Aim Stuff

I'm moving to my own domain @ http://www.justinsblog.net/ .  All my future posts will go overthere.


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http://beta.aol.com//protectedaim/triton/AIM_Triton_Beta_1.1.4_setup.exe

- a better tray icon (it actually goes away!) and tooltips on the buddy list (with away messages!!)

1 feature down, three thousands to go.




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So of the major complaints I hear about triton, a majority of them revolve around:
1) lack of features that we used to have in old AIM
2) crappy performance/memory usage

I know there are others, but those tend to float to the top of the list.  I'm not here to defend how Triton performs right now, but let me offer 2 major explanations:
1) The entire application is being rewritten from the ground up, so almost all of the features that people want to see are going to be added, they just aren't there yet!
2) AIM is now much more integrated with the rest of AOL, which means we have many more responsibilities, which takes our time away from the core features.

So, with that said, help me organize the kind of features that we really need to put back into Triton.  I want to hear about anything, ranging from the ability to reformat your screen name spacing and capitlization (really, a rediculously easy feature for us to re-add, just it's so small it was one of the hundreds of things to fall through the cracks) or something like buddy list tooltips and more systray features, or more full features like a manager.  They are all going to make it back in eventually, but I am trying to balance my time with new new features and new old features.

So, don't despair, we're not even close to done yet, and given enough time to clean things up, and enough of your patience, we are really going to rock ^_^


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A couple more things to look for in Triton.  Triton does have logging capabilities, but the preferences enabling it are hidden and the UI facilitating it are non-existant.  The logs are stored in xml format tho, so if anyone wants to make a viewer knock yourself out ^_^

How to enable logging:
    Go to settings manager (f7)
    Type 'config' in the search field in the top left corner.
    Select the new tab 'About:Config'
    Scroll down to the preference logginglogims
    Set that value to 1
    You will notice other logging preferences, like logging buddy events.  If you want to enable these, set each one to 1 or 0 depending on your preference.  Logs are stored in My Documents\My AIM Logs\fromscreenname\toscreenname\day.xml

How to enable hide BL on minimize:
    Follow the same steps as in logging, but look for the preference buddylistHideOnMinimize and set to 1

Happy Logging!


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Haven't had time to blog much recently.  I've received quite a few request about the missing 'exploding smilies'.  If you've like to put them back, go to your install directory, usually
c:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\<10digit#>\ee\services\imApp\verX_X_X\

and then open the file in:

content\im\template.html

This is just a simple HTML file with some javascript.  If you search for if( 0 ) and replace it with if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) (there are two occurance), flash smilies will come back.  We've had to remove them for various reasons, so YMMV, but give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Also, if you go to the settings manager and search for config, you will get a new pref and you can directly change any pref.

Some coming attractions because I know people are dying for it:  The tooltip for buddies on the buddy list is coming, and i know you guys are going to love it.  Also, the systray should be more AIM 5.9ish soon enough.  keep in touch.

Please leave comments / questions / complains / rants about triton GM if you like.


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The beta train keeps on rolling.  Beta 5 was released this week, and while there have been quite a few improvements, including the addition of VOIP (if you have aol totaltalk), there are only 2 things I want to bring to your attention

1)  Check out the plugins page in the settings manager.  Now go download JAMs from Justin or Greg's site (in my other journals section) and then go back to the plugins page.

2) This one is a hidden feature we've added in the settings page.  Good hunting!


justinsblog at 10:36:08 PM EDT Permalink | Blog about this entry |  Add to del.icio.us |  digg this This entry has 5 comments: Show Recent | Add your own

It's been a while but I'm back.  Been workin on lots of nifty features that you guys should like.  However, I haven't had much time to work on new UI elements recently. Keep the suggestions coming in, and I'll put a few neat little examples of what you can do with some of the new aim betas.


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IF:
 
function onPresented()
{
    scene.getBoxById("screenName").focus();
    scene.rootBox.setAttribute("dock","right", true);

Doesn't work for you guys, my best suggestion is try it again with the next beta of AIM.  It's possible there is something brokz0red in boxely in the version you guys are using, since that definately works for me. 

Anyhow, I am thinking about doing some demo's on how to mess around with the UI toolkit being developed, boxely. Perhaps some simple examples of how to do things yourself, make some basic windows, do some funky stuff.  Anything you'd like to see?


justinsblog at 9:50:42 AM EDT Permalink | Blog about this entry |  Add to del.icio.us |  digg this This entry has 5 comments: Show Recent | Add your own

I will answer some of the other questions in more detail later, but here's my first little boxely trick for you:
How to docking the BL to the side of the screen, try this out:
Open the file C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\##########\ee\services\imApp\ver0_#_#\content\bl\bl.js
And search for the line:
function onPresented()
{

And add the line:
    scene.rootBox.setAttribute("dock","right", true);

Your mileage may vary on this one -- that's one of the reasons the feature isn't in Triton yet.  Give it a shot, tell me what you think

justinsblog at 5:47:32 PM EDT Permalink | Blog about this entry |  Add to del.icio.us |  digg this This entry has 3 comments: Show Recent | Add your own

 This looks pretty cool:
http://channelevents.aol.com/whattoexpect/expresspreviewimg.html
I wonder how long before we can use this

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