| Post 1 | New | Posted January 24th, 2005. Updated October 13th, 2006 |
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| Post 2 | New | Posted January 24th, 2005 |
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| Delfi Programmer 
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| Post 3 | New | Posted January 24th, 2005. Updated January 27th, 2005 |
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| Post 4 | New | Posted January 28th, 2005 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| Yeah, I just connected to it and it's a good chat client even if you don't want to use it to play GTA2!  ------------------
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| Post 5 | New | Posted January 31st, 2005 |
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| Post 6 | New | Posted January 31st, 2005 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| Use proper lists you lazy bugger! Code: <ul> Board code is similar, except you use [ list type=disc] and every new line is automatically made a new list item.<li>look its a list item</li> <li>yeah, and its in an unordered list container</li> <li>bloody simply, isn't it?</li> </ul>
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| Post 7 | New | Posted February 2nd, 2005 |
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| 2na Beans, eating it!
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| Post 8 | New | Posted February 10th, 2005 |
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| Post 9 | New | Posted February 10th, 2005 |
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| Delfi Programmer
| nice!! now i need adsl fast to kick some gta2 netplay  ------------------ www.mathpudding.com |
| Post 10 | New | Posted February 14th, 2005. Updated May 18th, 2006 |
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| Post 11 | New | Posted February 14th, 2005 |
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| -LoKi- . doppelgänger 
| i'll grab gta2 off the rockstar website next time i'm at home... then i'll give it a go... ------------------  |
| Post 12 | New | Posted April 6th, 2005 |
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| Forelli_Boy Mitsubishounen
| *downloads*  7:59:47 AM - > Connected to GTA2 Game Hunter server. 7:59:47 AM - Logging in... 7:59:48 AM - Unable to send data. 7:59:48 AM - * Disconnected *  ------------------  |
| Post 13 | New | Posted April 7th, 2005. Updated April 7th, 2005 |
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| Post 14 | New | Posted April 7th, 2005 |
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| Forelli_Boy Mitsubishounen
| it was probably because i was using college wireless, or it was the first connection. >_>; ------------------ |
| Post 15 | New | Posted April 12th, 2005 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| I just fired up v1.33 and went to see if anyone was online. After five four-player games I think we can safely say that GTA2 Multiplayer is very much alive and well, even though I kept winning all the games by loads. Plenty of people online using it:.jpg) larger image Bit annoying that it doesn't have an INI file which stores settings, such as the position, size and state of the window. Also, minimising the window should minimise the window, not exit to the system tray. Adding that as a menu command inthe File menu would make more sense, imho. Also, the bright white of the text areas doesn't seem to match with the darkness elsewhere. I would suggest just using the Windows standard interface. If you are coding this in VB then I can help you get it to use the neat Windows XP visual styles when run in that OS. ------------------
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| Post 16 | New | Posted April 13th, 2005. Updated April 14th, 2005 |
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| Post 17 | New | Posted April 14th, 2005. Updated April 14th, 2005 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| Yes, I do use a custom size because I run my desktop at 1600x1200 which makes for very long lines of text if the form is maximised!  As for the settings to save, you might get some ideas by prodding TextStudio. I keep recent builds in the !dev folder of my site...sort of like the "nightly builds" of more famous projects. By saving all these settings the user can set everything just as they want it and not get everything thrown back to the old way when they return. Positions, sizes and states of forms are essential since that is what allows people to organise their desktops. By saving the window state you can actually let people start up the program in the system tray, provided to wrote code to read when the state was set at that particular value and you write the setting to the file correctly. You could also save their preferred username and stuff like that. I agree that visual themes are not important, so perhaps you would be better of making it consistant with the rest of the programs on the operating system is being run that using an conventional mixture of black, white, red and green? There are a few little size mismatches, such as the "Send" button not being the same width as the players list. The spacing between controls seems inconsistant, too. The grid control thing across the top would be better if it used a proper data grid type of control. That way you could make the columns resize to suit the window rather than always being squished up on the left. These little refinements make the difference between a solid, usable program and a really great device which is nice to use. ------------------
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| Post 18 | New | Posted April 14th, 2005. Updated April 15th, 2005 |
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| Post 19 | New | Posted April 15th, 2005. Updated April 15th, 2005 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| The default size for "Restore Down" seems to be zero, which makes it look as though it's been turned into a docking window rather than a normal application. Where are the settings saved to, btw? It's nice to put them in an INI file so that people can tinker with them if they want to. How come the name "Cerbera" always gets rejected when I try to use it? I have to use "BCerberaM" or something to get it to connect. Any chance you could make the minimum usable width of the program narrower? For example, removing the little GTA2 logo from the right side of the "Disconnect" button. You could probably remove the "Network Status" caption compeletely since the status is indicated by whether or not you can click the connect button. That would put all the buttons next to each other which would be neat. A minimum width of about 550px would suit me since I could then have a 1024px wide browser window and be chatting in GTAGH at the same time. Other users might prefer 400px so they can vertically tile it with another window on an 800x600 screen. The gaps between the controls still seem inconsistant and the "Send" button would balance the interface better if it matched the width of the player list, imho. Using emboldened text on the buttons is rather unconventional and not really necessary, since you use normally weighted text in other places. Emboldened text makes a button seem that something is special about it, but all your buttons have it so it loses its meaning. Addition of the nation next to each player is neat. And the saving of settings is wonderful. (EDIT) Your "Tools > Settings" form uses standard styling and it looks fine and is nice to use with good spacing. Why not use that convention throughout the application? (EDIT2) The system tray support still feels rather clumsy. The default operation of the minimise button should be to minimise the window. "Exit to System Tray" is a completely different operation and would normally be placed in the "File" menu above the actual "Exit" item. When restoring the program from the tray, it loads up maximised even when it was restored down before. Since the settings are saved, you can just store what the state of the window was in memory before it gets placed in the system tray and then use them when it gets restored back to a normal window again. ------------------
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| Post 20 | New | Posted April 15th, 2005. Updated April 17th, 2005 |
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