21 responses to “vBulletin PM Reader”

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  Artgeo April 13th, 2009 at 11:51

  Good piece, for a long time searched, but in unicode does not read, only question marks: (

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  Ali Keshavarz April 13th, 2009 at 15:14

  Yes, you are right. Unicode is not supported.

  Actually I started working on a Unicode enabled version a few months ago, but there are some bugs to be fixed to make it working properly.

  It’s been a few months that I haven’t had time to work on it anymore. I will get back to it as soon as I find some free time.

  Regards

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  Artgeo April 13th, 2009 at 16:10

  Thanks for a prompt reply:) I’m looking forward

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  Linuxser April 15th, 2009 at 04:35

  This is the best you could find to manage your PM’s. I was needing a tool to manage my 5K pm inbox as admin of forex-tsd.com. A place with more than 100k members. As you know vBulletin lacks about a good search tool to manage your pm’s and vBulletin PM Reader is the one you need. I hope you don’t mind if I post on the forum to promote this tool.

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  Ali Keshavarz April 15th, 2009 at 16:16

  Linuxser,
  Thank you for your nice comment. I’m glad that this tool is useful for you.

  Also, thanks for promoting vBulletin PM Reader in your forum.

  Regards

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  TeCNoYoTTa June 24th, 2009 at 16:55

  thanks ….but download link is broken

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  Ali Keshavarz June 24th, 2009 at 17:51

  Hi TeCNoYoTTa,

  I’m sorry. There was a spelling problem in download link. I fixed it. Now you can download it.

  Regards

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  Loren Petrich June 26th, 2009 at 00:11

  I’m thinking of writing a MacOS-X version of your vBulletin PM reader, using OSX Cocoa API’s. I hope that you don’t feel that you have a copyright on the concept, though I might call it my “vBulletin PM Viewer”.

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  Ali Keshavarz June 26th, 2009 at 13:12

  Hi Loren,

  That would be a nice idea, and of course I don’t have any claimed copyright on the concept.
  I’ll be glad to hear about it when you are done. I can put a link to your application web page for MacOS visitors in my site.

  Good Luck

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  Loren Petrich June 27th, 2009 at 14:14

  I ended up writing a Python/TK version first.

  http://homepage.mac.com/lpetrich/VBPMViewer/VBPMViewer.py

  You can give it filenames on the command line, or else do File > Open. I have both single and multi versions, because Windows Python/TK’s multi-file open is broken.

  You double-click on a filename (top left), then on a folder name (bottom left), then on a PM name (center) to see it (right). I don’t have any rendering.

  Its resizing is rather broken — some problem with TK?

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  R1Lover July 27th, 2009 at 08:24

  Great app, I own many boards and keep old pm’s has been tough, this is perfect for me. I also posted on several of my sites for all the members to use as well.

  Thank you

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  Loren Petrich July 28th, 2009 at 06:46

  I now have a home page for my PM-viewer efforts:

  My Private-Message Viewer – http://homepage.mac.com/lpetrich/PMViewer/PMViewer.html

  I wish to announce my first OSX-native version. It does not do searching or BBCode rendering, but it does open and save an import and export and display reasonably.

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  Ali Keshavarz July 28th, 2009 at 12:08

  @R1Lover: Thank you!

  @Loren: Good job! unfortunately I don’t have Mac to test your app.

  Good Luck

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  Mehdi October 18th, 2009 at 11:02

  this is so funny,your forum activity is mostlu in persian forums(which happens to be a UTF-8 forum)and yet u didnt make it for utf8?

  try harder,did you try to encode it and send it ?
  that way encoding it wouldnt be a problem.
  i mean encode it the way frontpage does, do you know what i mean ?
  remember the encoding of persian words it’s like this :
  سلام
  to :
  سلام
  it’s just a simple replace function !

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  Ali Keshavarz October 18th, 2009 at 12:33

  @Mehdi,

  At the time I wrote this small utility, the Persian forum in which I was most active (barnamenevis.org) was using Windows-1256 encoding for exported XML files, and this utility was built initially for myself to let me have an archive of my PMs in that forum, so there was no need to provide UTF-8 support for it. I decided to publish the utility later. So the problem for not supporting Unicode is not technical.

  Actually I have a Unicode version in my SVN repository, but it is not ready to be published, it has some bugs, and I really don’t like the way the current BBCode parser works, so I decided to fix the current bugs, and rewrite the parser before publishing a new version.

  The problem is I don’t have that much free time to spend on this project. I will come back to it when I have free time for it.

  Maybe at the time that the new version is published, I publish the whole source code too.

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  Korni October 28th, 2009 at 01:19

  Love that tool!

  At the moment you able to search for the title, the recipient and the sender!

  A search functionality to search for a text inside the messages would be great!

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  Ali Keshavarz October 28th, 2009 at 01:23

  Thank you, Korni! I will consider your suggestion for the next version.

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  Alan_SP January 7th, 2010 at 15:45

  Hey, it’s a great program and I’m one of those who wants UTF-8 support too.

  I know about your not having time to finish it, just wanted to say thank you. At the moment I manually change UTF-8 to windows-1250 encoding in XML file and I’d advised users on my forum to do that.

  Hope you’d finish it asap. Great job you’ve done, thank you!

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  Ali Keshavarz January 8th, 2010 at 04:43

  Hi Allen,

  Thank you for your kind comment. I do hope too that I can get some free time to add some new features to vBulletin. It’s been a while that it hasn’t been updated.

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  Jay January 27th, 2010 at 02:47

  Hello. I am very thankful for what you have written, thanks! I would like to add another vote to add functionality to search the message itself as well. (Vs. just the title.) This would be VERY helpful. Thanks! And/or the source and maybe I could give it a go.

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  Smiley Face Clip Art February 2nd, 2010 at 23:36

  who invented this?

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