Topic: Does not import all bidding items

Login to Ebay.com and go to your My Ebay page and then select Watch (watched items) – scroll down the page and near the bottom of the page on the right hand side change the Items on page to 200. JBidWatcher will then import all your watched items.

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Hoddy

Topic: Does not import all bidding items

I’m just starting out with JBidwatcher and it shows great promise but I’m having some issues with it importing the open items I have in my Bidding list. Currently, in eBay, I show 91 open bids. In JB I only see 10 listed. I’ve tried Update Auctions and it doesn’t load any more than these 10.

I tried adding a URL search via the search manager as suggested in one of the forum messages (http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&Curr…)
That actually sucked in a small hadfull of old won bids from a month ago but not the rest of the open bidding list.

Is it st to only grab the first page of the bidding items in the eBay bidding list? Is there some kind of quantity threshold I need to set? I really want it to load all or at the very least all open bids for the next 24 hours.

I’m using WinXP PRO SP3

Thanks in advance

Topic: Feature Request: Different Views

Greetings,
chuckle

Ah well, it was a fun piece of code to write, at least. (It’s actually mildly hard to do graphic backgrounds like that.) Take a look at the ng screenshot page now, and you’ll see what it looks like without the gradient background (and with one of the tooltip-style thumbnails popping up).

I also realized I’d fubar’ed the height/width for the previous screenshot, so it was being crunched a little in the browser. Anyhow, both screenshots are up there.

You’ll also notice there’s a ’...’ above the scrollbar. That’s not very clear, but it’s a button you can click there to configure the columns for the current tab. (It’s ’...’ because I don’t have a decent super-miniature icon to indicate configurable…) This is in addition to the usual ‘right click on the tab name’, and hopefully an even more obvious ‘Tab’ menu eventually.

This version is also storing its information in a database, which makes startup (that version has 1460 auctions loaded, most of them completed) MUCH faster.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Feature Request: Different Views

I have to say I really don’t like that complex background. Continuous variable shading simply makes it harder to pick out details. There may be more empty space because the row heights are larger but I don’t see the need to fill it with anything. The usual two-tone, alternating row banding works just as effectively and you get used to the extra space after a while. Indeed the extra whitespace is no worse than eBay’s search listings and reverting to a non-thumbnail list looks very cramped. At the end of the day, I think it’s more to do with user perception at the time of transition rather than being a real problem.

Topic: Feature Request: Different Views

Greetings,
Yeah, one of my goals for improvement is the UI; when I first put the program together, having the graphic hidden as a ‘tooltip’ made sense, since most items didn’t have thumbnails (because eBay hosted them and IIRC charged for it). Now, with eBay allowing people to have thumbnails even when they aren’t hosting the images on eBay, it’s no longer the occasional items that have thumbnails, it’s pretty much all of them.

Anyhow, I’ve got a version which includes thumbnails (between the time I started writing this note last night and this morning I more or less glommed the core points from the patch, and added my own ‘special’ (i.e. ugly) touch).

The big problem with putting the thumbnail in the display is that the rest of the line has HUGE whitespace around it now. I handle that the only way I could come up with, by putting a more complex background behind the lines. Take a look here:
    http://www.jbidwatcher.com/screenshots/nextgen….

Let me know what you think. There are still details to be hashed out, and selection looks a little weird, but the core effect looks decent, at least imo. I haven’t tried to see what it looks like on a Mac yet, that’ll be next.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Topic: Feature Request: Different Views

Yes, an thumb column (instead of mouseover) would be really good. Maybe a larger pic appearing when mouse over the thumb.