EVE Technology Lab

Awesome project, posting for notifications.

The blown up partial window could be something I work into the program. Though note that I will not add the ability to pass commands to the client other than making the window your active window. The whole passing commands to EVE in the miniature box just gets too close to the gray area of the TOS/EULA for my liking. At the moment I'm rewriting it from the ground up. The current version (1.18.3) has some finicky things with the base code, mainly how it creates and destroys the previews constantly. This causes the problem where you click where the preview is and instead nothing happens as you clicked your desktop instead as your click command was "missed" by the preview window as it refreshed.

It's going to be a while, I'm refactoring how saving and loading works along with better settings options. For example, I plan to have "accounts" where you can assign clients (characters, really) to have the same settings as another for location. Thus if you have 2 characters on the same account, you can always have them mimic each other. In addition, I plan to add it where the clients can mimic the "default" settings you created for everything but location. It's going to be a loooong process, but I believe it will be worth it in the end.

EDIT: if you're interested in seeing my current progress, you can look under the "codeword_dirtbag" (because I can) branch on the bitbucket page. My progress isn't too much, I'm in the midst of parsing the settings. Then I have to write the "Save Settings" portion. Then I have to write the preview window (separate exe this time) and then I have to write a send/recieve message portion for the two EXEs to pass messages back and forth, and finally I have to write timers to check for new EVE clients and have them propagate the settings file and windows.

Hey makari. Just wanted to say thanks for the work on this. Made playing multi accounts on a single screen enjoyable again.

Is the preview window supposed to show that client in real time or is there known lag? I just set this up and was keeping an eye on the preview for one character. Nothing was happening but I clicked on him anyway to change something and found him in the process of being podded having lost his ship.

Thank you and the original guy for this, very helpful little app. I'm currently playing with my left hand only due to a RL injury, being able to click other client preview windows is far superior to leaving the mouse to alt-tab.

"Show preview frames" is the name of the option if I remember correctly. On my phone right now so don't have it open to check.

thank you this was correct - seems i was just confused by the naming "preview frames".

together with the new launcher this tool is really awesome ! :)

Here some general feedback i posted to reddit on a recent ixboxer / new launcher discussion:
"yeah im happy that eve-o preview is always improving, and in fact the first thing i did was testing it with the new launcher and see the current state.

that said, isboxer still is more "premium" in its window management features, as in you can quite easy say "okay split all inactive clients evenly onto my 2nd screen" without having to fiddle with manual resizing, and that you can on top of that display parts of that client (like a big watchlist / cap / modules) next to them, but im confident that eve-o preview will get there sooner or later too.

what im unsure about is that ressource management on top of that, since basicly isboxer builds "vms" for each client and allocates dedicated ressources to them, what is quite neat if you either have a not so great computer, or multibox a lot of clients - since without this one or two eve-clients got the habit to just "ninja" a lot of RAM while others are left with nothing which can lead to socket closes or huge lag spikes(freezes) in worst case. So it would be neat if the new launcher somehow would allow to limit the ressource allocation to each client :)"

Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, ISBoxer is definitely easier in that respect but it does cost money. I am actively trying to update EVE-O Preview in my spare time, but I normally only have time when work is slow, unfortunately the last couple weeks have not been.

I was actually wondering if the new launcher would make EVE-O preview obsolete. So far the "remember client location" of the launcher means I could strip away the location tracking. But I wouldn't consider doing that until the new launcher is out of beta and everything for location and size is working as intended. Even then I may not since the launcher can only set settings at launch.

I have removed a disrespectful post.

I can verify that theirs an issue with windows 10 - I also was getting memory leaks first into cpu then gpu which crashed my computer badly. Since found an app that let me install an older verson of aero and it seems to of ended the issue.