masukie Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 I would appreciate the feature to choose a sound (with an entry "Browse...") that plays when a download is successfully finished. By the way...what language has utorrent been programmed? Is it PowerBASIC? The EXE file is so small for such a great product!
MageMinds Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 When a exe is that small you can think to C++ too ... And don't forget that exe are compressible and still executable, I don't know if uTorrent exe is compressed, but I read on the forum that it's programmed in C++ so only essential stuff result in the exe compared to the AZ using Java overhead wich is HUGE ressource consuming. Any java like IDE would have the same result and I include the .NET in the game wich is basically the answer to java from Micro$oft. As soon as you invoke the .NET framework you're carrying a bulldozer around, it's the same thing with java.I personally devellop using Delphi wich is in my opinion in the middle of Java .Net stuff and pure C++
BloodStaindHurricane Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 Do you guys WANT this thing to be bloated like all other clients? Are you forgetting what drew you to utorrent in the first place?
chaosblade Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 Its programmed in CC++ and uses a small part of the C Run Time. The exectuble is indeed packed to lower the filesize even more.
Martin Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 Do you guys WANT this thing to be bloated like all other clients? Are you forgetting what drew you to utorrent in the first place?Exactly.
masukie Posted October 13, 2005 Author Report Posted October 13, 2005 Yes you can compress EXE files with tools. I do program with Delphi and PowerBASIC.
ludde Posted October 13, 2005 Report Posted October 13, 2005 1.1.5 contains a feature to show a tray notification when a download is finished.
Rhialto Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 1.1.5 contains a feature to show a tray notification when a download is finished.Great! I asked for that! Why you know and it was not announced in my request thread (see http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?t=665)?
Astral Monkey Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 I would appreciate the feature to choose a sound (with an entry "Browse...") that plays when a download is successfully finished.I agree...I recommended it in Rhialto's link above this post a couple days ago.
Aeon17x Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Do you guys WANT this thing to be bloated like all other clients? Are you forgetting what drew you to utorrent in the first place?I don't see how some code to play a sound effect (which you just assign and is not built in the client) when you finish the download possibly add ANY bloat.
Pixelz Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Indeed, the bloat paranoia on this forum is getting ridiculous.
chaosblade Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Put in RSS, 10 other useless things. What next wont bloat uTorrent anymore ? Built-in calculator ? wordpad ? coffe maker ?The line has to be drawn somewhere, I reckon.
Aeon17x Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Put in RSS, 10 other useless things. What next wont bloat uTorrent anymore ? Built-in calculator ? wordpad ? coffe maker ?The line has to be drawn somewhere, I reckon.Somewhere, but not here, when the program is still in its infancy. All the bloat paranoia is doing is write off the good ideas and possibly stunt this client's growth in the future.Let it grow. Let it have more features. When it does get bloated, then complain. But for now, let it evolve to something more powerful... who knows, we might have all these nice features and still maintain a low memory footprint.
durerca Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 In my opinion, utorrent could reach a 2MB executable and 10-15MB memory usage and would still be an amazingly small bittorrent client compared to others and still not reach bloatware proportions.
winMX_67 Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Put in RSS, 10 other useless things. What next wont bloat uTorrent anymore ? Built-in calculator ? wordpad ? coffe maker ?The line has to be drawn somewhere, I reckon.Somewhere, but not here, when the program is still in its infancy. All the bloat paranoia is doing is write off the good ideas and possibly stunt this client's growth in the future.Let it grow. Let it have more features. When it does get bloated, then complain. But for now, let it evolve to something more powerful... who knows, we might have all these nice features and still maintain a low memory footprint.I totally agree, calm down about the bloating stuff. These futures would be nice to have!!
chaosblade Posted October 14, 2005 Report Posted October 14, 2005 Because complaining about azureus' bloat NOW does any good ? Reason before enthusiasm, Im my opinion.
Smoovious Posted October 16, 2005 Report Posted October 16, 2005 Dude... you really need to start understanding what bloat is to begin with...feature-rich != bloatwhat makes programs bloated is sloppy and inefficient programming.having a lot of features in a program is great. there are tons of people who use programs, and they all like to do things a little differently, customizing their use to their needs and their preferences.many of these suggestions that you wig out on and cry bloat, are anything but bloated.selecting a sound to play when a download finishes? all that requires is a dialog box, which is supplied by the operating system with a call to it, and store the pathname in with other events in the operating system's event sounds.when the event comes up, trigger the event, the same way the system 'exclamation' and system 'alert' events are triggered.how much would that take in uTorrent? not much.other options to select where to keep files or moving them after, or even sorting differently?also doesn't take much.some of these things could even be taken care of with the windows popups. rightclick on a torrent, and click on 'Download to <insert.torrent.name.here>' and pass the argument on to utorrent.even if the utorrent program itself ever reaches 2Mb in size, it STILL would be magnitudes nicer on resources than anything else out there with comparable features because the most important thing about utorrent is that it is written efficiently.inefficient programming is the major factor when it comes to real bloat, not the amount of configurability an appllication has.flexibility is important.now quit whining and drink your kool-aid.-- Smoovious
linx05 Posted October 16, 2005 Report Posted October 16, 2005 Well said Smoovious. I hope that shuts a lot of people up when it comes to screaming out "bloat!" every time someone offers a suggestion.
Ultima Posted October 16, 2005 Report Posted October 16, 2005 I'm neutral on this matter, but I just have to say that bloat does also mean having a lot of extraneous features. So depending on what you mean by feature-rich, it just might be that feature-rich == bloat.
chaosblade Posted October 17, 2005 Report Posted October 17, 2005 Exactly. Too many features when not all of them are even used by most users will effect performance badly aswell.
Rhialto Posted October 18, 2005 Report Posted October 18, 2005 Exactly. Too many features when not all of them are even used by most users will effect performance badly aswell.And I'm sure if WiseRatio was in it would be used by many... yet it is ignored.
chaosblade Posted October 18, 2005 Report Posted October 18, 2005 Yet you keep mentioning it in every post on unrelated threads. You're entitled to, though. It was active enough to be noticed by vurlixludde, so i guess they chose not to impliment it.
squirt Posted June 23, 2008 Report Posted June 23, 2008 ^custom Sound when download is finished == good - i would personally love to use the screeching car crash sound from "The Relic" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120004/)
YESS Posted August 22, 2008 Report Posted August 22, 2008 I support this request. Badly needed feature that could only cause bloat if it was engineered by teletubbies.
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