CantrSpy 2

[Arenti]

EchoMan,

Your problem lies in using Ubuntu - which, in the view of this organisation, sucks.

Many thanks for your time,
- Returner

lol that was fun.

[joo]

The taskbar icon for CantrSpy 2.6.0 doesn't have transparency outside the green stuff.

Just made my taskbar half transparent and colored in Ubuntu 10.4 and CantrSpy get a white background.

MAJOR bug!

Uh, yeah, this problem has been encountered before by another Ubuntu 10.4 user. I'm not sure if it's due to a bug in AIR or a bug in Ubuntu, or even if I can do anything about it. When I get the opportunity I'll probably install Ubuntu on a VM and try to work out what's causing it, but until then perhaps this will alleviate the problem slightly:

http://cantrspy2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/published/cantrspy_2_6_9_flaticons.air

This is an "emergency" version I made with no transparency, just black bakgrounds for all the icons.

[EchoMan]

Thanks. Looks better than white bg for sure.

[joo]

This appears to be a problem with the API provided by Ubuntu to add tray icons, and it has affected a number of other applications (like Pidgin and VLC Media Player), the developers of which subsequently managing to fix it. However, Adobe AIR has a very insulated API so I suspect that the only way to fix this would be for Adobe to use a different API or for it to be fixed in Ubuntu; however, I will continue to seek a solution.

[FrankieLeonie]

What was in the update today?

I know this is a big request, but could you display the tick timers when you mouse over it?

[joo]

Update? o_O

[FrankieLeonie]

Air popped up and wanted to update from 1.Xish to 2.6.9 when I turned on my PC today... I just shut it down.

[joo]

That's very strange. I've never published a version of CantrSpy using AIR that had a version number starting with 1, and furthermore I haven't released any new versions since the version that is capable of updating was released... so, if you have that functionality then you should have the latest version, however it seems your installation is marked as something else.

I know this is a big request, but could you display the tick timers when you mouse over it?

Yes, I can. It won't be that hard.

[joo]

I know this is a big request, but could you display the tick timers when you mouse over it?

Yes, I can. It won't be that hard.

Actually, I've discovered that AIR doesn't currently allow applications to respond to mouse hover on the tray icon, so if such a feature were to be implemented, it would have to be accessed from the icon's context menu.

Thoughts?

[EchoMan]

I just rebooted my PC and air wants to update CantrSpy here too.

[joo]

Air popped up and wanted to update from 1.Xish to 2.6.9 when I turned on my PC today... I just shut it down.

Did it look like this?





In that case, that's an update from Adobe, not me. However, it is still interesting that a major version of AIR is being released. Apparently the SDK will be released in two days, so I may be able to do some interesting things with it.

Since you're interested about what the update contains: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/features/

And this is what it looks like when CantrSpy its self updates:

[Doug R.]

Actually, I've discovered that AIR doesn't currently allow applications to respond to mouse hover on the tray icon,

I'm mouse hovering over the canterspy icon right now, and it's telling me which characters are lit (on PC, but doesn't work on Mac).

[joo]

Actually, I've discovered that AIR doesn't currently allow applications to respond to mouse hover on the tray icon,

I'm mouse hovering over the canterspy icon right now, and it's telling me which characters are lit (on PC,

That's not quite the same as executing arbitrary actions in response to mouse-over. I simply assign a tooltip string to the icon and the operating system handles the rest.

but doesn't work on Mac).

Indeed? I'll try and find a solution for that.

[FrankieLeonie]

Yes even a selection to display ticks, maybe in a small window would be nice! That was exactly the message I got on all my PC's, so I guess I will continue to let it run.

Thanks for all your hard work making Cantr easier to pay attention to Joo!

[Jos Elkink]

Installed CantrSpy at work yesterday - very cool stuff ... I'll be trying to install it at home now (Mac) ...