[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

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Update to 2.8.2: http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,69799.msg1291032.html#msg1291032
Fixes a few different bugs.
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By Now, I'm sure you are all tired of seeing these posts. But I need to make sure everyone is up to date with ABR (trust me, Facebook is tired of me too!) With the release of 2.8 comes one of the coolest features in ABR as of yet. Book Information, Instead of explaining it, I'd like this screenshot to explain:

And if the screenshot wasn't enough to tell, the Book Information addon takes any book in your list with at least 1 review and allows you to view it's stars, percentage, and most recent review!

Not only does ABR now feature Book Info, it has the revamped user interface, which was a change in 2.5 but there was not a screenshot of it. So... Here:

2.8 Will be auto downloaded from anyone who has a copy of ABR already.
And if you don't... Why not?! Get it at http://www.amazonrankings.com/

Kristian

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

Downloading now. Thanks for this!

Dave

No problem, let me know if you have any problems.

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

I am reviving this thread. To let everyone know, that ABR is back online. Amazon was kind enough to stop the crap and let us developers do what we liked.

for those of you who have NO idea what i'm talking about: http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,73278.0.html

If you are new, or have no idea what ABR (Amazon Book Rankings) is. Visit http://www.amazonrankings.com/ for all the latest!

Kristian

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

I tried to install it and it said I needed NET. I don't want to mess with NET again, as it caused me all sorts of grief once before.

Sorry to hear that, But unfortunately alot of applications these days require .NET :-/

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

Thanks! This looks like a great tool. I did find one little problem. When I checked the Book Information option, the name of the reviewer didn't match the review. And when I went from one book to another, it displayed the review from the previous book with a new reviewer's name. Is there some setting I was supposed to change when changing books?

Anyway, thanks a bunch!

TL

No, that is a bug you found lol. I will look into it asap. I have to fix an error with some file structures plaguing windows 7 users. At which point, I will look into this error as well. Thank you for the feedback.

Oh, and as far as an Android app, I've already thought about it and am in the preliminary stages of dev.

Kristian

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

You rock, Kristian!

And, I finally remembered to donate. I really appreciate your work on this program.

For those who don't know, you can click the "About ABR" in the lower right corner of the program and a box will come up that contains a "Donate" button.

Well thank you Lynn!

and I will be getting in touch with you about Writer's Radio soon too!

Kristian

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

You're welcome, and thanks again for all your work to produce this great tool.

TL

I Changed a few things with the error you were finding, mainly the order in which it does things. And it appears that maybe it was a mis-communication between you and my program. The program looks through the customer reviews section, like if you click the link that says (11 Customer Reviews) and then click "Newest First" on the blue bar above the first real review.It uses those. If you could, double check that the book information is in fact pulling the newest review first for each book. Cause from my end during tests it seems to be doing that.

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

I went to the book's page on Amazon, clicked See All 15 Customer Reviews, then clicked Newest First. Then I went into Book Information for that book (right clicked on the book's listing in Amazon Book Ranking software). But it still mixed the title/reviewer/review. The reviewer name and review title were the from the latest review, but the review text was from an older review. Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

I don't think you are doing anything wrong, could be a fluke I'm not seeing. I'll look at it in more detail

Kristian

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

It won't let me quit the application. I am on Win7. So in order to shut it down, I have to restart my computer.

You actually don't have to restart your computer just use task manager. It's a bug that I recently had found in it that I have already fixed. Just finishing up some minor polishing and will be uploading the new version shortly.

 

[Kristian 'TS Games' Dalglish]

I have fixed a few different bugs that were causing considerably annoyances with ABR. One being the issue where it chose not to close after hitting the exit button. The program saves settings and the book information on exit, and for some reason some file structures in windows 7 was causing an invalid read/write attempt and made an infinite loop until it crashed. So, that being said. Fixed!

Kristian

You will be asked to download the latest version when you run 2.8.1 the next time. If you don't have ABR installed, why not!? Get it HERE