Announcing: Conquer Club Notifier

hotgun · Post by **hotgun** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:33 am

kevinc wrote:Oh, and hotgun. There's some good RSS Dashboard widgets for mac that are pretty cool:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboar ... eader.html

Thanks kevinc... It so far works... Now I hope it checks a good amount and not like every hour...

I will tell you how it works later

Later: it works perfect this is a big time saver... thanks for finding it for me,

Kevinc is the man :!:

Haydena · Post by **Haydena** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:52 am

This thing is awesome...

A must have... Means I can do revision and make sure I'm not missing any action.

Oh and about what mrdexter said with the "Visit game space" link, it seems to open up my game space fine in firefox...

wicked · Post by **wicked** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:53 am

Can we add a PM notifier to it too?

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:54 am

Haydena wrote:Oh and about what mrdexter said with the "Visit game space" link, it seems to open up my game space fine in firefox...

It does mine at the shop, just not across the road at home. Oh well, I'll fiddle tonight, see what's up. Maybe need to threaten IE with some heavy duty deleting. Or something.

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:11 pm

mrdexter wrote:Actually, I worded it badly...what i meant was whilst it is running, have it only appear in the system tray not the taskbar.

Yea, if right click on the program in the taskbar, and select minimize, it will minimize to just the the system tray onyl. If I undertand you correctly?

wicked, no way to get PM ifnormation i'm afraid.

By the way - If anyone knows anything about windows icon files please drop me a PM. I'm having trouble getting the icon to work properly on Windows XP.

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:19 pm

kevinc wrote:
mrdexter wrote:Actually, I worded it badly...what i meant was whilst it is running, have it only appear in the system tray not the taskbar.

Yea, if right click on the program in the taskbar, and select minimize, it will minimize to just the the system tray onyl. If I undertand you correctly?

No, I am still unable to explain myself properly.

With winamp and some other programs you can choose to have it show in the taskbar OR system tray OR both whilst it is actually running, not when it is minimised. Therefore it would show on screen (in always on top) but not in the taskbar, freeing up valuable taskbar space.

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:40 pm

Ahhh. Got ya, you want it to only show in the system tray, and still be visible right?

I'll see if it's possible. *adds to list*

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:41 pm

kevinc wrote: *adds to list*

Yay, a man with a list

HighBorn · Post by **HighBorn** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:04 am

i would like to make a sugestion for the next update.. maybe with sound.. like u can have it ding at u whenu have a new ready game.. and some other sound for when u are elimated from one

wacicha · Post by **wacicha** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:19 am

you will be getting to many of that other sound high so you might want somrthing soothing

HighBorn · Post by **HighBorn** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:35 am

rotflmao.... yeah like angelic choir or something!!

Twill · Post by **Twill** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:34 pm

Kevin,

for the PM thing, I thing there is a way for phpBB PM's to be checked externally, but not even 50% certain, so if you want, or have time, or if someone wants to look into it, head over to phpBB.com and see if someone over there can tell you how.

As for the refresh time, please dont let it ping the site every 2 seconds

that being said, by pinging the RSS feed rather than the games page, it does save a lot of server time and speeds the site up, so thanks from me, as a player, for helping things go faster

Again, thanks much for the great prog. Keep up the good work

Twill

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:36 am

I don't know of any way to check the PM stuff externally. If there way a way to get an RSS feed of PMs then I could do it allright.

Personally I just have it set to email me when I get a PM. Combine that with one of the many email notifiers out there and you should be sorted.

john123 · Post by **john123** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 7:26 am

hey, this was working fine for me before but today i've tried running it a few times and it won't go past the loading xml part, any ideas on how i can fix this?

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:31 am

I've no idea what could be causing it, i'm afraid.

I'll be releasing a new version shortly, and I'll see if I can write more descriptive errors into it.

There does seem to be some weirdness with the RSS feed from time to time. I've found, when you click on the link, it doesn't bring you to game, but to the forum. I don't see how that could cause any problems though.

lackattack · Post by **lackattack** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:19 am

it should bring you to the forum login screen when you are not logged into conquer club, but from there it should take you directly to the game.

N0g · Post by **N0g** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:21 am

This is good stuff. Really.

My wish list

I would like to see the following as optional via a program options window or at least via ini edit:

Lastly, since you aren't charging for this (yet), would you give more info on what you used to do the programming and consider giving out the source so that some of us could help in adding changes. You would have final say in what changes are accepted, but having six or seven hands typing code is generally more productive than just two.

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:16 am

N0g - thanks for the suggestions. I do want to keep the app as simple as possible, so I'm not sure all of them will be possible, but some of them will definately be added.

Something like this konfabulator widget might suit you better:
http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=36039

Unfortuanately, it's built in Flash, and extended with SWF Studio (I'm a designer, rather than a developer you see) so I'm not sure if there's many people with experience with both of those. If you do, or anyone else does and wants to help out, then just give me a shout!

texasAUtiger · Post by **texasAUtiger** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:20 pm

I installed it but all I get is "XML loading..."

HighBorn · Post by **HighBorn** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:21 pm

lol. i had that same problem did u put in your number??

wacicha · Post by **wacicha** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:26 pm

yeah your # is 6585 change the cog file (sounds like i know what i'm doing)

mrdexter · Post by **mrdexter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:23 am

Magdamit, I've broken your notifier Kevinc :-(

Telvannia · Post by **Telvannia** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:04 am

is the any possiblity to make it compatible with linux???

Murph808 · Post by **Murph808** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:44 pm

Ok I dont understand.the beginning?

kevinc · Post by **kevinc** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:37 pm

Telvannia wrote:is the any possiblity to make it compatible with linux???

You could try running it using Wine. I've no idea if it would work though. I@m sure there's RSS readers, like on OSX that would be able to sort you out though.