[Vahagn]

Mithgol, on Feb 21 2007, 10:20 PM, said:

...[*] List of requested files should be a scrollable box, not a messagebox (messagebox exceeds screen size after 30+ files with long filenames that tend to wrap)...

Also, it can be an additional TAB in user's details window not a point in context menu

[stream]

Feature request: improve "Import parts to file" to allow import of complete file even if no hashset is available for this download.

Situation: tried to download rare file which wasn't seen on network. Morph reports: Hashset available: No

I found this file using other method (torrents). I verified (using ed2k_hash utility) that this is exactly same file which I wanted. Next I tried to import file into Morph to "complete" download. Morph imported whole file but refused to complete it because parts cannot be verified (no hashset). So file now is stuck on 100%-complete with all bars black.

But hash of whole file is knows from ed2k_link, why not check it? Something like this in pseudocode:

(at the end of import)
   if all parts are imported (file is 100% done) [b]and[/b] hashset is [b]not[/b] available then
      calculate hash of whole file
      compare with hash from ed2k link
      if hashes are equal then
         consider file completed.
if anything of above fails, continue with current behavior.

You'll get same problem if you'll try to import to file which was in paused state and never started actually.

I know there are lot of possible workarounds (just cancel this download and put a file into inbound directory) but this feature should not be difficult to implement and will have some positive sides (e.g. morph automatically handles renames and category/directory).

[Stulle]

what is the point of importing if there is no source around that could help you to verify if everything is good? you may aswell share the file anew. the hash will be identical if the file you got is identical to the download.

[stream]

Stulle, on Sep 18 2008, 10:55 AM, said:

what is the point of importing if there is no source around that could help you to verify if everything is good? you may aswell share the file anew.

Matched hash of whole file will confirm that everything is good. Yes, I mentioned that file may be shared as new. But improved import will be just more straightforward and useful - it will do what he's supposed to do in all possible cases, no matter was hashset available or not (rising theoretical question, shall common user know what these words 'hashset available' mean or not). It will be just a little nice feature

[Andu]

I still don't see the point of actually using the import for importing a full file. It's meant to import parts into your download. Especially if you found a source that has the one chunk that is missing for the file to complete e.g.

This post has been edited by Andu: 18 September 2008 - 11:12 AM

[Stulle]

what you suggest is importing and sharing unverifyable data which is a bad thing.

[Andu]

Well technically that's not right. You could get the part hashes from the new file and compare the MD4 of the part hashes with the file hash of the download started on ed2k. I'm still failing to see the point in that though.

[Stulle]

i think it is much more the AICH hash sum and hash set that is missing here. that one is still not mandatory and has to be received from another client unless the ed2k link contained it. so basically we cannot confirm all the small blocks are valid and this is why import fails.

[stream]

Andu, on Sep 18 2008, 11:13 AM, said:

You could get the part hashes from the new file and compare the MD4 of the part hashes with the file hash of the download started on ed2k.

Yes, this is exactly what I've meant.

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I'm still failing to see the point in that though.

Improve import feature to make it more smart. I agree this is very minor improvement which will be used rarely but if you'll have some wish and spare time...

[Andu]

You are not making the import function more smart. You are making it more complicated (with the possibility of more bugs) because you are adding a feature it was not designed for.

Besides Stulle has already said that the problem isn't the ed2k file hash but the AICH hash which cannot be checked. In times where MD4 is more and more under scrutiny for being breakable it isn't overzealous to confirm ed2k file hash results through AICH.

[Stulle]

we need to use that AICH stuff not just because it is breakable but also because it preaks down the chunksize to 180 kb blocks, iirc. the feature is not supposed to import a full file to any download but to import some parts of the download from another partial file. like you got 50% via emule and 75% via torrent and then you want to import the missing blocks from the torrent to your emule download (probably finishing the download). it is not meant for anything else. it's called import parts and not import files.

[omeringen]

Hi,
I don't know the name of the feature but i see this in Rajil mod before.
In irc chat, when you WHOIS someone ;

_ _[ name [ID@xxx] ---•
|---› Name:    : eMule0.49a RaJiL v2.1(SMIRCv00.69)
|---› Chans:   : #???
|---› Server?  : ???

It would be great if we can see this in MorphXT. I mean, mod name and version... Sorry again, i couldn't describe the feature but i wish you understand what i said.

And, i am still insisting about on queue column.

Thnx.

This post has been edited by erdem444: 19 September 2008 - 01:18 AM

[Gaueko]

In MassRename windows, the TextBox should be better if Anchor property is also set at Right.

Thankyou

[Stulle]

why? what is it that does not work?

[Gaueko]

I don´t understand your question. Perhaps it is because I don´t use English so much.

Anchor Property (in VisualStudio) is the property what makes that a control move or resize when resize the form (or Controls which owns the actual).

When you make the Form bigger horizontally, the Reset button moves right with the windows border, but the TextBox´s size doesn´t change, putting the Anchor>Right property, the TextBox will increase/decrease it´s Width with Form´s.

What I am asking for is an unsignifficant thing. Try and look if you prefer it.

This post has been edited by Gaueko: 17 October 2008 - 09:29 AM

[the Doctor]

Gaueko, on Oct 17 2008, 10:48 AM, said:

When you make the Form bigger horizontally, the Reset button moves right with the windows border, but the TextBox´s size doesn´t change, putting the Anchor>Right property, the TextBox will increase/decrease it´s Width with Form´s.

eMule uses a resizable dialog class, and what you ask is a minor thing... if Stulle understood you.

[Stulle]

to be exact, the MassRename dialog as much as any other dialog is derivated from CResizeableDialog, which is part of the ResizableDialog libary. however, your request is of little use and i think it would look kind of shitty to make the EditText on the top resizable. anyway, i was thinking about the big one at first so i wondered.

[Gaueko]

Well, I don´t know how it works internally, so, I won´t disturb you anymore.

Thanks for your time

[guijarrelson]

Good morning every!

I'm thinking one thing. eD2K servers goes down every day and no new servers appears. I think we need to pay more attention over Kad. Nodes.dat is saved every xx time?

Another thing, KAD reconnect when the client lost the connection?

Thanks!

[Stulle]

saving nodes.dat: unneeded. it will only put unneeded stress on your drive. you can easily bootstrap from a nodes.dat that is several months old and i doubt anybody runs his mule for that long!

reconnect KAD: that would require that we recognize a connection drop. as a reconnect is not neccessary we do not need to undergo that trouble. kad will work either way. if it would not the official would do something about it. as for reask sources after reconnect - which contains the code neccessary for the above request - see the first post. unwanted.

PS: i am something between bewildered and amused that the paranoic habbit of presuming the end of all servers and stressing the importance of various KAD "improvements" now that some ed2k servers are shut down. if KAD depended on any of the so called "improvements" it would be in the official already and if all servers were to be shut down we could not care less because we got KAD.