MightySETIInfo

Download the file v4.5 Jul 3, 2003

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Example output:

Thu Dec 15 16:44:03 2005
Written by MightySETIInfo v4.5
User Mighty has been running 211669657.041137 seconds
(6 years, 258 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes, 1 second)
and has processed 2631 work units
52% through current workunit

MightySETIInfo Readme.txt
Copyright ® 2002, 2003 All Rights Reserved Drake Christensen

http://www.mightydrake.com/SetiAtHome/MightySETIInfo/

The primary purpose of this program is to give me a simple programming project to keep my skills up. I recently choked in an interview because I've been lazy the last 18 months and am out of practice. I blew a simple programming question.

Anyway.

What this program does is read your SETI@Home files and spit out a .txt file for an email sig and an .html file for posting on a web site. The output format is controlled by template files. You specify how you want it to look, and the program will replace strings in the file with information from your SETI@Home progress. You can tell it if you're using Setihide and it will automagically find the current work unit.

Eventually, it will report the progress of other machines on your LAN. It will read the SETI@Home group page and grab the info so you can format your own group info summary. I'll probably also add output to a BMP/GIF/JPG.

For anyone interested, I have included the source code to this program. Any questions, comments, suggestions, etc are encouraged. I decided to use the Fox GUI toolkit. I use MSVC, but this should compile fairly easily on *nix. If anyone does so, please let me know if there's anything I can do to make the code more portable. Mighty@mightydrake.com

I retain copyright on the portions of the program I've written, but I authorize you to feel free to use and distribute this program and it's source code as you wish. I do ask that you include acknowledgement of me if you do so. For example, with a link to my web site on the page where you post the zip file. I'd also appreciate a quick email, just so I have a clue how many are using it. Let me know if you'd like notification of updates.

If you make any changes to anything in the zip file, please include a prominent notice that you've done so for anyone who downloads the altered file. And please share it with me. I'd like know how my stuff is being used. And, if you chose to make a change then it may be something I should be doing in the official distribution.

How to use this program ------------------------------------------------------

System requirements: Tested on Win 98 SE and Win ME. As far as I know it should work on all Win 9x, NT, 2k and XP systems.

This program is not all that hard to use. See MightySETIInfo.html in this zip file for detailed documentation.

Installation:

• Copy MightySETIInfo.exe, ftp4w.dll MightySETIInfo.ini MightySETIInfoInput.txt and MightySETIInfoInput.html to any directory you like.
• If you want to run the program everytime you start Windows then create a shortcut to the .exe in your Windows Startup folder

Uninstall:

• Just delete it. The only files it writes are the INI file in its own directory and the output files you specify. It does not store anything in the registry.

Change history ---------------------------------------------------------------
v1.0 Sep 29

• Initial release

v1.1 Sep 30

• Changed the UI to look like something a user could use
• Updated docs
• Put wrappers around writing to text boxes

v2.0 Nov 20

• Implemented simple HTML output
• Implemented FTP upload
• Implemented FTP UI

v3.0 Jan 21

• New: Implemented templates for both email sig and HTML
• New: Hook up Once and then Exit to checkbox on UI
• New: Implemented DoIt button to write files after changing something
• New: Templates for sig and HTML
• New: Timers for writes. Checked when program started and then continuously if program left running
• Change: Changed the email sig and html output boxes to have a splitter window between them
• Change/New: Moved most of configuration settings into its own dialog box. Use Settings button, or Config menu|Main settings
• Bug: FTP - If we got an error sending the file we didn't disconnect, and therefore couldn't connect without closing the program
• Bug: FTP - Never called Shutdown (no effect right now, because it does nothing)

v4.0 Apr 25

• New: Implemented Random quote
• New: Look for multiple occurances of a given tag
• New: Support for Setihide directory cache directories
• Bug: About box formatting
• Bug: Fixed crash when we've passed the interval and theat output is disabled
• Change: Big GUI redesign. Moved almost all config info into main config dialog. The only things left in the main window are the sig and html text boxes, buttons to get to the main and ftp config screens, an Update Once Then Exit checkbox, and the Do It button
• New: Debug flags, so I can turn various debug checks and output on and off at runtime

v4.1 Apr 27

• Bug: FTP button wasn't working

v4.5 Jul 3

• Bug: Typo <%CurDateSting%> should have been <%CurDateString%>
• New: Hide button and Hide On Startup option
• New: System hotkey to show window
• New: Made my own silly icon
• New: Documentation in HTML
• Added: Several WU* progress string replacements
• Change: Default example html template, so it wouldn't mash up against the left edge of the browser window
• Change: Renamed SETIInfo to UserInfo and made it a real class
• Change: Rearranged the Settings screen
• Programming: Split out SETIState and UserInfo classes
• Programming: Changed MainConfigDlg to use FXMatrix

Acknowledgements -------------------------------------------------------------
SETI@Home
SETIHide
Fox
Freeware FTP source

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Last modified: July 03, 2003

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