Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Lack of communication/javaw.exe

Hi,
Not sure what has been the problem with my JBidwatcher, as it’s working fine now, however, it would appear that for the last few days it was unable to communicate with eBay (.co.uk) – but normal access with eBay seemed fine. I wasn’t really aware of this, as the ‘green light’ (top-right of window) was showing. One peculiarity of this was that the login details (user ID and time/date) were using a font with strikethrough which, I suppose, is indicative of a problem? I’m not even sure how or why it has started working again, but it does seem fine now.

One other thing I did notice this morning, while trying to work out the problem, was that javaw.exe was invoked and this was hogging a fair amount of the processor time (> 10%). This appears to be linked to JBidwatcher but I did wonder if it might be advisable to shut this off after five minutes of so, if it was a continued error and simple report this.

With thanks.

Topic: Announcements / [PreRelease] JBidwatcher 2.1pre4 is out

p.s. Things are still a bit rough for me; I’ve been getting by though, thanks to donations from my amazing users (that’s YOU!)

Well I for one am very happy with this program, and appreciate the speed in which bugs are being rootled out and exterminated! I hope my small donation (just made) encourages you to continue. I would also not be adverse to paying a small annual fee to ensure continuous maintenance, if that were ever proposed.

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Dragging new listings

Hi Morgan,

Just tried again – dragging the thumbnail image, and then choosing ’Paste Auction causes the grey dialog box to appear, which is possibly associated. It only appears to let the thumbnail be dragged across.

Thanks – pressing ‘Enter’ did the trick :-)

David

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Dragging new listings

Hi all,

First time user, and I’m impressed with the program – also the thriving forum community, which inspires confidence when there is a problem!

One thing is causing a problem ATM: dragging a listing from the eBay browser window (Google Chrome) onto JBidwatcher. This has caused the following reactions:

1. Nothing happens (but the mouse icon does revert to show the ‘+’ sign when dragged.)
2. The program then refuses to do anything: actions, such as right-click, and menu selection appear to work, but nothing happens when it is chosen, so I can’t even call up the error log!

3. Yesterday I received a different problem where a grey dialog box appeared behind the window, stretching the entire height of the display (1050pixels) with, what appears to be, some MS coding. The program refused to do anything but, like point 2 above, I had to resort to shutting it down and restarting.

I can easily copy and paste item numbers, which is OK. A minor problem that only deserves low priority :-)

David