Cabbage Desktop / Cabbage Mobile mega thread (Desktop/mobile texting app)

ronano · 30-10-2007 1:04pm

I meant you could type in multitext up to 3 texts worth of info and send it to a single contact. They would recieve the 3 texts one by one though,is it 3 in your program or more?

The only thing i would add to your program would be it would tell you how many texts your characters take up.

Sam Vimes · 30-10-2007 3:50pm

ronano wrote: »

I meant you could type in multitext up to 3 texts worth of info and send it to a single contact. They would recieve the 3 texts one by one though,is it 3 in your program or more?

The only thing i would add to your program would be it would tell you how many texts your characters take up.

ah i understand you now. i've been working on it today coincidentally and now you can send as many messages as you want. it doesn't limit you at 3.

and just now when i read your post i added a thing to tell you how many messages you're sending

today i also fixed the client side code for meteor which turned out to be a lot easier than i thought it was going to be and i made the interface for sending vodafone messages client side a lot better. you might notice that the program doesn't shut down and restart when it sends a vodafone message anymore. it'll make very little difference to the end user but its just made better

unfortunately, a client side o2 system still eludes me but you can still use the server option for it

anyway, for anyone who doesn't have the link, here it is

http://geocities.com/cabbagetexter/cabbage.zip

as always, there's a lot of new code so let me know about any bugs

Sam Vimes · 30-10-2007 4:15pm

i found a small bug after i uploaded it so if you already downloaded it, please download it again

whisht · 30-10-2007 4:34pm

Link in my sig updated also

Fighting Irish · 30-10-2007 5:48pm

Sam Vimes · 31-10-2007 12:33pm

yet another update. i improved the phone book interface. you can either type a phone number or a person's name and all the phone book entries that match what you've currently typed appear in a drop down list. then you can press down to select one off the list or double click it.

for example, if you have the names ciara and ciaran in your phone book and you type cia, both of the names appear on the list and you can select one.

if you type 087, all 087 entries appear etc

Random · 31-10-2007 10:30pm

Commander Vimes wrote: »

yet another update. i improved the phone book interface. you can either type a phone number or a person's name and all the phone book entries that match what you've currently typed appear in a drop down list. then you can press down to select one off the list or double click it.

for example, if you have the names ciara and ciaran in your phone book and you type cia, both of the names appear on the list and you can select one.

if you type 087, all 087 entries appear etc

Vimes has nothing to do with his life but coding. The features keep on coming

nava · 31-10-2007 10:36pm

Commander Vimes wrote: »

http://geocities.com/cabbagetexter/cabbage.zip

Hi

Is that the only place to get the latest file from? again not response, if the file is under 100kb you can attach it in Boards.

Regards

Random · 31-10-2007 10:37pm

I just downloaded from that address and it worked fine.

nava · 31-10-2007 10:38pm

ciaranfo wrote: »

I just downloaded from that address and it worked fine.

What is your ISP? mine is NTL, wonder does it have anything to do with that, because it was the same before?

Sam Vimes · 31-10-2007 10:49pm

the link i use is kind of dodgy at times. You can get it at
www.e-ireland.net/cabbage.zip

too. At the moment its the most recent version but its not always guaranteed to be. Until i set up a sourceforge account the geocities link is the only one guaranteed to be the most recent

Random · 31-10-2007 10:59pm

nava wrote: »

What is your ISP? mine is NTL, wonder does it have anything to do with that, because it was the same before?

O2

nava · 31-10-2007 11:14pm

ciaranfo wrote: »

O2

Thanks

can you ping geocities.com the IP address I get IP 66.218.77.68 even when I try to browse www.geocities.com it doesn't work for me. The last time I tried to download it from geocities it didn't work all day for me.

Random · 31-10-2007 11:17pm

nava wrote: »

Thanks

can you ping geocities.com the IP address I get IP 66.218.77.68 even when I try to browse www.geocities.com it doesn't work for me. The last time I tried to download it from geocities it didn't work all day for me.


Pinging geocities.com [66.218.77.68] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=273ms TTL=55
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=262ms TTL=54
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=251ms TTL=54
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=301ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 66.218.77.68:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0&#37; loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 251ms, Maximum = 301ms, Average = 271ms

Try replacing "www.geocities.com" with "66.218.77.68" in CVs main url.

nava · 31-10-2007 11:19pm

ciaranfo wrote: »



Pinging geocities.com [66.218.77.68] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=273ms TTL=55
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=262ms TTL=54
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=251ms TTL=54
Reply from 66.218.77.68: bytes=32 time=301ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 66.218.77.68:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0&#37; loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 251ms, Maximum = 301ms, Average = 271ms

Try replacing "www.geocities.com" with "66.218.77.68" in CVs main url.

Same result, will test tomorrow from work and after contact NTL if it's their problem.

Thanks again

whisht · 01-11-2007 12:24am

www.e-ireland.net/cabbage.zip is the current version right now in case anybody is unsure

nava · 01-11-2007 12:26am

whisht wrote: »

www.e-ireland.net/cabbage.zip is the current version right now in case anybody is unsure

Thanks

Downloaded earlier from that link, from my post in the Broadband forum looks like all users in NTL cannot access geocities.

Sam Vimes · 01-11-2007 2:33am

i got some complaints that the interface would freeze for ages when sending texts so i've done something to fix it and uploaded the new one. let me know if i f*cked it up

Keano · 02-11-2007 9:48am

I havent been able to used AFT or Cabbage for about 2 days now?? I'm on o2, can anyone shed any light? I tried to version of cabbage and still no joy

Slaanesh · 02-11-2007 11:07am

I think the AFT server is dead.

Good work on that App CV, I was thinking of writing one for ages but never got the finger out. what problems are you having with a direct client side O2 texter? Is it to do with parsing the web site? Login? Anything else?

The firebug plugin for firefox is a great way to see what a browser is doing when accessing a website.

Keano · 02-11-2007 12:15pm

I am constantly getting

Error: Program generated error. Message not sent

Have checked o2 and can send messages from there no probs

Cheers

Richie

Slaanesh · 02-11-2007 12:17pm

Keano A Legend wrote: »

I am constantly getting

Error: Program generated error. Message not sent

Have checked o2 and can send messages from there no probs

Cheers

Richie

As I said, I think the AFT server is down because I'm getting errors on my AFT phone application.

rymus · 02-11-2007 12:28pm

err. I have the AFT code hosted on a server of mine if anyone wants to help me get it running!?! Dont know what I'm doing wrong at the moment...

kmick · 02-11-2007 12:50pm

Excuse my ignorance - is there anything special you need to do to get this to work. I have entered my username, password and number into the logins dialog but when i try and send it says 'Error - program generated error'.

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 1:17pm

Keano A Legend wrote: »

I havent been able to used AFT or Cabbage for about 2 days now?? I'm on o2, can anyone shed any light? I tried to version of cabbage and still no joy

the AFT server isn't working. i'll send you an address that you should enter by pressing settings->manage server. i'm not posting it publicly because it couldn't handle the load of loads of people using it so please don't give it to anyone

hopefully i'll be able to make a client side version of the o2 code like i have with vodafone and meteor so a server won't be needed

kmick wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance - is there anything special you need to do to get this to work. I have entered my username, password and number into the logins dialog but when i try and send it says 'Error - program generated error'.

what network are you on? the client side version of the code has been giving me errors every now and then since i updated it so that might be the problem. i'll be working on it over the weekend and hopefully i'll get it working. in the meantime, i'll pm you the server address too if you want?

rymus wrote: »

err. I have the AFT code hosted on a server of mine if anyone wants to help me get it running!?! Dont know what I'm doing wrong at the moment...

what happens when you try to access it?

Slaanesh wrote: »

what problems are you having with a direct client side O2 texter? Is it to do with parsing the web site? Login? Anything else?

The firebug plugin for firefox is a great way to see what a browser is doing when accessing a website.

i'll take a look at that firebug extension thanks. i've been using livehttpheaders but hopefully it'll give me more info.

i can't get past the login stage. with meteor and vodafone i just put the username and password in the login string and it works fine but the page that o2 returns is the one you get when you don't have cookies enabled. i think the problem is i don't fully know how to use the xmlhttp object so i don't know how to deal with the cookies the site sends.

but it could also be that i'm not sending some information it needs or it recognises that its a visual basic program accessing it and not a browser. i don't really know tbh. hopefully firebug can shed some light on it

Slaanesh · 02-11-2007 1:22pm

Do you not have to fool the other websites into thinking you are a standard browser?
I remember in mackers perl script he used to change the requesting browser variable in the HTTP Header request to imitate any of the commonly used browsers. Could try that for a start.

Must look into it myself too

Here is mackers script: http://www.mackers.com/projects/o2sms/download.php
It's the o2sms file in the zip.

kmick · 02-11-2007 1:24pm

Im on O2 - I am just using the default server adress at the moment.

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 1:24pm

Slaanesh wrote: »

Do you not have to fool the other websites into thinking you are a standard browser.
I remember in mackers perl script he used to change the requesting browser variable in the HTTP Header request to imitate any of the commonly used browsers. Could try that for a start.

Must look into it myself too

i've done that. i set the user agent header to a version of firefox but it still doesn't work

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 1:25pm

kmick wrote: »

Im on O2

right so you'll need my server. pm sent

rymus · 02-11-2007 1:28pm

Commander Vimes wrote: »

what happens when you try to access it?

Fatal error: Call to a member function login() on a non-object in /var/www/apache2-default/send.php on line 32

Could be that I'm missing libraries or something..

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 1:40pm

rymus wrote: »

Fatal error: Call to a member function login() on a non-object in /var/www/apache2-default/send.php on line 32

Could be that I'm missing libraries or something..

i take it you're using my code? the code i made available is now out of date, i'll give you the updated one tonight when i get home.

did you create a folder called cookiebank in the same directory as the two php files and CHMOD it to 777?

do you have the net.class.php file in the same directory?

Sherifu · 02-11-2007 1:49pm

Nice program.
Im also on O2, getting the same program error.

Keano · 02-11-2007 2:22pm

Commander Vimes that works perfect now. Thanks very much

P.S. I wont give it to anyone else as I have tried to spread the word with friends but they prefer to log on their repsective network sites everytime to send a message

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 2:24pm

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Commander Vimes that works perfect now. Thanks very much

P.S. I wont give it to anyone else as I have tried to spread the word with friends but they prefer to log on their repsective network sites everytime to send a message

odd people

rymus · 02-11-2007 2:52pm

Commander Vimes wrote: »

i take it you're using my code? the code i made available is now out of date, i'll give you the updated one tonight when i get home.

did you create a folder called cookiebank in the same directory as the two php files and CHMOD it to 777?

do you have the net.class.php file in the same directory?

Cheers. I didn't create any folders because I didn't know what to create. If you can pm the update to me it'd be great. Also, if it's to be setup any specific way, I'd appreciate a poke in the right direction.

Sam Vimes · 02-11-2007 8:29pm

i've just uploaded a new one. just a few minor changes to fix some bugs that would probably never have been noticed

OCD · 03-11-2007 2:08am

Hi Commander,

Any chance I could get a pm with the fix for the O2 server. Have been lost without my little texter!

Thanks.

Sam Vimes · 03-11-2007 2:43am

OCD wrote: »

Hi Commander,

Any chance I could get a pm with the fix for the O2 server. Have been lost without my little texter!

Thanks.

pm sent

Sam Vimes · 03-11-2007 2:04pm

mart_max has kindly agreed to host my server side code on his site and let anyone who wants to use it. Now with 3 servers hosting the code and client side code for meteor and vodafone it should never go down, until the networks change their sites of course but that won't stop us for long

the url is: http://www.mamak.eu/sms/send.php

I've tested it and it works for all the networks

edit: it'll also stop working when o2 decides to deactivate their website every few days to make people spend more

paul666 · 04-11-2007 8:06pm

how do u save it to your computer. evrytime i click the x i can never find it again and end out downloading it again
sorry im not good with computers

Sam Vimes · 04-11-2007 9:10pm

paul666 wrote: »

how do u save it to your computer. evrytime i click the x i can never find it again and end out downloading it again
sorry im not good with computers

click the link and select download instead of open. it should download to wherever you store all of the files you download from the internet. are you using internet explorer?

when you click the link to download it it should pop up telling you where its stored

it should look like the picture in the link below. you can see it being stored to the desktop there. check where you're storing it.

alternatively, if you right-click on the cabbage file, click copy and then go to the desktop (the main screen when you first turn your computer on), right-click anywhere on the screen except on a file or the bar at the bottom and click "paste shortcut" and it'll appear there and you can access it that way from then on

TPD · 05-11-2007 12:24am

Handy little program. Do you know if 02 are still giving out free sims? Could rack up quite a monthly limit.

Random · 05-11-2007 1:12am

TPD wrote: »

Handy little program. Do you know if 02 are still giving out free sims? Could rack up quite a monthly limit.

Still available on their website.

h57xiucj2z946q · 05-11-2007 7:43pm

are you planing on making a client for linux?

ethernet · 05-11-2007 8:01pm

Stanley Faithful Gurney wrote: »

are you planing on making a client for linux?

Have you tried running it in WINE? It might work.

MartMax · 05-11-2007 10:08pm

Has anyone encountered a runtime error when trying to send group message, then the program closed itself?

mik_da_man · 05-11-2007 10:29pm

Am I thick??...

I can't get it to work or install.
I have downloaded a zip file but when Win Zip tries to open it I get nothing @ all

???

Mik

Random · 05-11-2007 10:30pm

mart_max wrote: »

Has anyone encountered a runtime error when trying to send group message, then the program closed itself?

yup.

Sam Vimes · 05-11-2007 10:51pm

mik_da_man wrote: »

Am I thick??...

I can't get it to work or install.
I have downloaded a zip file but when Win Zip tries to open it I get nothing @ all

???

Mik

a few people have said that at different times. i think its a problem geocities has sometimes. i just downloaded it there and it was fine so try it again. if it still doesn't work i'll attach it here

mart_max wrote: »

Has anyone encountered a runtime error when trying to send group message, then the program closed itself?

yes i know what the problem is and have it fixed at home but i won't be able to upload the fixed one for a few days i'm afraid. until then group texting won't work. sorry about that

Stanley Faithful Gurney wrote: »

are you planing on making a client for linux?

not in the forseeable future. the program is written in visual basic so i'd have to port the whole thing to a different language. i believe that JSMS works on linux

mik_da_man · 05-11-2007 11:11pm

Tried again and win Zip could not find any files to process

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