25th October 2005 - Wawi Source

I haven't had the time or inclination to do anything on this for ages, so it makes sense to put the source up so others can fiddle with it if they wish.

Have fun...

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15th October 2004 - Wawi 7.5.13

Another mini update: Fixed some URL encoding bugs. Files with pluses in the name should work now. 

Can anyone remember what changed in 7.5.12? I can't. Who thought of this crazy numbering system anyway?

4th January 2004 - Wawi 7.5.11

Tiny little update... you can now choose to disable logging if you don't want loads of logfiles cluttering the place up.

16th December 2003 - Winamp 5? Where did that come from?!

I completely missed this one until it appeared on slashdot. Winamp 5 is around, and it runs winamp 2 plugins... including Wawi, WACommand and the Track Notify plugin. WIthout any effort on my part. Woohoo!

This also means that I no longer have to fret about porting the thing to winamp3...

Also... for a bit of nostalgia I recently found the very first version of Wawi that I put up on the website. None of this images or frames nonsense here!

As for Wawi2... it's still going, although the GPS thingy keeps getting in the way. I have two weeks off at Christmas without a serial port, so I will probably end up doing more Wawi...

18th June 2003 - WawiTray

WawiTray works again... the bug with the volume control is fixed; you can change the volume without it crashing. It took ages to fix because it worked properly in Debug mode.

The moral of the story is, don't try to stick a 23 character URL into a 10 character buffer. D'oh...

3rd June 2003 - Plans for the future

I've not done very much with Wawi for a while due to other commitments, but I have plans afoot for when I have the time again. The current version of Wawi (7.5.10) is (I think) fairly bug free (ish) and has enough capabilities to control most functions in Winamp 2.80.

-- Extra functions in Wawi
I am always open to suggestions for extra features in this version; usually an extra button or function isn't very hard to implement, it's finding a good place for it in the screen layout that is the problem!

I'm not too eager to add massive changes, though... entirely new modes of operation can be difficult and time consuming to add. I will however consider them for inclusion in the next one...

-- Wawi2
I have a design for Wawi2, a complete rewrite of Wawi from the ground up... Wawi was originally just a project to learn about sockets programming, so the code is rather messy.

Wawi2 follows a much neater design and radically changes how pages are created and served - the largest change here is that it will be possible to design your own pages, and add extra pages if required. A cleaner design should also mean I can add more complex functions such as multiple music directories without worrying about losing all my hair.

-- Winamp3
I have looked at the Winamp3 SDK; it scared me. When Wawi2 is at a half decent state I will ponder about porting over. Hopefully by then some of the niggles of Winamp3 that people have been complaining about will have been fixed. 

11th September 2002 - version 7.5.9

HURRAH!

Hopefully the seemingly eternal problems with Secure passwords should be fixed now. I had a play on my parents' computer, and it didn't work... so after a quick fiddle it became clear why.

It was indeed to do with cryptography... where it wasn't working it was complaining about not being able to find a key container. The addition of a little CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT was all it took for it to not look for keys in the first place (MD5 hashing doesn't need them) and now, hopefully, it should all work beautifully.

It seems the difference may be having Visual Studio installed... all my computers have it, which is why it always worked for me; my parents computer I built last week didn't.

Give it a whirl, see what it does...

16th April 2002

I'm trying to work out how to use property sheets without having to learn and add MFC... it's kind of working, although it's a slow process. The new Options window currently looks a bit like this...

Although at the moment although the options are all there I dunno how to actually get at them once you've done. Fundamental problem! Work continues... I shall upload it when it works...