FAQ
Here is the answer for some common questions.
- Does Winlop work on Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP/2003?
- Yes, it works on all of them. It may even work on Win32s (Win 3.x). It doesn't works on WINE.
- Does Winlop connect to WPN (WinMX Peer Network)?
- No.
- Does Winlop connect to IRC?
- Yes.
- Does Winlop support DCC (direct transfers)?
- On OpenNap, yes. On IRC, no.
- Can I configure Winlop to play sounds when I receive a private message?
- Yes, you can configure an external event handler. A JavaScript called "play.js" is included with it, so you can configure your event handler as "wscript play.js". The handler (as the name says) is external. It can't interact with Winlop.
- Why the "Ping search results with command" doesn't work?
- This isn't an important option anyways, as most users are firewalled and don't pong back.
- Why do sometimes I get a black "MS-DOS-like " console window with warning messages written on it?
- It means that something inside Winlop or GTK+ went wrong. If Winlop didn't stop working, it's probably an insignificant error, just go to Window -> Close console.
- Winlop crashed, and I would like to help fixing it.
- Then get the Sources archive, extract the lopster.exe with debug info over your current lopster.exe, and go get Dr MinGW. There are instructions in the Bugs section.
- Can Winlop download files with more than 2GB?
- No. The original Lopster can't either. And most OpenNap servers available don't recognize files that big.
- Your themes are ugly. Where can I get some cool themes?
- Go to art.gnome.org and FreshMeat and download GTK1 themes. Some of them need "engines" to do the tricks; the engines reside in ./lib/gtk/themes/engines. Some themes need engines that aren't distributed with Winlop, so you have to either compile the engines yourself, or find a binary (dll) using Google.