I want to add some functionality to Phex
 

I've been interested in Gnutella technology ever since I used to play Starcraft and was designing ways of having a fair tournament without hacking.

There are many things I'd like to add to a Gnutella client, but the first and easiest would be a solid file leeching process.

Instead of a general search, you enter a search string and an extention... You click on leech and leave the room... Maybe enter how many bytes you want to dl before you call it quits.

The program will constantly be trying to download those types of programs. When your computer recieved its fill, it will switch into share mode until you come back to your puter.

I'm ok with java just a lil rusty, I want to add a button called leech, a text field for file extention, and then I'm interested in:
#1: Being able to search in a way that would be useful to retry(I heard searching the same phrase is pointless)
#2: Being able to automatically add all files from the possile search results straight into downloads.

Then maybe a way to switch into sharing mode when its over(not a priority for me)

It should be kinda easy, but I'm asking for help on what classes I should be interested in.

I once followed a discussion in a different forum about such functionality. After all I have read about it I don´t think Phex will ever implement that. I believe it is more than comfortable to start a search and choos a variety of files from the result which Phex will then download automatically. Downloading all file swhich match a certain search would seriously decrease the net´s performance. And as you would most likely dump 90% of the downloaded files it really wouldn´t be worth it.

So Phex allows the download of a certain file name from any computer...

Any idea to add in functionality for user's to define these lists, and save them... Say if someone wants to make an episode directory?

Then new users would only need to download and: 2x click Phex episode directory for the list of items...

Then Phex would auto download all their files!

Would draw ALOT of attention towards phex when everyone starts seeing on the internet:
Phex complete episode/album autodownloader for their favorite files....

So I'm not really cohereant... This is the repost in more readable terms.

From what I understand from konrad_h's post is that Phex has the functionality for a person to select a file name, and then Phex will download that file from ANY computer, not just the one selected.

I believe expanding this functionality would be a phenomenial bonus.

The expanded functionality would be as follows:

A person can create a full list of downloads one wants and be able to save this list to load up at a later time.

This list would not be a straight list of files, but instead(due to bad file naming conventions), be a list that has items that can be combines using an or operator.

IE list would look like this:

Everything you wanted to know about Frogs.Phx
1: Frog Diary 1.htm
1: Frog Diary One.htm
2: Frog Diary 2.htm
2: Frog Diary too.htm
2: Frog Diary two.htm
2: Frog Diary to.html

The first listing is how the file would be renamed when saved on the person's own computer(helps standardize file naming too)

So when this person downloaded, regardless of which files, it'd appear as:
Frog Diary 1.htm
Frog Diary 2.htm

These files would allow the casual user to simply 2x click and get everything they want instead of doing a painful search and looking through crazy filenames and wasting time... Just 2x their list file and they're set!

To implement this, simply allow experts understand how to hand edit the file...
Later when man hours can be invested in code: List editing + List combination methods could be created. List editing could be done with creative use of the UI.

I think it'd be really awesome and draw attention to Phex... And not all to difficult to do as well... I know nothing of Phex's code though, and I'm rusty at Java so I can't implement it myself...

I stumbled over this little discussion while browsing the forum again. And guess what: this might be possible in the next release.

I won´t tell more for now, just be patient and see what we did to Phex.