User talk:Mikaey/WikiBiff

Praise

Thumbs up for this initiative! I have contemplated the usefullness of such a program more than once.

Two questions.

1. How often is the server checked (once every 15 sec, 1 minute)?
2. I'd request password encryption as a must in the next version.

Debresser (talk) 00:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Debresser! To answer your questions:

1. It's an option in the main window ("Check for messages every X seconds"). It's set to 60 seconds by default. You can also right-click on the tray icon and select "Check for messages now" in the menu that pops up.
2. I agree, password encryption is a must. I'm not terribly familiar with encryption, however, but it will be something I'll look into.
   • Committed. Download the new version from SourceForge. Matt (talk) 09:08, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Matt (talk) 01:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I didn't really use the first version, but I have been using the version that just came out today. I have a couple of suggestions though. I will preface them with this: I don't know anything about coding, so these may be difficult (or even impossible) to do.

1. Could it ignore changes that you make yourself? When I replied on my talk page to a person, it notified me (and I am pretty sure it notified me twice, but I could be wrong).
2. Could the notification bubble thing go away if you click the little "X" for it? I mean, it goes away for a bit, but pops back up with the same notification a few seconds later.

Loving it though :-) Killiondude (talk) 04:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Killiondude,

1. I'll try to get that included.
   • Committed. Download the new version from SourceForge. Matt (talk) 09:08, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
2. Here's the problem -- when you create a balloon, you specify how long you want the balloon to be displayed for. We call this the timeout value. There is an event that can be triggered in the code for when a balloon is closed, but the code can't differentiate between "the balloon was closed because the user clicked the X" and "the balloon was closed because it reached its timeout" -- they both trigger the same event. If I figure out a way around this, then yes, I'll implement it, but for right now your best option is to right-click on the tray icon and choose "Clear all alerts". Matt (talk) 04:18, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

v0.2.1 released

Hi folks,

I've posted WikiBiff 0.2.1 to SourceForge. What's changed in this version:

• Fixed a bug where clicking the "log out" link would cause WikiBiff's session to be invalidated without it realizing.
• Better support for situations where the local clock isn't quite in sync with the wiki's clocks. This usually manifested itself when WikiBiff alerted the user to changes in watchlisted pages, the user clicked on the balloon, and the alert would pop up again.
• The X on the Accounts window now hides the window instead of quitting the program. The only way to exit the program now (short of killing the process) is to right-click on the tray icon and select Exit.
• Fixed a bug where WikiBiff could freeze if the network connection was broken in the middle of checking for new messages/watchlist changes.
• Multiple changes to the same page are counted as individual changes now. The previous behavior was such that the program was only aware of the most recent change to the page.

Thanks! Matt (talk) 05:44, 6 July 2009 (UTC)