D3LL beta available.

Otherone · Post by **Otherone** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:28 am

I finally got the pre-download tool I mentioned in this thread far enough along that I'm comfortable releasing a beta.

For those who were interested, sorry for the delay (almost 2 weeks after I'd planned on getting it out), but I went a bit nuts on the dialog used to configure the download sites so it took a bit longer than I'd hoped. Also, I got distracted by a little d3edit project that I'll talk about soon.

The config dialog is pretty cool - you can drop a bunch of .mn3 files on the list box and it will search them for URLs. It tries to verify that the sites are still valid and displays a little icon next to each indicating it's status. Finally, it will automatically sort the sites so good ones are the top of the list so they will be tried first. Probably overkill for something that most people won't see more than once but I had alot of fun with it.

Anyway, you grab the initial beta here. Just unzip it anywhere you want and run the program for initial configuration options (including automatic setup for Kquery4 and Kali95). There is a more extensive readme included in the .zip.

Comments and suggestions would be welcome. Now that I know about Vortex I don't know how much further I'll take this but if anyone really needs anything added I'll probably be willing as long as it's w/in reason (i.e. don't ask me to turn it into another full-fledged game browser). In the meantime, if anyone with any artistic skills would like to make a suitable icon for it I'd be thrilled.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:11 pm

/me thrills Otherone.

I'd be more than happy to edit this if you'd like, In fact I wouldn't even mind starting over.
I'm considering a career in graphic design so the more time I spend on stuff like this the better.

As for the program, looks pretty cool although I have to admit I'm not quite sure how to use it.

I love the smiley face verifying the website though!

Otherone · Post by **Otherone** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:45 pm

Actually, I kind of like it. My pathetic attempts all incorporated an arrow theme but this is much much better. Unfortunately my crappy-a$$ icon editor loses so much resolution that the cool 3d effects are lost. Still seeing what I can do with it though.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:15 pm

Still seeing what I can do with it though.

I hope these aren't too late!

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