[E2 Explorer] (beta)
Nothing exciting on this page yet. Currently there is just a zip file - I may make a true installer later. Just download the zip file (zip), and extract the files to a new folder (such as "c:\Program Files\E2Explorer"), then double-click on the E2Explorer.exe file to run it.
Please note that this application requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0. You can download it from Windows Update, but it is likely that most people already have this installed.
Download the E2 Explorer Client - Version 0.9.20071128 beta
New Installations
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Upgrades - if you have already installed the client, please download the upgrade. This zip file does not include the database to ensure that all of your information (tracked nodes, votes, etc.) is saved.
If you are asked if you want to overwrite any files, choose "Yes".
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Please help with the Node Statistics Project by selecting to participate in the client. You will see a notification on the right-hand side of the page when you log in.
Questions, Comments, Bug Reports, etc?
Contact me via email, or /msg me on E2 (or in the client ;-).
Please note that this is still in beta, so not all the features are implemented. Specific things you may notice:
- Random Nodes Nodelet - does not work, does not refresh. This was a low priority, and simply hasn't been coded yet.
- The Node Tracker may take a minute or two to become available on the first login - this is because of all the database caching/tracking that is done on your writeups.
- The GUI and stylesheets could probably use a little tweeking
- You cannot currently delete or archive messages in your inbox
- I have submitted two patches to edev recently for the user xmltrue interface, and the Node Heaven ticker. Until these are fixed by a E2 developer, there may be issues. Node Heaven could potentially be a real problem - the XML is not properly encoded, so if there are are any characters in any of your deleted writeups that are not valid in XML, you won't be able to view your node heaven at this time. Please note that this is a problem with E2, not with the client.
- Encoding issues - since E2 content is user-created, there are sometimes issues with invalid encoding in certain writeups. This typically happens when someone copies and pastes content from a word processing program into the edit textarea in a writeup. I have slowly been fixing these very specific issues on certain characters as I find them. If you notice any obvious problems with the display of certain letters or characters, please let me know the name of the writeup or the node_id so that I can fix them.
There is no real documentation yet either. Features that may not be obvious include:
- There are several places outside of the browser interface (i.e., chatterbox, node tracker, user search, etc.) that use context menus (i.e., right-click). I should probably add tooltips.
- "Talk" textbox area in the chatterbox (gives optional commands)
- Other users in chatterbox gives several options
- User Search (available from anyone's homenode) has two options once the writeups are loaded
If you happen to get any errors or crashes, there should be an "error.log" file in the installation directory. Feel free to email that file to me at any time. NEARLY ALL OF THE ERRORS are logged (HTTP 500 errors, invalid XML, anything caught in a try-catch, etc.) while in beta. I'll probably filter these once it goes in production. You shouldn't notice any problems while using the program, but feel free to check out what was going on behind the scenes.