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PSC Monitor - Now downloads in a separate thread for increased speed and stability |
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| Submitted on: 6/5/2002 2:07:36 AM
By: MrBobo
Level: Intermediate
User Rating:
By 50 Users
Compatibility:VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 8344 times.
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| | | Are you addicted to PSC? Does visiting PSC actually get in the way of your coding? This may help. It checks for new submissions and new votes on your submissions. Now updated to include new comments notification and viewing all comments. It also provides links to the most common pages you use, all in a popup menu in the system tray. Demonstrates downloading using API, disabling right-click menu in web browsers, string parsing, system tray management, internet connection state, handing multiple settings using the registry.
UPDATE:
The original version of this PSC Monitor used API to download the source code of a selected PSC web page and parsed this source code for specific data. It did this job well, but the application was unresponsive whilst downloading was taking place.
To overcome this problem it now uses a separate tiny exe file (BBdowner.exe - source code included) to download the data in a separate thread, thus allowing for multiple tasks being carried out simultaneously and allowing the app to be reponsive even during downloading.
I hope you appreciate the increased stability and speed.
Before running PSC Monitor, compile BBdowner.exe and place in the same folder as PSCMonitor.exe, thats all - easy!
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6/5/2002 2:28:30 AM:John Galanopoulos
MrBobo, you rock. this is one of the
coolest and MOST usefull submissions.
very handy. And i had a pleasand
surprise :) Thanks for everything.
Needless to say, 5 Planets!
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6/5/2002 2:45:02 AM:J.C. Bize
This is a great idea, thanks for this
wonderful utility
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6/5/2002 2:48:25 AM:BPeek
This is an excelent app. Well on it's
way to "Code of The Month"
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6/5/2002 3:22:00 AM:Carles P.V.
***** more!
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6/5/2002 8:15:14 AM:Paul Zaczkowski
Truly amazing. One of the talented
here at PSC, good luck on your journey
through life Bobo, and may GOD be with
you. *****(5 Stars) from me!
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6/5/2002 8:25:06 AM:delTex
I also wanna do this but i simply can't
since im still a newbie... tnx for
doing this! This is a blast! 5 for you
man!
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6/5/2002 9:03:34 AM:LouLou
This is a deffinate code of the month
as long as it doesnt get deleted by a
f*cking hacker. I will be using this
regularly and its a deffinate 5 globes
from me. keep up the good work. An
extra feature would be to notify us
when a comment is made and also show
the comment. Cool Stuff
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6/5/2002 9:28:56 AM:Terry L
MrBobo!! It's nice to know that we
still have Programer's around in
programming for the so call programer's
to learn from.. Thank you!! and 5
Apples to the Teacher.... Thanks
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6/5/2002 9:44:00 AM:Geoffrey Hazen
Wow, actually a useful peice of code
that hasn't been ripped off from
another site or a programming book.
Very well organized code. 5 planets
from me. Too bad someone will
eventually rip off your code and post
it 12 months later or on another site
and call it their own. Keep up the good
work!
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6/5/2002 10:32:23 AM:MrSomeone
nice job!
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6/5/2002 10:32:59 AM:DaNo
Wow!!! Very very cool! *****
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6/5/2002 12:24:41 PM:Jeff D
MrBobo
Great job *****+! You code
is not only Outstanding, useful, and
convienient, but demonstrates many
functions that can be used in programs
such as Registry, API, etc. I really
like the system tray functionality. If
you do modify this in any way, (hard to
determine what needs improved) be sure
to let me know. SUPER PROGRMA(hard to
determine what needs improved) SUPER
PROGRAM!
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6/5/2002 11:21:14 PM:Glen Marsham
Another very good piece of code
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6/6/2002 2:53:31 PM:Russell Kinasz
Wow! Nice code! 5 Globes from me! =)
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6/6/2002 3:12:50 PM:Jeff D
Downloaded your code again, said to my
self again - "This is great, even added
the Comments on box", must recast my 5
vote again...
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6/6/2002 3:23:31 PM:RegX
In regard to server overuse / abuse my
PSC monitor code is very similiar. I
actually asked Ian after posting my
code if there was anything he would
like me to change to reduce server
load.
All he said was to make the
minimum refresh 1 minute instad of 30
seconds.
So I don't thing there is a
problem. Also MrBobo is right, this
could actually reduce the load to the
server since it is only grabbing the
source code and not calling images or
scripts.
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6/6/2002 11:28:57 PM:Kevin
very good idea... deserves winning
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6/10/2002 7:38:56 AM:matt squire
Nice work, this will be very usefull.
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6/11/2002 2:01:09 AM:Zhu JinYong
Very good application!You make PSC
people life easy! Thanks.
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6/12/2002 5:51:30 AM:_Merlin_
Thanks for the help MrBobo!
Works like
a whistle now.
Keep up the good
programming. ;D
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6/12/2002 11:51:19 AM:_Merlin_
Thanks for the update! It works fine
now :D
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6/14/2002 9:07:53 AM:RigShiokew
Fantastic coding skills, and tangible
functionality too. PSC Monitor is
wicked. 5 Planets for you.
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6/15/2002 4:12:45 AM:MrBobo
Important notice to PSC Monitor
users.
This is important information
for anyone who has ALREADY downloaded
PSC Monitor and actually use the app
regularly. There have been changes made
to dramatically reduce the strain on
the PSC server. So if you care about
PSC and use PSC Monitor, please
download the newest version. PSC
Monitor works by downloading the HTML
source code of a PSC page and
determines if a new submission has been
made based on data within that source
code. The PSC server is quite capable
of coping with this traffic as no
images etc. are downloaded - that is
it's major design advantage over other
methods. However, it still triggers an
SQL query, and that is the problem.
Through various discussions with Ian
Ippolito a solution has been worked out
that minimises the strain on the PSC
SQL server.
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6/15/2002 4:13:37 AM:MrBobo
CONTINUED...
The solution is neat,
clean, and actually increases the speed
of PSC Monitor dramatically. Credit for
these changes go entirely to Ian. If
you use PSC Monitor then get the new
version for PSC's sake!!!
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6/15/2002 7:57:41 AM:Straxxx
nice code (have u ever tought of a
browser intergration)
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6/15/2002 12:26:08 PM:Snakez
Okay MrBobo, you always make great
things. This I have to say is one of
the best! 5 globes and keep up the good
work. Its nice to see people who do not
post useless code that just take up
space on PSC.
This is a great
program, but I find it has problems
detecting the internet while using a
shared connection on a lan. is this
just me? if not, i have some code
somewhere on my hd that tells you if
your connected, and how (local,
network). If you need it just ask and
I'll try to find it.
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6/17/2002 5:34:13 AM:Zhu JinYong
If the comment wrote in some Language
such as Chinese,It wouldn't show
correctly.
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6/17/2002 5:41:50 AM:MrBobo
I'm not sure if PSC copes with chinese
characters or not. Initially the
comments parsing code just did a
straight parse of English
characters.
During testing I pointed
the comments at
"http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scri
pts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=1&txtCodeId=3551
7" which is the VBLanguage Pack
submission.
On retrieving the
comments, some comments showed strange
results. After looking at how PSC copes
with these non-english characters I
implemented code to cope with this
situation. However none of those
characters were chinese.
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6/17/2002 1:37:12 PM:Vlad Vissoultchev
in frmTicker change Ln 118 to [If Not
ContactingSite Then PopupMenu
mnuPUBase, , , , mnuPU(16)] so a
default menu item is shown in systray
popup menu
HTH,
</wqw>
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6/17/2002 2:13:11 PM:MrBobo
Good idea Vlad, your suggestion has
been implemented. Thanks.
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6/18/2002 4:51:21 AM:Vlad Vissoultchev
speaking of optimization you can use
Brow.Navigate "about:" &
Replace(getTicker, vbCrLf, " ") instead
of createing temp .htm file.
i can't
point lines in frmTicker because it's
really scattered in the
code.
HTH,
</wqw>
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6/18/2002 9:25:24 AM:M a t t = H a l l
Excellently executed idea! Just one
thing i object to however; regarding
the bbdowner.exe concept. Rather than
saving to the registry, use a command
line, after all thats what they are
for! You can contain multiple variables
in one string by using a split
character and a sub to extract the
data. I have a sub i coded myself
sitting on my computer if you want
it.
5/5
-[DS]Dark_Side
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6/20/2002 4:46:16 AM:M a t t = H a l l
You could even blag it and use Winsock
to establish a connection with the
program, that way you can easily tell
if the arbituary program (bbdowner.exe)
is running. And this would mean
PSCMonitor would work un-compiled in
the design
environment!
-[DS]Dark_Side
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6/29/2002 5:29:29 PM:Vlad Vissoultchev
for a simple in-process framework check
out
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scr
ipts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=36373&lngWId
=1
HTH,
</wqw>
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8/1/2002 7:08:35 PM:Xsan
I cant find the exe file.it has problem
when running
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8/1/2002 10:14:43 PM:MrBobo
Have a look at the file
Instructions.txt. The source code for
the BBdowner.exe is in the enclosed zip
file. Compile this tiny exe file first.
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8/20/2002 5:01:29 PM:Juha Soderqvist
Good stuff, i now have a dir called
MrBobo where i have your totally
excellent code examples. i give this a 5
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1/15/2003 11:47:02 AM:Kundan
Simply fantastic!...It was something I
was looking for since a long time...5
globes!
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