Announcing: Conquer Club Notifier

[hotgun]

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]

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]

Can we add a PM notifier to it too?

[mrdexter]

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]

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]

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]

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]

*adds to list*

Yay, a man with a list

[HighBorn]

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]

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

[HighBorn]

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

[Twill]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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:

Start out minimized to tray (not task bar) and/or have a minimize button on the app itself (rather than right clicking on the task bar icon).
Flash tray icon on (selectable) status changes. That is, when it's my turn and/or when someone else is making a turn.
Show game number(s) of active game(s) in the app window. Make them active links the the games they represent.

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]

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]

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

[HighBorn]

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

[wacicha]

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

[mrdexter]

Magdamit, I've broken your notifier Kevinc

[Telvannia]

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

[Murph808]

Ok I dont understand.the beginning?

[kevinc]

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.