Running a global program/notifier on DL start AND finish

Since the RSS feature was introduced, DLs are starting up w/o you noticing it, or even w/o being near your PC. To help users be aware of those, they can notify themselves locally (pop-ups) and remotely (email, SMS etc.)

We now have local balloons for such notifications (except for Win98...) and "run a program when finished" on a per-torrent base.

Here is what I suggest to change/add:

"run this program when DL finishes"

Put this also globally in preferences. If nothing was defined per torrent - this will work. If the user DID define also a program IN the torrent properties - he will be able to specify if to use that one (default) or both.

"run this program when DL auto-starts"

This is good for RSS type DLs. This will be available ONLY globally, either in the general preferences (RSS new section) or in an area within the RSS Downloader (feeds or history tabs).

For both - the %F D N parameters will be available.

%X - new parameter for auto-start notification - optionally - the RSS feed name it was found in.

I hope this will be implemented .

i too would like to see something like this,

i have managed to bodge a simple msn notifier tht sends the message %N has finished to specific ppls.

it would be cool not having to manually add run a programme when torrent finishes to each and every torrent.

I also would like this functionality because most of the scene release is rar.

So the file could be automatically extracted when the download is finished.

Thanks

This would be very useful!

I'd like "run this program when DL auto-starts" to be defined uniquely for each RSS filter

We can just ask for a new parameter(s) to this option - %X - feed name

I was going to request the same thing, mostly on finish because of scene release, It is quite annoying to have to extract all files after having dowloaded it automatically. It would be great to have everything automated.

+1

Well' it is noce to see that people are still minded to possible improvements, even if two months have passed since I last requested this ...

I'll put a link to here from my todo list for RSS fixes/improvements