Another Build!

GetRight: http://www.get-right.com/gr6.zip
GetRight Pro: http://www.get-right.com/gr6pro.zip

These is a new EXE to replace the one you have. Download that, then close GetRight. You should copy the files in the .ZIP file into your GetRight folder, normally C:\Program Files\GetRight\

Feb 26; 6.2+01

• Improved some appearance things for Vista...better toolbars, and a "Vista" color set for the graph.
• Fixed filefront downloads that all were named X6
• Fix how small files could show the byte size in the percent spot.
• Fixed some games button problems with XP in classic Windows look--could have been no icon.
• Added %TITLE% and %ITEMTITLE% as variable options for Podcast downloader default folders.

March 12; 6.2a

• Fixed the image things I'd broken in +01 Menu/About graphic, etc.
• Tweaked the mouse-over menu items a bit.
• A few other little fixes.

March 27; 6.2a+01
There's some good things in this one!

• Working on some improvements that hopefully will help the IE integration with Vista. (Run the RUN_ME.EXE file to install the updated click DLL.)
• Alpha channels for toolbars and window graphics...8 bits prettier! A few of the graphics changed a bit, but most are the same, just nicer--and the few that changed are hopefully better. (There were lots of green play buttons in the graphics we bought, where before there were blue...so now there's more green.)
• Fixed restoring window locations, X and Width was mixed up in one spot.
• Added so internal DNS cache is cleared every hour (to help with dynamic sites.)
  And added a registry item so it can be disabled completely.
  HKCU\Software\Headlight\GetRight\Config
  GetRightCacheDNS = 0
• Fixed podcast downloader to handle some podcasts better (if new items are added at the bottom vs added at the top.)
• Changed the "shutdown when done" so the options (shutdown/hibernate/etc) are in the menus and toolbar button instead of on the Advanced tab. Makes it much easier to choose just what you want to do each time. And combined so "hangup when done" is now just another option there if you've got modem settings turned on.
• Adjusted the Schedule Start and Stop options to match the new Shutdown (so choices there too.)
• Fixed alignment on Import window.
• Added so Pro's Web Access can accept a list of URLs to add multiple downloads at once. On the tools webpage, there's just a textbox to do it.
• Fixed some "classic" graphic items (didn't have them for Podcasts or Scripts).
• Fixed some XML processing for large XML files (Podcasts, Metalink, etc.)
• Added a message if privileges (from a Vista limited account) are preventing GetRight from deleting the Startup shortcut.

March 27; 6.2a+02 (hour or so after +01).

• Fixed problems with FTP downloads thru HTTP proxies.

April 7; 6.2a+03

• Fixed some images on the download window buttons when using the "classic" XP look or older versions of Windows.
• Fixed several BitTorrent and BitTorrent + HTTP/FTP things.
• Fixed download status menu/toolbar items not being grayed out correctly when opening.
• Fixed uninstalling old Opera plugins.
• Increased daily download registered user limit to 500
• Improved some podcast processing speeds and problems, especially for very large ones.
• Added warning message if trying to download to \Program Files\ in Windows Vista.
• TIP: If you ran the RUN_ME from 6.2a+02 or +01, you don't need to run it again.

May 7; 6.2a+04

• Added a button on the Save As "Options" button window--to change the default folders--just is a shortcut to the right config page. (Had a couple people email they couldn't find where to change it...hopefully that's the sort of place they were looking.)
• Fixed how the port got cropped to por on the FTP Proxy tab.
• Fixed the .getright file type icon (fix is in the installers, so can't see in these test builds.)
• Changed some splash graphics and deleted some unneeded things in the new Alpha channel ones to make the file size smaller, about 700K smaller than +03.
• A few other things I forgot to write down.
  

June 7; 6.2a+05

• Fixed to add new items at the top/bottom of Download Status depending on sort order and new download's order.
• Fixed some strange redirecting things that affected some podcast sites.
• Some more checks to help catch Vista downloads.
• Added "Find Files" button that copies the new FileMirrors category menus (new.filemirrors.com, see the separate announcement here: http://getright.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1299)
• Improved handling of download.php sorts of filenames.
• And as usual, a few other things I forgot to write down.

June 11; 6.2a+06

• Fixed some bugs with Vista click monitoring (if several registry spots.)
• Fixed some incorrect links in the Find Files button.

June 21; 6.3

• This should fix any problems with Vista/XP and DEP (Data Execution Protection.)
• Pretty much the same as +06 otherwise

Nice fixes! Toolbar is now a true one in Vista! Now I'm waiting the vista-compatible drop-down menus
(Don't hurry however)

More work for Michael (beyond my bugs topic):

• Still saving as X6 for filefront downloads. Don't we need an updated xx2gr.dll?
  
  
• I don't know why, but when GetRight starts, Windows Defender is using too much CPU; it seems it is having some trouble with the resident protection to scan GR.
  
  
• "Minimize to tray" button in the download window is still being messed after changing from Classic to XP default theme in this order.
  
  
  
• Games button description ("Games") is being cut when there is no space in the download window. For consistency with the other buttons I think the download window minimum size should fit its description; and if user disable that button, GR allow a new minimum size for that window.
  
  
  
  
• Mirror Details background color is messed after changing from XP Default to Classic theme while there is a download window open.
  

Seems to be some kind of menu bug in Vista, see screenshot.

Another one O_o (reg info removed)



btw. it seems to me no splash screen is shown under vista also.

"Minimize to tray" button also missing in vista:

Erroneus, the first pic I already reported, but I could see this bug for some non-english languages only and on WinXP... some time ago Michael said he fixed it...

Well i didn't have it on my XP SP2 running a danish version, but on my danish Vista it appears.

Oops, the graphic in the menu and on the About are just bugs...will fix those (nothing to do with Vista, just bugs with some bitmap optomizing I was trying to do).

I like the toolbars in Vista too (and the Vista graph colors turned out nice too)! I'll be seeing what other Vista effects I can do...it's a bit more work since I need to do it so that it won't break anything for everybody with XP or even Win98 or Win95!

Actually, the Games button shrinking itself is intentional. I wanted you to still be able to shrink the window as small as before even with the new button...so if there isn't space for the full button, it switches to just an icon.

Just was switching from Classic to XP looks...even Explorer had some weird things (toolbars disappeared!) Doesn't happen often, so I'll put it lower on my TODO list; most people stick with one look

And that little "minimize to tray icons" will be a LOT harder with Vista. By default, Vista simply doesn't let you draw anything there...and so far it seems to draw Something, I'd have to draw Everything for the window caption and borders.

The FileFront X6 thing worked right when I just tried...what web browser are you using (I'm using IE)?

I'm using IE 7 as always. Latest xx2gr.dll is the one from Jan-04-2007 right?

No problem with the Basic theme (the ugly one for graphic cards not compatible with the Pixel2 cruel thing).

My question was about consistency with the other buttons behavior: "For consistency with the other buttons I think the download window minimum size should fit its description; and if user disable that button, GR allow a new minimum size for that window."

I too have the graphical problems that "Erroneus" has described above. The problem involve both the tray-popup-menu and the About-window.

I am using WinXP SP2 (italian) and not WinVISTA. GR 6.2+01 English UI.

B.T.W. ..... THANKS for your efforts to improve GR. Thank You.

Yeah, is just a graphic bug...will be fixed in +02

And before someone asks, just been adding so the speed graph has choices for dark/light background + all the colors. So could do red on the new Vista-light background or whatever combination you want. (Though gray on the light background isn't too visible!) Just right click the graph for the menu of choices.

Tryed GetRight Pro+01 and found some "improvement": classic icons become crap. Copy the code from below into notepad and save the file as .eml, then double-click and You should see the mail with a picture attached: look at the picture.
PS Doesn't it seem to you guys that attach a file to a post is a modern and useful feature? At least much more useful than inserting URLs to the 3rd-party sites and such workaround like I do in this post (still can't find how to attach a file in a thread started by someone else).
PSS Doesn't it seem to you that there are more important questions than painting checkers on a taxi? I've posted at least 2 bugs last week and there is no progress for any of them. (Sorry if question is out of address: I don't know division of a labour in Your team).

It doesn’t work for me at Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and probably at the Office Outlook too.

But I think you have only 500KB of space and it seems attachments are disabled only at this Announcements forum (you can note that you can post attachments on any other forum).

We report bugs/suggest improvements and Michael fix or try to fix them when he can.

You are right ThuderBird does not want to open it. Try this one ( if using ThunderBird then File->Open saved message):

Why dont you just upload the image to imageshack or similar service?

I would NEVER copy paste that and save as an .eml file to open in Thunderbird. It could actually easly be some sort of exploit containing virus.

Not working again...
b+z, please use some image-hosting site like http://imageshack.us/

Or just email any images to me, michael getright.com (The other forums should allow attachments, just not this Announcement one--so can post there too.)

At last:

I can confirm: they are really bugged!

(You finally used ImageShack )

(How could Michael broke them?)

Thanks Michael,

You are so timely with your fixes. I got the X6 problem with filefront so I decided to look for an update to GetRight and lo and behold-- problem Fixed.

Could you please place a second pinned announcement for betas in the bug section of the forum? I know that I have to try and remember where to it every time you mention an update so I am sure newbies really go nuts trying to locate it. You might actually move it so only people reporting bugs actually know where it is.

It would be greatly appreciated,


JW 'Yawn' vanLohuizen


P.S. Yeah Seamonkey 1.1.1 has fixed the html coding problems

Michael,

This is a problem in the XP version as well.

JW 'Yawn' vanLohuizen


P.S.

Michael, I replied to this one prior to reading the previous posts , so I now see where you have already address this one and as usual you are on top of things.

Thanks...

Oops, will fix that toolbar Was doing some toolbar changes to make them look nicer on Vista...mixed up some size numbers for the "classic" look.

Just noticed the 6.2a on the main site and date 12 march, so I guess this is newer then 6.2+01, but whats new?

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The menu bug and about bug is gone

The changes are on the first post of this topic (http://getright.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1137).

You missed at least 3 sub-menus:

"Toolbar":

"Arrange Icons":

"Speed Limit for This File":

Also missed my easy-to-fix-cosmetic-bugs: http://getright.invisionzone.com/index.php...post&p=5067
I would like Michael release new versions after fixing all known bugs instead of only 2 or 3 trivial issues!

Yeah, this was a little smaller than others in fixes...but thought that the Vista visual improvements were worth getting out sooner rather than later. Plus there's a fix in the installer that will make the IE Tools--Manage Add-Ons more readable for GetRight's item...and more people are seeing that in Vista.

Fixing those missed menus (and a couple others); and I'll get working on the others!

One stupid glitch: In the GR Configurations list box, the item called "Login" is not memorizing the last state (open or closed) and always start closed when the configuration window is open.

Open is:

Closed is:

I too have the same "LOGIN-configuration-problem" described above by Ricardo.

I'm using GRv.6.2 (not the v.6.2a).

I'm not sure of it, but I believe to remember that this very little "problem" is a very old problem that was present also in other previous releases.

Fixed the + Login expanding.

Wow... You have been really fast!

Thank You!

Please, how can I use the new option: Added %TITLE% and %ITEMTITLE% as variable options for Podcast downloader default folders?
Thank You
Ruggero

On the Podcast Downloader, when adding or editing an item, on the My Computer tab, the "Download Files To..." That's the spot to use it.

C:\Downloads\pods\%TITLE%\

should do it!

Thank You, It works finely.
I wonder how I can get a file with title (tag title) as the file name. I need this to synchronize the mp3 player where the title must be different for each file.
Do You have any command line to do this?

Ruggero

If you click the Options button on the Podcast downloader, the one item there I think is what you want--to name the .mp3 files the same as the podcast item's name.

March 27; 6.2a+01

• Working on some improvements that hopefully will help the IE integration with Vista. (Run the RUN_ME.EXE file to install the updated click DLL.)
• Alpha channels for toolbars and window graphics...8 bits prettier! A few of the graphics changed a bit, but most are the same, just nicer--and the few that changed are hopefully better. (There were lots of green play buttons in the graphics we bought, where before there were blue...so now there's more green.) Old on the left, new on the right.
• Fixed restoring window locations, X and Width was mixed up in one spot.
• Added so internal DNS cache is cleared every hour (to help with dynamic sites.)
  And added a registry item so it can be disabled completely.
  HKCU\Software\Headlight\GetRight\Config
  GetRightCacheDNS = 0
• Fixed podcast downloader to handle some podcasts better (if new items are added at the bottom vs added at the top.)
• Changed the "shutdown when done" so the options (shutdown/hibernate/etc) are in the menus and toolbar button instead of on the Advanced tab. Makes it much easier to choose just what you want to do each time. And combined so "hangup when done" is now just another option there if you've got modem settings turned on.
• Adjusted the Schedule Start and Stop options to match the new Shutdown (so choices there too.)
• Fixed alignment on Import window.
• Added so Pro's Web Access can accept a list of URLs to add multiple downloads at once. On the tools webpage, there's just a textbox to do it.
• Fixed some "classic" graphic items (didn't have them for Podcasts or Scripts).
• Fixed some XML processing for large XML files (Podcasts, Metalink, etc.)
• Added a message if privileges (from a Vista limited account) are preventing GetRight from deleting the Startup shortcut.

Impressive changelog! (and I believe it has some missing things as always )

Yeah, been busy, and just did a +02 (hour or so after +01).

• Fixed problems with FTP downloads thru HTTP proxies.

Oh noes! I was to say some more cosmetic things!
(Replace +02 before people download...)

Icons are now real icons! Much better!

Impressive GetRight.exe file size increase too! From 4.150.608 bytes (6.2a) to 5.109.072 bytes (6.2a+01)... Does it include the new icons?
(GetRight.exe using more memory too, especially after opening windows that contains new icons)

Things I forgot before that release:
-> Drop-down menu when right-clicking graph is using default (old) style lines.
-> The same for the "Transfer Details" File and Edit menus.
-> Config "Apply" button is being activated simply by pressing the button "Special 'Referer' Values" in Configuration -> Advanced -> Protocols.
-> Grammar in Internet -> Proxy -> FTP Proxy tab: "server:por" should be "server:port"

Yeah, all the nice graphics add up in size. Well over half the total EXE file size is from the images! And enough people want the older style, I've got to keep them all included and can't clean out the "classic" ones.

And images with the alpha channel are bigger...each new icon for a toolbar button is only about 5KB, but with a bunch of buttons in the toolbars, each one with a "regular", "disabled", and "mouseover" state--it adds up! Fortunately, they compress well.

Some more things:

• The tray icon selection roll bar is not memorizing the last icon when it is selected: , instead that page is being opened with the first icon selected: . Note that this problem is limited to the roll bar, not with the tray icon that is being saved correctly.
  
  
• Unfinished downloads using 'classic' icon:
  
  
• From my post above:
  QUOTE
  -> Drop-down menu when right-clicking graph is using default (old) style lines.
  -> The same for the "Transfer Details" File and Edit menus.
  -> Config "Apply" button is being activated simply by pressing the button "Special 'Referer' Values" in Configuration -> Advanced -> Protocols.
  -> Grammar in Internet -> Proxy -> FTP Proxy tab: "server:por" should be "server:port"

Thank you sir! This build looks very nice!

I have a question.

I am using the GR_6.2 version. I did not download (and did not install) the GR_6.2a version.

Well, now, if I download the GR_6.2a+02_zip and I replace the old "GetRight.exe" file, will have I "installed" the regular updated version?

Or, previously, have I to download (and install) the "6.2a_getright_setup.exe" file from the download page?

Thanks in advance for the answer.

Yes, because the only updated files are the GetRight.exe and xx2gr.dll that are contained in this small package (no other file or dll was updated this time).

For the icons on that Icons page, Windows always seems to draw the tray icons better if it is that 16x16 stretched to 32x32...which looks blockier there, but I like the tray icon better.
The left one is the blockier one on the Icons page. Subjective, but I like how that looks better--why it's the default Tho, maybe Vista does it better.

That is not the problem I pointed. I said that the last icon don't remain selected ONLY IN THAT SCROLL BAR, but it REMAINS ACTIVE in the tray bar.

Thank You very much for the answer.

I have followed your suggestion and I have replaced only the "GetRight.exe" file with succes: now GR is regularly updated to the 6.2a+02 version. THANKS!

Ah, misunderstood. Fixed so the scroller for selecting the icons works for the last one!

Seems to be a problem with the icons in the download window, se image.

Happens both under Vista and XP SP2.

I confirm! It happens when using Windows classic theme.

Solve my curiosity, please: are you using some modified GR skin, right? (That has nothing to do with the problem though)