SharpLeech 2: Discussion and ideas topic.

[Hyperz]

I've decided to start this topic in light of my decision to stop the development of SL 1.x.x. The whole codebase of SL 1 has been trashed. Reason behind this decision is that the SL 1 source is a mess and GUI and program logic are not separated. Most of the core functionality resides in event handlers. That is a big no-no and means that if I make changes to the GUI I break the program logic (meaning everything stops working and I have to fix the program logic).

I will continue with SharpLeech 2 and basically start from scratch again. This might sound a bit radical but it is actually a great opportunity. Having to redesign the whole program means I can put futures in there that wouldn't of been (easily) possible with SL 1. It'll use .NET 4 and WinFX for the GUI, which is better known as WPF.

The reason for this topic is to collect ideas and suggestions. Getting those now means I won't have to make radical changes near the end, saving me quit a bit of time. Apart from that I'll use this topic to post SL2 development news etc since I CBA with creating a new website for this one program.

Here's some very early work on the GUI, comparing some parts of it with SL 1:



*waiting for feedback/ideas/suggestions*

Hyperz Reviewed by Hyperz on 3rd Feb 2010. SharpLeech 2: Discussion and ideas topic. I've decided to start this topic in light of my decision to stop the development of SL 1.x.x. The whole codebase of SL 1 has been trashed. Reason behind this decision is that the SL 1 source is a mess and GUI and program logic are not separated. Most of the core functionality resides in event handlers. That is a big no-no and means that if I make changes to the GUI I break the program logic (meaning everything stops working and I have to fix the program logic). I will continue with Rating: 5

[Royal King]

Add custom forums to leech from?

[Crossy]

Make it have Galaxy radio

http://www.galaxyfm.co.uk/

its an awesome radio

[desiboy]

Add custom forums to leech from?

+1 , this will be a very nice feature

[Dean2k]

Looks amazing man

[DeLeTeD]

- log out from a site/forum (so dont have to close/re open)
- save and load profiles
- on the monitor view maybe a pause button? So say you see something being leeched which you want to remove or fix and you still want to watch other ones you can pause fix, and then continue
- ability to auto replace text. Example - say your leeching from wbb you enter in box1 "replace terms" wbb and box2 "replace with "mywarezsite.com" so it will clean some of the threads. Not sure how hard it would be or how useful you would find it. It would be match string of text and check it against a list and replace.


Things I like so far
- new look seems cleaner
- radio is amazing
- new tab names is good



Edit - Hyperz has said before custom leach forums would be difficult to do, although it is possible and would require some knowledge on the users side.

[Hyperz]

- log out from a site/forum (so dont have to close/re open)

That has been in there since 1.0.0 .

About the custom forums, the way I think I'm going to go about "leech sites" is moving them to a plugin system. This would mean 2 things:
1) Forums can be added by placing a .dll in a folder
2) Whoever wants to add a forum will have to know what he's doing since it would involve programming.

[DeLeTeD]

That has been in there since 1.0.0 .

About the custom forums, the way I think I'm going to go about "leech sites" is moving them to a plugin system. This would mean 2 things:
1) Forums can be added by placing a .dll in a folder
2) Whoever wants to add a forum will have to know what he's doing since it would involve programming.

lol sorry I didn't really update the one I was using. Make sure that feature returns

And yes a plugin system would be nice. You still have the sharpleech domain so maybe you could set up a small forum where people can post and help others make there own forum set ups. (or a thread here on KWWH, ether way )

[desiboy]

Add custom forums to leech from?

About the custom forums, the way I think I'm going to go about "leech sites" is moving them to a plugin system. This would mean 2 things:
1) Forums can be added by placing a .dll in a folder

That's enough
will it work without recompiling ?

and please can you try to make it cross platform ?

btw ..this app is very useful to achieve it

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

[Hyperz]

What do you mean by work without recompiling?

I usually make my apps Mono-compatible but SL 2 will be an exception I'm afraid. Mono has no WPF functionality at the moment.