Release Final Notepad, Better than Wordpad, fast easy and reliable!

[magneum]

NEW Features:

• Login System
• Application Manager/Downloader
• Scripting System (Run your own code to make notepad even better!)
• Comes with 5 new applications!
• New help system!
• 20 New Fonts

Old Features:

• Insert/Edit Pictures
• Email
• Clock
• Print

We are not giving out the source code as some of our features give away valuable information about our internet server (passwords and ways to crack into it). However the source for up to V.2 is available. Please try our notepad and post a reply telling me how good it is.

You can upload applications here for others to download to their notepad.


EDIT: If the program crashes I upload a .zip file with some dll's. Just put them in the application startuppath and it should work!

[LCS]

Originally Posted by magneum

NEW Features:

• Login System
• Application Manager/Downloader
• Scripting System (Run your own code to make notepad even better!)
• Comes with 5 new applications!
• New help system!
• 20 New Fonts

Old Features:

• Insert/Edit Pictures
• Email
• Clock
• Print

We are not giving out the source code as some of our features give away valuable information about our internet server (passwords and ways to crack into it). However the source for up to V.2 is available. Please try our notepad and post a reply telling me how good it is.

You can upload applications here for others to download to their notepad.

The lack of source code didn't stop me, and here's my opinion:

• Good
  • Using encryption (although whether you're using it properly or not has yet to be determined)
  • You're handling error conditions with a Try/Catch block (although I could be wrong and it's only the compiler putting them in for you).
• Bad
  • You're not using exception handlers for their intended purpose. You could have used other means to determine if a password was incorrect, rather than letting an exception be thrown. An exception is just what its name implies: it happens in exceptional conditions! Somebody mistyping a password certainly isn't exceptional…
  • The login system is pointless since it makes the application harder to use. Windows already makes the user log in, and if a user is able to use you're program, you should assume he or she has the proper credentials to view the information. You could however, transparently encrypt the user's data without asking for a password using the Windows user key. Check out the .NET Framework's DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) provided through the classes ProtectedData and ProtectedMemory in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
  • Bundling a word processor and a browser doesn't really make sense…

That's what I could determine by skimming your program code quickly. Your program, however, never ran; it crashed on startup, so I never got to see it in action.

[ozzapoo]

It starts printing even when you hit cancel?

I prefer normal notepad thanks -.-"

[LCS]

In addition to the edits I made to my post above, here are a few links that might help you improve the program:

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[w00t_santa2]

It crashes each time on startup. You better check your files because then it's just pointless to put work into an app which never works...

Also as the forum rules suggest please don't make a new thread about something...

Example:
When you update your app(or want to add a feature to your old app) you don't delete your old app and then create a new one right?

So also same way. Don't create a new thread just to describe some updated features.. Update your old thread by creating a new post describing the new features and remember there's always the EDIT button.

I really seem to like the features but well I never got to test them so I can't comment on your app.

And LCS Thanks for the links friend. I am going to learn making apps scriptable so that users can customize the looks and feel of it as they wish.

[magneum]

i uploaded a fix for it

[w00t_santa2]

Nope... Does not work at all..

It doesnt work on xp nor vista...

On Vista it says the program has stopped responding...

On XP it gives the send error report dialog boxes after 10 secs of launching it..

Well from my 7 month experience with vb I have never faced such a problem... Most probably you have a dll or a file I don't... but it's not any1's fault..you tried to fix it it didn't work...The thing is you tried!

As A programmer I want to tell you that remember your Program users are the people who count the most if they cant find ease with your app...they won't use it..

Good Luck!

[magneum]

Originally Posted by LCS

The lack of source code didn't stop me, and here's my opinion:

• Good
  • Using encryption (although whether you're using it properly or not has yet to be determined)
  • You're handling error conditions with a Try/Catch block (although I could be wrong and it's only the compiler putting them in for you).
• Bad
  • You're not using exception handlers for their intended purpose. You could have used other means to determine if a password was incorrect, rather than letting an exception be thrown. An exception is just what its name implies: it happens in exceptional conditions! Somebody mistyping a password certainly isn't exceptional…
  • The login system is pointless since it makes the application harder to use. Windows already makes the user log in, and if a user is able to use you're program, you should assume he or she has the proper credentials to view the information. You could however, transparently encrypt the user's data without asking for a password using the Windows user key. Check out the .NET Framework's DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) provided through the classes ProtectedData and ProtectedMemory in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
  • Bundling a word processor and a browser doesn't really make sense…

That's what I could determine by skimming your program code quickly. Your program, however, never ran; it crashed on startup, so I never got to see it in action.

how can you view the source?

[LCS]

Why, everyone knows that .NET programs are decompilable. (Just as Java programs are.)

That is why you buy a $1000 obfuscator to scramble your code after it's compiled! (But even then, a resourceful person or organization can figure out how your code works.)

[magneum]

so how can you decompile it