news: New LiveJournal Client for Windows

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visions) wrote in

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@ 2000-11-14 15:57:00

New LiveJournal Client for Windows
After a long wait, there is finally a new version of the windows LiveJournal client available at http://www.livejournal.com/download/.

There are tons of added features as well as bug fixes and cosmetic changes in this new version and it is recommended that everyone upgrade.

Also, as a side note.. the windows client development has been taken over by me so all questions regarding it should be directed to visions@livejournal.com.

I hope you like the new version.

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	Mac? dixie 2000-11-14 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	What happened to the Mac client update? It was due, then. . .nothing. :( (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Mac? bradfitz 2000-11-14 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	Bug user "axodys" ... he has a wonderful looking client, but hasn't released it yet. I like to give him a hard time, but I suspect he's just busy and doesn't want to release it prematurely. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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	patrick 2000-11-14 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	it looks really nice. good work. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: visions 2000-11-14 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	thanks. i am glad you like it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bandicoot 2000-11-14 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm running beta 1.4.3 - should I be switching to the released 1.4.2 or is the numbering just creative? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: dizzydez 2000-11-14 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	Bandicoot? That'a you LJ name....Haaahahhahahaaaa! I am dyin' ova' here! That is a riot! I love it. Right arm! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: visions 2000-11-14 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	all the beta versions that were released were Win32-visions. That has since changed to Win32-MFC. In that process, there was a back versioning. You should download the one posted here, and continue down that line. It is newer than the one you have... Sorry about the confusion there. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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bandicoot, 2000-11-14 05:23 pm UTC (Expand)

	official official official official official debgirl001 2000-11-14 02:39 pm UTC (link)
	well i LOVE it (since the beginning). props on the good job. still trying to get used to your new icon.. hehehe. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: official official official official official visions 2000-11-14 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	hehe. im not sure who designed the new icon and bitmaps... brad just sent them to me and told me to use them. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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visions, 2000-11-14 04:17 pm UTC (Expand)

	??? dizzydez 2000-11-14 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Me and 'bandicoot' ova' here are confused...which one is the latest version...1.?.? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: ??? visions 2000-11-14 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	The latest version is avaiable at www.livejournal.com/download/ it is the only official version.. the Win32-visions versions were before Brad agreed to let me take over the main development. Sorry about the confusion. (Reply to this) (Parent)

the_chuck
2000-11-14 04:31 pm UTC (link)

i dunno about you, but just after i finished installing, i got this:

LIVEJOURNAL caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 0167:7800d203.
Registers:
EAX=00680078 CS=0167 EIP=7800d203 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00689310 SS=016f ESP=0066f4c0 EBP=0066f4dc
ECX=68635f64 DS=016f ESI=00790012 FS=58a7
EDX=00000016 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 14 31 8d 1c 31 89 55 f4 8b 56 fc 89 55 f8 8b
Stack dump:
00790410 00790016 00689310 006801bc 7803b534 78001d9a 68635f64 0066f520 7800cc3f 0078000c 00790016 00790410 006893b6 00689310 00790016 bff773cf

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	Re: moonmama 2000-11-14 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	I got the same message. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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visions, 2000-12-04 02:43 am UTC (Expand)

	All well and good but... tjousk 2000-11-14 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	It still won't connect through a proxy server that requires authentication. Not that it'll worry me for much longer. I am going to leave my current place of employment soon. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: All well and good but... visions 2000-11-14 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	all the proxy settings for the program are set with internet options in control panels. if you can connect under windows, it should work properly in livejournal. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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visions, 2000-11-15 08:30 am UTC (Expand)

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mart, 2000-11-15 08:43 am UTC (Expand)

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visions, 2000-11-15 08:54 am UTC (Expand)

	Feature request: mtbandit 2000-11-14 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	I'd love to see shortcuts to insert <I> </I> (ctrl-I would do nicely) and <B> </B> (ctrl-B) in the message window. Would sure make it easier to italicise/embolden text. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: Feature request: bradfitz 2000-11-14 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	that is a good idea. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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	edmcbride 2000-11-15 12:29 am UTC (link)
	works fer me (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: edmcbride 2000-11-15 12:39 am UTC (link)
	well it did work....but after... i could not get it to stay loaded...back to 1.3.8 (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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edmcbride, 2000-12-04 10:29 am UTC (Expand)

	its all good! immorak 2000-11-15 04:49 am UTC (link)
	the new one is cool! but i miss the goat at the startup.. :( you should bring the goat back in the next one! -immorak (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: its all good! visions 2000-11-15 08:35 am UTC (link)
	that was brad's call not mine. perhaps with enough of a rally... he may reconsider. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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immorak, 2000-11-15 09:21 am UTC (Expand)

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visions, 2000-11-15 09:32 am UTC (Expand)

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immorak, 2000-11-15 09:52 am UTC (Expand)

... for the people having problems

visions
2000-11-15 06:26 am UTC (link)

try this if you were having problems with the version that was up on http://wwww.livejournal.com/download/. This may solve your problem. Please comment here if you had a problem before and this fixes it. If this does not fix it, please also post a comment here.

The issue seems to lie in an incompatability between distribution dll's and this has hopefully now been resolved.

Brad has moved the version that was up previously into the preview section until we work out the problem.

Thanks.

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	Re: ... for the people having problems art_witch 2000-11-15 08:43 am UTC (link)
	What happened to the upgrade on the LJ site? It's no longer there. Just the old version. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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ex_zhaytee824
2000-11-15 12:30 pm UTC (link)

FWIW, here's my experience with 1.4.2:

Had 1.3.8, downloaded the "upgrade" version of 1.4.2 from livejournal.com. The first time I ran the client, it worked. Second time, it GPFs thanks to MSVCRT.DLL.

Uninstalled, wiped the livejournal directory. Rebooted. Downloaded 1.4.2-full from visions.edu. Installation bitches at me in the same manner as it did for the_chuck, except it says it can't access MSVCRT.DLL, not OLEPRO32.DLL. So, I hit "ignore." Client GPFs after installation, same as before.

I've got Windows98 "first edition" with IE5.5, if that helps.

Hooray for MICROS~1 WINDOW~1.

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	Re: blosmtx 2000-11-15 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	thats exactly whats happening with me (but i dunno what version of windows 98 i have or what version of MSIE it came with...) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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visions, 2000-12-04 02:52 am UTC (Expand)

	no problems nept 2000-11-16 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	So far I have yet to have a problem with the new version you've released.. I've rebooted I've tried anyway besides actualy messing with the files for the program to mess it up... but then again it might just be windows 2000 (Reply to this)

	edmcbride 2000-11-16 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	ok, i'm not getting any error messages...but it install good, all it does when it is starts up is unload its self from memory (Reply to this) (Thread)

	visions 2000-12-04 03:09 am UTC (link)
	download this if you are having crashing issues with 1.4.2 and copy it over the installed one (c:\program files\livejournal) but make sure that you actually upgrade to 1.4.2 before copying this over. it will fix the crash. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	No problems here gregw 2000-11-17 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	At least at work under Windows 2000, it seems to work fine. I installed it at home on Win98SE, but I haven't tried it since I rebooted. (Reply to this)

Bizzare Thing...

mart
2000-11-18 07:38 am UTC (link)

I ran the new version, and logged in as myself just fine. I closed it and opened it later and it GPFed.
So, I went back to an older version and used it for a time. I switched to the mirclj account temporarily to edit some old entries and closed it. Nothing weird so far.
Later, I accidentally started the new version again (I kept it installed in a different directory) and it worked... I logged in as mirclj and there were no problems. I logged out, and chose martmart from the combobox and it GPFed... not in an MFC DLL but in the LiveJournal app itself. So long as I don't select martmart it works just fine...

Any ideas?

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mart
2000-11-18 07:51 am UTC (link)

Okay... bizzare thing update!

I removed the settings for martmart from the registry (but left the account in the userlist) and the new version started up, and on selecting the martmart username and entering the password it logged in okay. I closed the client, allowing it to write out the settings to the registry again, and when reopening it GPFed again. I pulled the same trick with the old version to make mirclj be the current user, and it started up just fine again. Selecting martmart made it GPF again.

Is there a problem in the reading-settings-from-registry code which my particular settings are irritating? (other than the login details, the settings for mirclj and martmart are identical)

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visions, 2000-12-04 03:05 am UTC (Expand)

New version working just fine . .

gregw
2000-11-19 02:32 pm UTC (link)

I've downloaded the full install, not the upgrade, of v1.42 of the new Windows LJ client. I have installed it over previous installations of LJ Windows client 1.38 on both Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 SP1, both with all the most recent security updates.

Everything's working fine. In both cases, I have installed the client, made a journal entry using it. Then I rebooted and made another journal entry, all with no problem - no GPF's, no MFC errors, or any of the other problems others are reporting.

Note that I do have only one log-on, and only one journal, but I think that's the case for most people.

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there goes my gun

casey
2000-11-20 04:02 am UTC (link)

Just in case noone else has posted this, I went through your instructions with the DLLs and everything-- still doesn't work. Sorry, visions. . . good luck getting it back to work, but for now, I'm back to 1.3.8. If there's anything I can do to help you solve the problem, since apparently you're not having a problem running it, just let me know either on a comment on my journal or e-mail me at casey@livejournal.com.

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	Re: there goes my gun visions 2000-12-04 03:06 am UTC (link)
	download this if you are having crashing issues with 1.4.2 and copy it over the installed one (c:\program files\livejournal) but make sure that you actually upgrade to 1.4.2 before copying this over. it will fix the crash. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Just so you know... hysterium 2000-11-20 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	the new client bombed after reboot on my WinME machine. i thought i would let you know since no one using that windoesn't (g) version has piped in. (Reply to this)

A possible solution?

faecat
2000-11-28 05:43 am UTC (link)

Well, something's working....

It looks like the old client (1.3.something?), but has the features of the new one....

I think what I did was uninstall all livejournal client program files, do a full install of the 1.3.whatever prog, then ran the UPDATE for the new prog.....and that's been working well, no errors or shuttings-down or anything....

I wish I could remember for sure that that's how I did it, but it's been a couple days and I just noticed the extra functions this morning..

~gypsy

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