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Movement of User Preferences

I've moved this to the top of General, with a seperator beneath it. The file menu wasn't really the correct place for it!! Reedy Boy 12:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Save Function Changes

As a request from User:Phil Boswell (all hail the project manager!!), i've made a few changes to teh save menus. There is now a 'save' (save current) which saves the current settings straight onto the current loaded settings. And a 'save as' (save settings), which allows you to save it under any name.

There was implementation of this tracking, but it didnt seem to have been done properly, so i've sorted that. And set it from a default of "settings" to "default.xml" - logical, eh? :P

Reedy Boy 12:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

And I've reordered to file menu so it's more like other applications so people should have no problems using it. —METS501 (talk) 20:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Goodo Reedy Boy 20:55, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

IRCM Page Blanking Bug

I think i've fixed this

Can someone check it works, as i was having trouble doing so before :) Reedy Boy 12:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot timer

I update the bot timer so that it starts counting at the end of the previous edit, instead of when AWB is ready to save. Unfortunately, it's 3:37 AM, and I'm unable to test it extensively now :-). It should work perfectly, but if someone has a chance to check it out, that would be great. —METS501 (talk) 07:37, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

It was discussed previously, and I thought we decided that it can be hoggy. MaxSem 08:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
It never really received proper attention, and before I had a really retarded way of doing it. :-) I think it's much better, as do other frameworks (pywikipedia included) that start the timer at the end of the previous edit. It really has no effect on fast computers with fast connections, but is great on slow computers which actually take the time to process the article text rather than load the page. Perhaps a checkbox where the user can select when to start the timer? —METS501 (talk) 17:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Noooooo! Not more user settings ;) Reedy Boy 19:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I like customization. It's cool. —METS501 (talk) 20:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Want Second Opinion before Continuing

Just want second opinion on both, and for the second one, where to put it.

Reedy Boy 20:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Mets has done the 2nd one =). I cant see any reason not to do the first... Reedy Boy 11:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


Problems with saving

Have either of you had this problem? Sometimes, when the page is saves, it fails to trigger the event that calls the CaseWasSaved() function. Then it just hangs there forever until you click ignore (because it's already saved, but doesn't move on to the next article, so ignore just moves to the next one on the list). —METS501 (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm... I think ive seen it once or twice.... Reedy Boy 18:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
On this slow connection in the hotel (don't know if that has anything to do with it) when I run AWB with a very low bot delay between edits, it screws up 75% of the time. I think it might be that the page is not fully loaded before AWB tries to save. —METS501 (talk) 18:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'm pretty convinced it has to do with my change above (about when the bot timer starts). I'm reverting that until we can figure this out. —METS501 (talk) 18:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
I did revert those changes, but sadly it's still happening (although now only about 50% of the time in bot mode and about 50% of the time in manual mode). —METS501 (talk) 18:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Now I'm back home on the fast connection and it doesn't happen. —METS501 (talk) 05:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

chkWLHRedirects

What's chkWLHRedirects for? —METS501 (talk) 17:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed. It's just hidden the entire time and serves no purpose. —METS501 (talk) 21:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Next Version (3.2.0.0?)

Are we going to have the next release as 3.2.0.0? As we have now got the updater, which is sorta a bit more of a major release?

The updater seems fine, there is just the updating the updater issue, which isnt major, but will need doing, but i cant see it mattering too much atm... Or do we want that before we do the release?

As thinking about it, it shouldnt matter, if AWB does the final copy and paste over of the updater to update it, and the updater has updated AWB to include that, it can be released as it is


Any other preferences/ideas?


Reedy Boy 21:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd say go for it. Just my 2c. --kingboyk 21:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
AWBUpdaters' final touches are nearly done. Should have this version ready to go for the weekend :) Reedy Boy 22:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I say wait the few days until we've built in a solid Updater updater (if one hasn't been built yet; sorry, I haven't checked). —METS501 (talk) 22:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Sam was working on that tonight. I haven't tested it yet but he seemed happy with it. --kingboyk 22:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, i think ive got it. I've changed the updater to download an updated version of itself if the file exists (do it as a seperate download), and then it will copy it to the AWB directory as a file called AWBUpdater.exe.new, on starting AWB (should add the code to IRCM aswell), if that exists, it will nuke the old version, and replace it with the new updater. Reedy Boy 11:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good. Are we ready for 3.2.0.0? —METS501 (talk) 14:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I havent had chance to test it, as unlike you admins, i just cant change the updater v to test it out :P - However, i just thought that if i set the version of the updater to < 1, it will work the same. And it does work :). I have bumped the SVN version to 3.2.0.0
I think we're ready!! - I suppose we need to include the updater in the awb archive ;) Reedy Boy 18:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Steve's just got a few little changes to his plugin he wants to get in before the actual release of 3.2.0.0 Reedy Boy 18:14, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Released Reedy Boy 23:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikisuite

Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Wikisuite and {{Wikisuite}}. Clearly the work of a dreamer, needs to be zapped somehow. Not sure how best to deal with it. --kingboyk 14:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Zapped. --kingboyk 18:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

IAWBPlugin.Reset

AWB used to have a "reset settings" menu item (I think!), and when that was clicked plugins would receive notification via IAWBPlugin.Reset. That menu item seems to have gone, and I can't find any call to IAWBPlugin.Reset in the AWB code.

Can somebody confirm (or otherwise) that "reset settings" has gone, and gone for good? If affirmative, IAWBPlugin.Reset ought perhaps be marked deprecated, and I'll remove the relevant code from my plugin. --kingboyk 21:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC) PS & Tell me next time! ;)

It's the first menu option under file. —METS501 (talk) 22:05, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah I see. Got it, thanks. --kingboyk 22:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
As a point for you steve, look in the UserSettings.cs for those menu items. It is a partial class of the main form, and some of the menu items and such are there. Reedy Boy

Include Current AWB Version on Nav Bar

Whats anyone think? I think it'd be useful, as a quick and easy to find reminder of the current version.

Reedy Boy 23:55, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds fine to me. —METS501 (talk) 05:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Have added it, not sure if its the best place!! Move it if you wish. Reedy Boy 15:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

New Developer

User:Martinp23 is now a developer. —METS501 (talk) 18:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Weeeeee! :D MaxSem 18:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Welcome aboard! Oh, and good to see he is doing some work =) Reedy Boy 20:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hehe :) Martinp23 20:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Regextypofix + Automode

Just found that if you enabled automode after regextypofix, that it would let you

Which shouldnt happen, so i've sorted that and commited it!!

Reedy Boy 21:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Empty edit summary

I turned off a messagebox from AWB which was effecting my plugin (r683), but I'm not sure the replacement code I put in is optimal. I think AWB needs to be checking that the edit summary isn't empty once it's heard back from all installed plugins and not before, and it maybe needs to do something about an empty summary such as stopping the operation. --kingboyk 12:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Autoupdate

I think we should include an autoupdater for AWB. It would help a lot with users who get pissed when they have to update. If they were to just press "update" when there's a new version available and the program would autoupdate, that would be tons better. If any of you want to tackle it, that would be great; unfortunately, I don't think I quite have the time or the programming experience to actually do it myself :-) —METS501 (talk) 19:39, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, We'd need some webspace to get the files from... A simple program to kill the AWB process, download and override and then restart AWB... Or, just have a programmed link for each version (or rather, on the Version checkpage), that they can click ok and have the file downloaded....? Hmmm, somethign that could be done... Just not exactly sure how Reedy Boy 20:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Here's what I'm imagining: AWB checks if the version is current. If it is, then it just keeps going. If it isn't current, but it's still enabled, it asks the user whether to update, otherwise it updates automatically. Then it goes to the version checkpage to fetch the current version file name (which can be labeled like <!-- Current filename: Autowikibrowser4110.zip -->). Then it downloads the file "http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/autowikibrowser/CURRENTFILENAME" (I just selected that mirror randomly, but because the file is small the mirror doesn't really make any difference anyway). Then a new process starts up which shuts down AWB, extracts the downloaded zip file, and replaces the old files with the new ones, and then starts up AWB. Just a vision :-) —METS501 (talk) 21:48, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
A more detailed version of what i just said =P Reedy Boy 21:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Yep :-) —METS501 (talk) 22:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I cant see that being difficult. Its just looking up how to download the files and stuff... And the easiest way for the file, i think, would have on the checkpage like a link ot the file that it would download.... Its just then the unzipping the files out... Hmmmm. Want to add a subproject to AWB for us to play about with the idea? Reedy Boy 22:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Sure. You can add it. I think the hard parts are unzipping and then replacing the files though. That will be a pain in the ass on Vista. We'll have to set the program to ask for admin privileges I think. Any idea how to do that? Maybe it asks automatically? I don't know. —METS501 (talk) 22:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I dont have vista... Hmmm.... We may be able to implement it using .NET.... j# Anyone? Ah, its C# using j# :) Reedy Boy 23:02, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I would think there would be some free code already out there to do that kind of thing... erm, what's that big dot net code site? --kingboyk 23:18, 17 March 2007 (UTC) [1] --kingboyk 23:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at the SVN repository. Most of thh basic functionality i have added... Reedy Boy 23:30, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Just commited a version that works. Currently setup to download from my local webserver, with the file link and the filename manually entered

But tested working from the SF Servers, just a bit slower than a local http server ;)

Reedy Boy 00:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm working on it more now. I scrapped all of the j# code, as that means that all users have to download the j# runtime environment. It's working great and almost ready to commit. —METS501 (talk) 04:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, I've committed it. As far as I can tell, everything works perfectly. It prompts the user to update when the version is old or not enabled. If you want to test it out, just build the program with a different version number. It will tell you it's not enabled, and ask you to shut down AWB to update it. Then it will do it's magic and voilà, it's updated! —METS501 (talk) 05:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Mets, You forgot to include the library!! First guess where to put it was correct. I've added it to the SVN now =) Reedy Boy 11:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
To counter needing the extra library, (ie the dll), ive put the relevant source files for the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll, into the Updater. Which increases the updater file size, but it neater. The GNU/GPL License headers are kept.
Myself and Kingboyk were discussing having the updater download only updated features. Ie we release the WF.dll, IRCM, AWB etc etc as seperate, and they are downloaded and updated only if they have been updated. This would be a future thing to do.
Also, we need to cater for any updates of the AWBUpdater. As it cannot update itself, AWB (or something in the WF.dll) would need to update it. Possibly in the same way...? Reedy Boy 13:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Reedy Boy 13:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. As far as just the updated features, you can package an AutoWikiBrowser3110update.zip with just the new features and have the updater download that. As far as updating the updater, I have no ideas. —METS501 (talk) 15:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
That's an excellent idea. I'll take a look at updating the updater this afternoon. --kingboyk 12:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
For updating the updater, i am thinking, we just upload it as an exe to SF, and have AWB download that, and paste it over the existing one. Saves the zip code. Just need to add to/manipulate the AWB update routine to look for an AWBUpdater update... Could just put something on the version checkpage? Reedy Boy 15:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good and no, you can't put it on to the version check page cos you're not an admin ;) - but I'll do it for you! The updater certainly needs to be able to check it's own version (by extending the current code of course, we don't wanna load the page twice) so the version check page is the obvious place to put it. imho. --kingboyk 23:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Haha... Wiki Politics - Pah ;). We'd just have to work out a way to copy over the file or something as it cant do it onto itself, as it would be in use... Hmm, could we get AWB to do the copy. If it looks in the folder, and there is an awbupater1.exe (or something) when AWB is reloaded, it renames it to replace the old? But the AWBUpdater downloads its own new version? Reedy Boy 10:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Ive just commited SVN Rev 750, in which the Updater form is shown, the progress bar updates. I've dont this by a bit of a cheat, using a timer, which allows the form to be shown, and then on the tick (of 1ms) starts the update process. I've also added a routine to make sure AWB is closed, which annoys the user with messageboxes until AWB is closed.... Reedy Boy 22:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Looks good! —METS501 (talk) 23:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
=) Reedy Boy 10:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, here's how I think we should update the updater:

  • Move any shareable code in the uploader project to a new source code file
  • Compile that new source code file into both the uploader and AWB
  • When AWB checks it's version is enabled it should also check - from the same page - the uploader version
  • If there's an obligatory new updater it should go ahead and download it, if there's an optional one it should ask (or, to make things easier, we can assume all updater releases are obligatory)
  • AWB simply downloads the update using the shared code, moves the file into position, and then calls the new uploader if it's version check revealed the existence of a new version

Sam could probably get this implemented in a few minutes I reckon as it's mostly the same as what he's already done. --kingboyk 17:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm Good idea..
Something i just thought of
The updater gets the updated AWB from the internet, and also the zip (or whatever) of the updater if it has been updated. It then extracts the updater to say AWBUpdater.exe.new, and then updates AWB as normal, it then starts AWB and closes itself. If AWB find that AWBUpdater.exe.new (or whatever) exists, it will then delete AWBUpdater, and replace it with AWBUpdater.exe.new (or rename the latter..) Reedy Boy 19:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Added Code to AWB to update the updater if needed, and updater code to download a newer updater version if there is one! Reedy Boy 22:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking (yes yes that's a first) why don't we have the download link on the AWB page just be a permalink to download the updater, and then have the updater install AWB?
Also, how about having a proper installation into program files with a start menu\programs entry and everything?
Finally, the updater/installer ought to ask the user what features they want, so that the plugin DLLs get copied to the install folder. That way we won;t get folks using new AWB, old plugin, or people reporting a bug cos they only copied one DLL over not two. --kingboyk 13:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Thats a good point steve, would be useful, and wouldnt require that much work. The Updater will copy over any existing files, and will create a plugins folder whether they use it or not.
The installer is a good idea, and if we put copies of the DLL's in the Plugin folder, and set AWB the ability to 'install' - ie copy them if they want to add it later on...? The updater would work fine like that....
Sounds like we've possibly got some ideas for maybe v4? Or 3.5 or something...?
Reedy Boy 20:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

{{bots}}

I added support of these tags, shall we get the rid of blacklisting on checkpage? MaxSem 12:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Could be done, after someones tagged the pages in the backlist...? Reedy Boy 19:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

txtSelectSource

Why is the "enter" keypress event not working? It works for txtAdd, and it has the same exact code and same settings. —METS501 (talk) 15:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Mets Brokded it... :P - Wheres the text box? Reedy Boy 18:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
The one right below the source selector dropdown menu is the one that doesn't work (in ListMaker.cs). The one that does work is at the bottom (where you add individual articles). —METS501 (talk) 05:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I noticed in the code there was some manual watches for keypresses on different controls... Reedy Boy 10:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I've fixed it. It had an event handler on KeyPress, but for some reason that wasn't recognising the "enter" keypress. Changing everything around a bit fixed it, so it it uses KeyDown, and a different enum. Martinp23 19:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Removal

Can someone just check up on my rev to make sure I'm not mistaken? Thanks. —METS501 (talk) 18:58, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

IAWBPlugin

Are there any plugins out there that we know of, other than those in the AWB repository and the kingbotk plugin? I want to add some functionality to the interface connected with the nudge feature - and undertake to fix the aforementioned plugins - but don't want to flagrantly breach the warning I wrote about not changing the contractual interface :) --kingboyk 15:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Unicode problems -- URGENT

Big problem with new Special:ExpandTemplates usage: It's not handing HTML entities, unicode, etc. well. See what it did and [2] hat it should have done]. I don't have time to fix it now; a quick fix would be greatly appreciated. I just found out with a huge amount of messages to my talk page and my bot blocked for making that error :-) —METS501 (talk) 00:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I've removed this from the code and released another new version disabling the last, as this is too big a bug. It also has problems dealing with any non-English characters. —METS501 (talk) 02:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
[3] To check - is this definately the desired behavoir, and are there any others worth testing on? Thanks, Martinp23 21:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Committed a fix in rev 949, but I've not re-added it for handling user talk messages just yet, pending any feedback. Martinp23 21:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Seems fully resolved in rev 950 Martinp23 22:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Ref formatter

We've got two bugs related to Parsers.FixFootnotes. I suppose it's time to disable it until we can be sure that it will work ok. MaxSem 12:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Disabled until fully fixed. What shall we do about these bugs? Close 'em as fixed, or it'll be too much of amputative surgery? MaxSem 06:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT

r908, might be worth checking. Further to User_talk:Kingbotk/Plugin#Listas_and_DEFAULTSORT, and in the interests of code reuse, I've changed AWB to call the DEFAULTSORT regex in the new module I added yesterday. My regex is slightly better anyway, since it deals with this perfectly legal scenario. --kingboyk 13:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

New Template

Hey Guys, To make our lives easier, template created to list SVN log Rev: {{awbsvn}}

Gives rev 666

Reedy Boy 21:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Time in log

The time isn't added to the "saved" list view. —METS501 (talk) 21:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Update your SVN - Added tonight Reedy Boy 21:34, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Error

I'm getting a "Configuration system failed to initialize" error when I start up the latest SVN build. Any ideas? It's not happening in the debugger, only after actually building the project. —METS501 (talk) 17:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Do you have all the necessary files in place? I seem to recall getting that error when a file was missing.
BTW, I just got a missing object error in an SVN build, but I don't know if it was caused by AWB (e.g. logging object) or plugin. --kingboyk 17:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, as far as I know everything's in place. I tried deleting the output files and letting them regenerate; same error. —METS501 (talk) 17:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I just deleted the entire folder, and re-checked out everything from SVN, and then rebuilt: same error. —METS501 (talk) 21:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
If you've got all files including AutoWikiBrowser.exe.config in place, I don't know what else to say. Mighty strange that it would work in the debugger but not compiled. Both are working for me, btw. --kingboyk 00:30, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Can you email me your config file and I can compare mine to it to check for problems? Special:Emailuser/Mets501 works. —METS501 (talk) 19:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I'd be surprised if it's settings, but FWIW I just emailed you the one I use most often. --kingboyk 20:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm getting the same issue in the debugger, but not in compiled (though I am running the program as administrator in Vista). Could this be a permissions issue? If it is, then it has appeared surprisingly suddenly... Martinp23 19:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
So you have the opposite problem as me :-) When running Visual Studio with or without admin permissions I get no error on debug, and when running AWB compiled with or without admin permissions I get the error, so I don't think it's a permissions issue. —METS501 (talk) 19:57, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Almost certainly not permissions then! On a related point - when I had this error on startup, I got a generic WebClient error when doing stuff with ExpandTemplates, though all other connections worked fine. That issue resolved itself after running the program independantly of VS2005 with admin privs (at which point I got a message from McAffee about it...). Hopefully it's something simpler than this though! Martinp23 20:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
AWB must have decided it only likes the british - Rule Britannia!! ;) Reedy Boy 20:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
(ec) Lol - but I'm British! Martinp23 20:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Stepping through, I get a System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException error on line 43 of Settings.Designer.cs, which is being called by line 86 of Main.cs. See below for exception detail: Martinp23 20:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException was caught
  Message="Configuration system failed to initialize"
  Source="System.Configuration"
  BareMessage="Configuration system failed to initialize"
  Line=0
  StackTrace:
       at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection(String sectionName)
       at System.Configuration.ClientSettingsStore.ReadSettings(String sectionName, Boolean isUserScoped)
       at System.Configuration.LocalFileSettingsProvider.GetPropertyValues(SettingsContext context, SettingsPropertyCollection properties)
       at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.GetPropertiesFromProvider(SettingsProvider provider)
       at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.GetPropertyValueByName(String propertyName)
       at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.get_Item(String propertyName)
       at System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.GetPropertyValue(String propertyName)
       at System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.get_Item(String propertyName)
       at AutoWikiBrowser.Properties.Settings.get_StubMaxWordCount() in C:\Users\Martin\Desktop\AWB\AWB\AWB\Properties\Settings.Designer.cs:line 43
       at AutoWikiBrowser.MainForm..ctor() in C:\Users\Martin\Desktop\AWB\AWB\AWB\Main.cs:line 86
This is clearly an issue with the settings file appearing empty, non-existant or inaccessible. The temproary user.config produced by VS when I debug is empty, and presumably there's a similar issue at compilation time on Mets' system (presuming the new config file didn't fix the issue). Does anyone have any ideas? For background info: I'm running VS2005 on Vista Home, with .NET 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 installed. I can't pinpoint a time tnhat the issue occured, as this is a new PC which I'm still in the process of setting up, so am installing and uninstalling stuff all the time. Martinp23 21:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
The painful but obvious approach is to check out an old revision, try that, then the next revision, and so on...
Are you using a "full" VS2005 or the Express edition? --kingboyk 22:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm on the full version, SP1 with Vista update. I'll try a few random checkouts from the past to see if there's an issue, and check the various VS settings - Martinp23 22:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
It's almost certainly an issue with system permissions in both my case and Mets' case. To fix, I set the .sln file to open with VS version selector (rather than devenv.exe), and made devenv.exe open without admin permissions (ie - reset these options to default on Vista). Of course, this is a bit of a pain in terms of Vista/VS interoperability, but resolves my issue. I can't guess at what Mets' issue is, but it may be worth re-building the program making sure that the settings are all at default. Martinp23 22:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Logging error or something else?

The AWB logging tab (which is proving hugely useful) tells me that AWB skipped Talk:John the Scot (bishop) because the page is protected. However, it seems that page isn't and has never been protected (unless I made a mistake when looking at the logs). --kingboyk 17:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe the database was temporarily locked and AWB confused it for being protected? —METS501 (talk) 17:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

ExpandTemplates issue

The issue which caused unicode problems is now resolved in SVN, however the offending code is still live in the current release, and the program is set to use the expandtemplates feature by default when subst'ing. The result of this is that, although the use of the function when carrying out general fixes is now disabled, it is still readily used by people when subst'ing using the find/replace system. Do you think this is something that a bug fix release should be made for? Martinp23 17:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Probably, just we are still working on the logging element... Which works to an extent in its current state, there have been a hell of a lot of changes since rev 860 to the current rev 959. Steve and I aren't far off, so we should be able to get one out this weekend!! Reedy Boy 17:22, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
The other option is to checkout a known good revision, apply the new patch, and release that. The logging stuff is mostly great, but I've been getting occasional runtime errors when my bot has been running... I wouldn't recommend release of the current svn version. --kingboyk 20:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Also, I can't compile and run the software and Martinp23 can't run it in debugger mode, so we should probably figure that out first. —METS501 (talk) 23:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Yep, and other supposedly fixed issues remain, like it not exiting cleanly if exited immediately. Sam also had problems just now when exiting. I forget what, but no doubt he'll chip in :) --kingboyk 23:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
We have an infinite loop, as the web browser control has been disposed, so it isnt going to change status.
while (ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) Application.DoEvents();
Reedy Boy 10:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Stub location in article

After changing it in SVN to comply with simple's system of doing things, I've been asked on IRC why the stub tag is put after the categories by AWB, so mixing up the visible and the invisible content. If made, this would only be a cosmetic change and could reault in meaningless edits - is it worth committing a fix based on the (apparent) support from the community for it? Martinp23 23:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I've always disagreed with it being done that way too. How can we determine consensus? (IRC is not consensus, btw!) --kingboyk 23:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Dunno - an IRC poll? :P (only joking!). I was told on IRC that the current system goes against common sense, and is against what most would expect (only 2 people voiced their opinions). I'll make a post on the Village Pump about it, and see what we get. Martinp23 11:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I find your lack of faith in mightiness of the IRC cabal, great and mighty, disturbing. Cabal's sock 14:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Contributions

I don't think this is related to AWB, but it may be, so I'll post here. I've made 60 edits on AWB, and its been 25 minutes and they're not showing up in my contribs. Very strange. The edits did take place, however, as can be seen from the article edit histories. —METS501 (talk) 00:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, they finally showed up. That was weird. —METS501 (talk) 00:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
The lag has got worse and worse tonight. It was about 9 minutes, now it's 25 or so. Special:Recentchanges stays up to date, watchlist and contrins don't. --kingboyk 00:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I wonder what happened. —METS501 (talk) 02:11, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

AWB extension proposal

I've got a proposal for extension. For somebody it seems vague, so I should explain what I propose:

  1. Move common UI from WikiFunctionы library to seperate library for common UI
  2. Move wiki params from static class to normal classes (or you know how to make WikiFunctions library on to wikis in one time?)
  3. Move IRC access and parsing to seperate library
  4. Expand WikiFunctions libarary functionality
  5. Add useful utilities (like local editcounter or watchlist observer)
  6. Add automatic bots
  7. Add scripting (I saw a sample in DirectX SDK, that uses C# for scipting. It's written on C++, but I hope it's possible to use it from .NET program)

- VasilievVV 07:39, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

OMG another WikiSuite :D
I was writing email reply to you when I saw this message, so I'll reply you here.
  1. Any reason for it? WikiFunctions is just a library for common functions of AWB and things that need to be in a dll due to .NET architecture.
  2. This would require a substaintial rewrite. Will you do it?
    Yes, I think I'll try - VasilievVV 11:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  3. Another dll? Currently AWB is shipped with one library, and you're proposing to split it to 5-6. That would be extremely inconvenient.
    Maybe. But now it's like a melting pot. - VasilievVV 11:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  4. No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. %)
  5. There's a m:Toolserver for such things.
    It can't notify you about something immediately - VasilievVV 11:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
    But good tools on toolserv are better than writing a similar thing for AWB, as using toolserv can reduce strain on the databases and give you a wider range of data available (when replication gts back up to speed). Martinp23 12:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  6. AWB works fine in bot mode.
    AWB can't perform some custon actions (like collecting user edit count and put it on his subpage), can it? - VasilievVV 11:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
    Only cause it isn't coded to do so. Reedy Boy 12:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
    This seems to involve the same as the point above - these things are easy to code for, but haven't been done as they have negligable value (why would the bot need to update its edit count, for example). Martinp23 12:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
  7. Custom C# code for article text modification is supported. Do you want to have a whaladon that would support custom scripting for everything (e.g. selecting next article to edit, switching to another project)?
    Yes. - VasilievVV 11:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
MaxSem 08:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Hehe. If theres anything you specifically want in AWB let us know, it has support for the different languages and such... MaxSem has pretty well hit the nail on the head Reedy Boy 10:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
You can always write another DLL which adds these extra features, or send us code for adding to the repository. That's what I did; I just reference wikifunctions.dll and then build on it. Now some of the features I put into that code are working their way into AWB/wikifunctions proper. I'm sure we'd be delighted to have extra features from you. --kingboyk 12:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Take a look at the DotNetWikiBot framework (DNWBF), which is also in C#, but is more geared towards bots that AWB is, and is far more generic. Don't forget that Wikifunctions.dll was designed with AWB in mind, and making the library more usable by other programs is a lot of work, and would probably break AWB. DNWBF would be more receptive to changes, as it is designed to be generic. Martinp23 12:25, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for idea. - VasilievVV 17:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Magic words

This change needs a review. MaxSem 17:14, 7 April 2007 (UTC)


Next version

I think we should aim for a release this weekend.

The new logging feature is complete (and wonderfully useful) and, as far as I'm aware, now clear of any bugs. Letting it out into the wild would be good. Also, my plugin has a lot of changes accumulated, and I'd like to get version 1.2 out of the door (hopefully the last major release until at some point in the future I work on version 2).

The nudge timer changes need to be fixed, and there are a few bugs which need attending to, if folks could turn their attention to that.

I think we're nearing a version 4, but as we're not quite there yet perhaps we could release a version 3.9 (mandatory upgrade) this weekend? --kingboyk 13:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree. There has been quite a few features released, and maxsem has done quite a few bugs and stuff recently. Putting it out in the open would give users access to the new features, and find any flaws in them, and remove some of the broken functions that we've commented out. Tonight seems good. Will allow me time to sort out the change log and such. Reedy Bot 14:10, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiDiff2

What do you think about integrating wikidiff2 into AWB? (See [4]) It's the code that generates the diffs. The only problem is that it's written in c++, not c#. Can we "translate" it with that site you told me about to translate the custom module code? That would allow us to generate the diffs locally, saving time for users when using AWB and saving resources. Then we can even eliminate the quick save option from the bots list. —METS501 (talk) 01:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

That program will do a version of C++, so we could. What does MaxSem have to say? Reedy Boy 01:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Why do we need it? MaxSem 06:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Mainly cause if you're working on a slow connection, the extra page load to view the diff wastes a lot of time. It's faster to have it rendered locally on any connection, for that matter. Also, in a much less significant way, it reduces server load, but that alone wouldn't be a reason to do it. —METS501 (talk) 07:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree. Apparently, it has not-so-perfect UTF-8 support, so I'd rather port it to C#/.NET. I'll spend next week in SPb and will try to do it, if I have free time. MaxSem 08:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Great! —METS501 (talk) 16:36, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
IIRC it's possible to compile C++ code to .NET then link it with C# code. You may want to consider doing that; I've never tried it though. Note: I am not an AWB developer. Cheers, --unforgettableid | how's my driving? 23:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Please check User:Cacycle/diff for the diff code that is used for wikEd. It is in JavaScript, but converting it to C++ should be relatively easy. The code is tuned for Wikipedia texts an also detects block moves. It outputs one single text, containing all additions, deletion, and block moves. This is easier to read than the standard Wikipedia output. You can test it by installing wikEd on your monobook.js page and then pushing the new 'diff' button next to the 'View Changes' button. Cacycle 02:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Cheers, but we need it into C# or similar rather than C++. But it could be something else to look at - thanks =) Reedy Boy 08:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I've tried to port wikidiff2 to managed C++, but result crashed in random places, so now I'm playing with a native C# diff engine. MaxSem 13:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
The diff screen looks very similar to the diff Tortoise SVN uses! Reedy Boy 13:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I think that detecting block moves is a very important feature - in sharp contrast to program code the effects of block moves are relatively small and they are a common change to articles. However, the current MediaWiki diff code cannot handle them and generates paragraphs of red text when in fact not a single word has been changed. I am not that into C#/++ programming, but it should not be too difficult to translate this commented JavaScript code to C#. Cacycle 23:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
It would be great for MediaWiki's DifferenceEngine, but not so useful for AWB that moves things only when sorting metadata. MaxSem 07:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Currently workingon it, expect firt results in a week. MaxSem 07:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Cool, be good to see some results!! I see a potential feature for releasing as V4!! Reedy Boy 10:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Diff went live. Currently it uses an external dll written in C++, but porting is underway. Since we're able to customize the code, I attempted to use the solution for horisontal scrollbar from here. It does not work. Any ideas? MaxSem 21:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

So, I installed C++.net (boo! hiss!) but I can't get the AWB solution to compile. I have 2 sets of errors:
  • Error 3 Unsafe code may only appear if compiling with /unsafe: e.g.: private static unsafe extern byte* wikidiff2_do_diff(byte* text1, byte* text2, int num_lines_context);
  • Error 7 The name 'WikiDiff' does not exist in the current context: e.g. WikiDiff.DiffStyles() + @"</style></head><body>" + WikiDiff.TableHeader() + WikiDiff.GetDiff(strOrigText, txtEdit.Text, 1) +
--kingboyk 22:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

PS Max, as you saw, I put 3.9.0.1 or 3.9.1.0 (forget which) as the next version number on /History; but if wikidiff is ready and with a few other loose ends tied up it'll be version 4 I'm sure. --kingboyk 22:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Everything compiles on Martin's machine... Catch me on IRC, I'll try to help. MaxSem 06:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Mine wasnt compiling first, but then it did... weirdly. I got an error however, when trying to do diffs, of something to the affect of "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" Reedy Boy 08:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
AWB solution now compiles, but the wikidiff DLL doesn't get compiled automatically nor copied to the AWB bin folder (somebody pse fix that). In the meantime, to get AWB working you need to right click the wikidiff project in VS and click Build. Then copy the resultant DLL over to your AWB folder. --kingboyk 16:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This should be fixed with rev 1051, now it's built to the same folder as AWB. MaxSem 14:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Im getting a few about blank script errors. ';' missing on line 102, char 17 Reedy Boy 13:23, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Bah, it worked before that major rewrite %). I fixed it by removing the unneeded handlers. MaxSem 18:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Nudge timer

Discussion started at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard:

AWB has long had a habit of stalling: on db-lock, on timeout, on disconnection. I would often wake to find my bot stalled, so I had to resort to putting a nudge timer into my plugin. This is a dirty hack I'd really like to get removed, so any progress on stopping AWB stalling when these things happen (or building the nudge timer into AWB) would be great. --kingboyk 23:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I'd support the nudge timer built into AWB. Basically, I'm envisioning a timer that starts when AWB is ready to save, and if x seconds pass with no save then it tries to resave, and so on. —METS501 (talk) 23:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
That's pretty much how my plugin does it; it starts a timer and if 10 minutes elapse it fires AWB a stop event followed by a start event. --kingboyk 23:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I would have it more like 60 seconds, but it sounds good. I would implement it. —METS501 (talk) 23:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't feel I know AWB or C# well enough to do this myself. It needs a good understanding of the internals and has to be robust. I will however share a few of my observations having written a reasonable implementation of this in my plugin but one which need to be a bit smarter if it were in AWB:

  • Nudge timer should be an option, and should probably only operate in bot mode
  • Timer should be no less than 60 seconds; I went for 10 minutes. User configurable is a possible alternative.
  • Number of nudges recorded in a label somewhere or on the status bar
  • Timer needs to be reset after each successful operation, disabled when there's been no start event (user clicking start or a plugin firing Start()) or when there's been a stop event, disabled if the user has been blocked or has mail, and disabled if the article list is empty.
  • I'm happy to share my VB.NET code which I would say is about 90% compliant with this: I've had one report of it starting AWB while the user was still setting up (unverified, but I imagine a slight flaw in state preservation), but it's nudged an unresponsive AWB when I was asleep several times and has been useful.

HTH. --kingboyk 14:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I committed a nudge timer. Do you want to check it out? —METS501 (talk) 15:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Ooh, lovely. I will do at some point, yes, but I'm a bit overloaded (pun intended) at the moment. --kingboyk 15:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Could we increase the nudge timer to say 5 minutes, and also log nudges and/or display the number on the status bar? With regard to the first request, I've been experiencing a bug in my plugin where it keeps adding the same log entry over and over. I've not identified the cause yet but wonder if the new nudge timer isn't allowing enough time for the log upload operations to finish, and the plugin is receiving the next lot of article text and thinking it has to upload logs. This might not be the cause but I'd like to rule it out, and since the idea is to wake up a sleeping bot overnight I think 5 minutes is quite OK :) --kingboyk 23:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Working on it. —METS501 (talk) 00:00, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Alright, update your SVN version and see what it looks like :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:02, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Looks fantastic. Will test later. Thanks Mets. --kingboyk 11:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Why don't the cogs on the bot tab move? --kingboyk 16:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
What? —METS501 (talk) 22:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
You forgot the animation! Cogs moving as the bot is operating, with the speed of movement reflecting the edit rate, and the cogs vibrating when nudged!! --kingboyk 22:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:-) —METS501 (talk) 22:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

In all seriousness, I added an interface member to allow plugins to override the nudge (but leave the timer running) and tests so far indicate it's solved the error in my logging code. --kingboyk 22:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, great. —METS501 (talk) 22:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Could the nudge timer be programmed to go to the next page after x amount of nudges? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@ 23:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Sure, will do that. —METS501 (talk) 23:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, I added a checkbox where it asks if it should skip an article if the first nudge doesn't help. —METS501 (talk) 00:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
You don't seem to have got these values saving/loading with settings?
I've defaulted the new option to False, as I've found it an annoyance (lots of valid articles skipped when I had a bad connection). --kingboyk 16:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh yeah, sorry, I always forget to have it save as the settings. False as default is fine with me. —METS501 (talk) 16:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Plugin code

PluginManager Class:

        Public Sub Nudge(ByRef Cancel As Boolean) Implements WikiFunctions.Plugin.IAWBPlugin.Nudge
            Cancel = PluginSettingsControl.MyTrace.IsUploading

            If Not Cancel Then
                For Each p As PluginBase In ActivePlugins
                    If Not p.IAmReady Then
                        PluginSettingsControl.MyTrace.WriteBulletedLine( _
                           "Bot mode: Not nudging AWB as a generic plugin isn't ready yet", True, True, True)
                        Cancel = True
                        Exit For
                    End If
                Next
            End If

            If Not Cancel Then PluginSettingsControl.MyTrace.WriteBulletedLine("Bot mode: AWB is giving a nudge", _
               True, False, True)
        End Sub

PlugingSettingsControl Class:

        Private Sub NudgeCountTextChangedHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
            lblAWBNudges.Text = "Nudges: " & _
               DirectCast(sender, Label).Text.Replace(WikiFunctions.AWBSettings.AWBConstants.NudgeTimerString, "")
        End Sub

The above should answer the question of why I declared the label string as a constant. Constants are good anyway and AWB probably ought to use more of them rather than liberally redefining strings all over the place. --kingboyk 11:21, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I suppose a better way might be to wrap the nudges variable inside a property, and add a Nudged() method to the plugin interface notifying of changes to the value. I'll take a look at it later. --kingboyk 14:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Sticky links

I've just committed Parsers.StickyLinks() that makes fixes like turning [[Russian literature|Russian]] literature to [[Russian literature]]. So far it's included only in DabControl. Please review it for inclusion into Common fixes. MaxSem 08:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiFunctions2

Now that WikiFunctions2 is shipped with AWB, I alert devs to the existence of this library in case it contains any code you might want to build on. Currently it supplies logging features to my plugin, and some basic article talk page parsing. I'll be reviewing my codebase soon to see if any other shareable code should move there.

I'm certainly not saying that there's definitely anything there you want to use, just pointing it out so at least you have the choice. --kingboyk 14:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Feature Request: Excess whitespace as a general option

Im not sure if this was removed before, i cant see any real reason not to have it done, unless someone knows something i dont/have forgotten

Feel free to add it if you agree with me!!

Reedy Boy 21:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I disagree. I don't think that removing the excess whitespace which doesn't change the display of the page is necessary. If anything, it makes the source code harder, not easier, to read without changing the output. —METS501 (talk) 23:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
It would also be encouraging folks to commit trivial edits. --kingboyk 15:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, it would come under the 'insignificant edit' category wouldnt it? If people started just doing that? Reedy Boy 15:11, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

the original reason for the request was specifcally for use within the image namespace, to aid in making fixes like this across large categories when doing other work (like image sorting). -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 19:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, i think that should be allowed.. Urrrm... We need somewhere to put the checkbox... Or just have it do if in Image is in article title (or rather, the start), it runs the fix whitespace...? Reedy Boy 19:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

that might cause accidental usage on "Image of" articles (unless you did it for "Image:"). Why not move the skip options button down to where all the other skip options are and then place the option there? -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 14:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Logging tab

Moved from User_talk:Mets501#Edits_to_Logging

Hey Mets, Can you hold off doing any edits to the logging thing?

Me and steve are making it Object orientated, and therefore making it a lot more flexible.

Cheers

Reedy Boy 17:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure, no problem :-). You're right, if we want to expand the log or do anything with it in the future, making it object oriented would be much easier. —METS501 (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. We're going to do multiple coloums (using a list view), ability to load the page in your web browser and such =). Drop you a message when we are done. Reedy Boy 18:07, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Great. Just remember that it has to look OK in every resolution from 800x600 to 1680x1050 widescreen, which is a challenge. —METS501 (talk) 18:14, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Anchoured to the left, top and right, and i've a neat trick for sorting out the coloumns Reedy Boy 18:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Basically my thought process was this:

  • My DLL already has a logging scheme
  • I was gonna spend the time by making a tab for my plugin to log to
  • The AWB logging tab really needs to be more advanced than just a label,
  • Why spend the time making a new tab for my plugin when I could make the AWB logging OOP instead?

Sam was roped in and here we go. Can't guarantee it'll work but we'll try.

So,

  • WikiFunctions.dll gets the logging interface used by my plugin and previously declared in WikiFunctions2
  • I'm writing a new log item class called AWBLogListener which inherits from ListViewItem (so it can easily be added to the relevant list at the end)
  • Sam is working on AWB creating the log listener, writing to it, and then adding it to the relevant list
  • AWBLogListener also implements IMyTraceListener, this interface will be passed to plugins in ProcessArticle() so they can have their say too
  • AWBLogListener will also have methods and properties for use by AWB
  • Create an AWBLogListener for each article, write to it during processing, and add it to the relevant list at the end
  • AWBLogListener will handle mouseover and click events
  • Any extra functionality is easily added by bolting it into AWBLogListener

--kingboyk 20:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Much more advanced than my original :-) Sounds good! —METS501 (talk) 20:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Its working.... xD Reedy Boy 21:07, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah working... passed through and written to by the plugin too. Visually a bit jerky, no mouseover or double click events yet, but as a proof of concept it works :) --kingboyk 21:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
The Save List button isn't working. Other than that, it looks great as far as I can tell. I'm going to test it more now. —METS501 (talk) 21:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, Sam knows about that and will fix it tommorow (or you can fix it).
Fixed, saves a single column of the list view, and also any sub items. Bit of a raw form - Column1 + " " + Coloum2 + " ".... Reedy Boy 19:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Any idea why the tooltiptext isn't displaying?
I'll now work on double clicking the listitem opening the article in browser. --kingboyk 21:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh and don't forget, any extra functionality for a row (such as code used by right click menu items) can be added to AWBLogListener. --kingboyk 21:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Another bug (don't ask how I encountered this :-)). Try editing the article Hello, and press ignore. Now try the article "Hello/Hello", and press ignore (or AWB with automatically ignore because it doesn't exist. You get a "Cannot insert the item 'Hello' in more than one place. You must first remove it from its current location or clone it. Parameter name: item" message. This only occurs with pages with slashes when the second one (which generates the error) doesn't exist. Also try "Talk:Main Page" and "Talk:Main Page/Archive 13131312" and observe that it does happen, because there is no archive 13131312, but when doing it with "Talk:Main Page" and "Talk:Main Page/Archive 1" there's no error message. Strange. —METS501 (talk) 21:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Just checked Sam's code, and he's adding the listitem by object not by a key. Maybe it's the code which creates the subitems? Any help from the debugger? --kingboyk 23:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
No help from the debugger. I think it's a handled error which is set to output the exception message. —METS501 (talk) 00:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I guess it has something to do with it being Hello/Hello i.e. X/X, and not Hello/123. Obviously something has a non unique key where it should be unique. We'll look into it tommorow. --kingboyk 00:16, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Nope. See my main page archive example above. —METS501 (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
OK. I doubt it's anything serious, we'll fix it tommorow :) I'm actually quite impressed that it pretty much worked first time :) --kingboyk 01:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
As am I :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems possible if the article name doesnt exist, it can/will keep the old one and log as that....
Fixed - Moved 
LogListener = new AWBLogListener(EdittingArticle.Name);
from CaseWasLoad, to Start(), so it picks up the article name there. Which, really makes more sense having it there. This has fixed the hello and hello/hello bug. Which also means it picks up invalid titles and stuff. Reedy Boy 21:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Doing Hello/Hello first results in a null object error. Could you look at this please Sam, if I don't get to it first? --kingboyk 23:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
You might have fixed Mets' bug but this error is still happening :) --kingboyk 22:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Double click now works in both lists: dbl click to open page in browser. --kingboyk 22:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Onmouseover now shows a tooltiptext message. This currently only works in the Skipped article list cos Sam hasn't assigned any log messages to the Saved article log entries :) --kingboyk 22:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Do we need any log messages if it saved all ok...? Reedy Boy 21:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
What do you think about adding a time column to both listviews? —METS501 (talk) 06:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Probably a good idea. Then they know what time it was done. Are we wanting like full date and time, or just time (HH:MM)?
Date Added to ignore list view. Reedy Boy 21:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
As previously said, im at my dads work today (Been driving my dads works van about moving rubbish ;D), so im not even really sat at a computer till now when im having a break. Let alone having a copy of C# Express! So tonight, i should be able to at least clear up a few bugs if you havent got round to it.
As something else, i think adding a context menu to each of the list views could be useful, then have an option to open in default internet browser, simple to do. Reedy Boy 09:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Double click does that, although we probably should have a context menu anyway. --kingboyk 10:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Yup, and then they can add individual articles to the Article List, and copying from list would be useful. Date/time to add tonight i think Reedy Boy 19:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
To try and improve the juttering, i've changed the 2 list views for 'NoFlickerListViews' that are used in IRCMonitor, seems less jerky. See how it goes. Reedy Boy 20:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Something, perhaps that change?, has broken my double click code and my tool tip code. (revs 896, 897) --kingboyk 17:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Log context menu

A todo list for items I think should be on the log context menu (not in order):

  • Remove
  • Open in browser
  • Open history in browser
  • Add to article list
  • Cut/copy
  • Select all/none/invert

Sam suggested making a user control and putting the log list boxes onto that; I think it's a good idea for encapsulating functionality. Maybe, then, the context menu could be developed on that control and passed to each log entry object at the same time as it's added to the list. --kingboyk 19:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Now in a control. Reedy Boy 21:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Yep, a nice bit of OOP and great work from Sam... except he disabled the f*cking double click code again!!! I'll be taking that barnstar back, young man! --kingboyk 00:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I know for sure i copied it accross, as i did with the colomn click event... Reedy Boy 09:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
The event handler was there, but it wasn't attached in the designer. Perhaps I should do it in explicit code so nobody else (or, more likely, me!) breaks it again :P --kingboyk 20:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates

Templates are now loaded from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User talk templates. I've tested it, and it seems to work perfectly, but someone might want to check it over to make sure. —METS501 (talk) 02:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, do you think that page should be semi- or fully protected? The only argument for semi- is that User:TeckWiz isn't an admin, and he probably uses it the most (with his bot). —METS501 (talk) 02:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I guess semi- would be good until I become an admin :). I'm guessing alphabetical order isn't necessary? Also, is this list retrieved every time AWB starts? --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 02:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
It loads the first time that you try to edit a user talk page with general fixes enabled when you load up AWB. I guess we can semi-protect it; there's really no potential for abuse, aside from it not functioning (i.e. it can't be made to do outrageous things like you can with the typo list). —METS501 (talk) 03:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I've also made it be updateable manually when you the "Retrieve status/typos" button is pressed. Martinp23 09:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Merge DLLs?

I'm not sure if Max wants wikidiff.dll kept seperate for any operational or logistics reasons, but if not I was wondering about the possibility of compiling it into wikifunctions.dll. The dotnet command line tools (for C# and VB at least, presumably C++ too) have the capability of compiling projects to dotnet "modules" which can then be made into a single assembly. Also, of course, this can be done from a batch file.

What I don't know (in addition to whether or not the C++.net compiler can make a module) is:

  • Whether this can be done from Visual Studio
  • Whether it would have any impact on the ability to run AWB in debug mode inside Visual Studio

We might also consider moving my wikifunctions2 into wikifunctions using the same technique, although that might necessitate devs installing the VB version of VS (or the vbc.exe compiler might be enough, which AFAIK ships with the runtime). It would certainly necessitate me moving the wikifunctions2 code from my private svn repository into the AWB repos, which I'd be quite happy to do. --kingboyk 12:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't know anything about possibility of merging native & managed code into a single DLL. MaxSem 12:57, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Is C++.net not managed code then? I assumed it was just different language, same IL output. If it's not native then you'd be right, it's improbable it can be done. --kingboyk 12:59, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
No CLI header according to reflector. I must have misunderstood what C++.net is, then. Will read up on it! --kingboyk 10:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiDiff2 (2)

Has anyone else been getting "attempted to write to protected memory" errors? I can't say for certain it's wikidiff2 but I think it's the culprit. --kingboyk 10:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC) 

System.AccessViolationException occurred
  Message="Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."
  Source="WikiFunctions"
  StackTrace:
       at WikiFunctions.WikiDiff.wikidiff2_do_diff(Byte* text1, Byte* text2, Int32 num_lines_context)
       at WikiFunctions.WikiDiff.GetDiff(String text1, String text2, Int32 context) in D:\Work\SVN\AWB\AWB\WikiFunctions\Diff\WikiDiff2ext.cs:line 81

Code: byte* diff = wikidiff2_do_diff(p1, p2, context);

AWB is unusable. I have no reason to think my machine has memory problems; no other apps are having problems. --kingboyk 12:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I filed a bug report. --kingboyk 18:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Major edits alert, please try to avoid edit conflicting with me

I'm attempting a major OOP redesign in main.cs and article.cs. Of course if you have major edits to do go ahead, but please hold off on "tweaks" in those files to avoid causing me commit conflicts. Cheers. --kingboyk 15:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

rev 1057 Committed partly done, so now y'all will get compile errors.
When this is done, and tested, I think the rest of the code needs to be looked at too. I've found some appalling coding, including lots of redundancies.
I'd also like to propose moving objects which aren't used by our other projects (IRCMon etc) and which are of no use to 3rd party tools, to be moved into AWB.exe; if there are any. --kingboyk 21:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
All done. Please test like crazy, folks. --kingboyk 18:36, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Problem

Trying to compile AWB on my system with the wikidiff2 project fails saying that there's no application installed for handing that type of solution file; I have both VC++ and VC# installed, however, both are the express edition. Do you think that has anything to do with it? 71.183.106.162 23:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

The code doesnt work 100% properly anyway, so it isnt reccommended using it. That and there are various other compile errors due to code re-working, so it wont even build. They should work ok seperate, but i dont use seperate versions, so cant comment Reedy Boy 23:46, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Problem with solution file

When I click run in VS, it's now using the \Release folder, not \Debug. --kingboyk 12:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, wikidiff is built into the release folder only.. Or seems to be at least... Reedy Boy 23:49, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Yep. I think I fixed it though. --kingboyk 18:36, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, or is it now building release builds to \Debug? (/me sobs) --kingboyk 19:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Not working for me at all

Dunno why, but since I switched to Verison FiOS I haven't been able to use AWB in any significant capacity. The edit page loads, but the preview and show changes pages won't, and when I save, it makes the save but doesn't navigate to the next article as if its still waiting for the save event. If no one else is experiencing this problem, don't worry about it, and I'll try to figure it out once I have more time, because I'm not really using it now anyway :-) —METS501 (talk) 19:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

STOP!

Version 4 mustn't go out until AWB has been well tested with all the different cleanup, find replace and other article processing options turned on. It's not just possible that my major refactoring of the code introduced a subtle bug or 2, I'd consider it (from experience) probable. I'm pretty good at this kind of work, but even the best (which I'm not) tend to make a mistake or 2 when implementing such major changes.

It certainly seems that all is well with the current SVN version using the plugin, however.

If any of you have the time you might also want to take further what I did, and look at optimising/refactoring/cleaning up/documenting other parts of the code, because it's quite messy in places as you know. --kingboyk 13:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC) PS: Maybe v4 at the weekend?

I will support final release only wheen it's extensively tested. And there are remain some things that need to be tightened up, for example, you left re-parse option commented out ;) MaxSem 16:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh yes, I did... I forgot about that ;) I think it was just that one thing I commented out though. --kingboyk 16:24, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Page count not updating

When using filter articles on the newest alpha release, once the pages are filtered, the count stays the same, and will not change to the correct number of pages until you click the filter button again. (No need to actually filter a second time). --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 14:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Known bug - we're trying to fix it now. Thanks, Martinp23 14:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Fixed. MaxSem 14:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Great! --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 16:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Seen as there has been quite a few changes, i'll probably package up another one again tonight. Reedy Boy 16:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Unhandled exception

When trying to paste something into make list, if it's not a page name, an unhanded exception occurs. --TeckWiz is now R ParlateContribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 17:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Can we have an example of what you're pasting..? Reedy Boy 17:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
If it happens immediately when you paste, then I doubt that it is something we can deal with, and is more likely a Windows problem. That said, what exactly are you pasting? Martinp23 18:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
I find i have to click on the list maker before pasting... I just tried it with a random file, that caused an error, so commited an extra try catch on the paste. Reedy Boy 18:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Error

I have been using AWB today and it has occured an error... it states "Unhandled exception has occured in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately... InvalidArgument=Value of '1' is not valid for 'index'. Parameter name: index. I can send you further details on it, but could you possibly know what the problem is? Extranet talk 09:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_2#Unhandled_Exception ?? Reedy Boy 10:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Thats it. I just need to know whether there is a fix for it, it is persistent when trying to edit on AWB. Extranet talk 10:26, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I've only seen the error once or twice myself - well, on this machine, my other machine throws quite a few different random errors. Are you by any chance using 2 copies of AWB from the same directory at once? Reedy Boy 15:18, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
No, I'm using just the one AWB screen when it appears. It looks to apparently have something to do with the log page. Extranet talk 05:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
You are 100% correct. We know what it is, it just doesnt happen enough to us to be able to be able to try and solve it. Reedy Boy 09:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I can take a few screenshots if you like and post the technical error details... Extranet talk 09:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
That would help a lot :-) —METS501 (talk) 17:08, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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