i love the download strategy. it very simple and give four option which it very clever. but one of thing i like to add is "Prioritize File Beginning then Rare Part"

I like to preview the file and see if i like it. if i dont like the file i dumped it. but it a pain to click "Prioritize File Beginning" and wait for that preview file pop up then click on "Rare Parts". For "Prioritize File Beginning then Rare Part", While it download the beginning file, it will download until the 5% of the total file then switch to Rare Part.

What you think?

I quickly described the different strategies:
http://phex.kouk.de/wiki/index.php/Download_Strategy

Do you think the reworked rare parts strategy will be good enough for you in the next release?

And even if not the prioritize beginning strategy also honers the availability of files. Not that much though... but still good enough for common files.

squirrel

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Hi callihn,

you might wonder that its not a suprise to us that different screen resolutions and different system exists. But you might understand that we dont have every plattform available to test and also not the time to do it. That why we rely on user reports like yours. New team members that would enjoy to spend the time to test and help us, would also be very welcome!

Usually you are able to resize all windows and dialogs, it might be that due to minimum size of a few components, you cant make them smaller then a certain size, I try to make sure it will fit into 800x600. Have you tried if maybe a different look and feel gives you a better experience?

I understand that the bigger filter box is not very appealing to you. But we thought since you are now able to hide the list of active searches and use a thin button bar instead, we could use the gained space to extend the filters.

Sooner or later you will see the option to choose the icon set, also the old one, we just missed to get it ready in this release.

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Well, I'm always happy to see developers interested in their users, so many of them seem to be developing only for themselves and don't really care about any elses problems or needs from a program.

The biggest issue is the inability to rezise the boxes horizontally at the moment becasue again the scroll bar on the right in results can not be seen, strangly enough though the check boxes in the filter rules magically started working today.

Thank you for your time and consideration as well as a fine project.

Is it possible, that today, you selected a search before trying to select the boxes near the filters?

Thanks for your input!

Gregor, could they be made clickeable by default and then apply to the next started search?

Best wishes,
Arne

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What I figured out is that they have to be turned on for each search and can only be selected after you started the search, which is somewhat useful, though I personally think it would be nice if they could be set for all searches, since I would venture to guess that if you wanted something filtered it would be for the majority of your searches and easy enough to disable for the minority of them.

Just a thought, again thanks for your time and consideration on these issues.

You can click on 'Edit rules...' and change the 'Permanently enabled' setting of a default filter to always enable it.
I created this Wiki article for more info http://www.phex.org/wiki/index.php/Filter_Rules_Dialog
Would be great if you could extend any of the article in case you have some more input that might be usefull to others.

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So, most of what I suggested before has gotten implemented, which is GREAT! Thanks so much, it makes Phex that much more useful and easier to work with.

Of course, I do have some other suggestions below... The ones with ** were asked for before, but not implemented and still would be great to have.

ALL tabs: Keep highlighted selection highlighted, and focused in window. E.g., in DOWNLOAD tab, I highlight one or more files, and then sort the list by [any]; currently highlight disappears, all selections should stay highlighted, and also focused in the window, unless the selections span multiple pages [up or down].

General: Ability to change font size and colors, especially for queued files. The current green is a nice color, but too light [sometimes I can't see it if my screen is tilted just slightly back].

SEARCH tab: Need ability to continuously search, or to specify amount of time to search. Current default is much too short. Also to re-search once a new Ultrapeer is connected to.

**DOWNLOAD tab: Need ability to specify, simultaneously for multiple files, 'retry candidate(s)' and 'search'. Perhaps 'retry all candidates' and 'search for all files' buttons. Even better, a default to automatically re-search for files every N minutes which have fewer than X candidates.

DOWNLOAD tab: ability to search for files, much like the fabulous filter mechanism in the SEARCH tab. I have a few hundred files in my queue at any one time, and often find that I have already downloaded a particular version [or close enough] of a file; it'd be nice to be able to find the other versions without paging down a dozen times or more.

SEARCH tab: ability to ignore certain files; for instance, after downloading one version of a file, I want to be able to mark all versions of that file to ignore them. This would be best in the right click menu. Also, along with this, the ability to not just lighten the font of the previously downloaded files, but hide them from the list altogether. Both of these should be options, not defaults.

Other: ability to 'pause [and resume, obviously] ALL downloads' at once. For dialup users, this would be a great thing because sometimes we need to do that to check email, do webbrowsing for a few minutes, etc. Doing these things while downloading is extremely time-consuming, which, for dialup, is saying a LOT.

I like the idea of limiting searches to specific countries, or regions. Since Phex can show the flag of the country I'm connected to, could it then also limit the results to whatever region I specify, or filter out results from one or more particular countries/regions. This could be potentially be implemented in the 'disconnect policy' in the Settings.

**SEARCH tab: ability to filter strings using regular expressions. Currently only able to filter out strings with no whitespace.

Odd bits:
SEARCH tab: does not [and should] stay sorted when switching between searches.
Dragging & dropping in Windows Explorer causes Phex to blink off and on.

And I'd certainly be a willing tester for new versions and such, help out however I can if necessary.

@clampak

First of all I really like to thank you for your nice and detailed feature requests. They are really well thought of and practical solution oriented.

Unfortunatly all the "automated search" or "massive search" requests fall into an area which Phex will not offer in the near future, because of bad experiences we made in the past when Phex and others were doing automated searches and almost caused a network break down doing this. We dont want to burn our fingers with it again and risk to get banned out of the network for it.

Gregor

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