Here's a quick n dirty app to assist navigation through the RB mailing list archives (the archival text files that is) provided by Glen Martin (see about box for the www address)
Feature incomplete as usual, but it does have sorting & searching functions. Largely untested but it does seem to work for me (*see Note 1 below)
The source code is included - hopefully it provides an example of doing something.
BTW, if the find function seems slow, this is because it first builds an index of all matching messages thereby making the speed of "find next" and "find previous" lightning fast.
I developed it using dr2r19 (so you may need this to examine the project), but it could easily be modified for CR1.
Exercises for the reader:
-some bugs will need squashing
-use threading to increase the (perceived) speed of the search indexing and digest munching (*see Note 2).
*Note 1:
Oops - hadn't tested the October 1997 archive with RB Digester. Seems that that archive is in a different format from the rest & as a result the app chokes badly (hard crash on my system).
Consequently my advice for anyone this affects is to either:
(a) fix that nasty bug
or
(b) ignore the offending archive & hope no-one said anything of importance that month.
*Note 2:
I’ve had a quick go at threading the digest munching phase. Not sure how to stop the flickering when the listbox is updated - another reader exercise. This is the reason for the 2 projects.
