User:AmiDaniel/VP1.4/DevLog

This page is, for the time being, going to be a page where I will log any progress made to version 1.4 of VandalProof. This is a massive project that involves totally rewriting the whole program from scratch in an effort to bring it up-to-date, and one that I don't know will ever be finished.

Either way, I will maintain an overall status percentage here, as well as a change log that I will update when I make a significant change to the program. Ale_Jrb ^talk 15:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Program Status

Overall

Around 25% complete.

Breakdown

Interface

30% complete

Retrieval

60% complete

Options/Customisability

5% complete

Browsing & Browsing Features

80% complete

Authentication & Security

5% complete

Reversion & Tagging

0% complete

Tools & Misc

0% complete

Change Log

Update 11/10/2007

As this is the first update to this log, it will contain everything I can remember that is complete so far.

Interface:

Created basic menus and menu options at top of program.
Created mode tabs for switching of program mode (e.g. monitoring, options, moderating etc.).
Created splitter panes to allow for resizing of various parts of the interface.
Created left-pane, similar to previous pane, with views 'Suspected Clean', 'Suspected Dirty', 'Old Changes'.
Implemented tabs for watchlist and contribs retrieval.
Created browser pane in lower right.
Implemented tabbed console to hold browser.
Created movable web toolbar with standard options - back, forward, stop, go, URL bar, new tab, close tab.
Created status bar at base of program.
All additions are made using XP-valid/Vista-valid styles.

Retrieval:

Added retrieval of RC from API; gets vScore, length change, article, user and summary.
Added vScore system which rates edits based on content as to how likely they are to be vandalism.
Implemented sorting based on vScore - 'clean' and 'dirty' edits are separated, then sorted further into vScore order.
Implemented click-load, when an edit is clicked its diff will be automatically loaded into the active tab (will be changed from Wiki-view diff to a sorted/filtered siff as with the RSS feed currently).
Implemented status-updating; the status bar will change to reflect whether a retrieval is in progress.

Options/Customisability:

No changes.

Browsing & Browsing Features:

Added tabbed base browsing. The program now creates tabs, and browsers to put in them, on-the-fly, meaning there can be an unlimited amount (currently limited to 30).
Implemented browser-action functions for easy stop, backwards, forwards, stop, browse to and status retrieval commands from the browser in the active tab.
Implemented Wiki-browse to the browser. It checks automatically if the entered URL seems to be a valid URL or a Wiki-link (e.g. http://www.google.com or User:Ale_jrb) and will respond accordingly.

Authentication & Security:

Tested the MySQL connection for user-authentication, appears workable (will probably run with this system - no more corrupt userlists, manageable without the VP program running: from a web interface etc.).

Reversion & Tagging:

No change.

Tools & Misc:

Investigated API admin-list retrieval, appears plausible ([1]).