World: r3wp

OK, if situation does not resolve, I am off from altme for most of 
the part of the day ...

No problems for me in the last days, hope it gets resolved for you.

OK, I am in  ... from some place in the world, traceroute ended in 
Washington. From my cell phone, it reached rebol.net. So the problem 
was somewhere on some router or so ...

(as previously reported) I regularly (most days) cannot connect to 
RT-hosted Altme worlds between around 18:00 and 24:00 utc.
The logon hangs with an "internet busy" message.

I've  no idea why. I have no such problem with IOS servers hosted 
by RT.

Evenings would generally be my most productive time for REBOL-related 
community things .... so it's a pity :-(

do some internet timings to see what's going on

there is an altme update

* Server clock check is now optional. You can enable or disable it 
from your Settings panel. This features checks that your server (world) 
clock matches your local clock (adjusted for time zone).

    * Fixes major bug in offline usage when you want to read your messages 
    while not connected to the net.

    * Fixes minor bug in icon pane when you right clicked on the help 
    part of the application icon panel, an error would occur.

    * Minor changes to AltME update notice. First, AltME will close when 
    you read the update news in your browser. Also, if you do nothing, 
    the update notice will close after 30 seconds. Both of these changes 
    are done to keep AltME from timeout problems.

    * Updates bug tracker applet (selected worlds). Removes unused fields 
    and buttons. Simplifies parts of the layout. Improves some of the 
    report modes.

!!!! Fix for off-line mode. Thanks guys! Sometimes I need that access, 
I am not always connected, especially on business trip.

Is anyone else seeing problems with the scrolling of results when 
using the built-in Altme search?

For example, if I search this group alone for words that return 11 
to 20 hits, I see the first ten and the window is not scrollable 
-- making the last few impossible to see.
***

As examples, the following two words will each produce betwen 11 
and 20 hits when searching this group (remove the asterisk -- it's 
there to prevent this post from changing the results):
  stran*ge
  h*ost

Does anyone know, how to run altme world on local network and be 
accessible from the local network too? When you read following section, 
it is not clear - http://www.altme.com/guide/advanced.html#sect0.10.

I mean - altme connects to wns (world-name-server) on altme.com, 
on port 5500. The server returns what - public IP address from our 
gateway? OK, then I have station on local network, and I want to 
connect to my world. But such info (public IP) is complelty worthless, 
unless you use one special trick (destination nat on your router). 
The only trick which comes to my mind is, that during the world registration 
phase, Altme.com is sent my local address too. Initially I was able 
to connect to world few days ago, but not nowadays, when my dhcp 
server gave my pc running altme server different IP ...

sunanda, I see it too. If I get about 200 results, there are no problems.

hmm, I am a clever guy, right? :-) Here's my packet sniff using WireShark 
(Ethereal):


cmd: open data: ["testik" 0].cmd: lookup data: [new 64#{xRXJdGGJkqhVd9WK5FzbXXZdT9o=}] 
.cmd: info data: [64#{oCjeSRyaoHOn75+8XOLs3tfSXalI1/XH} 192.168.0.136 
5400 1.2.13 0 *].cmd: lookup data: ok .

sunanda, I'm posting a bug report

So, it is now clear, that Atlme.com gathered my local IP address 
:-) Now it is clear to me, how is that my local PC knows where to 
connect locally ...

are we still open for suggestions? I now have mostly everything with 
altme, but I want one small button - mark all read :-)

yes, that would be nice.

Are you kidding? That, and a better "notifier."

Thanks Henrik: <<sunanda, I'm posting a bug report>>
I already did too!

Good, that means we might get their attention. :-)

Does right mouse click copy to clipboard work for you? As for me, 
for few versions already, I have a problem with that. Dialog box 
appears, but there is not text in the clipboard ....

varies .....

sometimes it works .. often not

I just discovered (at least) one of my altme chat files was corrupt....One 
of the lines in the file was truncated halfway through.

I deleted the entire REBOL3 folder, restarted Altme, and let it resync.

I now have a zillion red groups.

Plus a lot of wrong settings (like the last two pressed of enter 
transmitted the line)


But I do have a dozen or so groups with messages I'd never seen from 
up to two months ago.....It was drastic but it has fixed the resync 
bug for me, at least for a while.

you need the "all read" setting instead of the "all red" one

I notice if you switch worlds too quickly, it fails to change the 
saved password :(

I noticed that too some time ago....Which is why I can [have to] 
remember all my altme passwords :-)

It works better (ie forgets fewer passwords) if you click the dropdown 
at the top left to change words.

New version of Altme installing itself....

Several bug fixes -- including the search/scrolling one that Henrik 
and I reported just a couple of weeks ago.

That's the second bug-fix release in a month -- looks like Safeworlds 
are giving some attention to Altme again -- thanks guys!

Windows : release 1.2.14 
Linux : release 1.1.29    :(

Thanks a lot! So I might as well post a with to have button for "mark 
all read" :-)

And one supporting vote to our linux friends!

Well, mine says 1.1.29, too (linux, of course) count this as a vote 
to a linux update, too ;-)

yay, R3 bugtracker also fits on my screen now :-)

Here's another vote for a Linux version

Frank, I have Kubuntu Linux + Wine + Altme 1.2.14

Has anyone noticed problem with altme like tjhis:
When I run altme I can scroll messages window with mouse wheel.

When I lose connection and reconect after that  mouse wheel is not 
working any more....???

I haven't seen that myself.

Neither do I Ubuntu + Wine + Altme 1.2.14

Funny.... since my question it didnt happen again :)

i have some difficultes to construc devbase.r , missing icons in 
the title, any idea ?

sorry, wrong place

just wondering how you guys are getting Altme to work with Kubuntu/wine 
? I have Kubuntu 7.1 installed and when I try to run Altme off my 
Windows install, the Altme screen is just dots in place of text ? 
I was able to run Altme with no problems with mandriva/wine

you need to install the core windows fonts. run adept, and search 
for the msttfcorefonts package

actually, it's msttcorefonts. sorry.

thanks ! forgot that I had installed the windows fonts on Mandriva 
so why it worked with it. Old age :)

hmm... my code snippet check list is empty. did something happen?

I see 10 code snippets, so possibly you have fallen victim to one 
of the several Altme resync problems.
As far as I know, the only way to recover is:
1. exit Altme

2. delete the worlds/rebol3 folder (make sure you remember your password 
first) (actually, safer to rename the folder to, say, OLD-rebol3)
3. restart Altme and connect to REBOL3.

Expect it to take a while as it reyncs the whole world -- 25 meg 
or so of stuff.

Hope this 1.2.15 fixes the password problem