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Second Life Friends Online Windows App ready for testing

Josie Hamilton
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Join date: 7 Mar 2004
Posts: 164
01-17-2006 21:25
I have created an application that sits in the system tray and has pop-up notifications when friends log on or off. It's in an Alpha state so testing is at your own risk :)

IM me if you would like to test it out for me.



Thanks.
Josie Hamilton
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01-20-2006 12:15
Beta version 0.9.0.5 is now available. See this thread for more info.
Michael Martinez
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Join date: 28 Jul 2004
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01-20-2006 13:14
trying this, had to switch IE to browser, but once that done all fine...except..

When i right click icon, setting, and then check run at start, get a "Unhandled exception has occured"...then it closes down and run at start is not select..

But I like it, thanks :)
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Lizbeth Marlowe
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01-20-2006 13:23
That seems pretty cool! it would be even more coolio if you could message your friends!
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Josie Hamilton
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01-20-2006 14:55
From: Michael Martinez
When i right click icon, setting, and then check run at start, get a "Unhandled exception has occured"...then it closes down and run at start is not select..

Michael, if it gives an option for more details on the exception see if you can copy the text and send it to me, if you don't mind. :)
Josie Hamilton
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01-20-2006 14:56
From: Lizbeth Marlowe
That seems pretty cool! it would be even more coolio if you could message your friends!

I'm trying to figure out how to do this. :)
Michael Martinez
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01-24-2006 14:03
All fixed, I just rebooted and it went away :)

PS Side question, does this read from the IE cache, or does it "see" our passwords?
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Frans Charming
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Join date: 28 Jan 2005
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01-28-2006 07:17
Hi Josie, Just started using the Friends Online App, and think i will love it. :)
Two suggestions:
1. Can we have a less bulky banner around the list, i like my windows slim. ;)
2. The ability to resize the window, width and height, would be great.

Keep up the good work.
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Josie Hamilton
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01-28-2006 08:09
From: Michael Martinez
PS Side question, does this read from the IE cache, or does it "see" our passwords?

It just uses the existing secondlife.com IE cookie, which is encoded, so it doesn't see your password.

From: Frans Charming
Two suggestions:
1. Can we have a less bulky banner around the list, i like my windows slim. ;)
2. The ability to resize the window, width and height, would be great.

I actually have (almost) working code for resizing so look for it in the next version. And yes I can look at making the window banner a bit thinner.

The current version has some code that is supposed to prevent it from getting focus when the popups occur but it doesn't seem to be working, so that is on the list too.
Paolo Portocarrero
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01-28-2006 08:55
Just installed - very cool, Josie!!

The one thing I would request, though, is that when an "X is online" alert pops up, it does NOT take focus. In other words, I'm in the middle of typing or mousing. An alert pops up and steals focus, interrupting my typing or mousing.

Otherwise, this really rocks! Great job.
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Josie Hamilton
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Join date: 7 Mar 2004
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01-28-2006 09:09
From: Paolo Portocarrero
The one thing I would request, though, is that when an "X is online" alert pops up, it does NOT take focus. In other words, I'm in the middle of typing or mousing. An alert pops up and steals focus, interrupting my typing or mousing.
I know that bugs me too :) There is actually a piece of code in there now that is supposed to prevent this, and it seemed to work, but further testing has clearly revealed it is not. I will definitely work on this for the next release.
Josie Hamilton
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Update: v 0.9.1 now available
01-29-2006 07:45
- Friends list is now vertically resizable
- Detects when SL is running and turns off pop-up notifications
- Tried to improve the popup windows stealing focus from current app. In my testing this seems to be working, but I would love feedback.

You can get it from http://www.josiehamilton.com. Or if you installed it using the web installer you can right-click the application icon in the system tray and slect "Check for Updates..."
Soleil Mirabeau
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01-29-2006 10:39
Someone create this to work with Firefox! :D