FastCheck Problems?

[Zasurus]

Thanks Eric!
Also nice to see a new look.
Not that the old one was bad but new stuff that looks new is ALWAYS BETTER!

[moonglow]

Originally Posted by walpurg

... Until Eric gets around to recompiling, if you know how to use a hex editor, you can fix this problem yourself by changing these two locations in FastCheck.exe:

(hex) offset 00000158 from 06 to 04
(hex) offset 00000160 from 06 to 04

Newer MS developer tools target Vista/7/8 (Windows numeric version 6.x), this lets you use the program on NT4 (4.x) and 2000/XP (5.x), which otherwise think that an executable saying it works with OS version 6 is invalid, even if there's nothing in it that actually wouldn't work on those systems.

hi walpurg ... thanks for posting ... i know nothing of how to "use a hex editor" ... guess i'm out of luck until i get a new puter ... is this something you could walk me through, like you did for odedp?? if not, thanks anyway for your input ... :-)

[spiderman]

Hi,

Thanks for the info on this problem!
I don't have XP so it's hard for me to find this...
I'll download an XP VM and I'll make sure that the app can work on it. I'll do another version this WE.

Eric

[somdcomputerguy]

Originally Posted by spiderman

Thanks for the info on this problem!

I posted on the FastCheck forum an issue I'm having with this new version. I'll just repeat the post here. Reply to either forum as I'm a member of both.

Thanks Eric!

Originally Posted by somdcomputerguy

Eric, I am very happy that you have updated FastCheck, and it now works almost seamlessly with Fastmail now. I say 'almost' because I have just one problem, which is more of an annoyance really, in that FastCheck will not change it's icon back (from a number or + sign) to a checkmark once mail is read in a sub-sub-folder. The notification of new mail in that selected folder works fine, but the icon doesn't 'change back'. It will do this to a new then read email that's in the 'Inbox' folder. This issue also occurs with any other folder on the top level.

From reading what I just typed, it seems to me it probably would've been easier to just say that this occurs with any folder other than the 'Inbox'.

- Bruce

- Bruce

[moonglow]

Originally Posted by spiderman

Hi,

Thanks for the info on this problem!
I don't have XP so it's hard for me to find this...
I'll download an XP VM and I'll make sure that the app can work on it. I'll do another version this WE.

Eric

& i thank you so much for taking note & responding!! i hope it won't be too time consuming, but i do hope i will be able to have a new fastcheck that will work for me ... thank you, once again ...

[somdcomputerguy]

Since I'm the only one reporting such an issue as I did in post #49, it would leave me to believe that it's me not doing something right, not a problem with the new FastCheck. While I'm quick to admit my mistakes, I'm not so quick discovering or seeing my own mistakes.. Does anyone have a similar issue? If so or not, what might my problem be?

- Bruce

[spiderman]

Hi all,

I've fixed XP compatibility!

I downloaded an XP VM and it works fine now :-).
BTW if anyone is interested, you can download 30-day VMs from Microsoft from modern.ie. They give access to a wide range of versions of Windows and IE in order for people like me to test their app and site across a wide variety of OSs and browser versions :-).

I also tweaked the tray icons + animation. Thanks a lot to Peter Vandijck for the icons!

New version available as usual from www.fastcheck.org. Again, recent versions of Chrome will tell you that the file is not commonly downloaded, so you'll need to ignore the warning.

Eric

[spiderman]

Originally Posted by somdcomputerguy

Since I'm the only one reporting such an issue as I did in post #49, it would leave me to believe that it's me not doing something right, not a problem with the new FastCheck. While I'm quick to admit my mistakes, I'm not so quick discovering or seeing my own mistakes.. Does anyone have a similar issue? If so or not, what might my problem be?

- Bruce

Hi Bruce,

Are you still having this issue? I sub subfolders and I've never experienced this.

Eric

[somdcomputerguy]

Yes I am. The notification email I just received from your post goes directly to my Inbox. So the FastCheck icon changed back to a checkmark as soon as I opened that email. But the icon does not 'go back' when any emails going to a sub or sub sub folder are read.

[somdcomputerguy]

I just downloaded the new version (3.0.1.0) to see if that would help, it did not. I was downloading from the 'standalone zip' link, so I then downloaded from the 'full install' link. That didn't work either. I did only have my account password in the 'poll' field on the 'account details' screen, so I put my password into the 'auto-login' field as well. That did not help either.

Thanks for looking into this Eric.

- Bruce

[moonglow]

Originally Posted by spiderman

Hi all,

I've fixed XP compatibility!

I downloaded an XP VM and it works fine now :-)....

Eric

yes, Eric, you have & I THANK YOU!!

:-)

[spiderman]

Originally Posted by somdcomputerguy

Yes I am. The notification email I just received from your post goes directly to my Inbox. So the FastCheck icon changed back to a checkmark as soon as I opened that email. But the icon does not 'go back' when any emails going to a sub or sub sub folder are read.

As per the IMAP protocol, FC can only be notified instantly about changes in 1 folder, usually the inbox. Other folders will be updated on the next poll.

If you force "check for new mail", does the icon get reset?

Eric

[somdcomputerguy]

Originally Posted by spiderman

Other folders will be updated on the next poll.

Maybe with the earlier version (2.9.something I think) I had the poll set to a very small amount of time. I'll try that with the new version I'm using now.

edit: oops! there is no option to set or change the 'poll time' for FastCheck. I was thinking about the 'poll link' in the webmail UI..

Originally Posted by spiderman

If you force "check for new mail", does the icon get reset?

Yes, if I've opened that email, marking it as 'read'.

Thanks so much Eric, I hope you enjoyed the Holiday.

- Bruce

[walpurg]

Thanks for the XP fix, Eric!

For those interested, the method to change back to the "classic" notification icons from Fastmail 2.x also works with 3.0.1.0.

[somdcomputerguy]

Also Eric, and I don't know if this helps to isolate my issue, but if I have email in any sub folder and the Inbox, and if I read or just delete the email that is in the sub folder before I do the same to the email in the Inbox, the icon will reset itself as expected when the email in the Inbox is 'acted upon'.

Thanks, - Bruce