Forum New Poster Checker Program

I posted this to the code library, but it doesnt seem to be there...so i put it on my websapce for you to download. This program was inspired by The_Hand's Forum Status Checker. This program will get the 10 post that have been active in the VIsual Basic help forum, and link to each on directly, and will also take the Hot Topics and link to them. This program can run in the system tray, and updates every X minutes. It will notify you if there have been new post to the Viual Basic Forum. Here is a link to the zip (Source and exe)
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
Check it out and give me feed back. My email is theendorbunker@home.com

Spike


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added url tags<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by KesleyK on 10/09/01 09:27 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

It is not showing up because it has to be approved by a moderator first.

Since it is a link It should not go in that forum. See if you can get it under 50k. If not, then this would probably be the best place for it.

JDT

i had uploaded it over there, but i didnt know it had to be approved first, so i uploaded it onto my web space. The one i uploaded over there was like 49k, but missing the icon file, so i just add the icon and put it on my webspace.
Thanks for the info.

Spike

Nice effort Spike.

I recently posted an upgrade to my Forum checker. You may want to look at it for some ideas.

Regards,
-<font color=purple>The Hand</font color=purple>

<font color=green>All your code are belong to us...</font color=green> images/icons/tongue.gif

I've updated my program now, version 1.2.
download here: http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
New features:
Will list the online users.
There is now an option to have it start up with windows. (It works on my ME machine, hopefully it will work with other poeples machines)
There is an option to have the program start hidden
The look is 'neater', less messy
Option to refresh list when you want to.
Plus other mninor cosmetic issues.
Please leave comments, or sugestions
Email me at theendorbunker@home.com, or respond here
Thanks alot for looking at this!

Spike

Version 1.3 is up for download.
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
In this version, ive added a feature that will allow you to watch a post. When it refreshes the screen, if you have inputed any data into the fields, it will check that post and see how many replies it has. If there are more replies then the last check, it will notify you. Also added on the Users the ablitily to Send PM to user, Look at the profile, and view all post (As The Hand did with his, but instead of pop up menu, i used buttons). Also, there have been some minor cosmetic/small codeing changes.

Please give me feedback on it, parts to improve, etc. I dont care if any of you actually use this, but i am just useing for practice, since i am not taking any programing classes at this time.

Spike

The RefreshList() method in Form1 is still causing an error (as I posted earlier). I wonder if its happening to anyone else.

Regards,
-<font color=purple>The Hand</font color=purple>

What error is it causeing? I dont see where you posted earlier...

Spike

On Version 1.4 now.
In this version-
*Made the links nicer to look at
*Add options to turn off certain searches(Like VBHElp links, hottopics, and users online)
*Added a cancel button when it searches
*Made it tell what time it last refreshed everything (File&gt;Refresh Now)
*Added a "Search Feature" It has the stuff just like the search on these forums, but you dont have to open up an internet explorer. All you have to do is fill in the requierd information, and click the search button, and it will open up I Exploroer with the results.
*Other minor coding issues

http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
Check it out and give me feedback. If you gett errors, please tell me wehre they occur, and what the err# and description is.

Thanks for looking!


Spike

1.5 is now ready for d/l
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
Features add in this edition-
*Added a feature that searchs the forums and pulles out how many threads and post it has, along if it says there is any new post, it will show that too.
*If ya double-click on any of the forums in the new forum list, it will link to that forum.

Give any feedback you may have, any bugs or errors, please tell me about them
Thanks for looking!

Spike

I found some bugs in version 1.5, so i fixed them and add some more things!
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
In this version-
*Made the list of forums nicer to look at
*Fixed the bug with the list of forums not displaying the correct amount of new post
*i made a 'listbox' out of a bunch of richtextboxes and a scrollbar. It looks nice, though i havent made it a user control, but it looks like neat in the program.

Check it out and leave me feedback thanks!

Spike

well...i found quite a few more bugs in this version, hopefllly thet are all fixed now.
d/l version 1.7 here: http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
Bug fixes were:
*Error checking acedently was turned off..(blush)
*There was still bugs with the search all forums part, hopefully thats fixed now
*Spilt things up into more subs, making it easyer to read.
Check it out and leave comments

Spike

Version 1.8 is now ready-
Features (As of 1.8)-
*Get the 10 post that have been active in the Visual Basic help forum
*Link to each one directly
*Take the Hot Topics and link to them
*Runs in the system tray
*Updates every X(user defined) minutes
*Notifies you if there have been new post to the Visual Basic Forum
*Will list the online users
*Option to have it start up with windows
*Option to have the program start hidden
*Option to refresh list when you want to
*Feature that will make the program 'watch' a post
*Will check that post and see how many replies it has, and if more then last check, will notify you
*On the Users Tab, ablitily to Send PM to user, Look at their profile, or view all post
*Add options to turn off certain searches(Like VBHelp links, hottopics, and users online, Check all Fourms)
*Cancel button when it searches, if you want it to stop
*Tell what time it last refreshed everything
*A "Search Feature" like the forums, yet it will open up IE itself and search. Fill in the required fields and push Search
*A feature that searches the forums and pulls out how many threads and post it has, plus showing amount of 'new' post if present
*Double-click on any of the forums in the new forum list, it will link to that forum
*Nice looking toolbar
*A help window for the 'Watch Post' Feature
*Proxy setup now works (thanks to The Hand)
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip
Thanks, please email, or post your comments, questions, bugs...etc...theendorbunker@home.com

As I mentioned before, your forum checker doesn't work for me.

1) I always have to recode the "Replace" function b/c I use VB5 not VB6. I know there are several other people here that have VB5 as well.

2) Since you seem reluctant to believe my previous posts about your error, I hunted down exactly where it occurs. Screenshot is attached.

Essentially, you are looking for a color "CCCCCC" which is not in the text that is returned (for me). The first Instr() fails, which means that the second Instr generates an error (you can't start at index 0 with Instr).

Regards.

Uhhh.. Hand? There's no screenshot attached. Too big or something?

BAH! DRAT!!!

Here it is

OK, i fixed the problem (i think) and i redid the replace function. I need you to test to see if it works now.
http://members.home.net/theendorbunker/ForumCheck.zip

Thanks

Spike

Nope. Doesn't work.

I did more checking, and you aren't reading in all of the page.

Therefore it never finds the "Hot topics" string, c=0, and the whole thing happens again.

Regards

i really have no clue what is going on here....i let my prog run, and stoped it after it d/l the html...then i put it into a text file, looked through it, and everything was in there that was needed. I'll attach a text file of the d/l html. Do you think you can get the HTML it d/l's on your comp? If ya could, that would help me figure it out a lot easyer.

Spike