Re: Auto-Search

Quoting "Edward J. Sheldrake" <ejs1920 <at> yahoo.co.uk>:

>> How do one tell if it's a multi-download? Is this specified globaly,
>> or localy for each download?
>> 
>> Sometimes I got the question and selected multi. Can that be changed?
>
> File > Quick options > Download mode.
> It is set when the download starts, from the option specified under
> quick options (or from which button you press if it's set to "Ask")
> It cannot be changed after the download has started.

'after the download has started'. For this session, or at all?
If I change the setting and restart Valknut. Will those particular
downloads still be multi?

> A bug with TTHF download was recently fixed, (version 20061029), that
> should fix the "File Not Available" errors.

I'll try that version. In the mean time I've been running my own version,
with SOME of the latest patches.

The only patches I have NOT applied are the following. My version works
perfectly. In two hours running, it downloaded 22 files (roughly a gig)
with more than 14 concurrent inbout (i.e. me downloading) connections
where as 20061017ejs didn't download ANY.

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dclib-0.3.7-autoconf-crap.patch
dclib-0.3.7-change-ugetblock-handling.patch
dclib-0.3.7-fix-downloading-files-from-search.patch
dclib-0.3.7-optimize-chunk-downloading.patch

valknut-0.3.7-custom-commands-v1.patch
valknut-0.3.7-custom-commands-v2.patch
valknut-0.3.7-custom-commands-v2-to-v3.patch
valknut-0.3.7-custom-menu-commands-v2.patch
valknut-0.3.7-filebrowser-default-remote-encoding.patch    *1
valknut-0.3.7-filebrowser-human-size-v2.patch              *1
valknut-0.3.7-search-results-slot-sorting.patch            *1
valknut-0.3.7-search-results-split-slots-column-v2.patch   *1
valknut-0.3.7-search-spy-copy.patch                        *1
valknut-0.3.7-search-spy-enhancements.patch                *1
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(the patches marked *1 is those I have, but not the _exact_ same one).

And the custom commands patch(es) I have absolutly no interest/need
for so I never added those...

> But multi download mode is
> still very broken, and it unusable. Fixing multi download mode is
> currently the priority.

Multi download mode...  I've always made sure that I had more than
one source of a specific file (looking for clones with/without
TTH). I can clearly see that it downloads from more than one source
at a time. Isn't that multi download mode?

> As with disconnecting from hubs, there may be a problem with the hub
> count in the tag, (you could try disabling the extended hub count so it
> just says H:1 instead of H:1/0/0), someone else sent a patch, and I'll
> add some extra sanity checking in a future release.

So it seems. Without extended hub count I see 'H:14' (which is STILL
wrong - I'm connected to 17 hubs), but WITH the extended hub count
ticked, I see 'H:9/5/2'.

I've been running with the extended hub count'er for quite some
time now (before - ? - it was configurable) and it always worked
fine...

But I've noticed that sometimes it reads 'Hub offline' when it actually
'meant' 'User offline' (a 'Try connect' - not 'Connect to Hub' -
immediately switches from 'Hub offline' to 'User offline' without
messing with the already connected hub window).

> Hope that helps, if you need a very stable version I would recommend
> running standard valknut from your distribution's packages if possible,
> although it will not be able to connect to recent DC++ versions.

That's why I'm trying patches until it breaks. I've been kicked/banned
from basically all hubs because Valknut isn't 'up to snuff' (hub op's
words, not mine :) so I MUST run a more resent version. And 'backtracking'
the patches makes it easier to find WHAT broke it...

I'm going to add the missing dclib* patches one by one and see
if it still works (AFTER I've tested you new version).

BTW, isn't it time you took over the project? At least until Mathias
get's back on his feet? The hubs are starting to whine quite loudly
about DCGUI not being good enough for them (don't support stuff that
is now required - the original DCGUI doesn't, but they don't have the
consept of OpenSource - third party patches is the norm, not the exception :)

If you do, could you bump the version to 0.4? At least two of my favorite
hubs require DCGUI v0.4 so I had to hack it myself :). But it would be
nice to be able to run a TRUE 0.4...

Mathias, if you're reading this. Could you _PLEASE_ (pretty please :)
give Edward (write) access to all the projects files/directories?
So that we don't have to mess with patches back and forth. He truly
writes good code! And he's quick to respond to feature requests and
bug reports :).