VButton Online - Beta Test

[RSliker]

Now its not sending me my zip to my email... hmmm...

[Delhaze]

oops, normal service will be resumed shortly

I was running out of disk space, so I deleted all the zips & psd files so far (1000+ sets = 3GB) and accidentally deleted an exe file that pulls the requests from the webserver.

There's about 15 sets in the queue so should be back to normal within an hour.

Sorry all !!!!

[grb123]

Well I've just tried this and I've got to say:

Nice One!

For someone like me who knows nothing about graphics it's a great way to create new buttons.

I was a bit surprised though to get a whole new set of buttons when I only created one new button - maybe in any new version you could make it just send the button that's been created and it will save a lot of diskspace and processing?

[SaintDog]

Is it still down Delhaze? I had a few members from my board ask me about it via e-mail a few days ago, I meant to post earlier but did not have too much time.

SaintDog

[Delhaze]

Yes, it's down at them moment.

Fixing up some bugs with characters like â etc.

[milezteg]

ekkk

I cant wait this is an indispensible tool for playing with layout.

Huge props to you Delhaze!

[Delhaze]

I have now decided the site will be shut down permanently.

[SaintDog]

For what reason? I understand it is your site and I respect you decision, just curious that's all .

SaintDog

[Delhaze]

I simply need the machine running the photoshop part for something else.

[SaintDog]

No problem, that's cool, I appreciate you keeping it up for the time you did, when I did not have photoshop (which was for quite a long time), that was the only way for me to obtain buttons for my website .

Thanks,

SaintDog

[Delhaze]

For those of you who have enquired about maybe hosting the online version yourselves, here's some info for you to give you a clue what's envolved.

The webserver which takes the requests, uses php to output a .bat batch file & .vbs vbscript file to a specific folder. This is currently W2K server.

A second machine, currently WinXP pro, runs a custom visual basic application (scheduled to run every 1 minute) which pulls the .bat & .vbs files from the folder on the webserver and runs them in order. The .bat file calls the .vbs file which passes through the command line the colors etc onto a new modified Vbutton, which then outputs all the buttons. The .bat then uses a command line version of winzip to zip up the buttons, and uses a command line emailer (blat) to send them. It then runs another program (which is just a keystroke recorder/playback) that opens photoshop and resets actions ready for the next run.

Although it all could be moved to other machines, the vb program that pulls the files from the server will currently only work with a direct lan connection to the server. You may be able to do something similar by ftp to a hosted server, but a reasonable amount of work will be required.

[george_proost]

Sorry to see it go budd.

[Sadie Frost]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to delhaze for vbutton - it was a big help for me who has no photoshop (and the ones I tried making myself were not suitable for human eyes lol).