Vbulletin Notification Application

Vbulletin Notification Application
Stay Updated With Your Favorite Forums !!!




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______________Windows______________

1. http://mirrors.vclubbing.com/trigun/vbnotify_b3.zip Sponsored by: vclubbing.com
2. http://mirrors.vbhackers.com/trigun/vbnotify_b3.zip Sponsored by: vbhackers.com

Foreword:

This it to be the first publicly released Application (Ever) on vbulletin.org and as such is currently in Beta phase and I would like as many people to help test and give ideas for new features.

This application does not incorporate any Vbulletin Code and thus does not require any modification to existing forum software, it should work with 99.9% of Vbulletin Forums.

If you wish to tell your members about this application please do, if you can offer a mirror for this file for the casual user to better enjoy using your vbulletin forum; please send me a private message or email at Trigunflame@charter.net so this can offload some of the transfer from Vbulletin.org

On a further note, the creation of this application was to promote the growth of Vbulletin and expand its current userbase.

PS. Be On the lookout for a new Application (Vbulletin Control Center); this will allow administration of multiple forums within a single application providing speed, reliability and cross platform interoperability.


Summary:

The primary goal of this particular application is to provide a 'live' notification system for the user who would like updates on his/her desktop when they receive new PM's as well as New Posts to threads they are subscribed to at the Forums they wish.

This application being very small in size will quietly sit in your taskbar and notify you when your selected forums have new private messages waiting for you

Current Features

• Private Messages Notification
• Configuration Via Editing XML Configuration File

Planned Features

• Dialog Styles
• Modifying Notification Background Color
• Modifying Text Color
• Configure Checking Intervals
• Subscribed Threads Notification
• Complete Menu Based Forum Configuration
• Enable/Disable Particular Notification System and/or Forum
• Installer Program to Handle Installation/Uninstallation
• And more..

Compatibility:

• Windows
• Linux (In Progress)
• Mac OSX (In Progress)

Info:

• Primarily coded in C++ with come C library usage.
• Heavy usage of the C++ STL
• Uses the wxWidgets GUI Library
• Uses the Microsoft GRETA Regular Expression Library

Instructions:
Due to this being a testing phase, not all features are in a complete form; until such time the configuration file must be edited manually via text editor (vbnotify.config.xml).

1. Download Zip file, and extract contents to a directory.
2. Open the README.txt file and follow the instructions.

Run at Startup (Windows)
How-To by gio~logist


Changes:

• 3/2/2006:
  Updated: Page Retrieval; now pre-matches resulting in less resources and a faster notification.
  New: Now displays how many PM's are Unread at X forum.
  Progress: Still building Configuration Menus, and working on XML Saving.
  
  
• 2/27/2006:
  Updated: Receive Buffer Size
  Added: COOKIES.txt File
  
  
• 2/25/2006:
  Initial Alpha Release

In Progress:

• Working on Taskbar Menu Configuration Interface.

Safety:

This is an open-source project after all, and with this not being a PHP project some people might not like the idea of not having source code. I have a CVS server that I plan to keep updated with any changes made to the code which can be viewed here: http://bleach101.com/cvs/?&cvsrep=vbcp&file=vbnotify/


License:

You can view the license for this project in the included zip file or here:
(In The Process of Location a New CVS Server.)

To Summarize:

1. You are free to modify the source code and compile it for your own use.
2. You Cannot use this source and redistribute it as your own product, or attempt to sell it.

Donate:

If you enjoy the creation of this program and would like to see it further developed, feel free to help me out a little for my time that I am putting into this.

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Currently 1 minute intervals, once I am out of alpha will prob set the minimum at 5 minutes.

I actually recommend that you leave it at 1, or atleast give users the option to change it i guess. As i like it at 1. The more precise the better . Thank you once again for a great modification.


I also recommend that you release this hack elsewhere or allow other users to do so (not sure if we can due to license), since this can be used by anyone.

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Sooner95

Heya Trigun, seen ya in the irc chan.. anyways.. what an awsome idea. I am not much of a coder, but I do have questions..

I see it can notify you of PM;s ect.. what about certain forums?? based on the members usercp selection, is that how it can be controlled? or will this e a seperate appication one has to download..ect..

Gonna install this, and run next to you on this one, it has some nice potential.

Once you download the zip, just edit the .xml file accordingly. And read the txt file. It is really easy IMO.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Sooner95

Heya Trigun, seen ya in the irc chan.. anyways.. what an awsome idea. I am not much of a coder, but I do have questions..

I see it can notify you of PM;s ect.. what about certain forums?? based on the members usercp selection, is that how it can be controlled? or will this e a seperate appication one has to download..ect..

Gonna install this, and run next to you on this one, it has some nice potential.

It is a standalone application that sits in your taskbar, no "installation" to forums is needed, it should work with almost all vbulletin forums.

[Gio~Logist]

[high]Possible[/high] bug:
Does it automatically check the xml file for new sites while the application is running or do you have to close application and re open it?

I noticed that after adding a forum i had to close and reopen application to get it to update. However, i suppose it could have been me?

[Developer]

great installed

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by gio~logist

[high]Possible[/high] bug:
Does it automatically check the xml file for new sites while the application is running or do you have to close application and re open it?

I noticed that after adding a forum i had to close and reopen application to get it to update. However, i suppose it could have been me?

Its not a bug, that is the intended purpose (Remember Eventually All Configuration Will Be handled through the Taskbar Menu Interface).

[Sooner95]

wow, ok.. will give it a shot then.. thx fellas!

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Its not a bug, that is the intended purpose (Remember Eventually All Configuration Will Be handled through the Taskbar Menu Interface).

Ah i see. Very well then.

[Daniel]

Awesome, installed to keep an update on when you release it for os x.

[Trigunflame]

Server went down there for a few minutes :/