Project Status

Andrew Trumper — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:32:50 -0000

Hi there! So many projects around that look dead. This is now one of them. Sorry about that but between my job and my new found hobbies I havn't had much time or inclination to work on Myster. The last update was really just a big set of bug fixes and other tweaks. I'm finally somewhat satisfied with how Myster is working. The code base still has alot of potential. If anyone has any patches they want to add then send them here and I'll add them. Or email me questions about the code base. Other than that, enjoy the current release and tell me if something doesn't work on the newest OS release / JVM. I'll see what I can do.

misc news

Andrew Trumper — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:29:14 -0000

Hi there... This is just a quick note to say that I'm not dead! Horray!

Recently I have developed symptoms of RSI (repetitive stress injury) so I've had to take a 6 week (!!) break and a bunch of psysio in order to get over it. I'm just getting to the stage where I can type without fear of causing a massive pain explosion the next day.. Sigh.. The recovery time for RSI is stupidly long and if you ignore the symptoms you can end up permanently crippling yourself. If you do have pains in your arms or hands take the problem seriously. It feels like a normal muscle pain but it's not. It's a potentially career ending injury.

...On the plus side I've gained back a whole lot of strength I never noticed I lost. It feels weird and quite nice to be able to open doors so easily now. Anyways..

The last coding binge before my RSI problem surfaced gave Myster a nicer multi-column list so the cvs build is worth checking out. This was mostly at the Rev's request. Personally I like the ode-to-sys-7 look of the mclist but the rev managed to convince me to update it to look like system 8. lol, maybe one of these days I'll make it look like aqua, although I have got to say, I think aqua's multicolumn lists are rather ugly. I'd much rather improve the MCList's performance 3 fold (which should be possible if I write my own widget) than simply tinker with the look. If I abandon MacOS 9 I could even port most of the code to swing. That would be neat, but about a half week's worth of coding.. which is about 6 months at the current rate :-). Were trying to work towards another PR release but the rev and I have been so busy for the last 6 months that it's been slow going. Sllooooowwww going.. You know, I've bought the warcraft III expansion pack about 3 months ago and still haven't had the time to install it. Also I bought this wacom graphics tablet and having been trying to find an hour or two to play around with MacOS X's "ink well" handwriting recognition and I haven't found the space in 5 weeks.. Sigh.. no wonder I got RSI..

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for myster or any nagging bugs that they'd like fixed, feel free to give me a email.. Go on.. I won't bite... umm.. too badly..... I know you're out there.. I can see you in my tracker....

Myster DEV 21.3 released

Andrew Trumper — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:05:20 -0000

The last little while has been an all out assault on bugs, speed bottlenecks and things that have been annoying me for a long time. You want to know the changes? Changes commin' at ya ->

The progress bar border now appears all the time in MacOS 9.
The progress bar now pulsates when I tell it it (sometimes I would set the progress bar to pulsate and it would show a blank progress bar instead..)
Fixed a bug where clicking cancel on a dialog for multisource download would cause regular download to start.
Made as much of Myster as possible run on the event thread. This has solved all crashing problem for dual processor computers on MacOS X.
Re-wrote the "windows" menu code. It used to cause a slowdown everytime a window was opened or closed. Now it's really fast.
Made it so that search and p2p windows are renamed to something more appropriate on the fly. (thanx to re-writting the window menu code).
Wrote a system so that TCP connections can be done asynchronously using callbacks!
Made it so menu bars appear on progress windows so thatMacOS uses won't see the menu bar disapear when a progress bar is frontmost.
Made it so all windows have a nice looking Myster icon (not visible on most systems :-( )
Made multi source download automatically adapt to faster servers so multi source downloads are now as faster.
Windows will now un-minimize automatically if you ctrl-1 to them. (finally!)
Fixed some issues with Multisource FileProgressWindows giving wrong information.
Made FileProgressWindows use far less CPU power. Myster and your system will be more responsive during downloads.
Made it so you can navigate MCLists using the keyboard up/down arrows, page up/down and enter to doubleClick
Fixed a big memory leak when the memory used by windows wasen't being freed.

CVS build info / warning about freezes

Andrew Trumper — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:52:46 -0000

Don't try the latest CVS build (or "REV" if you want to call it that) with the MacOSX, MacOS9 plugin from PR 8. If you do then Myster will freeze badly on startup. I have changed how the "windows" menu is kept up to date. The new way is at least 10 times faster, probably more, but it breaks compatibility wiht the old PR 8 plugins. I've also taken the oppertunity to fix something that has been bugging The Rev for some time - window titles for the search and direct connect windows! They now change depending on what you search for or who you are connected to. yay! This has been annoying me for a long time too.

If your wondering why the $%&!! there hasen't been a release.. Well, I've been buisy and so has the Rev (the guy who does the fantastic web site and graphics for myster). A release is the next thing on our to-do list. It will be purely a bug fix release / performance release to account for the vast list of issues still annoy the heck out of me. It's been slow going but I'd like to thank all those who still stick with us. You guys rock!

MystrDEV21.2

Andrew Trumper — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:11:30 -0000

By the great gods of CVS I command thee to release a new Myster! .. and it was done.

Well, ok, so the actual development process was a bit less melodramatic but whatever, at least there a release out. yay!

Someone instant messaged me (I think it was dialtone. Thanx!) saying there was a bug in multisource download's resume functionality if the file name had some none-merged punctituation in it. Basically it wouldn't resume. Well it does now.

I have also made the search engine UDP based. It should be much quicker now. Especially if everybody actually upgrades to PR 8. Right now it has to switch back over to TCP if the server isn't using PR 8 so that means that a bunch of servers take forever to search... Which is why Myster can't search the entire network in 10 seconds like it could do if everyone was using PR 8. booo! Also, Myster now actually displays the correct number of server searched. The old code actually displayed 20 more servers as being searched then there was. So, if you wan to compare the speed of the search now vs the old code, remeber to substract 20 from the old Myster's value.

I can't be bothered making a code package, but if anyone really wants the code and CVS is not working out I'll make one. Just email me or something... or use telepathy.. that would be interresting... "I command thee to make a source package!".. humm where is that voice comming from?

Update

Andrew Trumper — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:36:36 -0000

So what's been happening with me? Well, I've been busy doing none-Myster
related things. Since PR 8 is, in my opinion, quite a good release, I don't
really feel any urgency to update Myster so I've used to opportunity to get
my life in order.

In other news, I have had time to play with the Eclipse IDE. It's quite
pleasant. It makes a bunch of code maintenance chores very painless.. Because
of this I've taken the oppertunity to clean up the Myster code a bit; add some
javadoc comments, fix some stupid legacy code issues, fix really minor bugs..
etc... I've just uploaded all the changes. It touches alot of files but the
changes are really small and most of them don't affect Myster's behavior at all.

In related news I've added a DEV21.1 release. It's basically PR 8 so if you've
got PR 8 you are up to date already. It's been released so that people who
can't access CVS for whatever reasons (unfamiliarity with CVS, neferious
network admins, voodo) can still get the code.

If anyone has additions or bug fixes please feel free to submit them.

Myster DEV 21 is no longer corrupt

Andrew Trumper — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:22:34 -0000

The old Myster DEV 21 was in a corrupt archive. This one should work fine.

DEV 21 is out!

Andrew Trumper — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:05:43 -0000

Working UDP on the server (and some places in the client interface too!)

Also, the p2p panel has been revamped finally. Expect the p2p window to continue to be updated through PR 9 too...

DEV 20 is out!

Andrew Trumper — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:29:04 -0000

What are the changes? Here are the changes:

- Improved the MCList sort algorithm (thanx gmarceau)
- Changed the tabs in the server stats so they actually look like tabs (thanx rev)
- Made it so that 1 person cannot hog all the download spots.
- Fixed a problem where the disconnect button wouldn't disconnect a user who was downloading from you.
- Improved the code that gets the file information after a file search. (no longer spawns a new thread)
- Improve search performance by > 25%.
- Fixed a bug where the PORN type would list no files.

Myster PR 7.6 is out

Andrew Trumper — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:23:52 -0000

See website for details

http://www.mysternetworks.com/

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