Recent changes to bugs

all contacts with 0 shares

2010-08-15T19:45:33Z

all my contacts appear as new users with (0 B) shares.

using Linux, Fedora 13, KDE 4.4.5
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (fedora-41.b18.fc13-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

Thanks.

Alliance shuts down

2010-06-02T22:53:12Z

Me and my friends are all running alliance 1161 under Windows 7 and the application shuts down intermittently after a while, no error, just "gone".

Happens to all of us, the only thing we have in common is W7, 1161 and fairly large shares 1-5Tb each.

Thanx for developing a great product.

'Unable to access jarfile alliance.tmp' after Vista install

2010-05-05T09:09:32Z

After installation on Vista without 'background' option, Alliance doesn't start at all with the error message 'Unable to access jarfile alliance.tmp' displayed in popup window. See also http://superuser.com/questions/132252/unable-to-access-jarfile-alliance-tmp

alliance 1.1.0d mac

2010-04-19T02:47:27Z

hi deathfireD.

some applications use the same frameworks and have duplicate files.
is there any way to hash all files, including duplicates? or else, some
packages i share will be incomplete.

also, any way to not share my download folder? it seems to be
automatic but i may not want some people to see my download folder.

another thing which is still a bit awkward is group managing. we should
be able to create groups and then simply select the ones already
created with drop down menus, when associating them to a folder or
when associating a user to a group instead of having to type the name
of the group (which is easy to forget and i always have to go to
preferences to see the names of the groups i created).

some suggestion i have so far, is to keep the folder structure in the
download/upload window, just like jdownloader does, instead of
showing all the files in a flat view

create a new tab called "share" in which it would show the user share.
right now if i'm on the download tab and click on another user i switch
automatically to his share but i would prefer to remain in the download
tab and see his share only on the "share" tab.

also to simplify the gui even further, you could include a search box in
the share tab and use the same view to find for files instead of a
separate search tab. if a user was selected it would search his files, if a
group was selected it would search all users files in that group.

the downloads and uploads could also be an horizontal split pane and
be in an unified tab called "transfers".

the chat could also be simplified and use just the existing chat tab.
selecting a group would switch to the group chat, selecting a user
would switch to private chat in the same view.

why use many tabs when the users already work like tabs?
so the main window tabs would always show the info regarding the
selected group/users on the left (transfers tab would show transfers with
the selected user/group, share tab would show the selected user/group
share, chat tab would show the selected user/group chat).

i'm using alliance latest beta for mac and it seems to be the best f2f i
found so far. i created a sourceforge account to beta test and report any
issues.

sorry for the long email, despite the two main issues of the duplicates
and the download folder, everything else is just humble suggestions
(i'm no coder, just an amateur graphic artist but i have a great
understanding of the KISS principle in designing GUIs).

best regards from portugal.

Java Null Pointer Error

2010-03-03T02:01:03Z

When starting up Alliance 1...d version of Alliance I will get a Java Nnull ZPointer Exception

Here is the Debug log
http://pastebin.com/48PvNqTL

All users on LAN are assigned external IP rather than local

2010-03-02T20:34:59Z

I just moved into a big new apartment block @ university, which is how I received word of Alliance.

Right now I'm using v1.0.6, which i pulled from the alliance website. Problem we are facing right now is that whenever anyone enters an access code, the program automatically assigns them with our external IP address, which obviously is all the same.

We have to manually, find out our local IP address and edit the hostnames of whoever we want to connect to. I tried to look for an option to use this by default but haven't been able to suss anything out.

Cheers

1.1.0b1045 - online friends not shown

2010-02-07T20:41:43Z

while connected people disappear to a point after few hours only one is left, doing a program restart and about 50 people are online.
this happens all the time.
this behavior is not new to this version, I have seen it in 1.1.0b1030 as well.

running on linux Fedora 11
jre-1.6.0_14-fcs.i586

thanks

Web site pages don't have link to main page.

2010-02-04T20:52:35Z

On site http://www.alliancep2p.com/ , if You click any link , you can't return to main page: On all "children" pages not exist link to main ( "/" ) page of site.

v1.1.0 b1130 ubutnu taskbar icon

2010-01-12T13:11:25Z

Installed the new Alliance version on my ubuntu machine. and there's a little bug, the upper tray/taskbar icon seems way smaller than the previous version one. its probably an easy fix, but I have no idea how to do it by myself.
plus the icon isn't transparent, but i think that's a problem with SUN and their Java

Privacy problem with downloaded files("Alliance"root share)

2010-01-02T03:28:54Z

Since the new group feature is implemented, one must not be able to download the stuff that a peer previously downloaded.
Imagine that a peer A gets some very private stuff from B. C (a friend of A) must not have access to it as soon as A completed the download!

The "Alliance" root share is IMHO absolutely not compatible with the group feature.