Next JoDC

Luke-Jr — Sun, 02 Mar 2003 14:58:30 -0000

The next version of JoDC will be out in a week or so, with a much nicer UI system. For now, here's some shots of the new, improved settings dialog:

http://lalaland.ohflip.com:8080/default.jpg
http://lalaland.ohflip.com:8080/global.jpg
http://lalaland.ohflip.com:8080/hub.jpg

I've finally gotten around to implementing the public hubs list as well, so we're getting towards useability ;)

JODC Alpha 6

Luke-Jr — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:57:21 -0000

We have downloading and uploading ^_^

The only fly in the ointment is that the Huffman encoding used for the file lists isn't perfected yet, so we don't upload valid file lists.

Although the majority of the funationality is now ready, I don't recommend this release for general use. But take a look anyway, the more feedback, the better JODC will become

Added the jodc sources to the cvs

Luke-Jr — Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:15:17 -0000

For your perusal, I have now added the jodc sources to the cvs, so that if anyone wants to keep themselves bleeding edge they can do so.

Late again...

Luke-Jr — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:47:32 -0000

I didn't get anough done at the weekend, so the JODC release is more likely to be later this week. Most of the code is in, except for viewing file lists and viewing your download queue.

Someone lend me a brain?

Luke-Jr — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:27:33 -0000

The reason for the delay has been in trying to get the passive to active user uploading working. No matter what I was doing, once the ReverseConnectToMe was received, the client would refuse to send a ConnectToMe to the sender. After this long pulling my hair out, I realised that I'd been parsing the ReverseConnectToMe wrong, and has been sending a ConnectToMe to myself.... someone lend me a brain will you? >_<

Anyway, uploading files is working now, except for the file list. I'm now getting downloading working, and doing some stuff to make sure that the client can be accepted by my favourite hub (searches /minute limit, etc.)

So, this weekend I'm planning on a release that will include uploading and downloading, except for File lists.

The week after, I'll be testing and implementing the file lists, so in a fortnight I'm aiming to shift to the next stage in development, doing bug hunting and tightening the user experience so it feels usable by anyone other than myself.

JODC on windows

Luke-Jr — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:28:50 -0000

I've had to do some work on JODC in windows, so I've finally started working out the problems with the networking. For the next release I should be able to get it working fine on at least win98se (The only windows version I have a license for), but once it's working there it should also work on the rest of the windows family.

I've also done some more work on file transfers. Next release I'm aiming to get uploading and the UI side of things done. Currently the uploading is working, except when the client gets the file listing the client suddenly closes the connection after the file list is finished (strange stuff...), but because there's no UI you can't cancel any uploads other than by closing the program itself.

I also want to get around to doing some documentation on the client<->client protocol because what we have isn't really that detailed on it. Plus it's probably easier on other clients if I document the Huffman encoding used on the file list properly.

Hopefully I'll get the next release out on Sunday.

JODC Alpha 5

Luke-Jr — Mon, 27 May 2002 20:03:42 -0000

You got searching now

OpenDC Gamma 3

Luke-Jr — Sun, 26 May 2002 23:57:47 -0000

Gamma 3 has quite a bit of new minor features, such as a prompt for login when a password is needed (instead of having to specify the password in the URI) and the ability to type the | character in DC1 chats w/o breaking stuff. The Files Shared and Bytes Shared (and others) columns in the Userlists will only be shown if the protocol supports it. Active mode searching is now available for the DC1 protocol as long as your system has the correct IP address. Note that I know of the bug with setting the IP manually in settings and I am trying to fix that... In the meantime, router users will need to select the "use only these ports" option and not add ANY ports to the list. This forces DC1 protocol to use Passive searching. There's a bunch of bugfixes too, most notably the ability to connect to multiple hubs WITHOUT CRASHING.

Hopefully for Gamma 4 we will be seeing the start of the Upload Manager and perhaps even OpenNapster protocol support.

OpenDC Gamma 2

Luke-Jr — Mon, 20 May 2002 17:01:43 -0000

This new release features BZ2 DC1 hublist support and searching. Currently, DC1 searching is limited to Passive searches, but I plan to fix that up in the future. Also, Gamma 2 now allows you to choose a default protocol and configure protocols and server lists (although DC1 Hublists is the only thing to support configuration at this time).
Enjoy!

Gamma Problems

Luke-Jr — Wed, 15 May 2002 16:26:39 -0000

As I'm sure many people who have used ODC Gamma have noticed, any attempt to multi-hub even the slightest causes problems... In debug mode, it works fine. I have been unable to trace this problem so for the time being, ODC Gamma will continue to have this bug unless someone can figure out what causes it and/or how to fix it.
So if you happen to know what causes it, please send me an email!

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