source manager ( user you are downloading from )

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cyber zip
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source manager ( user you are downloading from )

Post by cyber zip » 2003-04-02 09:15

Since I use DC++, a thinbg that make me annoying :cry: is the manage of sources for downloads. I'm tired of removing one by one manually users that are offline and I can't select a user for removing if the list contain over 40-50 users because it can't be scrolled.

:idea: So, I have a sample of idea :
Make a source manager frame witch looks like this :
- A frame split into 3 panes.
- The top panes show the download queue as it currently exist.
- The lower left pane show a list of users that are source for the selected file of the download queue.
- The lower right show a list of all users regardless of files that are attached to.
- 2 buttons on the left list "remove" & "remove all" for removing selected source and clear the list.
- 2 buttons for the right list "remove" & "add". The first remove a user from the entire queue download and the second add the selected as a source to the file selected in the the left list.
- Selecting a folder and adding it a user make it a source for all files of that folder.

:D Advantage :
- We can removed in one step several sources of a file or many users of the queue list.
- By adding a user as a source to files contained in a folder even if the user doesn't have some of files witch are attached to him, we have not to launch search for each files ( for example search rzr01.zip to rzr50.zip )
or get the filelist of a user to add all files that have not been displayed in the result search because of the limitation of 5 result per user.
- We can delete the column "Users" of the download queue list

:( Inconvenient :
- Some request for files a user doesn't have will be throw and receive "File not available"

:!: So think about this feature...
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Kenneth-Chile
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Re: source manager ( user you are downloading from )

Post by Kenneth-Chile » 2003-04-02 14:49

cyber zip wrote:...if the list contain over 40-50 users because it can't be scrolled.

40-50?? :D
My maximum is 5 :P
I don't know really, but I think you are extremelly over average number.
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Marvin
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Post by Marvin » 2003-04-02 15:29

Well... Managing sources never crossed my mind ! Why remove sources anyway ?
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Splicer
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Post by Splicer » 2003-04-03 03:46

Sounds like a good idea to me.

I'm still looking for certain user download blocking though.
"Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not today. Indecision brings delays. Days lost lamenting lost days"

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GFH
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Post by GFH » 2003-04-06 03:43

dont know i neva removed no 1 i dont care
so i find new user to download from ....
dont know...
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Nazo
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Post by Nazo » 2003-04-15 05:31

Heh, I ran into the sort of situation where that sort of thing would help out earlier. I was downloading from one person at 60KB/s, they had to reconnect for a moment while I wasn't paying attention, and next thing I know DC++ is downloading from someone else at 2KB/s. At the time, I only had two sources, so I just removed the one sending 2KB/s for the time being (I'm sure next autosearch would find them again anyway,) but if the list of sources was large enough that could be troublesome. Anyway, to simplify, a good reason for a source manager is so you can pick the faster/more reliable sources over the slower ones.
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