POFFS2 Beta..

[George Bleck]

Borje,

OUTSTANDING looking visually. Works great on my Win2k box. Still unhappy with the search engine piece though.

I'm used to ALTAVISTA style searches with booleans, etc. If I may be so bold, I had posted a search engine snippet in the source code forum you may wish to incorporate.



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George W. Bleck
Senior System Engineer
KeySpan Corporation

[Charles Dietz]

Borje, since several people have expressed a wish for wider columns to see
more info in name, date, etc., why not use the header buttons as a toggle
to a wider list box popup for that column? That would be an easy way of
showing more info in the columns without the code complexity involved in
allowing the user to drag the column boundaries. Just a thought.

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[Borje Hagsten]

Strange, I can not get that. Use the same code as in previous version
and it should not add exact duplicates, only move those to the top.

Additional features will come as soon as I have time to do them. Will
clean up the code for the buttons first, then the editor, then rewrite
the Virtual ListView so it becomes a real Virtual ListView control.
Right now, it's just a plain Virtual List placed on a label, with
4 buttons acting as headers..

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' Populate the combo listbox with max 20 unique strings
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SUB UpdateComboList (BYVAL MainhWnd AS LONG, BYVAL comboID AS LONG, BYVAL strTxt AS STRING)
    IF LEN(strTxt) THEN
        LOCAL comboCtrl AS LONG, cbListCount AS LONG
 
        comboCtrl = GetDlgItem(MainhWnd, comboID)                '<- get cb's hWnd
        cbListCount = SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_GETCOUNT, 0, 0) '<- get cb's list count
 
        IF 0 < cbListCount THEN
            LOCAL cmpTxt AS STRING, cb AS LONG
 
            FOR cb = 0 TO cbListCount - 1      'Loop through existing items
                cmpTxt = SPACE$(SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_GETLBTEXTLEN, cb, 0) + 1)
                CALL SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_GETLBTEXT, cb, STRPTR(cmpTxt))
                cmpTxt = LEFT$(cmpTxt, LEN(cmpTxt) -1) 'remove chr$(0)
 
                IF cmpTxt = strTxt THEN 'if already there - delete and then insert at top
                  CALL SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_DELETESTRING, cb, 0)
                  EXIT FOR
                END IF
            NEXT cb
        END IF
                                      'insert new items at the top of the list
        CALL SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_INSERTSTRING, 0, BYVAL STRPTR(strTxt))
        CALL SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_SETCURSEL, 0, 0)
 
        IF cbListCount > 19 THEN      'only store items 0 to 19 (20 items)
            CALL SendMessage(comboCtrl, %CB_DELETESTRING, cbListCount, 0)
        END IF
    END IF
END SUB

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[Per Fimmeland]

Hi Borje,

Once again, Nice work!

My search drop-down contains the same word multiple times...
Maybe make it sorted ?

It's been mentioned before, the width of columns in the result-
display listview, would have been nice to been able to resize..

I also have a wish for a splitter between the lower "editor" part
and the top of the window, ie, I wish to see more of the search
result listview (maybe in v3?)

-p


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[Borje Hagsten]

Next attempt: http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

Improved search speed, increased buffers in editor and used Semen's
excellent TranslatorMsg example to catch key combinations instead
of trying to catch them via code. Ctrl+C, V and the others should
work fine in all systems now.

I keep my fingers crossed. Have not been able to reproduce the reported
(NT) GPF's, caused by scrolling messages with Syntax highlight on here.
Increased the text buffers to avoid too many HeapAlloc's. Could possibly
be a fragmentation problem in NT, I don't know..

Sorry to pester you with so many uploads, but I believe it's getting
better and faster now, maybe even ready for release soon..

Regarding Public Domain: Yes, when all is ready. Problem is I have
used some home-rolled custom controls that aren't ready for release
quite yet. Have to go through the code, throw away lots of test code
and add comments before I can release it all into PD.

The editor is worst, believe me. +180KB code to go through there..

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[This message has been edited by Borje Hagsten (edited March 27, 2001).]

[Bern Ertl]

Borje, thanks for the extremely useful tool.

I tried your first release of P2 on my Win 98SE @ 800x600.
Everything looks great. You have definately improved the GUI
layout and it is more intuitive. Your custom buttons are
excellent. I have not been able to test it extensively yet,
so I don't have any "bugs" to report.

One minor issue. The field width for the message dates in the
topics grid (upper RIGHT corner), did not allow me to see the year
(truncated) for the messages. I can see them in the big window at
the bottom, so it's not a big deal, but it would be nice to be able
to resize the column widths of that grid.



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Bernard Ertl

[Wayne Diamond]

Borje,
Poffs v1 was open-source - is this one also going to be? Might make it a bit easier to get it sweet on all systems if it is
I tried one NT4 workstation, one NT4.SBS small business server, one NT4 server, one Win2000 workstation and one Win98SE machine. The Win98SE machine was the only machine that would let me Ctrl+C! It was also the only machine that I wasn't able to GPF


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[Borje Hagsten]

Funny thing, Windows. Can't reproduce any of mentioned problems.
Have done a few minor fixes and added extra safety code to the
syntax parser, but no matter what I do, it still works fine for
me - even on a couple of huge test files. Fumbling in MS darkness,
can only hope it works in other systems now..

Ctrl+C also works fine for me here, can't understand why it don't
for you, Wayne. Even Ctrl+Insert should work for copy. Have you
downloaded any of the latest fixes? (newest one just uploaded)

LapTops and screen resolution. Sigh. The columns are decided via
List's GetClientRect/2 for first and w/6*3 (4, 5) for the rest.
Can't understand why that should fail on any screen. Feel stupid..

So to biggest problem - the new databases. All in all, entire package
became 14MB, zipped. Should I split them up? Maybe have one full
file for those of you who have rocket connections and also provide
possibility to download some files separately. Think I'll do that.
Getting late here, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow, sorry..


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[Kev Peel]

Borje, Nice work!

Although I get a blue screen of death on Win98 when scrolling too fast in the editor, scrolling also seems to slow down dramatically on my AMD K6-2/450 with syntax highlighting on.

Regards,


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Kev G Peel
KGP Software, Bridgwater, UK.
http://www.kgpsoftware.com

[Paul Squires]

Seems to work fine on my Win98 machine. On my Win95 laptop there
is a problem when resizing the main window. The results grid
displays strange column sizes and giberish for column titles.
After resizing for 10-15 seconds I get a GPF and must reboot.

I am using a PIII 650 Toshiba laptop with 192 Megs of RAM. The
display is High Color (16-bit), small fonts, 1024x768 and uses
a S3 Savage 8 meg video card. I'm running Win95B.

Its possible that the video driver could be the problem. I'll
download the latest drivers and see if it still occurs.

I'm just mentioning it now in case others can replicate it on
a Win95 machine.


Thanks,


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Paul Squires
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Wayne Diamond]

still can't Ctrl+C to copy code yet though Borje - have to right-click then select Copy from a submenu at the moment ..


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[Per Fimmeland]

I suggest You make the "time-slice" user configurable, then both
Wayne and Lance should be happy.....

-p


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[Borje Hagsten]

Okay, new file again at: http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

Found one source of GPF's in the grid-list. Double-clicking in lower
part when not entirely filled with items could cause this. Now fixed.

Cut down on time slicing a bit, hope it's better now. One thing - in
the checkbox list you can unmark the forums you don't want to include
in a search. Personally, I exclude DOS, etc, since I'm only interested
in Windows stuff. Can save quite a lot of time. Some of the new databases
will be almost twice as big, so the need for excluding unnecessary ones
will be greater, once I get them up..

I'll have a look at the forum names later on tonight. They say I have to
do some real work here too.. (and how fun is that..?


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[Florent Heyworth]

Hi Borje

great tool - the GPF seems to occur when scrolling down
in a large message with syntax highlighting turned on. Have
not noticed that effect with syntax highlighting turned off.

Cheers

Florent

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[This message has been edited by Florent Heyworth (edited March 26, 2001).]

[Wayne Diamond]

Borje, searching all forums for the word "test" now takes 31 seconds - it only took 7 seconds on the previous build of POFFS2, so I say to hell with Lance's music! <grins, ducks>
I reckon I search POFFS about 30 times a day, so that'd be 15 minutes I'd be wasting every day just so Lance can listen to music his mother doesn't like him listening to in the first place
nah I think you just need to drop one or two doevents and she should be sweet it was only using 0 to 5% CPU on a dual-350mhz pentII, so there's plenty of breathing space..
I only have one other request - could you make the forum names in POFFS to be the same as the ones on the online forum?
thanks


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[Borje Hagsten]

Okay, new file again at: http://www.tolken99.com/pb/poffs2b.zip

MS sure has made programming for Windows interesting. Added resizing
code, so it looks alright with both big/small fonts in my machine.
Should cover most settings.

Not an easy one to handle, especially when you mix CONTROL ADD and
CreateWindow calls, and extra especially with lists. Have made much
use of CONTROL GET SIZE/LOC/UNITS TO PIXELS, etc, plus GetTextMetrics
to enable somewhat proper resizing/moving there.

The icon problem is strange. I have used standard code, standard 32x32
16-color icon, something like:

  hInst = GetWindowLong(hDlg, %GWL_HINSTANCE)
  hIco  = LoadIcon(hInst, "APOFFS")
  IF hIco THEN DIALOG SEND hDlg, %WM_SETICON, %ICON_SMALL, hIco

No problems in Win95/98. One change has been made - I used %ICON_BIG
in previous file. Maybe the change to %ICON_SMALL will help in NT?

The GPF's you mention, I have not been able to reproduce. I have
increased time slicing a bit though, so Lance can listen to his
Heavy Metal headbanging MP3's while searching. Hope it's enough.
At least in my system, it now works ok and doesn't grab entire
processor (only most of it..

Using DIALOG DOEVENTS properly is a tricky balance act. Used to much
in a loop, time can increase very much. To little, the loop steals
to much processor time. Hope I have found a good balance. Maybe even
will help cure those strange GPF's..


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[Edwin Knoppert]

I have the same on 1280 large fonts.
The 'listview' does not fit.

+ GPF

Looks good!

Simply put, a VERY handy tool for searching!

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[Lance Edmonds]

Hmmmm.... since I triggered the GPF, it crashes every time I search now. I'll reboot later tonight and see if I can get this cycle to repeat.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Lance Edmonds]

Interestingly (although it is only a small point), the app icon is a conventional Windows app icon, yet Explorer clearly shows a custom icon...

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Lance Edmonds]

Ok, here is how to trigger the GPF... while doing a search, click wildly on the listview... when the end of the search is reached, it will blow a GPF valve.



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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>