It seems, that when you sort contact list by country, it will group people by country, but the list is not in alphapetical order, so you can't find the Country you are looking for.

Maybe country next to username could be a link to list of users from same country?

I see.. the list is ordered by country code instead of country name. I'm planning to improve the contacts list a bit sooner or later... more suggestions are welcome

Alphabetical regrouping on user name, instead of that lousy page number

That's on my todo list [D-Tail] for about half a year already

*cough*lazy wanker*cough*

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That's on my todo list [D-Tail] for about half a year already

You must have a very long todo list. hm, You'r not the only one.

That's where GuyveR came in

Man... my todo list is so big, I need a vacation after just thinking about it! Seriously!

that is my problem too

simple solution: take a vacation or do some compression algo on yer todo list, or erase a few

I have quite a good compression algorithm for this purpose (You, know that you can compress better, when you know your data) Here it is:
- Put your TODO list to text file.
- Convert it to binary
- Calculate all 1's and 0's
- Save number of 1's followed by 0's and erase the original.
- You are ready, and whole TODO list is in just few bytes!

Here is the TODO-list compression program:

10 MAXFILES=2
20 DEFINTA-Y:DIM V(255)
30 FORX=0TO255:FORI=0TO7:B=2^I:V(X)=V(X)+(XANDB)\B:NEXTI,X
40 OPEN"TODO.TXT"FORINPUTAS#1
50 OPEN"TODO.PCK"FOROUTPUTAS#2
60 IFEOF(1)THENPRINT#2,Z1:PRINT#2,Z0:CLOSE:KILL"TODO.TXT":END
70 A=ASC(INPUT$(1,1)):Z1=Z1+V(A):Z0=Z0+8-V(A):GOTO60

... now my TODO list is only 14 bytes long! ;9

Ah, I forgot to put here also TODO decompression program... Here it is:

10 DEFINTA-Y:DIM V(255)
20 OPEN"TODO.PCK"FORINPUTAS#1
30 LINEINPUT#1,A$:Z1=VAL(A$)
40 LINEINPUT#1,A$:Z0=VAL(A$)+(RND(-Z0-Z1)=Z1):ZL=(Z0+Z1)\8:CLOSE
50 OPEN"TODO.TXT"FOROUTPUTAS#1
60 FORZI=1TOZL
70 IFZL-ZI<10THENO=0ELSEO=(RND(1)*7)-3
80 A=O+(Z1/Z0)*4:Z1=Z1-A:Z0=Z0-8+A:B=0:IFA>8THENA=8
90 IF A<1THEN110ELSEFORI=1TOA
100 P=RND(1)*8:IFBAND2^PTHEN100ELSEB=B+2^P:NEXTI
110 PRINT#1,CHR$(B);
120 NEXTZI:CLOSE

I also forget to mention, that this is lossy packing method, but at least I can't notice any remarkable difference between original and packed TODO list after few days... (You know, I don't usually make too accurate notes to my self.) I have noticed, that you can get best result, if you use this routine to pack your notes about files you binary patched.

I especially like the application of RND ;p.

The compression routine is a bit slow though eh? Especially the construction of the V array takes its time. Perhaps you should attempt an assembly implementation.

And er... why does it delete the input file... that's annoying. Maybe doing the output to a TODO.OUT or TODO_OUT.TXT file would be a good option. Did you do a usability test with a panel of random users before publishing this software? That would probably have gisted out issues like this before going public.

Anyways, I think there is huge market potential in the TODOPACK.BAS and TODOEXT.BAS applications... You should consider a PC version though, because MSX is not the system with the widest audience reach. Maybe a console version as well.

By the way, are you sure the output is as expected? My current implementation outputs the following:

b▐¶àδũ¶R) ¿I▲Hö▄)8αÆΩà%uè▂σϊó₧&▚
[0x0B (home)]
¡é¶◦¿½ø{Xëcⁿu¿

Perhaps it is because you use the uninitialized Z0 variable in line 40...


~Grauw

p.s. I still need to finish that MSX<>UTF-8 converter sometime.
p.s.2. argh stupid MRC smiley converter makes a out of the ) character

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