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Pidgeot
Pidgeot

Jan-30-2007 12:13

Hello, fellow Sleuths!

Over the last two months, I've been working on a brand new Sleuth helper. You might not think that sounds all that special - after all, great helpers are already available - but what makes this one different is that it's automated!

What it does is monitor your progress in the game, and extract relevant information from the pages. The information is stored and analyzed, in order to help you determine who did it, and who didn't.

It's heavily inspired by Evita's JavaScript-based Sleuth Helper, so a special "thank you" goes out there.

The application is made with Delphi 2005, and should run on any machine with Windows NT/98/ME/2K/XP/Vista and Internet Explorer 4 or later. Additionally, source code is included (ZLib license) in case someone wants to port it to another platform and/or language (such as Java).

The program can be downloaded from http://download.birdiesoft.dk/SleuthHelper.exe (330 KB), and a screenshot of the program can be seen at http://download.birdiesoft.dk/sleuth_helper.png.

Please take a look at the help file before using the program (it's very short), so you are familiar with how the program works.

(Disclaimer: The application depends heavily on the current structure of the game pages, and changes to this may break the program. Although the application is designed in such a way that it should fail entirely if something goes wrong, this cannot be guaranteed. Use of this program is entirely at your own risk, and any cases lost because of errors in the program should not be blamed on the program or the author.)

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jan-9-2008 05:09

PS also depends how big your hard disk is too :) say goodbye to 10gig partition for XP and Parallels.

Summer Frost
Summer Frost

Jan-14-2008 11:24

Why does the program asks for my password again, even though i am already logged, doesnt that gives the program maker access to all passwords?

Pidgeot
Pidgeot

Jan-16-2008 10:25

The program itself doesn't ask for your password, only Sleuth does (the program CAN log you in automatically when it starts up, but you don't have to do that). There's nothing fishy going on, as the source should prove.

I imagine the reason you need to log in again is a connection or server issue. You might want to make sure you don't have too aggresive a cookie-blocker.

Summer Frost
Summer Frost

Jan-16-2008 13:27

I am sorry if i looked a bit jumpy, i've just spent the last year in a site full of hackers and passord abusers, i forgot how nice the people here are..... ^_^

I am using the program now and i am very impressive, it is really helpful.....

Agatha.
Agatha.

Jan-17-2008 03:05

great job!!!!!

Sgt. Troy
Sgt. Troy

Mar-11-2008 13:30

i tried running it in UBUNTU with WINE and firefox/ie4linux. when i try open the window for sleuthhelper with either browser i see the main sleuth log on page but i can never put anything in. i get an error message popping up saying OLE error 80004001. can you help? google was not my friend in this instance. i'm disappointed now.

Pidgeot
Pidgeot

Mar-13-2008 14:41

That error code is E_NOTIMPL (Not implemented), which suggests that Wine doesn't support using IE as a control. Of course, they might change that, but I can't really do anything about it without rewriting the program in Java or something like that, and I really don't know enough about GUI programming in Java (or any other suitable cross-platform language/environment) to do that.

On a somewhat related note, I'm sorry to say that I have to discontinue development (and support) of the program. I've uploaded a final release, v1.17, adding a Restart case feature. You can use this instead of closing and reopening the entire helper when you experience a bug.

Download locations (please try the top one first):
http://download.birdiesoft.dk/SleuthHelper.exe
http://henrikossipoff.dk/birdiesoft/SleuthHelper.exe

I will also most likely not be checking back here, at least not very often, so if you ask me something here, I might not see it (within a reasonable time, at least).
If you want to take over development, feel free to do so (the source code is, as always, included) - and if you have questions about the source, you are more than welcome to e-mail me (see the contact page of the help file).

Happy Sleuthing, guys.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Mar-13-2008 15:27

Thanks for all the time you've spent working on this pidgeot. I know a lot of people use/have used it (not me I'm a Mac tragic lol but I've made the time to find a PC and have a go) and have appreciated it. Good luck with whatever you are doing :)

Sgt. Troy
Sgt. Troy

Mar-13-2008 15:43

Pidgeot, thank you for your reply. just like Secret_Squirrel i wasn't able to make use of the programme. but having read this thread i can appreciate the effort and thought you have put into this useful tool. thank you for spending so much time on something you don't sell but make freely available for everyone to enjoy. we need more people like you.

turtledove
turtledove
Gopher to the Sleuth Gods

Mar-14-2008 06:45

I've been using it for a while now and it's terrific. Thanks Pidgeot. Boy ..I love that Red on Green..lol

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