Dgtadude Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 (edited) I just started learning Vb a week ago , and thanx to all the help from close friends , i got a good start . but sometimes when everyone is offline on msn .. and no help to get . U get really bored with "limits" so since i was so bored i decited to make a nice little tool for all those people who visit the MTA forum every 5 minutes to check for new posts .. Its a simple application that has a browser inside of it , When u start it , it loads up forum.mtavc.com faster than Normal IE would . And it has a nice window , i know this is not a replace , but as many people who tested said , it is nice to have it around the desktop , it takes much less ram than IE or other brownsers would , and .. well . its compact , I did version 0.1 , which only had the browser and no controls , but soon found that .. u had to keep changing pages for the main forum page to reload , cause it did not have the reload botton , so i made version 0.2 which includes 4 bottons , Back , Foward , Home and refresh . Here is some screenshots of it : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/intro.JPG http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/open.JPG You can download (MTAFV) here : Latest Version (0.1.6) .ZIP : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/Multi_Theft_Auto_Forum_Viewer_0.1.6.zip .EXE : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/mtafv0.1.6.exe I do ask that if you find any bugs or have any sugestions , please post them here (hopefully this topic wont get locked up due to spam) P.S : I have found a tiny bug , when you start . and it firsts loads up the page , do not click back or foward , or it will crash , later when you have surfed trough more pages , then the back and foward bottons will work . Also , I know this kinda sux .. But Please , before you post a reply saying how much you hate it , Since i dont know much yet , this was the best i could do in VB ... Edit : This integrates IE into VB , but with less files used , So if your Internet Explorer is full of ads , has damaged files or just inst working right . Do not try this out . or it'll be the same as opening a IE .. I Do plan in making a Popup blocker later on and make this a actual browser for the web , not just the forum. Thanx -Dgtadude Edited October 9, 2004 by Guest Link to comment
Gamefreek Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 This is a handy little program, the forums load a hell of a lot faster with this than with IE or Firefox. Nice goin Dgtadude Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted September 30, 2004 Author Share Posted September 30, 2004 Thanx dude , i have made a quick upgrade on this version , the upgrade can be downloaded here : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv.zip Belive it or not , after compressed it became 5kb , lol . The updates on this one was small . Just a new "About" page , also i made less IE files load up , so i guess it should load up even faster , This version i have made a little smaller on the width , but im using A widescreen right now , so i dont know if it'll look too big , altough i was still unable to find a "Cure" for the bug on the back and foward botton the first time u start the program , if someone with more experience knows , please contact me. Thanx dudes for all the support Link to comment
MAD_BOY Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 nice, but wont use it, i have firefox on with some tabs all day, that need to be on (forum idling is fun you know) Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 Same here. I got some suggestions: Dunno what the reason is that your using such small buttons but they are too small , it makes it look ugly.maybe make them a little bigger. Why did you make it full view? It doesnt look good, you do need something at the bottom, i dunno what tought as a status bar would be pointless if the page loads as fast as you say. Maybe a clock? Thats the only thing i could think off ,but seriously think about adding something to the bottom and do add a scroll bar at the side,i know this takes up some viewable space but it will make it look better. I know its still very early to ask for but , is there any chance of this viewer supporting other forums? Link to comment
sm|slash Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 i dont know if you allready has this but heres some suggestions: 1. Download all the images from the forum, add them up and change in the little program that all "xxx.xxx.com/xx/xx.jpg" should be a picture in the images, with this it should load like shit fast if all the images allready is there 2. would be cool with a bar where you can choose forums 3. maby a button like "the newest thread/psot Link to comment
Garuzzo Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 maybe this is a noob question but.. would this program affect banned people from viewing/posting rights? Link to comment
orappa Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 maybe this is a noob question but..would this program affect banned people from viewing/posting rights? No, but can't banned people view the forums anyway? Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted September 30, 2004 Author Share Posted September 30, 2004 maybe this is a noob question but..would this program affect banned people from viewing/posting rights? No, but can't banned people view the forums anyway? Banned Usernames can , but banned people no . This program does not allow Banned people to view the forum , And thanx dude for all the sugestions , ill do the new upgrade today with the recommendations you guys made , altough , some of them might be advanced for me , but i'll try my best Link to comment
NosGoth Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 Pretty neat mate. Just the tool I needed. Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted October 1, 2004 Author Share Posted October 1, 2004 Here we go , The update i promised is ready , it can be downloaded here : (.EXE) : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/mtafv.exe (.ZIP) http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/Multi_Theft_Auto_Forum_Viewer_0.1.6.zip I Also took pictures of this New version, they can be found here : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/intro.JPG Also : http://home.comcast.net/~dgtadude/mtafv/open.JPG I did most of the changes you guys requested , altough i was not able to do the "you chose the window size" kinda thing , still working on that . I hope you guys like the new version i made... This one took a bit more time then the original one , because I started working with multiple forms , insted of a single , i might also release the scource code (even tough its mad easy to make one your self) So people can edit and add there own links in it .. Might be a bit more customizable Link to comment
NosGoth Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 Wow now it's even better. But still you need to change the sizes of the buttons, because ow the "MTA Forum Controls"-button is smaller then the otehrs. Link to comment
goretex Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 i voted no for no good reason really. Link to comment
MTA Team Blokker_1999 Posted October 1, 2004 MTA Team Share Posted October 1, 2004 i don't like it. in the end it is just IE. With all it's flaws and bugs. Link to comment
OpiuM. Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 @dgta, make it sizable toolwindow if anything, and make it show in the taskbar.... comon, think lol Link to comment
orappa Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 I think you should be focusing on unique features rather than pure speed, as the site loads pretty quickly anyway. And if you don't have unique MTA forum-specific features, it's just IE as Blokker said. Link to comment
sm|slash Posted October 1, 2004 Share Posted October 1, 2004 like i said, include all forum pictures in the program, then its only text it need to load (not much, but some) Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted October 1, 2004 Author Share Posted October 1, 2004 like i said, include all forum pictures in the program, then its only text it need to load (not much, but some) Ie Does this already dude , Thanx for all your opnions , and yes , i do agree with blokker , it ends up as a IE .. Altough ... well .. I still need to learn how to make my own Browser .. lol. Link to comment
:cMc:jacoB Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Very good job for a vbn00b, especially one that just started a week ago. Keep doin stuff like this you'll be good before you know it! Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 EDIT : Just noticed that all links were dead , anyways . new version is updated on first post ^^ . Link to comment
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