Vbulletin Notification Application

Vbulletin Notification Application
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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.

[Phrost]

Has there been any thought of integrating this into the Google Desktop sidebar?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Phrost

Has there been any thought of integrating this into the Google Desktop sidebar?

Possibly in the future, but it will not be a primary focus as supporting a 3rd party product is not really something im looking forward 2.

Not only will it require a seperate codebase, i would have to learn how to use the google desktop api.. I just dont have time to expand into new areas right now.

[Phrost]

Thanks for the response. It really is a great "hack" you've got. I'd love to see it integrated with Google, so I'm subscribing to this thread for updates.

[COBRAws]

Does this app affects the "las time online" date? I mean, if i dont enter X forum within 2 days but the program is running, when I go back to the forum it says "Your last visit was 1 minute ago".

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by COBRAws

Does this app affects the "las time online" date? I mean, if i dont enter X forum within 2 days but the program is running, when I go back to the forum it says "Your last visit was 1 minute ago".

You have to be logged in to check new messages, which is why it uses the cookie bbuserid/bbpassword.

If there was an API developed by vbulletin or possibly myself in the future; we could handle plaintext username/password logins and retrieval of personalized forum info without the need to route through the vbulletin session system.

In short; currently yes you will be shown as logged in as long as its checking your private messages.

[Trigunflame]

Update: Mirror added

http://mirrors.vclubbing.com/trigun/vbnotify_b1_3_1.zip

[tehste]

will definately check this out. Looks interesting

[ImportPassion]

i assume all the right click stuff doesn't work yet?

I was working on a system like this, but used a java server to communicate to the apps. But it was site dependent. Imma look at the source, wish it was .NEt tho.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by 7thgenCivic.Com

i assume all the right click stuff doesn't work yet?

I was working on a system like this, but used a java server to communicate to the apps. But it was site dependent. Imma look at the source, wish it was .NEt tho.

Menu Configuration is in process, should be available soon; manual editing of the configuration file is to be a thing of the past very soon.

As for .NET sorry; I dont code in any Microsoft derived languages or libraries for a reason.

ps. With exception of the Greta Open Source Library created by one of Microsofts Devs.

[theArchitect]

I haven't installed it, yet, as I am on a Mac. But once your Mac version comes out I would be delighted to help with the testing process.

I have clicked install so that I can get updates as to latest releases.

Many thanks for building and sharing this amazing application, I look forward to your future work on this project.