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[Squid]

Hello folks!

Found a nifty little applet by the name of MD5click.exe in the toolbox for WinBuilder; and was wondering who came up with it.

Silly as it sounds, nobody seems to have taken the trouble to make a friendly little MD5 checker applet (with an actual GUI) for the freeware crowd before: Would like to pass it on to others if I could

Yes? No? EULA???

(Just a couple more options, and it could be a great addition to the collection over at NoNags )


THANKS!

[TheHive]

Nuno can give more info on this proposition and and how it should be distributed.

[Brito]

Glad you've liked it - I've done it almost an year ago when we were having issues with packages that weren't well downloaded.

It's completely free, which options would you like to see included?

[was_jaclaz]

With all due respect for Nuno and the MD5click.exe app , I would also be curious what features are needed and what a MD5 checking utility is needed for.

I mean, there must be a few dozens of freeware MD5 checking utilities, of which, say, one third of them are GUI ones.

This one is a simple one that "weights" 22 Kbytes:
http://www.diamondcs...ilities/md5.zip

jaclaz

[Squid]

@jaclaz:

Apart from the link which you provided to diamondcs, I've not ever been able to locate a good MD5 app with a GUI in the freeware realm...

As to what they're useful for; well, try downloading OpenOffice over dialup -- it's not nice, and it's always good to check whether or not your copy has gotten corrupted (mutilated) through the phone lines on the way.

It's also a great way of telling whether or not a particular file which has been split for transmission in smaller chunks reassembles properly when it gets to its final destination

As to what features would be desirable; well, I really like the idea of "send to" integration for the little program, but having a menubar with some selectable features put there might be nice. Just a matter of style, but have the send to option checkable on a drop-down; an "about" with a credit screen for Nuno would look nice; and maybe a button to send the raw MD5 to the clipboard would be helpful, too.

A FANTASTIC feature (probably a lot more work than Nuno wants to put into it) would be "Compare Files"; provided to check either a pasted MD5 hash against a selected file or one file against another

Just some thoughts for what might be a neat little app to carry some free advertising about the WinBuilder forum to the freeware community. I think it'd be great on NoNags!!!

Again, fun is what it's all about here -- maybe something like this would help spread the word


THANKS!

[Brito]

Knowing what you want to do is half way to get a task completed.

At the moment it's a bit dificult to get my hands back into it, but I will try to add it as soon as I can.

I don't really care much for About boxes, just happy to see an app being used is more than enough for me.

[Squid]

@Nuno Brito:



I just got back from a trip over to NoNags; and it looks as if they have a few apps which do something with MD5s -- I guess it's been a little while since I looked.

BUT, much of the MD5 stuff which they have over there is a bit confusing to use, is large, needs to be installed, etc. So, I still think that a little, lightweight app with features like what I mentioned above would get 6/6 over there if you ever wanted to do it


Thanks again, and have a great day!

[was_jaclaz]

Again, not to put down Nuno's prog in the least , just to show the kind of "offer" present in the "Freeware" world:

http://www.brandonst...lecheckmd5.html

http://www.beeblebro...shtab/index.php

http://www.paehl.de/english.php
http://www.paehl.de/twinmd5.zip

http://www.midwavi.com/
http://www.midwavi.c...wnloads.htm#md5

http://www.elgorithm...ds/chaosmd5.php

http://www.pinpointl...ree_tools/hash/

http://www.softpedia...MD5-Check.shtml

http://www.matsoftwa...lity/matmd5.php

http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/

@Nuno, this one has also a few other interesting Delphi Components and includes sources:
http://angusj.com/delphi/
http://angusj.com/delphi/md5check.zip


jaclaz