@Rogue

I know for a fact that the vectors were hand traced over the original video by someone using a mouse.

Well, chiptune.com almost works!

You get the cool WB screen, and you can drag the icons and windows around. You can even drag the WB down to reveal boing running behind it, but double-clicking the icons does nothing

@orgin

Really? I thought there was only libSDL-1.2.so? Thats all i have installed. What needs libSDL.so ?

@agafaster

Ranger will stop it for you, also. Just look for it in the DOS process list, and send it a break.

@agafaster

I just use Ctrl-C in the CLI window where i started MPlayer.

Well, actually, i now have an amidock icon for radio 2 which i created by putting the mplayer call in a text file and giving it an iconx icon. I just give it a Ctrl-C in the resulting CON window when i'm done.

@Cap

Thanks! That works great.

@poweramiga

Yep, and the fonts look great now! GREAT job joerg! When I have some cash again i'll donate some to him for sure.

Will it be possible to play RealAudio streams any time soon? There is a plugin for realaudio files, so presumably that decoder should work.

I'd like to listen to Radio 2 on my A1 but they only have windows media or realplayer streams...

WOW! I hadn't tried OWB since like 1.6 or something, but this is much better, although the font spacing seems to be all messed up.

But its great that it now renders to an intuition screen with a proper reaction toolbar!

AWESOME work Joerg and Andrea!

@Cyborg





Incidentally, if you're using SFTP and want to log the FXP packets, theres a checkbox to turn that on in "Advanced Options".

@Mikey_C

Are you only an amiga user because you think AmigaOS is going to take off commercially? That would be crazy in 2008.

I'm an amiga user because I like the platform, I like coding for the platform, and because its a fun hobby.

That doesn't stop because of some lawsuit.

BTW, the next release of Pete's FTP will support AmiUpdate, but since the current one doesn't, AmiUpdate won't know you've got it installed and update it for you.

If you use AmiUpdate and want it to notice when 0.2 is released, make a file called "ENVARC:AppPaths/PetesFTP" containing the full path of the drawer that contains the pftp executable.

@nbache

What I was going to do, was this:

When a remote browser with a local path set is opened, it checks if there is a local browser to the left of it. If there is, and it is currently just listing volumes, it changes the directory of it to the set local directory. This covers the case where you run PFTP and connect to a server.

I will also include a checkbox in the server window to open a local browser next to the remote browser you're about to open, if there isn't one already there.

@nbache

Thats tricky also, since local browsers aren't necessarily associated with remote browsers. I think i might have a way around that, though.

@Chris

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Thats why i'm thinking of adding a docky, so that you can always see what pftp is up to and only go to its screen if you need to do something new, which is in my mind the best of both worlds.

@Chris

When I created PFTP I had two main goals. I didn't want to be restricted to the simple 2 pane paradigm, but at the same time I wanted t retain the ease of use that comes from it.

There is an OS3.x FTP client called mFTP-II which is also multithreaded and supports multiple windows. It opens its browser windows on workbench which you could freely move and size like DOpus listers. I found it clumsy and messy compared to the classic 2-pane FTP client because there is no intrinsic or implied "connection" between listers which allows 2-pane clients to have arrow buttons to send files to the nearby lister.

I solved this in PFTP by allowing multiple windows, but keeping them managed and tiled by PFTP. This maintains an implied link between adjacent windows and allows me to have "send-to" arrows in the top toolbar, while still allowing for things like drag and drop.

Of course managed windows don't lend themselves to being open on the workbench since people generally like to be able to move windows on the workbench around as they see fit, but of course the Amiga provides the perfect solution; screens!

@orgin

Well, not as such, or at least i don't think so. It has layout groups to group objects together, but PFTP isn't a fixed 2-pane client which makes it trickier.

Although I think you can dynamically add children to groups (and therefore add browsers to an existing window), i would either end up with a lot of switch statements in the gui code depending on which "mode" it is in, or two seperate gui modules t maintain in parallel, neither of which i'm keen on.

The official answer, i guess, is "we'll see".

I'm considering adding a docky so that you can keep an eye on your transfers from the workbench screen.

@orgin

Its tricky because it doesn't have "one" window...

But i've never had any discomfort using it fullscreen.

@orgin

Yeah, about that... could you remove "Alpha preview version" from the description line? I didn't notice when I uploaded it. Edit: Thanks

BTW, the html documentaion is also available online here:
click me.

Well, Alpha 14 is out with SFTP support as you can see in the news item.

The next release of PFTP will be 0.1 Beta No more alpha previews.

I've just finished localising it now. I'm also going to write proper documentation in time for the next release.