:
Last modified: 10mins after originally posted -- And the latest comments page still doesn't have this post in it...

Heh.
This forum is "hidden" - posts here never show up in Latest Comments...

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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.

--Raymond Chen on MSDN

David Stone10-Apr-07 18:06

10-Apr-07 18:06

Ooohhhhhh...right. D'Oh! | :doh:

We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...

Errr... eh.... WTF???

code-frog22-Mar-07 13:06