Winks pluggin, a little work

[Zaskar]

I'm not in my home these days, so I don't have my pc and my amsn to continue the developing. I'll be back soon, you'll get some news next week. What do you think that should be the next step?

[vivia]

Fix the bug reported bu ekz, stop "stealing" received winks automatically, and IIRC you also had other items in your TODO for the plugin, right?.... Anyway, for the millionth time, thanx

[Kalinda]

Well.. I downloaded and installed it.. and it's pretty awesome I can send and receive winks just fine, although sometimes it takes a bit of time to play them.

How can I change the player used from gnash to Flash 9? And on that note, does anyone know where I can acquire the Flash 9 standalone player? All I can find is the plugin. Gnash doesn't play back some winks properly, probably because they need Flash 9.

Also, maybe later on it would be a good idea to include the .mco files for the default winks with the plugin itself? That way we don't have to receive them from others first. Unless the .mco's are too big? Sorry if this has already been addressed, didn't read through the whole thread, just skimmed bits of it.

Good work, though!

[zerock]

it probably  needs some work on mac..

i get this:

[14:14:42] Received wink: "Kiss"...  Unknown wink, waiting for it...!

Can't open content.xml

[Fenix-TX]

Kalinda, try this link: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flash_player_9_linux_dev.tar.gz

[kakaroto]

kalinda, because of licensing issues it will probably be impossible to ship licensed Micro$oft winks with the plugin, so the 'workaround' is to receive them first.

[Zaskar]

The bug reported by ekz is fixed now, the $wink(name) was not between "", so when the name contains a space there was a trouble.

About stop stealing winsk, that's what I'm going to do now: When a new wink cames and I get the cab file, I'll extract the swf and I'll keep only this file (I'll delete the cab after extracting). This file will be in cache folder named as its sha1d encoded with md5, so when a new wink arrives, I encode the sha1d, I see if the file exists and in that case play it inmediatly, in other case ask for the file. In that way, we keep in chache only the swf, and not all the other wink information, so we can play it locally, but we can't resend that wink to anyone, we can't steal them. If we find later that there's some way to find out if a wink can be copied or not, I'll add the steal option for those ones, but rigth now I don't know. I thought that it was a field in the stamp called public that says "Y" or "N", but testing with the official client, it never lets me steal the wink. Is that ok?

[Zaskar]

Here's the new zip:

http://in.solit.us/archives/show/9011

[kakaroto]

no, you can steal the wink, we just don't want it to steal automatically. All you need is the to save the stamp with the wink cab file....

[ilsikulo]

Hello
congratulations for the work!
I have installed the plugin in my amsn 0.97b plugin directory, I have loaded it. But I have a problem! When I send winks is all ok, but when I receive a new Wink there's a problem.....In the log window of amsn (CTRL+S) i receive that message
...
[17:53:19] cabextract output: /home/fabio/.amsn/ilsikulo_****_**/winks/tmp/content.xml: Permission denied

Why??....
In other cases, when I receive a Wink, I can  show it, but the plugin is not able to insert that wink I have received in the wink menu!
I use linux Ubuntu Dapper, and I have reconfigured the files permission.... chmod -R a+xwr ..../tmp/ but nothig!!!.......
Can help me??.....Thanks

[MaT_UC]

it probably  needs some work on mac..

i get this:

[14:14:42] Received wink: "Kiss"...  Unknown wink, waiting for it...!

Can't open content.xml

Zerock be sure you followed all Tom instructions , it works great for meXD

[Zaskar]

Hi again. There are some news for that plugin. I've made a new cache structure. The file received remains there (so we can use it to move the wink from cache to our customs winks), but also is decompressed to a folder into the cache one to get the thumbnail and the animation faster. When you send or receive a wink, now you'll see its thumbnail next to its name. If you left click the thumbnail you can play it again, or add it to yor winks menu (steal, if this one was in cache). When stealing a wink, I just move the file and the folder from cache to winks and modify the indexs (now there is one in cache folder too). I've also fixed some little bugs or "almost bugs" that I've found over there. It needs a lot of testing still, so the zip file is here:

http://in.solit.us/archives/show/9469

[BoneFill]

Hi there, great job there's only one problem with it when you use it on Mac while opening the winks after you receive one because of a space in the path. I'm on Mac so I don't know if it's a Mac only issue.

When you receive a Wink the log says:

Eval: exec open /Users/ME/Library/Application Support/amsn/ME_hotmail_com/winks/11460b3760cb652c2b31fbd2cc71dd5d/wpw006db01.swf

Now if copy/paste/edit to:

exec open /Users/ME/Library/Application\ Support/amsn/ME_hotmail_com/winks/11460b3760cb652c2b31fbd2cc71dd5d/wpw006db01.swf

Now it works.

It's weird because it can read anything in that path but can't execute.

[Trappski]

Hi there, great job there's only one problem with it when you use it on Mac while opening the winks after you receive one because of a space in the path. I'm on Mac so I don't know if it's a Mac only issue.

When you receive a Wink the log says:

Eval: exec open /Users/ME/Library/Application Support/amsn/ME_hotmail_com/winks/11460b3760cb652c2b31fbd2cc71dd5d/wpw006db01.swf

Now if copy/paste/edit to:

exec open /Users/ME/Library/Application\ Support/amsn/ME_hotmail_com/winks/11460b3760cb652c2b31fbd2cc71dd5d/wpw006db01.swf

Now it works.

It's weird because it can read anything in that path but can't execute.

the later part is a correct path in UNIX whilst the top one is wrong... the "\ " is an escape sequence that is replaced with the space chracter.  If the escape sequence is not there the above path will be interpreted simply as "/Users/ME/Library/Application " and then it thinks that's it.

[Zaskar]

Here's another version. It includes language support (I've only written English and Spanish, help nedeed for others), an option for not playing the wink automatically when it's received and may be the fix for the problem with spaces in paths.

http://in.solit.us/archives/show/9493