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Dear Board,

I'd like to announce a new simple toy which you can download from my Website.

It opens a small window on the top right corner of the screen, and displays
how many E-Mails there are inside your POP3-Account. The Tool is in English,
the Webpages are written in German. You may get the point of configuring
after a first run. The Tool will tell you.

It's in Beta-Phase, but already quite usefull


Look here: http://www.quadworks.de/?seite=software&artikel=MlChck

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edit: changed version to 0.90, and added a todo-list here.
The newest version can always be found under the second link above.

This todid list is out-of-date. Please download again, and have a look
There are some new features included now, improvements have been
made, and still some things to come.

PLEASE REPORT ERRORS!

todid:

- move configuration into GUI-dialogue (done)
- encrypt password in .prefs using RC4 (done)
- in gui: check if login is possible = correct configuration (done)
- intervall is editable through gui (done)
- display sender, and topic max. last 15 messages (done)
- on windows decide wether SysTray OR Window (done, restarts automatically)
- short sound is played when mail-count is <> 0 (done), off-switchable

todo:

- display text of message (1.xx)
- support SSL for POP3-Servers (need another mail-server supporting this, 1.xx)
- send little text-only mail (1.xx)

Nice!
Unfortunately I can only quit the program by the task manager. (XP)
Would be nice to have a rightmousebutton functionality on the little square:
A popup with something like quit and check now...



PS,
Did you use the Gnozal's library, native code or API?
Just curious.

Character wrote:Nice!

Thanks.

Unfortunately I can only quit the program by the task manager. (XP)
Would be nice to have a rightmousebutton functionality on the little square:
A popup with something like quit and check now...

You can download again (its updated now), and use ALT-F4
Be aware, that the .prefs-file has changed. Please remove the old one.
Actually I don't know how to use Mouseevents on GUI-symbols, or if
they work under Mac OS.

PS,
Did you use the Gnozal's library, native code or API?
Just curious.

It's native. I heard of Gnozal's library, but didn't try for Mac OS X. That is, because
of my need for some custom communication routines between a server and a client.

I will post some information when I finished writing it... It's not that complicated.

It's basic but ok I think. I suggest it would be better (Windows version) for the program's taskbar icon be moved to the tray as a tray icon. In that case, it would be better to have the numeric counter as icon. In this way the mail count is always visible. As it stands now, it is obscured by overlapping windows. I'm not sure it's a great idea to request the user to store the password in the clear in the config file. It's better that your app requests it via a dialog, and you store it encrypted in the config file.

mskuma wrote:It's basic but ok I think. I suggest it would be better (Windows version) for the program's taskbar icon be moved to the tray as a tray icon. In that case, it would be better to have the numeric counter as icon.

Good idea. As I code for Mac OS X, I didn't look after Windows-only-stuff
Trying to add that for Windows. It's kind of missing on Mac OS

In this way the mail count is always visible. As it stands now, it is obscured by overlapping windows.

Yes, that is obscure, I know. If it's possible, I will change that to Systray on
Windows (and Menubar or Dockicon on Mac Os X, when incorporated by Fred )

I'm not sure it's a great idea to request the user to store the password in the clear in the config file. It's better that your app requests it via a dialog, and you store it encrypted in the config file.

I agree. That is what I thought about. I will code some configuration screen for
the next version. There are some issues, I need to resolve prior. But you know,
that many POP-Servers only accept passwords in not-encrypted clear text?

Thanks for the feedback!

mskuma wrote:I suggest it would be better (Windows version) for the program's taskbar icon be moved to the tray as a tray icon.

I kinda like it in the desktop's corner. But that's personal taste. Maybe make it optional?

jamirokwai wrote:But you know, that many POP-Servers only accept passwords in not-encrypted clear text?

True. But you can keep it encrypted in the ini file, if the user chooses to save the password locally.

Sounds like you will get some work.

Character wrote:

mskuma wrote:I suggest it would be better (Windows version) for the program's taskbar icon be moved to the tray as a tray icon.

I kinda like it in the desktop's corner. But that's personal taste. Maybe make it optional?

Thinking about making it optional. On Windows, I moved it to the taskbar just to see. A Double-Right-Click
close the tool, as I have to check how to put a Pop-Up-Menu there.

Character wrote:

jamirokwai wrote:But you know, that many POP-Servers only accept passwords in not-encrypted clear text?

True. But you can keep it encrypted in the ini file, if the user chooses to save the password locally.

Sounds like you will get some work. [/quote]

Yes... But it's learning by doing. If in the end there is a practical tool, why not