https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q7GYNfY_Dc
windows
zip:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v326/Hydrus.Network.326.-.Windows.-.Extract.only.zip
exe:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v326/Hydrus.Network.326.-.Windows.-.Installer.exe
os x
app:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v326/Hydrus.Network.326.-.OS.X.-.App.dmg
tar.gz:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v326/Hydrus.Network.326.-.OS.X.-.Extract.only.tar.gz
linux
tar.gz:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/releases/download/v326/Hydrus.Network.326.-.Linux.-.Executable.tar.gz
source
tar.gz:
https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus/archive/v326.tar.gz
I had a great couple of weeks. I was able to get some good prototype login stuff out for advanced users to play with and a bunch of other stuff besides.
Some login behind-the-scenes changed this week. Please report any problems you have with hanging/failing Pixiv, Hentai Foundry, or Hydrus service (i.e. the PTR) jobs.
login
Advanced users only for now!
On Tuesday the 9th, I had a bunch of login work 75% complete and not much else. I decided to make this a two-week cycle, and I am happy to have finished off the 25% and some more. Please check out the new dialog under
network->downloader definitions->manage login scripts.
As simple as I have attempted to make it, the new login manager is complicated, and the new dialog matches. Just as with the downloader, I expect to write some 'how to write a login script from scratch' help, but for now, please feel free to explore. Hit the
add defaults->add them all to see some first-draft replacements I have knocked up for the Hentai Foundry click-through and Pixiv login to see what I am going for here. It basically hits a number of GET/POST requests in order, drawing from user credentials like username/pass and temp variables parsed and passed from one page to another.
None of this code is functional yet. The dialog will not save any changes, and there is no test panel, which I sorely missed as I put the example scripts together. I may add or tweak a thing here or there, but hope to turn somo of it on next week, maybe along with some regular-user-friendly ui to manage what scripts are active and store credentials and so on. I hope to swap out the hardcoded HF and Pixiv logins with finalised scripts and write a couple more for the big sites myself.
subs and downloaders
Pixiv is still in flux, and it seems they broke our manga page parsing for a subset of users this week. Thankfully, user kourraxspam on the discord figured out a neat API fix to our problems and also wrote a
pixiv tag search. I tweaked the new objects a bit and folded them into the update. Since we are now mostly pulling from APIs, I hope Pixiv will be a bit more stable. Please let me know if you have any more trouble.
The new Pixiv downloader no longer pursues mode=manga URLs. If you ran into big Pixiv problems this week and have a lot of failed 'mode=manga' pages hanging around in your subs, you can try 'try again'ing the neighbouring failed/skipped mode=medium URLs, or try to re-run the queries in a manual download page, or if you are comfortable with the new download system, there is more technical url-class-based fix in the discord, under #parser-creation.
Subscriptions get some QoL improvements this week. Firstly, the way they determine if they are 'caught up' to the last sync now permits occasional deeper searches that will find files that were tagged late. In my final IRL testing here, I found it worked well but sometimes hit the 'periodic file limit' and gave me annoying little popups about it. These popups are false positive and you can dismiss them. I will improve the subscription logic next week to recognise this situation and not make the popups.
Also, subs can now publish to 'labels'. In the edit subscription panel, you can set a specific name for a sub to publish its button or page files to (overriding the default, which is subscription name). So, if you have several 'character' subscriptions for different sites, you can have them all publish their files to the same 'char subs' page!
The watcher and downloader pages also have better
en-masse file handling in their lists' right-click menu, which now has a 'show all in new page' entry that lets you combine the results of multiple watchers or gallery imports into one page, letting you handle multiple finished queues all in one go!
layout improvements
After thinking about it a long time, I have written a custom sizer that lays ui items out in a more conservative way. I have applied it to several locations, particularly the 'management' panels on the left of any page, and hope it will make these panels size a bit more sanely on smaller screens. This first step is limited, and it isn't perfect by any means, but it should be an improvement, with fewer 'why is this thing so tall?' moments.
If this sizer doesn't cause huge problems, I expect to apply it across the program and then start tweaking the minimum sizes and related sizer flags to take better advantage of it. If you are on a small screen, please let me know if you notice any big changes, for better or worse, for this week and to come. There is plenty of other related cleanup to do here. I'll also be tackling the manage tag parents/siblings dialogs' layout-hellscape soon.
misc
If you right-click several tags, you can now open separate new search pages for each of them separately!
Autocomplete tag searches should now return faster! My tests showed a 33% reduction! They also handle some unusual wildcard searches better!
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The gallery log button can now be right-clicked to restart a recently failed search! Restarted searches should be more reliable!
Under options->downloading, you can now have the little 'x/y' import summaries say 'x/y - zN', where z is the number of x that were 'new' (as opposed to already in db)!
full list
- login:
- finished the new login objects. they can deal with multi-step single second-level domain login problems, can pass variables from step to step, and use cookies as success verification
- wrote an ton of ui for the new login objects, now under network->downloader definitions and network->logins. it is not 'active' yet, but advanced users are invited to check it out. there is no good test ui yet, which I think I'll have to figure out in the coming weeks
- wrote a first attempt at HF and pixiv replacement login scripts–please try importing from defaults on the manage login scripts dialog and look through them to see what I am going for. once the system is flipped on and we are happy these work, I'll remove the old hardcoded legacy login stuff
- when a network job that needs a login cannot login, it now waits (rather than bombing out completely), presenting the related error, and checks again every 60 seconds
- if a network job thinks it can login but fails to generate a login process, the network engine now catches the error safely and recovers. the job is put on hold as above
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- subs:
- the subscription 'have we caught up to where we were before' test is now more complicated–rather than just stopping after five 'already seen' urls are found, it now only stops if at least the _last_ five contiguous urls of the page are already seen. this will catch more late-tagged files that get inserted out of order
- fixed the 'get quality info' button on edit sub panel to only get the current selection, not all queries wew
- subscriptions can now optionally publish/present their files to a specific label! this is a great way to merge multiple subs to the same final landing page
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- layout:
- after a long time thinking about it, wrote a new custom boxsizer that handles resizing multiple expanding items of different reasonable min size by expanding them _beyond minimum size_ by their proportion, rather than forcing them all to have total proportional width/height. I expect to polish this and apply it in multiple locations around the program where tall things were being too tall because something else was forcing it to be (the management panel on the left of most pages was terrible at this, causing a giganto taglist just because the upper panel was tall as well).
- changed my custom boxsizer (the box with a bold header) to the new custom boxsizer, so it is all over now–please report any bad layouts you see
- in an effort to improve layout, the manage tag parents and siblings panels' preview boxes have shorter minimum height–it will get a bigger layout overhaul soon
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- bigger misc:
- thanks to work of user kourraxspam on the discord, fixed the pixiv downloader to use a more stable api and added pixiv tag search
- watchers and gallery imports now have a list right-click menu entry to show all selected importers' files in a new page! use this to clear out a bunch of finished queues all at once!
- the tag right-click menu now offers 'open new search pages for each in selection' if multiple tags are selected–this will open three search pages each with one tag, as opposed to the original entry, which would only open one page with all three
- the edit nested gug panel now uses a checklistbox rather than the menu to select gugs to add, which is more reliable and allows for multiple selections
- sped up autocomplete tag fetches' tag sibling integration–irl this may be a reduction in total a/c search time of approx 33%
- page parsers will now generate next gallery urls absent any file/post urls if the only type of url they can generate is gallery urls (so a meta-gallery-search like board->threads that only generates subsidiary gallery pages will now work, whereas before it never could because it was missing post urls)
- the gallery log now provides a shorthand way to restart and resume failed searches from its right-click menu (if the most recent log entry failed)
- 'try again (and allow search to continue)' reattempt jobs will now generate next page urls even if no new urls are found (which can happen if a search stopped due to the file limit exactly lining up with the number of files found, for instance, so a reattempt finds nothing new)
- gallery downloaders will now specify their 'delay work for a bit' error states in the ui. this usually means 'could not connect', which has a 4-hour timer (I'll prob add a scrub delays button here at some point)
- the watcher will now show its 'delay work for a bit' error state in more places in the ui
- added a 'media' shortcut 'export_files_quick_auto_export', which will open the export files frame and give you a quick yes/no to confirm you want to export as set. if yes, it will export. then it will close the frame
- added a 'show a "N" to short import summaries' option to options->downloading, which will extend the typical 'x/y' status string to 'x/y - zN' for z 'new files' (as opposed to already in db)
- improved how the video parser estimates frame rate–it _should_ fix some of those low-framerate, low-framecount slideshow-vids where at current they render everything in a rush and then sit on the last frame for ten secs
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- smaller misc:
- network report mode now reports url_to_fetch and parser-to-parse-with info
- when the server fails to accept a file upload due to a file parsing issue, it now prints the hash of the file in the error
- if the client sees a possible file hash in a server error message from a file upload, ~it will try to show that file in a new page~
- fixed an issue where wildcard searches were not finding results if the search text included the normally discarded characters [](){}"'
- fixed some domain handling for localhost and other undotted network names
- content parsers will now only launch with permissable content types, which for the legacy 'lookup scripts' scripts system means only tags and vetoes, and for the new login system means only temp variables and vetoes
- as compaction now happens automatically on sync, removed the 'compact' button from edit subs panel
- an unusual network error related to hydrus update files sometimes being cut off mid-stream is now glossed over silently, with the download reattempted after a delay
- the initial gui session load now occurs after a 0.25s delay–let's see if it cleans up some initial layout issues some users have had
- maybe fixed an odd dictionary-initialisation error related to tag siblings/parents dialog boot
- ruggedised against an unusual bandwidth load bug
- gave some of the index help a pass
- did most of a 'getting started with downloaders' page in the help–I'll finish it next week
- updated discord share link to https://discord.gg/3H8UTpb , which should not expire
- some listbox add/edit code cleanup
- some listctrl delete code cleanup
- misc help work
- misc cleanup
next week
More login manager. I'd love to plug my new system in and have it do some work, but we'll have to see how doable that is–I might need to add some more supporting ui first.
I have been thinking about my longer-term schedule. I had thought to cram the login manager into the next two weeks and then take four weeks (basically November) off to do a big python 3 update, but I am now leaning towards putting the rewrite off so it bridges the holiday. Christmas is the best time to not be putting out releases for everyone's convenience, and since it is so close, I think it makes sense to just delay it that few more weeks. This will also give me a buffer to ensure the login system isn't exploding and catch up on whatever small work still needs doing. I could even do some prep work on the next big thing, which I still expect to put up a poll for once the login system is done.