Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Column meanings?

I’m confused about all of the column meanings. Can I get a definition for (and differences between) all of these?

-Current
-Max
-Total
-Snipe Bid
-Snipe Max
-Buy Price
-Max Bid
-Price

Some of these seem understandable but there seems to me to be plenty of overlap between them – perhaps I’m just not thinking properly. Anyway I searched through the site and with Google and couldn’t really find an answer to this question.

Thanks,
John

Topic: Announcements / JBidwatcher 2.1pre5

The 2.1pre5 that is current does not have a Windows installer version. So far, only a direct download version is available. Therefore, at the moment you need to just run the one file that is downloaded for the new one. If you uninstalled the old one, you won’t have any shortcuts on your desktop or in your start menu. Don’t get your panties in a bunch, this is intentional behavior.

If you want to remove the old version (not a bad idea) then remove it from Windows Add-Remove Programs. If it isn’t there, don’t worry about it, just delete it from Program Files and delete your desktop / start menu shortcuts.

A probably better solution that solves all of your problems would be to just replace the exe file of the old one with the downloaded exe file of the new one. If you already uninstalled the old one, then download the windows installer version of the old one, install it, go into Program Files and find the program file (.exe) that you just installed. Delete it, and then put the download-only 2.1pre5 in its place. All your shortcuts should then work properly.

Topic: That's SO beta! / Error parsing auction

Hi, I’ve been an irregular user of JBidwatcher for a while but just signed up to the forum to post this possible bug. Hopefully this is the right place to post this. I’m trying to add an auction to JBidwatcher but it simply does nothing in the normal interface – no error messages, no nothing. The auction is http://cgi.ebay.com/SMOKE-SKIN-CASE-COVER-FOR-G…

I’m running 2.0beta11-736.

The log from JBidwatcher looks like:

Mon Jan 26 22:50:28 EST 2009: Adding: h ttp://cgi.ebay.com/SMOKE-SKIN-CASE-COVER-FOR-GARMIN-NUVI-200-205-250-255_W0QQitemZ290292039935QQihZ019QQcategoryZ58049QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713.m153.l1262
Mon Jan 26 22:50:29 EST 2009: PMQ Caught exception: com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLParseException:
XML Parse Exception during parsing of a form-tag at line 1: Syntax error while parsing an attribute key
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.syntaxError(XMLElement.java:1359)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.scanOneAttribute(XMLElement.java:989)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.scanAttributes(XMLElement.java:740)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseCharArray(XMLElement.java:643)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseCharArray(XMLElement.java:625)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.xml.XMLElement.parseString(XMLElement.java:557)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTML$Form.<init>(JHTML.java:83)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTML.handleForms(JHTML.java:297)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTML.addToken(JHTML.java:276)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTMLParser.addToken(JHTMLParser.java:214)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTMLParser.parse(JHTMLParser.java:141)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTMLParser.<init>(JHTMLParser.java:31)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.html.JHTML.<init>(JHTML.java:36)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.SpecificAuction.preParseAuction(SpecificAuction.java:42)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.doParse(AuctionServer.java:262)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.loadAuction(AuctionServer.java:212)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.AuctionServer.create(AuctionServer.java:133)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionEntry.prepareAuctionEntry(AuctionEntry.java:241)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionEntry.<init>(AuctionEntry.java:275)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.AuctionEntry.construct(AuctionEntry.java:292)
    at com.jbidwatcher.ui.JBWDropHandler.messageAction(JBWDropHandler.java:59)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.PlainMessageQueue.run(PlainMessageQueue.java:55)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I figure this can’t be the only auction with this problem. Let me know if any other information is needed.

-John