Niggling list problems stil present

[colin_r]

I used this program some time ago and thought it was very promising. There were a few niggles with it wich were mentioned in the forums quite a lot at the time, however i notice they are still present.

particularly the way in wich entries in the list of transfers keep changing positon. if u have a considerable number of entries it makes it imposible to select a particular one.

This can be most infuriating especialy as i had two similar files downlaoding and wanted to stop the slower transfer. I cliked on it and selected stop transfer however the list had changed and i ended up stopping the wrong transfer!

this was anoying as it had transfered about 400mb out of 550mb of data already and since then the server has been busy/unavailable etc.

what is the problem here ? why cant the list be ordered on the order the entries were created ?

this seems a similar problem to explorer in windows when looking at a list of files that are being downloaded it can be imposioble to select one of them as the entry last updated is moved to the botom - maybe the same window list object is being used? good old file manager never had this sort of problem lol.

i know u can select to only display types of entries but this does not always help as no mater what you select the list can still change when an entry changes status, and it can change several times a second too. it would help if u could order the list by one of the columns ie filename.

also when trying to select a file for download sometimes a new entry is aded to the list and this might cuase the selection u have made to change to a diferent entry, and u and up adding the wriong file, at one time it ended up downloading two copies of the same file becuase of this.

there seems to be a widespread problem among aplications of inadequate sorting of lists with multiple columns - surely this problem has been solved time and time again - there must be some common code out there that can be re used easily. I know the mfc c++ classes for lists in windows are rather cumbersome to use.

Colin.

[swabby]

I coded the transfer window code before learning some other techniques to programming list boxes. I know its a pain, but whats better, multi-source d/ling or that fixed window list box? Anyways, its definently on my todo list, I havent forgotten it, everything takes time though, sorry.

I also find this to be a problem and am glad that it is on your list. Thanks.

[colin_r]

well like i said its only a niggling problem - i think the rest of the program is truly briliant - i feel guilty for critiscing it lol - in fact if u select the entry u want u can remove it using the butons at the botom rather than the alt pull down menu - wich can cuase the selection to change without u realising it.

u mention this is on your todo list, maybe u cld publish this list somewhere if it isnt already.

the rest of the program seems to work fine to me - i think the way it keeps retrying other hosts works splendidly - this seems such an esential feature of a download manager yet many dont have it, although i havnt noticed it finding more than 2 hosts to try the multisegmented dl yet.

as discused in my other thread - if all hosts are off line it gives up - as u say it would be a good idea to change it so it keeps rsearching - i think i would like to see this at the top of the todo list, then i think it would be the best of all the file sharing clients -
then i could be pretty sure of it geting all the files for me if i just left it for long enuf - i think this is the one and only criteria i have for choosing a file sharing program.

there are im sure many other features/improvements that have been sugested or in the pipeline but i feel this will have the most benefit.

I did download the sourcecode sometime ago and started looking the transfer window issue but i cant seem to find the latest code anymore, i remember it seemed farilry easily fixable - but then doesnt it always.

oh btw it seems to crash when it runs out of disk space - but ive bought a 80gb drive so this shdlnt be a problem for a while at least anyway.