DAoC Portal Client v2.0 Released

[VaNaTiC]

Feedback on the current notes and future notes are welcome.

where should we discuss features?

[Batlas]

Well I ignored them and tried to log in, I even reached the character selection and the loading screen. But when the loading bar is full, the client crashes to the desktop without any further errors.

Is there anything I can do to use the portal via Freecap or is that impossible?

The first problem sounds like its looking for a response but not receiving it. Probably has to do w/ all your FW issues. (Never used freecap assuming its a proxy-esque program.) The later has nothing to do w/ DP. All DP does is launch DAOC once DAOC opens DP no longer has anything to do with it. Most likely culprit to your crashing is going to be out of date vid card drivers or out of date directX. Update both to the latest and greatest and see if that doesn't resolve your issues. If they persist create a new topic in Support and we'll go from there.

[Etaew]

where should we discuss features?

Either here on the suggestions forum, there is a thread there for DAoC Portal suggestions. We still don't need a dedicated forum for it I think.

[brink668]

can you explain Freecap to those who dont know what it is

Thanks

[VaNaTiC]

can you explain Freecap to those who dont know what it is

Freecap is a sort of Socks-Proxy.

[VaNaTiC]

- Added: Grouping to the server list, to show offical, supportive, established and non supportive servers.

OK, my own opinion for this "feature" is for myself only
But I vote for dont wasting too much space between all the list parts.
I would prefer a smaller group header, such:
Offical Servers ___________________________
1.
Supporting ones __________________________
1.
2.
...

- Added: Ability to minimise DAoC Portal to the tray.

Nice, but not really needed. And thatswhy I would prefer to implement it well or remove.

- Added: Ability to Quick Login chars and remember by server (Character Manager).

means "remember by server" a quick-login feature for each freeshard on the list?

- Added: Ability to set a default server (Server Manager), which launches in a mini mode which displays more details about the server and no other, mini mode can read news from rss feed or update script (from db).

Thats a really nice features. It would stop that sort of individual quick-loaders, like mine for i50 or Metty's for Uthgard.

- Added: Ability to store passwords and usernames for different servers (Account Manager).

I wuold think this is a feature of quick-login.

- Added: Ability to ping a custom server to see if it is online (with a refresh timeout).

I implemented such a feature in my loader and I hope you dont wanna use ICMP for it and dont try a TCP-connect to 10300.
Feel free to contact me and I will help, maybe in developing too.

- Added: IRC client for general DAOC Portal as well as specific servers, new field in server db.

I really dont like this idea, but maybe I dont understand the background. But the portal should be a portal. I wont split with my mIRC.
And if its a server-feature it has to be in DoL and not portal. I really dont know what this should be.

- Added: Auto updater for DAoC Portal instead of uninstalling and reinstalling each time.

I implemented such a feature in my loader, too. Its automatically updated from two urls by hashing of files.
Feel free to test my loader, which you can download from my website.

[Etaew]

- Added: Grouping to the server list, to show offical, supportive, established and non supportive servers.

OK, my own opinion for this "feature" is for myself only
But I vote for dont wasting too much space between all the list parts.
I would prefer a smaller group header, such:

I looked at this today, I haven't yet found a way to make the header smaller, it's a ListView control, with detail view. I'm not quite sure I want to go down the road of using blank server entries to mimic headers, as that seems ugly.

- Added: Ability to minimise DAoC Portal to the tray.

Nice, but not really needed. And thatswhy I would prefer to implement it well or remove.

The only issue with it is that it ghosts on quit, as with Metty's post earlier, removing the item before the program exits fixes it, and the fix will be released in 2.0.1

- Added: Ability to Quick Login chars and remember by server (Character Manager).

means "remember by server" a quick-login feature for each freeshard on the list?

Yes, quick login, for any freeshard on the list, easier now as we send server ID in the xml.

- Added: Ability to ping a custom server to see if it is online (with a refresh timeout).

I implemented such a feature in my loader and I hope you dont wanna use ICMP for it and dont try a TCP-connect to 10300.
Feel free to contact me and I will help, maybe in developing too.

I haven't looked into ways of doing this yet, I avoided releasing for 2.0, planned for 2.1.

- Added: IRC client for general DAOC Portal as well as specific servers, new field in server db.

I really dont like this idea, but maybe I dont understand the background. But the portal should be a portal. I wont split with my mIRC.
And if its a server-feature it has to be in DoL and not portal. I really dont know what this should be.

This is a low priority item, as there are other IRC applications they can use, although there is a nice feeling to join a channel directly from the list.

- Added: Auto updater for DAoC Portal instead of uninstalling and reinstalling each time.

I implemented such a feature in my loader, too. Its automatically updated from two urls by hashing of files.
Feel free to test my loader, which you can download from my website.

This is what I am most interested in for releasing in 2.1, so it makes minor updates less of a chore, such as uninstalling old client, and installing new one fresh.

[rizla]

hi Etaew,

i was wondering if you could supply me with a link to the 1.91 (my current) installer of daocportal. For some reason i can't seem to remove daocportal (to install 2.0) without the installer package.

Any ideas?

[Etaew]

hi Etaew,

i was wondering if you could supply me with a link to the 1.91 (my current) installer of daocportal. For some reason i can't seem to remove daocportal (to install 2.0) without the installer package.

Any ideas?

http://www.dolserver.net/?page=userreleases&view=263

[rizla]

hi Etaew,

i was wondering if you could supply me with a link to the 1.91 (my current) installer of daocportal. For some reason i can't seem to remove daocportal (to install 2.0) without the installer package.

Any ideas?

http://www.dolserver.net/?page=userreleases&view=263

Can't seem to unpack that one. Might be corrupted. Says, 'Invalid ending of archive' and doesn't allow me to unpack.

[stephenxpimentel]

ok.. i have a problem. for ALL of my accounts that i have made on all the servers i have played, i dont put a password in before i hit play. and now it will not allow me to log onto servers without using a password.. so my accounts are all gone.. is there any way u can get rid of this problem. like make it so u dont need a password anymore?

[IStandAloneToo]

ok.. i have a problem. for ALL of my accounts that i have made on all the servers i have played, i dont put a password in before i hit play. and now it will not allow me to log onto servers without using a password.. so my accounts are all gone.. is there any way u can get rid of this problem. like make it so u dont need a password anymore?

No, we decided to force the use of a password (not sure why you wouldn't anyways). For those servers/accounts that you need, contact the administrator (access to the DB) in order for them to change the password. An easy way to accomplish this would be to create a temp account with a good password and have them copy that MD5 hash from that account's DB entry to your real account's DB entry.

[stephenxpimentel]

i dont because its a freeshard, which are mostly instant 50 and some form of rediculas realm rank, and not many will take the time to try and figure out my account name anyways, so i never really used a password cuz thats just 1 more thing i have to remember LoL. but thats fine i can just start over, because i really dont want to bug every single admin, ya know? well either way its a nice release, although the sorting is awkward lol.

[Kirashin]

compatible with windows vista?

[shaltar]

I'm using Vista and it works fine for me