foxcode: Like a car knows when you have money...

Kilroy Balore, CyberFOX! (

foxcode) wrote,
@ 2006-08-24 20:27:00

Current location:	My desk in my home office.
Current mood:	focused
Current music:	Spinning of my hard drives, doing restores.
Entry tags:	ebay, jbidwatcher, update

Like a car knows when you have money...
Greetings,
Software knows when you have time.

I recently made the comment to a user and developer that it was particularly good fortune that I'd gone this long without an eBay breakage. It let me spend some time improving my other technical skills, and coming up with a plan to take JBidwatcher forward, as well as recently lent me the time to figure out some of the longer-standing bugs.

Sadly, that comment must have been 'heard' by the PTB. (I'm really just kidding, I'm not that superstitious. Any timing would have been bad, but it's always something...)

Unfortunately, yes, JBidwatcher is currently non-functioning for the majority of eBay auctions. It will likely still place snipes, but if you can't add new items, that doesn't help much.

I'm working on a fix. Happily, I *just* got my new desktop (my old one's motherboard died, so I punted and went with a completely new build, instead of repairing 'one more time' my old frankenbox). I've got the source up and building, and I've seen the bugs relating to the XML exception and Shipping failures. I've got one fixed (the XML exception) and have gotten a patch from a friendly and helpful user for the shipping issue. I'm checking to see if it fixes it reasonably right now.

As usual, this fix will also incorporate a few other changes I've made since the last release. Hopefully they should all be for the better, though.

Screen location and height should be preserved better now.
Tab removals should stick better now.

I'm looking into a set of bugs reported by another user that stops QUIT from working. (Not the out of memory issues; that's something else, and requires an architectural change, which is post-1.0.) Similar bugs also afflict startup, sometimes making it fail.

All told I'm hoping to do a release this weekend to fix all of this at once.

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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	eiren 2006-08-25 08:42 am UTC (link)
	Great news, thank you! (Reply to this)

	Thanks (Anonymous) 2006-08-25 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	Cheers for doing the update. I like the project a lot. Maybe the project page could have a notice about the breakage? it took me a little while to think of coming here. (Reply to this)

	Awwwww... (Anonymous) 2006-08-25 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	yeah, thanks for your effort. The proj has been my fav for yonks. What a grotesque amount of auction-joy you've brought to my home! thanks so much and I hope to get the bird flying again soon! - LL (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-25 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	you do good work and I'm sure lots pass their thanks, but I would like to add mine too. I'm a vb man myself so cant help on that front but happy to in any other way. Ian (Reply to this)

Alternative during the weekend
(Anonymous)
2006-08-26 10:29 am UTC (link)

As I needed an alternative during the weekend in my Macintosh, I found this software.
Auction Hunter:
http://www.powersolutions.it/en/auction_hunter_download.html

It's got some nice features that JBid doesn't have, but it lacks others that JBid has. For for you that only have a mac it's seems the only free alternative if you need to snipe something during this weekend until JBid is back again.

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Re: Alternative during the weekend
(Anonymous)
2006-08-26 03:45 pm UTC (link)

Auction Hunter is very nice to set up searches which automatically updated after a given period yes.

But i doesn't work for snipping on my iMac G5 as the clock is out of sync by nearly
a minute. On an iMac CoreDuo at work the clocks seems to in sync there.

Mailed about this to the developer of Auction Hunter but haven't received answer
about this bug yet.

But all in all JBidWatcher is my favorite.

Could a current workaround be that one edits the auctions.xml file?

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	ehm... (Anonymous) 2006-08-26 11:20 am UTC (link)
	It seems to be working, this morning... (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-08-26 11:25 am UTC (link)
	look forward to it:) (Reply to this)(Thread)

foxcode
2006-08-26 07:12 pm UTC (link)

Greetings,
I believe eBay rolled back their recent change, but I expect it to be re-rolled relatively soon, so I'm still working to get a release out. Unfortunately, the 'lack' of issue means that what testing I could do, is more or less all I'm going to get. :(

That said, I'm glad that it's working again for the majority of users for the weekend...

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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	Still working (Anonymous) 2006-08-31 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	1.0pre6 still seems to be working for me using eBay.co.uk. Could the changes be related only to the US ebay site? (Reply to this)(Thread)

Re: Still working

foxcode
2006-08-31 06:56 pm UTC (link)

Greetings,
It looks like eBay rolled back their changes, for a bit. They probably messed something else up, causing slowdowns or something.

I fully expect them to re-release the changes eventually, so I'm still working on a release. I *think* I put in the right changes to fix the problem when/if it reoccurs. In any case, I'm coming very close to a release. Just trying to fix some multi-monitor bugs first.

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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	Thank you! teechu 2006-09-01 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Hurray for You!! We like you at our house :D We thing jbidwatcher is the greatest! I was lost without it! (Reply to this)

	Version 1.0 pre7 camp_fredy 2006-09-04 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	The version on the CVS is running great for me it seems to have solved the quit issues I sometimes got. I don't know what state the ebay server changes are currently in but it all seems to currently work. Thanks! (Reply to this)

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