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Changed the HTML a little, and hence the stylesheet too. Check tmp.htm in the zipfile for the HTML formatting. XPlodeDisplayTest.zip

The checkboxes aren't used at the moment, they're just placeholders. As I said before, the code isn't complete, and won't be for a while. At the moment I'm just focusing on plugin loading issues, gradually scaling up the complexity of the plugins. (Hopefully trying to see where it may screw up.) Seems to be going well though, so I might finish bits of it off and be done with it.

Yeah, that's my comp's uptime

Site's back.

Help isn't really needed - it's far from a "usable" stage, as there's no working plugins I'm in the process of organising a dedicated server anyways, my site sure doesn't need it, but I have other ideas... ;-) EDIT: Shrunk the zipfile to a size small enough to attach. Test and post results. XPlodeDisplayTest.zip

It needs to be in UNICODE. For some reason, some programs default to saving them in normal encoding if there aren't any unicode characters in it. (That's why the old XPlode 1.1.2 had a non-unicode XML in the zipfile - I forgot to check.) Just make sure it's in unicode (open it in notepad and forcefully save it as unicode), and make sure you have valid CSS. Anything readable by IE should be ok.

Not quite sure as to why the server's down... hosts say things are fine, but they're looking into it. EDIT: Okay, now the whole host's down. Apparently they're being DoS'ed. Looks like this is as good a time as any to switch webhosts...

In case people are wondering, the development version of XPlode looks like this at the moment: (edited - look at attachment) Things will change. But that's the gist of it. Item images will be added between the name of the item and the checkbox on the left. <== ADDED Colours will be modifiable, might make the CSS part of the XML, so people can mod how they see fit. <== ADDED EDIT (again) Okay, test binary here: http://xplode.voidfx.com/downloads/XPlodeDisplayTest.zip Test things, muck around with the stylesheet, see if you can get something that looks good. I'm looking for a good "theme" to use. Note that it's proper CSS - you can add background images etc., as it's only an embedded MSIE window. Install won't work at this point in time, so don't bother playing with it.

In case people are wondering, the development version of XPlode looks like this at the moment: Things will change. But that's the gist of it.

Yes. At least, the version that will be released in the next couple of weeks has that functionality.

Hmmm. It seems someone's trying to do exactly what XPlode is doing. Spose it'll make me get off my arse and finish XPlode2 off

I haven't set the website to block 83.*.*.*, so it may be a webhost issue. I'll find out.

<execute display='Clean up on next boot...' program='#SYSTEMDRIVE#\Install\Cleanup.cmd <== missing a closing quote arguments="" />

You forgot to "close" the program attribute of your final <execute>. Add another ' to the end of the program and you should be fine.

<registry display="Registering MIRC..." method="write">;Registering MIRC... [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC\License] @="3396-255840" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC\UserName] @="HEVNBND" /> should be <registry display="Registering MIRC..." method="write">;Registering MIRC... [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC\License] @="3396-255840" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\mIRC\UserName] @="HEVNBND" </registry> Might want to remove your serial numbers and whatnot in future. Reading some stuff on XML might be good too. It's pretty much like HTML, but there are a few timesavers. Check it out.

As I said, that display is NOT going to be anything like the one that's released. That's just for testing the routines for selective installation.

Yeah, don't worry, I found that bug as soon as I posted the zip. I don't plan on using that display plugin as a final version, and that bug is purely part of the display. So all good.

That's the plan.

Here's a "preview" of one of the display plugins: If you see that and think: "****, that's s***ty compared to the old one", just wait... it's not the only one I'm going to make Besides, that one will probably change a bit anyways. I'll see how things go. Note that it is a selective install. XPlode has the functionality to do so built in, just depends on the display plugin whether or not to implement it. Again, test this attachment, and report results. xplode2plugtest.zip

Well, going from people's logs, there doesn't seem to be a plugin usage issue by anyone. Very, very, very good. I should point out that the XPlode.exe in that zip is almost complete - pretty much the only stuff I need to do now is plugins. I'll let everyone guess what I'm writing today.

it's not really a release... just a test for people that were having problems with plugins.

And after I say it, I check GM's site. Well, whaddya know.

Not when there are people that stay with SP1 until they know SP2 is working with all their programs. Sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry. Besides, the "failsafe" list for SP2 should be pretty much the same, minus all the hotfixes.

... why don't you be nice and do a guide for everyone instead? Instead of just demanding it. You're not really asking in your second post...

So I guess nobody else wants 2.00 ? Only me and killerbee gonna use it? Oh well, if it doesn't work for other people, then you can't complain... you had your chance. Seriously people, has anybody other than killerbee tested it or what?