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Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/11/2011 4:01:46 PM   
PipFromSlitherine

 

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Status: offline 		The tray tool is now available with support for War in the East, as well as Battlefield Academy and FoG - all in a single little app. Never miss another turn with onscreen notifications when turns are available to play.

The tray tool is a tiny app which lives in the system tray (usually bottom right on the taskbar) and will inform you when turns are available for your games. No installation is required, you just run the tool and it will keep periodically checking until disabled, or you can set it up to be part of your system startup - the choice is yours!

Download from

http://www.slitherine.com/files/SysTray/SysTray.zip

Enjoy!

Cheers

Pip
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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/11/2011 5:20:31 PM   
larryfulkerson


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Status: offline 		Hey Pip:  how often does it check for any available games.  Once per minute, or once per hour, or ....??? Oh, and thanks very much for this app. It's going to be very handy.

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/11/2011 5:29:25 PM   
PipFromSlitherine

 

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Status: offline 		They check every minute or so. Allowing user tweaking of that frequency is on the todo list for the app.

Hope it's useful!

Cheers

Pip

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/15/2011 5:41:15 PM   
Berkut

 

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Status: offline 		Cool.

What would really be nice though is some kind of chat functionality in the MP game tool.

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/16/2011 4:13:55 AM   
bwheatley

 

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Status: offline 		What would be my favorite is the ability to save an online turn or at least have them kept on the back end in case there is a bug. In my first game we lost it because we could not roll back a few turns to fix the Romanian bug.

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/23/2011 10:02:41 PM   
Michael T


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Status: offline 		How would I set this tool up to always start up automatically?

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/29/2011 10:50:10 PM   
Belphegor


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Status: offline 		I put it in the startup folder. Worked well (only entered info once) in XP. Win7 seems to want the info each time however.


my question now: why does it sometimes say who the turns are for, and other times just list the number of turns?

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 5/12/2011 12:16:05 PM   
tigercub


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From: brisbane oz
Status: offline 		wow it realy is 2011 now sweet!

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 7/14/2011 2:26:33 PM   
Empire101


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Status: offline 		This is great!!

Thanks

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 7/15/2011 12:51:37 AM   
PipFromSlitherine

 

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ORIGINAL: Belphegor

I put it in the startup folder. Worked well (only entered info once) in XP. Win7 seems to want the info each time however.


my question now: why does it sometimes say who the turns are for, and other times just list the number of turns?


Totally missed this way back when it was posted. Sorry.

Never seen the issue where it demands the login each time. My guess would be some oddness with startup apps and their permissions (e.g. if the folder was created running in one mode and the startup starts in another). I would try shutting down the app, deleting the My Documents\My Games\Slitherine\TrayTool folder and rebooting so it starts in startup and see if that helps.

It will tell you the player name if there is a single game waiting, otherwise it will tell you the count. I'm hoping to find time sometime(!) to get it to give you a list if you want it, but all the games are slightly different, so it's not a simple update.

Cheers

Pip

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 7/15/2011 1:01:30 AM   
Belphegor


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quote:

ORIGINAL: PipFromSlitherine


quote:

ORIGINAL: Belphegor

I put it in the startup folder. Worked well (only entered info once) in XP. Win7 seems to want the info each time however.


my question now: why does it sometimes say who the turns are for, and other times just list the number of turns?


Totally missed this way back when it was posted. Sorry.

Never seen the issue where it demands the login each time. My guess would be some oddness with startup apps and their permissions (e.g. if the folder was created running in one mode and the startup starts in another). I would try shutting down the app, deleting the My Documents\My Games\Slitherine\TrayTool folder and rebooting so it starts in startup and see if that helps.

It will tell you the player name if there is a single game waiting, otherwise it will tell you the count. I'm hoping to find time sometime(!) to get it to give you a list if you want it, but all the games are slightly different, so it's not a simple update.

Cheers

Pip



Perfect, thanks!


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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 9/14/2011 5:54:09 PM   
bwheatley

 

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Status: offline 		Was it fixed so you could save a copy of the file locally? Until that happens I won't be able to use the awesomeness of the online server.

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-Alpha Tester Carrier Force
-Beta Tester ATG
- Mod Maintainer (past) for ATG's WAW mod
- Mod Maintainer (past) for ATG's GPW mod
-Beta Tester WITE
-Alpha Tester WITW
-Alpha Tester WITE2
-Alpha Tester Wif
-Beta Tester Command

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 9/14/2011 6:26:20 PM   
Joel Billings


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From: Santa Rosa, CA
Status: offline 		No, the only saves are to the server.

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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 7/30/2012 4:37:30 AM   
delatbabel


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Status: offline 		Pip, can this be done any other way, e.g. via a web interface or can you let us know the protocol? The reason is that my main machine runs Linux 99% of the time and I only reboot into Windows when I have a WITE turn ready. If I could get a similar program running under Linux to pop up and tell me when I have a turn, that'd be great.


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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 7/30/2012 10:24:41 PM   
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RE: Playing online? Never miss another turn! - 4/21/2017 6:03:52 PM   
bigbaba


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Status: offline 		got it. nevermind.

< Message edited by bigbaba -- 4/21/2017 6:39:04 PM >

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