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Yesterday I startet programming a tool to show which of my buddies are online and just now i realized that there's already such a tool out there.

Besides that fact I put it online. There are not much features yet, but it looks nice to me, so tell me your opinion. May you tell me, if there's need for further development, cause there's that other tool...

Check this out

how do i add freinds?

nvm i got it

The program by Quiche on a leash got more features but yours got a better user interface. Maybe you two could cooperate.

yeah that's what I was thinking. What language did you write that in, because I think the other one was done in vb6 or .net, it does have a nice interface to it, my only complaint with it is that i don't really know anyone in tmw so i cant add any friends lol

but you should try contacting the other guy that crush posted a link too and see what you both could pump out.

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I'm also really impressed with how it looks like a professional messenger (aim/msn/icq/ect.) and that it has a notification popup (im assuming it popups from the system tray like most windows based things)

Thanks a lot for those compliments. Eventually the person who voted to stop me may leave some comment why.

I recently added the feature to launch TMW from the TrayIcon. But it's not online yet, so there's no need to download again.

I'm currently working on language support, cause as everyone has noticed when visting my homepage I'm native german and I know that pretty much germans are playing, besides there are also players from other countries too. I'm also planning to group the online buddies, but that's a completly sketch.

It's done in Delphi, so there's a tiny problem in a coop, cause there's likely no way to put anything together.

What about linux port? GTK / QT? Anything?

Or should I run that softwere under wine?

i wrote:What about linux port?

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Linux at all. May you try to run the program under wine and tell if it works. I'm interrested in the result, too.

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I've found a fellow student do test my prog under wine, and what a surprise: It works. The only thing i have to change is that it saves the settings to the same directory as the executable and it occurs to throw an exception, when there's no write permission in that directory. I think I'm going to save to the users home directory in a later version.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Linux at all. May you try to run the program under wine and tell if it works. I'm interrested in the result, too.

If you are not familiar with Linux then you should make it with Gambas, its almost the same that vb, even better.

Gambas is as unportable as VisualBasic, just with the difference that it only runs on Unix and not only on Windows.

When it has to be a basic dialect, I would suggest FreeBasic, because it supports all major platforms. But when you ever want to make money with programming you should learn a more professional programming language like C++, Java or C#.

I know dozens of people making money with programming VB

Well, exceptions confirm the rule?

I just don't get what you are discussing:

It's done in Delphi, ...

Just to stick out of the crowd.

I replaced the online file with the version I'm using myself currently. Unfortunately there's not enough time for programming due to some exams these days, so there aren't much more features.

You can launch TMW from the tray icon and sort the player by the rank, which is adepted from the online file, cause I realized that new players are placed at the end of the list.

I recently added notification by sound to my app. It's available at the link above. To enable the output you have to check playing sounds in the popup menu from the main window. Doing so plays the standard notification sound as configured in your control panel.

To play your own waves you have to check the other setting and select some sounds with the functions at the bottom. I've already put some nice fitting sounds to the package, so you won't need long to search for some.

I put a new version online.

New is the implemented language support, although there's just german and english language packed to the archive yet. Maybe there are people out there making some additional language files.

The other new feature is grouping your buddies. This is done by creating (and naming) a group and then dragging buddies to the group. Those are marked with a green or red icon. If you have just players marked with a blue icon, mark them as buddy first.

Have fun.

I'm going to work on an online version written with php and javascript. I'll post updates.