|
VVV_Easy_Symenu Posts: 159
27/02/2018
|
CHANGELOG:
2018.02.27-V.5.1: Download size test improvements (now works with SourceForge).
|
|
|
link
|
|
VVV_Easy_Symenu Posts: 159
01/03/2018
|
CHANGELOG:
2018.03.01-V.5.2: Corrected little bugs of change the colors in second track or change the strings in edit track.
|
|
|
link
|
|
mrx Posts: 3
29/04/2022
|
Just in case someone has the same problem as me:
PAT needs a certain minimum desktop resolution at every startup to build the GUI correctly. In my tests it was 1440x900. The display of my notebook is only 1366x768 and the result looks like the attached screenshot.
I almost went crazy before I got the idea to test PAT on my external monitor. The GUI is displayed correctly and can now be enlarged and also reduced to any size.
Apart from that it is a handy, well integrated and easy to understand tool. Thanks for that.
|
|
|
link
|
|
mrx Posts: 3
10/11/2024
|
Update:
I was able to view the source code of the PAT and noticed two errors that I made in the last manipulated exe file posted here. So here is the correction.
All-clear: These errors only affect the strings - the program code is NOT affected!
_________________
Hi, it's me again.
The user agent string of SyMenu Published App Track is already quite old, which is why sourceforge.net has not been delivering web pages to SyMenu Published App Track for some time.
To work around the problem, I used a hex editor to change the string in the EXE file. Since then, everything has been working as usual again. Even a little better: some download sources were previously unavailable. If you are interested, you can download the manipulated EXE file below.
The old strings
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
- Wget/1.19.1
has been replaced by these:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) Chrome/132.0.0.0
- (likewise)
- Wget/1.25.0
The missing characters at the end have been filled with spaces.
edited by mrx on 10/11/2024
edited by mrx on 18/01/2025
edited by mrx on 18/01/2025
|
|
|
link
|
|
Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1378
11/11/2024
|
Hi mrx.
For SyMenu and SPS Builder I use an old FF user agent and a recent Wget user agent.
Usually there's no problem downloading anything with any kind of user agent unless it's too old but effectively you can have problems even with a recent user agent using SyMenu Published App Track (PAT) that presents itself as a sort of browser.
Plus the part where you hacked PAT is interesting but quite useless.
If I was in your shoes I'd try to ask the author the source code. If he still has it, I guess he will give it to you with zero problems. When you have the source code it's easier to make any modification and it could be a good thing to implement new features too. What about a rolling user agent? So when you don't succeed in downloading a page with the first one you can try the second and third ones.
And even if VVV_Easy_Symenu has no more the source code, under his permission, you can decompile the exe and have the source again. I'm quite an expert with this kind of thing and I can help you.
It's only my two cents.
|
|
|
link
|
|
mrx Posts: 3
12/11/2024
|
Hi Gian,
those are two very valuable cents.
I'm quite an expert with this kind of thing and I can help you.
Thank you, I would like to take you up on your offer. I'm just afraid that this is beyond my competence, even if the source code is available.
I completely missed the fact that symenu must also have a user agent. I think that if PET synchronizes it's with symenu's, everything should work fine.
edited by mrx on 12/11/2024
|
|
|
link
|
|
Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1378
12/11/2024
|
So I try to contact VVV_Easy_Symenu by myself and after that let's see if you can be a good replacement for the PAT maintainance.
|
|
|
link
|
|
sl23 Posts: 309
2 days ago
|
After having designed my Rainmeter AppUpdateCheck skin, I thought more about using the PAT again.
First, instructions aren't very clear, and are only available online. I would be happy to relearn it's usage and write a small text file or something for offline usage, but it needs to be included in the download. This will obviously need to be done by VVV.
Also, I am wondering if there's any chance the PAT app can be updated to x64 due to the continued movement in this direction by MS.
Thanks.
|
|
|
link
|
|
Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1378
2 days ago
|
Well, I realized that I never gave proper closure to this thread. Anyway, VVV is still alive and kicking, but now he’s playing in a different league than the SyMenu community (he’s in the tough league now, the real‑life one 🙂).
He handed the source code over to me, but unfortunately mrx gave up because PAT is too complex and not very well written, so it’s too steep a project to start with.
I can’t take it on myself either, so I’m still waiting for someone new who might want to help with this project. In my opinion it’s a really interesting topic, and there’s room for tons of improvement. If I weren’t so overloaded, I’d be happy to work on it myself.
Let me recap everything:
- PAT needs to be updated: user agent, UI typos, architecture (x86 → x64)
- PAT should be converted from its current language (VB.NET) to a more standard one (C#)
- There’s plenty of room to improve the program’s functionality as well
- We need a developer, even a young one, because I can’t manage a new project but I can supervise one
If you want to write a small manual, I can republish PAT including this new resource — no problem at all.
|
|
|
link
|
|
sl23 Posts: 309
2 days ago
|
Are you able to guide me with setting up the source code for me to work on it? I understand your time-limited, but if you can offer some guidance on getting the source into an editor where I can problem solve, amend, even update and then compile without your assistance, then I am willing to do that for you. Would be an honour and a pleasure to help you out. Can't promise anything, but I will give it a go. Once it's ready, I can then pass it back for your inspection and testing. Hopefully that isn't too intensive, time-wise I mean.
What do you say?
|
|
|
link
|
|
sl23 Posts: 309
2 days ago
|
I couldn't find the topic for SyMenu Orphan Icons Cleaner, which also needs some updating too. If there's anything I can also do with that, let me know.
|
|
|
link
|