Help test a new CP SearchBar!
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I'm working on a COM-based CP web service reader, so that other folks not using .NET can have an easy way to get the data from the service. Even the VB guys. ;) I also have updated the SearchBar to use the reader and display the latest articles and comments in the browser, as the first app to test the reader. So if anyone is interested in helping test it out, download test build #1 (168K). Installation instructions: Unzip the ZIP file anywhere you like. If you already have the SearchBar, you can unzip to the SearchBar's directory. Register the EXE by running
CPWebSvcReader.exe /RegServerRegister the DLL by runningregsvr32 CodeProjectToolbar.dllIn IE, click View|Toolbars|The Code Project SearchBar to activate the SearchBar. In the SearchBar's Site Links menu, the top item is a TEST submenu (just so you don't forget this is a TEST ;)), with three items to view the latest Lounge topics, articles, and forum comments. Note that the first time you use one of those commands, it will be sloooooowww since the reader has to grab a lot of data from the service. Choosing one of those items will show the corresponding list in the browser. Feel free to bang on it and try to break it. Known issues are:- Slow startup time.
- If you change your online state while the COM server is running, it will not adjust to the new state.
Please send any comments, suggestions, and bug reports to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I'm working on a COM-based CP web service reader, so that other folks not using .NET can have an easy way to get the data from the service. Even the VB guys. ;) I also have updated the SearchBar to use the reader and display the latest articles and comments in the browser, as the first app to test the reader. So if anyone is interested in helping test it out, download test build #1 (168K). Installation instructions: Unzip the ZIP file anywhere you like. If you already have the SearchBar, you can unzip to the SearchBar's directory. Register the EXE by running
CPWebSvcReader.exe /RegServerRegister the DLL by runningregsvr32 CodeProjectToolbar.dllIn IE, click View|Toolbars|The Code Project SearchBar to activate the SearchBar. In the SearchBar's Site Links menu, the top item is a TEST submenu (just so you don't forget this is a TEST ;)), with three items to view the latest Lounge topics, articles, and forum comments. Note that the first time you use one of those commands, it will be sloooooowww since the reader has to grab a lot of data from the service. Choosing one of those items will show the corresponding list in the browser. Feel free to bang on it and try to break it. Known issues are:- Slow startup time.
- If you change your online state while the COM server is running, it will not adjust to the new state.
Please send any comments, suggestions, and bug reports to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Do we need to uninstall the previous version first? Kant The likelihood of a program crashing is in direct proportion to the number of pointers used in it.
No, you can replace CodeProjectToolbar.dll with the new one. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I'm working on a COM-based CP web service reader, so that other folks not using .NET can have an easy way to get the data from the service. Even the VB guys. ;) I also have updated the SearchBar to use the reader and display the latest articles and comments in the browser, as the first app to test the reader. So if anyone is interested in helping test it out, download test build #1 (168K). Installation instructions: Unzip the ZIP file anywhere you like. If you already have the SearchBar, you can unzip to the SearchBar's directory. Register the EXE by running
CPWebSvcReader.exe /RegServerRegister the DLL by runningregsvr32 CodeProjectToolbar.dllIn IE, click View|Toolbars|The Code Project SearchBar to activate the SearchBar. In the SearchBar's Site Links menu, the top item is a TEST submenu (just so you don't forget this is a TEST ;)), with three items to view the latest Lounge topics, articles, and forum comments. Note that the first time you use one of those commands, it will be sloooooowww since the reader has to grab a lot of data from the service. Choosing one of those items will show the corresponding list in the browser. Feel free to bang on it and try to break it. Known issues are:- Slow startup time.
- If you change your online state while the COM server is running, it will not adjust to the new state.
Please send any comments, suggestions, and bug reports to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Test build #2 (168 KB) is now available. This build fixes handling of HTML/XML escapes like & so that the text shown in the browser has the correct characters. (Before, a quote in an article title appeared as
"in the list) There is also a new feature in the latest articles list: Each article has its new/updated/moved/unedited flags listed. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm -
I'm working on a COM-based CP web service reader, so that other folks not using .NET can have an easy way to get the data from the service. Even the VB guys. ;) I also have updated the SearchBar to use the reader and display the latest articles and comments in the browser, as the first app to test the reader. So if anyone is interested in helping test it out, download test build #1 (168K). Installation instructions: Unzip the ZIP file anywhere you like. If you already have the SearchBar, you can unzip to the SearchBar's directory. Register the EXE by running
CPWebSvcReader.exe /RegServerRegister the DLL by runningregsvr32 CodeProjectToolbar.dllIn IE, click View|Toolbars|The Code Project SearchBar to activate the SearchBar. In the SearchBar's Site Links menu, the top item is a TEST submenu (just so you don't forget this is a TEST ;)), with three items to view the latest Lounge topics, articles, and forum comments. Note that the first time you use one of those commands, it will be sloooooowww since the reader has to grab a lot of data from the service. Choosing one of those items will show the corresponding list in the browser. Feel free to bang on it and try to break it. Known issues are:- Slow startup time.
- If you change your online state while the COM server is running, it will not adjust to the new state.
Please send any comments, suggestions, and bug reports to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Yes, another new build. :) Test build #3 (130K) There's an article in the list at this moment that has an elipsis character in its description, and that was breaking my handling of the XML (it went through a couple of ANSI-Unicode conversions just so I could use CString, and the resulting string ended up making MSXML choke). Since that ended up not working, I keep the XML in Unicode the whole time now, and I bit the bullet and read the
stringdocs to find the equivalent ofCString::Replace(). ;) Also fixed: The toolbar DLL is now about 110K smaller after I ditchedfstream. :eek: As always, bug reports, Xmas cards, and suggestions to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm -
Yes, another new build. :) Test build #3 (130K) There's an article in the list at this moment that has an elipsis character in its description, and that was breaking my handling of the XML (it went through a couple of ANSI-Unicode conversions just so I could use CString, and the resulting string ended up making MSXML choke). Since that ended up not working, I keep the XML in Unicode the whole time now, and I bit the bullet and read the
stringdocs to find the equivalent ofCString::Replace(). ;) Also fixed: The toolbar DLL is now about 110K smaller after I ditchedfstream. :eek: As always, bug reports, Xmas cards, and suggestions to this address. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_HelmHi, Build 2: Everytime when I tried to select any entries under the TEST menu. Error creating web service reader. Build 3 : With this new build, when I tried to use it first time it crashed IE. X| Second time, it took really long time to get the "Latest Comments" Third time, it came pretty quick. :rolleyes: Is there any log, which can help you with? Overally pretty good so far. :jig: Kant Sonork-100.28114
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Hi, Build 2: Everytime when I tried to select any entries under the TEST menu. Error creating web service reader. Build 3 : With this new build, when I tried to use it first time it crashed IE. X| Second time, it took really long time to get the "Latest Comments" Third time, it came pretty quick. :rolleyes: Is there any log, which can help you with? Overally pretty good so far. :jig: Kant Sonork-100.28114
The web service has been up and down this whole week (side effect of the server trouble over the weekend, I guess), so any weirdness can be attributed to that. COM methods are synchronous, so the SearchBar can't process messages - taking a long time with no UI response is what I'd expect in that case. :( Having said that, it shouldn't crash IE. If you can repro the crash, please give me the module name and address of the crash. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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The web service has been up and down this whole week (side effect of the server trouble over the weekend, I guess), so any weirdness can be attributed to that. COM methods are synchronous, so the SearchBar can't process messages - taking a long time with no UI response is what I'd expect in that case. :( Having said that, it shouldn't crash IE. If you can repro the crash, please give me the module name and address of the crash. --Mike-- Thing #9 to say when mad at work: "Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose." Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
While fetching info' from the web service, how about displaying a hour glass or some other way of informing user that somethings happening behind the scenes. Also, just a small doubt, does creating a separate thread (if you havent done already) for checking the webservice will solve the issue. How does it work behind the firewall. So far it has worked only once, for Lounge posts. I tried article and it hanged. Also, once I'm switching away from the page from where I clicked, until it completes the process I'm not able to get back to that page. Whats the role of the exe(com server :confused: ). Sorry I asked more questions than testing your stuff. Will give it some more try. Cheers Kannan
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While fetching info' from the web service, how about displaying a hour glass or some other way of informing user that somethings happening behind the scenes. Also, just a small doubt, does creating a separate thread (if you havent done already) for checking the webservice will solve the issue. How does it work behind the firewall. So far it has worked only once, for Lounge posts. I tried article and it hanged. Also, once I'm switching away from the page from where I clicked, until it completes the process I'm not able to get back to that page. Whats the role of the exe(com server :confused: ). Sorry I asked more questions than testing your stuff. Will give it some more try. Cheers Kannan
Hi Kannan, thanks for taking the time to try out the reader :) In the latest build (#4) I've put in a progress indicator along with a Cancel button, so you won't be totally stuck if the reader hangs. The EXE has the code that communicates with the web service, and it's a COM server that contains a coclass used by the SearchBar. The coclass has methods to return the latest newsflash, articles, etc. As for working with a firewall, I use the MS XML parser to download the XML feeds, and the parser is supposed to handle all the HTTP communication. I don't have a firewall here so I can't do any testing with that situation, unfortunately. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things." -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm