Hi, Alexander!
I found a new (or rather old) little problem:
When you show MiniRunForm from tray icon, you still may open tray popup menu (with minirun dialog visible). It may cause two effects:
a) you may open both main form and minirun simultaneously.
b) you may open two instants of minirun and get exception when closing them
Proposition: close minirun form on opening tray popup menu. If you will clear 'MininRunForm' variable in ShowMiniRunDialog function after freeing form, then following event in main form will do

1procedure TDFendReloadedMainForm.TrayIconPopupMenuPopup(Sender: TObject);
2begin
3  if MiniRunForm<>nil then
4  begin
5    MiniRunForm.Hide;
6    MiniRunForm.Close;
7  end;
8
9end;

Ok I have tried to download dfend reloaded and it takes me to an error page! Whats going on please?? I would like a chance to give this dfend frontend a go

D-Fend Reloaded is hosted by Sourceforge. Sourceforge uses many mirror servers for fast download from any place on the world. Maybe the mirror you are redirected to is not working correctly at the moment. Just retry the download or manually select some other mirror. (I have just tested downloading 1.0.3 and 1.1b2 and for me it's working.)

BTW Sourceforge is having some serious problems at the moment (see Sourceforge blog). But as far as I understand this, downloading via the Sourceforge homepage is not affected. But at the moment I cannot change the DFR homepage or upload new versions. Besides skatz last post (I will look at it tomorrow) 1.1rc1 is done and just waits for the Sourceforge scp server to be up again.

Hi skatz,

as usual you are right, I have just fixed this using your code. But this time there was one more thing to do to fix this. "if MiniRunForm<>nil then" is only working if I also replace MiniRunForm.Free; by FreeAndNil(MiniRunForm); in MiniRunFormUnit.

Status: Still waiting for Sourceforge upload service to be working again to upload rc1.

Hi, ...

@Alexander

Status: Still waiting for Sourceforge upload service to be working again to upload rc1.

Now Sourceforge = Download work, but Updoad ?

Have you an alternative download section, other than Sourceforge ?

The Sourceforge upload service is up again. Because I won't have much time during the weekend, I will upload 1.1rc1 beginning of next week.

I have just uploaded D-Fend Reloaded 1.1rc1. If everything is fine with this release and when the last three not yet updated language files (Czech, Dutch and Polish) are done, I will release 1.1.

Hi, ...

I use = D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 1", D-Fend Reloaded PortableApps package.

@Alexander

Inside D-Fend Reloaded "Multiple games packages" The Downloads Failed. = See file attached.

Single game(s) download work.

Hi, Alexander
Still two issues for user-defined values with ampersand:
1. Exporting games list to XML : when exporting user data use EncodeHTMLSymbols not only for Value field, but for Name also.
2. In function BuildSelectPopupSubMenu (GameDBToolsUnit.pas) use MaskUnderlineAmpersand in both 'M.Caption' assignments, both for SubSelect and SubUnselect submenus. Also use it for SubSelect.Caption and SubUnSelect.Caption (user category may have ampersand also).

And, yes, package download doesn't work. Game download works. Maybe it is SourceForge problem?

Hi skatz and sst,

1 and 2 are fixed. Also the multiple games packages download problem is fixed (in the not yet released rc2). I was due to the new function not to buffer large files in memory anymore since rc1.

I have just released a last test version of D-Fend Reloaded 1.1 (see beta download page). There have been minimal fixes and changes since rc1 only. If everything is fine with 1.1rc2, we will have 1.1 next week.

You have some very good testers Alexander, good luck and I'm looking forward to the final release!

Hi, ...

I use = D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 2", D-Fend Reloaded PortableApps package.

@Alexander

See file attached, ...

I have try a clean install.

1) Some texts still in English see file attached.

2) 2 Errors with "D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 2", D-Fend Reloaded PortableApps package.",using Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Wine 1.2.2.

*Edit: No errors with Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Wine 1.3.13.

3) Inside D-Fend Reloaded "Multiple games packages", the Downloads now work correctly.

4) Also, ... Do you think to add some new "Multiple games packages ?"

Hi, Alexander!
In download package manager hints for list items are shown in position of line beginnig. May you move them to cursor position as in main window.
(TListViewSpecialHint ?)

Hello Alexander!

I'm using your 1.1.0 RC2.

This problem is not specific to this version, it happened a version or two ago, but not sure how far back. By default, the Screenshots are sorting backwards. They are sorted alphabetically, but they start at the bottom of the window and go up. Is there a way to change this?

Thanks again! 😀

Hi, ...

I use = D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 2", D-Fend Reloaded PortableApps package.

@Alexander

See file attached, ...

Problem with ScreenShot = not displayed correctly.

Good evening everybody,

@sst:
1. Because the line "AllListsEmpty=" in the [PackageManager] section is not translated in the two language files "French.ini" and "French Canada.ini".
2. Sorry, I cannot reproduce this problem under real Windows. The "Update lists" function does many things: Reading and writing xml files, loading files from internet etc. So it's not easy to find out what exactly is going wrong without being able to reproduce this bug.
4. My games packages are ment as examples. I'm hosting them on Sourceforge and I think Sourceforge is not ment for host old games. For example I would like to offer the games from Classic DOS Games via the package manager. I have also made a package list for many games from Classic DOS Games. But the Classic DOS games makers do not want me to add thier games to DFR. At the moment I'm checking some other (legal) sources for offering more games within DFR.

@skatz:
Fixed.

@Ranthalion75:
The screenshots list is not sorted at the moment at all. The order is taken from the operating system. I will rewrite the screenshot list building function to sort the list but this will require a rc3.

@sst:
I cannot reproduce this graphics problem. May be this is a problem of the Wine graphics driver?

Update:
The screenshots list was always storted (by the listview control itself, no while loading the list). But it looks like this is not working correctly and until now I cannot change this resorting by the control. Sometimes the order also changes just when resizing the window.

If I find out how to change this, I will fix it, otherwise: Bad luck.

Hi, ...

I use = D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 2", D-Fend Reloaded PortableApps package.

@Alexander

Tested D-Fend Reloaded, "1.1 RC 2", PortableApps package, with Windows 7 [SP1 Final] x64.

And a last release candidate before 1.1. If no real show stoppers are found, I will try to release 1.1final on Friday.