LlanaNL - Notifications used to be "Always on Top" but sometimes with some games , that creates some problems. (Like unintended switches to ScC in the middle of game ) And of course the last thing i want , is to disturb users gaming. I'll look into it tho , if i can find a way to prevent that and still keep pop up's on top , I'll add it back in for sure.

blomsterjohn - Thanks man , please don't forget to post about what you think about it afterwards

Darren1337 - In the earlier beta stages , before adding that loading bar , a few friends told me that an instant response after running application would be nice because loading process takes 2-3 seconds and they cannot be sure if they mis clicked ScC Shortcut or not in those 2-3 seconds. So it's like a confirmation window , "Yea it's running now , you didn't mis clicked" etc. This is important especially when a user running it for first time ( who even don't know it's a system tray application , expecting a big window in the middle etc )

I thought it looks cool but I'll work on it today if you think it's ugly. Just a little bar , I'm pretty sure i can beautify it.
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Also
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You are now reading loading messages in Ghosts voice!

Indeed ScC needs more exposure at the moment. But unfortunately i can't code & debug & add new feature & create visuals & do marketing & post long detailed presentation posts in every forum IN my exam week

That's why i need you guys to spread the word and help me.

The whole point of ScC is to bring the community to your desktop ,
we got an awesome community in TL but browsers capabilities are extremely limited ,
we got a Battle.Net 2.0 in game which is......... well not as good as we would like it to be ,
and ScC is like a love child of those 2 , TL services , on your desktop with all the eye candy and visual style of Sc2 !
And indeed it also makes Sc2 more accessible to the crowd. I have friends who don't know anything about Sc2 but still watches tournaments/streams because it's there , just 2 clicks away with ScC.
If only a big community favorite name like Day9 / Wheat / JP etc , give ScC a shot

In the other news ; s_i_l joined me for the development of ScC ! Hopefully ScC will improve faster from now on.
Next patch will be released soon with few bug fixes , UI improvements and a whole new feature!

pyro19

6575 Posts

November 07 2010 13:30 GMT

#63

Where can i download the XP version?
Does the Version in the OP work for XP as well?

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 07 2010 13:34 GMT

#64

pyro19 - Yup , recommended download ; "Starcraft Calendar 1.2.2b" is working on XP , Vista , W7 no problem.
http://sccalendar.codeplex.com/releases/

JulianSidewind

Canada52 Posts

November 07 2010 20:30 GMT

#65

I love this program. The main thing I love about it is the streaming windows can be made like 95% of full screen. I am also running 2 monitors, and i like to watch on one screen and do other things on the other. Since I cant have videos full screen unless they are the active window, i have to shrink them to do anything, but with the streaming window from the program, i just maximize it on one side and its really large and is a negligible difference from full screen.

I have a couple requests though.
1) If i click on the icon in the notification area and the menu opens, can you put an option there to close the menu so it can disappear without having to refresh the notifications or having to open something.

2) MLG cast functionality. If this was added this thing would be perfect, but I can understand if its a huge problem because I have never seen this stream embedded in any other sites, and i know you're working on it.

3) A restore down option. When making full screen with windows 7, to shrink the window again you have to hit alt+space and then select restore to make the window smaller. It's ok for me, but if someone doesn't know the shortcut, it may confuse them.

4) Online updates, which you probably are working on for when it's not in beta anymore, but just in case

Edit: Sorry to sound demanding, but it's hard to suggest over the internet without sounding like a dick. Call me a high templar, cuz i'm just giving some feedback :D

Thanks a lot, I love it.

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 07 2010 20:40 GMT

#66

JulianSidewind - Glad you like it!

1) You can actually simply right click the menu and it'll disappear just like notifications . Left clicks opens , right clicks closes.
2) We are planning to add tournament casts but we won't have a Blizzcon or MLG for a long time now and adding Gom support would be illegal so i guess there is no need to rush function for now .
3) Oh i just checked that and noticed [1x] is not working at that situation , thanks for reporting that of course I'll try to fix that.
4) I'm not sure i understand this one tho , you mean something like auto update to download&install new versions? Well i guess i can implement such thing but to be honest , I'm not really eager to do that for many reasons like , it'll kill my website bandwidth and probably cost me a decent amount of money etc.

PLEASE do ask for more , knowing that peoples using&loving my application is the thing keeps me going. More feedbacks = Better ScC = More Users = More feedbacks = Rainbows and ponies EVERYWHERE!

JulianSidewind

Canada52 Posts

November 07 2010 20:41 GMT

#67

Oh cool, right click is awesome

, yea i figured casts with specific companies would be difficult.

Ayush_SCtoss

India3050 Posts

November 07 2010 20:42 GMT

#68

Do I have to dl the new version? Or will the previous version function properly if I don't dl the latest version?

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 07 2010 21:03 GMT

#69

Ayush_SCtoss - Well I'm doing my best to not break somethings in the older versions while adding new stuff so yes , you can use older versions ( at least for now ) but it's much better to get most recent version with bug fixes ( as you can see in this topic ) and lots of new features/improvements.

I'll release 1.2.3b pretty soon ( tomorrow i guess , damn exam week ) and yes 1.2.2b and 1.2.1b will still be functional , no problem

Blackhawk13

United States442 Posts

November 07 2010 21:43 GMT

#70

will the program detect if a new version comes out?

looks cool btw =)

s_i_l

12 Posts

November 08 2010 15:40 GMT

#71

JulianSidewind, Blackhawk13, and basically everyone else - I'm going to take point on a method for doing an auto-reminder for new versions.

This won't be as nice as firefox's auto-update feature (where it automagically says that the program is updated), as that would require us to host our own download server (very expensive for a starting open source project).

What we can realistically do, however, is use web services to detect if a new feature has been released, and then a reminder message will pop up when you refresh your stream/calender/social feed info. (oops, did I just drop an upcomming feature there?) That reminder will provide a link for you to open our download page to get the newest version. We'll do our best to not make this as bothersome as adobe updater.

You can expect this functionality to go public in a week or two.

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 11 2010 21:12 GMT

#72

Hey guys ,
I just wanted to inform you about what's going on / new features / new patch. I'm having an extremely hard time as this is my exam week but still , we're improving it non-stop.

A few days ago we decided to skip the small patch we were planning ( 1.2.3b ) and concentrate on a major patch ! ( 1.3.0b )

As i said , 1.3.0b will be a major patch which means new features ; IRC CLIENT & RSS READER ! I have been working on chat and s_i_l has been working on rss for a few days now , and hopefully both will be released this weekend.

A few pictures now ;

New loading screen , Darren1337 didn't liked the old one

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New Menu with chat button ( i'll also add rss pretty soon )
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you REALLY want chat channels? Well enjoy! ..... till I remove it at ScC 2.0

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Lots of little improvement. For example , stream tags now has current viewer count and streams are ordered by this number.
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And lots of other smaller stuff like a restore down option for stream windows ( Thanks to JulianSidewind for reporting that ) and smoother mouse movement in calendar window ( Thanks to s_i_l for both reporting and fixing that

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Our latest release is ScC 1.2.2b at the moment , and as i said we're planing to release all these this weekend.

Don't hesitate to post here and ask for any further improvement / features you want.

And please if you like it , spread the word and let your friends know about it!

LlamaNL

Netherlands9 Posts

November 12 2010 17:47 GMT

#73

A way around the app popping up over a game is having an "away" button, that disables popups.

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 12 2010 21:14 GMT

#74

On November 13 2010 02:47 LlamaNL wrote:
A way around the app popping up over a game is having an "away" button, that disables popups.

well we have such an option at the bottom of main menu , but still what if user simply forgets disable them before launching the game. Maybe i should give user an option to activate "On Top" with lots of warning messages and leave the choice to them. I'll look into that. It's extremely easy to implement but I'm simply not sure if it's a good idea or not , at the moment.

JulianSidewind

Canada52 Posts

November 12 2010 21:53 GMT

#75

Just realized the "about" screen text is modifiable. The textboxes should probably be locked, unless you're okay with it

Bursat

Turkey44 Posts

November 13 2010 23:09 GMT

#76

Ben Türkçe yazıcam. Dostum ellerine sağlık seninle gurur duymamak elde değil. Yeni sürümü sabırsızlıkla bekliyoruz ve forumda da dediğim gibi Türkçe dil paketi ve anlatımıda istiyoruz

Süper Bir İş

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 13 2010 23:50 GMT

#77

JulianSidewind - oh i didn't noticed that

About window is just like a showcase for Sc2 Styles components , and editing them won't effect anything , so i guess I won't fix it for now , thanks anyway.

Bursat - Thanks for your kind words Bursat , I'm afraid it's not allowed to post non-english on TL but hopefully mods will allow for just once. I'll definitely add language support in the future but at the moment I'm concentrating on new features and app-wise improvements.Once we release all the feature ,we have in mind ; we'll go for such improvements like language support etc.

Aelfric

Turkey1496 Posts

November 14 2010 10:39 GMT

#78

Can't we see the non-featured streams and infos like race and description in the streams menu? It would be great if we could.

Tiax;mous

669 Posts

November 14 2010 18:49 GMT

#79

On November 14 2010 19:39 Aelfric wrote:
Can't we see the non-featured streams and infos like race and description in the streams menu? It would be great if we could.

Actually it's grouped by online/offline not featured/non-featured , but yes as you said there should be a way to see the details of stream without opening it etc.

As i said before I'm not quite happy with UI design at the moment, I've done lots of improvements for 1.3.0b but still I'll probably redesign them all pretty soon ( especially calendar window and streams window )

For example , 1.3.0b Streams window ; still wip
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