Munnin - Ultrafast eBay browser http://www.munnin.com Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Rainer Bauer Version 2.2.041 [ Legend: ] [ + New ] [ * Improved/Changed ] [ - Bug Fixed ] [ @ eBay changed ] V2.2.041 (Raven) ----------------------- 20100828 @ Searching/browsing all eBay platform was broken @ Retrieving item description was broken V2.2.040 (Raven) ----------------------- 20100530 @ Retrieving item description was broken V2.2.039 (Raven) ----------------------- 20100502 - Munnin did sometimes not detect all items on a search result page. This happened very rarely, but consistenly for specific items. @ Searching/browsing all eBay platform was broken due to a design change on the search result pages. @ Munnin did sometimes not recognize/display galery images in the listing window. @ Parsing the item details did sometimes not work. V2.2.038 (Raven) ----------------------- 20100207 @ Browsing the main categories on ebay.com is no longer supported by eBay (this also applies searching them without words). @ For some items the description could not be retrieved. V2.2.037 (Raven) ----------------------- 20091129 @ Retrieving the item description was not possible due to a complete new page layout. NOTE: Item specifics are not shown in this release. V2.2.036 (Raven) ----------------------- 20091009 @ Searching was broken on ebay.com V2.2.035 (Raven) ----------------------- 20091004 @ Searching for items in categories was broken on some platforms. V2.2.034 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090828 @ Searching for items in categories was broken on some platforms. @ Extracting the subcategories from a search result page did no longer work. @ Searching for "shop items only" does no longer work reliable, since eBay does no longer allow this kind of search. When doing a search for shop items, Munnin may also return fixed price items from seller owning a shop. V2.2.033 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090706 * The column "Remaining time" now shows the text "Closed" if the item was ended early by the seller and the text "Deleted" if the item was removed by eBay. Before this change the text "Ended" appeared always when an item was no longer active independant of the reason. @ Extracting the subcategories from a search result page did no longer work. @ It was sometimes necessary to reload the item description several times until it was extracted successfully, because eBay is testing a new page layout. V2.2.032 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090602 - If the sellers feedback ratio was 0% (i.e. no transaction during the last year) then the item could not be saved to the database. * Support new shipping services for eBay Germany and USA. @ Searching for items on ebay.com did no longer work. V2.2.031 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090504 + Munnin does now right align all numeric columns in the listing window. This behaviour can be altered through the "General" tab in the program preferences: [x] Right align columns displaying numbers. - If multpiple items from a seller appeared on a search result page and some of them were featured, Munnin erroneously removed those featured items. - Sometimes the item description was not displayed although it was downloaded before. - The download turbo could not be permanently disabled in the program preferences. @ Searching for items on ebay.com did no longer work. V2.2.030 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090209 - Items were no longer synced periodically, but only once per session (AutoSync). * Support new shipping services for eBay Canada. @ Munnin did not detect if a sinlge fixed price/shop item was ended, because it was sold. @ Searching completed items did not work, because of changes eBay made to the login process. V2.2.029 (Raven) ----------------------- 20090113 + New search filter: "Local Pickup". + Munnin now supports the new payment type ProPay. * Disallow eBay to remove keywords if no items were found. * The YinYang search filter was removed, because it is no longer supported by Finding 2.0. - Munnin did not use the default browser on Vista. @ Searching items did not work. V2.2.028 (Raven) ----------------------- 20081024 * eBay Germany and Austria support sorting by country/region again. @ Searching for items on ebay.com did not work correctly. V2.2.027 (Raven) ----------------------- 20081009 * Munnin uses the Finding 2.0 interface now on all supported platforms. See Version 2.2.022 how this affects searching. IMPORTANT: Finding 2.0 does not support all features from the old search: * Searching for excluding words only does no longer work. * Yin-Yang search is no longer supported. * Finding items from a specific seller does no longer reliable work (the no. of items returned depends on the platform that is being used to perform the search). V2.2.026 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080910 * When searching for items on ebay.at, Munnin uses the Finding 2.0 interface now. See Version 2.2.022 how this affects searching. * Searching by no. of bids is no longer possible when searching for Fixed Price or Best Offer items. @ Searching for excluding words only is no longer possible for all platforms using the new Finding 2.0 layout. @ Munnin did not find all items when searching on ebay.com. V2.2.025 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080814 * When searching for items on ebay.de, Munnin uses the Finding 2.0 interface now. See Version 2.2.022 how this affects searching. V2.2.024 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080812 + New column in the listing window: "Price including shipping". If the shipping costs have been specified (and are known to Munnin), this column shows the total price to pay for an item. * When searching for items on ebay.com, Munnin uses the Finding 2.0 interface now. See Version 2.2.022 how this affects searching. * Searching by seller type is now supported on ebay.co.uk. * Munnin now shows an "X" instead of a "-" in the BestOffer column, if no offers have been made. - If a search results page contained only featured items, Munnin did not find any of them. @ Searching items did no longer work on ebay.co.uk. V2.2.023 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080720 + It is now possible to select multiple items and execute the context menu command "Open in Browser...". * The menu command "Members > Find members..." was removed (see version 2.2.022 why). - Not all (or none at all) items where found when searching for items from a specific seller. @ Munnin supports now the new shipping services for eBay Germany. V2.2.022 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080705 @ Searching for items on ebay.co.uk did no longer work, because eBay has switched to the new "Finding 2.0" listing layout. There have several changes concerning the new search: The seller is now displayed on the search result. Searching without a keyword is now possible in all categories. Searching with excluded keywords only is now possible in all categories. The following search filters are no longer supported: Seller Type/Yin-Yang/Max. Shipping Costs/Auction type Now&New/Bargain search for featured only items @ Searching for UserID names is no longer possible, because eBay requires to enter a captcha code to see the results. @ Search user [F3] did not work if the user was not in the database. Munnin reported always that no user with that ID existed. V2.2.021 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080527 + New option in the general preferences: "Start minimised in system tray" (this option is mutually exclusive with the "Maximise window at startup" option). + New filter in the advanced search parameters: "Shipping". This filters allows searching for items with shipping costs less than the specified amount. + New filter in the advanced search parameters: "Get It Fast". NOTE: This filter replaces the old "Free shipping" filter and uses the same icon. If you want to search for items with free shipping, you have to use the new "Shipping" filter and specify 0 as the maximum shipping costs value. + New columns in search favorites listing window: "Shipping costs" and "Get-It-Fast items" (the old column "Free shipping only" was removed). * Support new shipping services for eBay US, CA and AU. - Multipage queries could not be canceled, if some of the pages were not retrieved. - The results for multipage queries were not displayed, if some of the pages were not retrieved. This only happened if the search was finished while the multipage query was not displayed. @ The feedback percentage for sellers was no longer extracted. V2.2.020 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080415 * Support new shipping services for eBay DE, AT and CH: "Collection in Person". Note that this shipping service is only taken into account when calculating the minimum/maximum shipping costs, if the shipping costs for this service is greater than zero. @ eBay has switched to UTF-8 encoding. V2.2.019 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080331 * Munnin does now show the safeguarded highest bidder (the handle will be colored green in this case). @ All chinese auctions on eBay DE and GB are now always safeguarded. @ Under some circumstances searching ebay.com was broken. V2.2.018 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080315 * The background color in the seller IdentIcon column will now be colored, if the sellers location and the platform where the item was listed do not match. * Decreased the minimum vertical screen resolution to 764 (instead of 768) to support the 16:10 screen resolution 1360x765. @ All chinese auctions on eBay US, CA and AU are now always safeguarded. @ Payment method PayPal was not detected for items listed at ebay.ch. @ Detecting the shipping costs was broken on ebay.com. @ Searching was broken on ebay.co.uk. V2.2.017 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080219 @ Quicksync did no longer work V2.2.016 (Raven) ----------------------- 20080206 * Support new shipping services for eBay CA, GB and AU. - Loading completed items did not work if the page contained only shop items. @ Galery images were no longer shown. V2.2.015 (Raven) ----------------------- 20071122 + Added new search orders: price with PP and Bids (only eBay Germany). * The search order PayPal and Seller Type have been removed, because they are no longer supported by eBay. @ Retrieving the item details failed sometimes (only if the item has ended). V2.2.014 (Raven) ----------------------- 20071113 - Countries and shipping services containing German Umlaute were not detected correctly. @ Searching completed items was broken. V2.2.013 (Raven) ----------------------- 20071030 + Support the new domestic shipping services for eBay US: "Local Delivery" and "Local Pickup". * Detect and show if the highest bidder is safeguarded for items listed at eBay Germany. * Detect safeguarded members correctly when quicksyncing item details. * Serbia and Montenegro have been split into 2 different countries. - At program exit, Munnin showed the error message "delUserExecFailed", when no members had to be deleted. - The PayPal payment method was no longer detected from the listing page. @ Searching completed items was broken. V2.2.012 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070825 + The page number combobox in the page navigation area is now filled more effectively if a search returned many items. + Munnin now supports the search order "Country/Region". - For some ZIP codes for GB, Munnin reported that the code was invalid and did not accept it. - The "last time retrieved" text was not always added to the description if the description was reloaded. - Fixed a memory leak which only became effective, when Munnin was running for a long time. @ Searching items on ebay.com did no longer work. V2.2.011 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070727 + Windows Vista is now officially supported. The only feature that does not yet work is the Smart-Update feature. + Clicking on the galery image in the preview window will now scroll down to the end of the description where the images are displayed. + The following licencing changes were introduced in this version: Starting multiple Instances of Munnin-Advanced or Munnin-Professional on the same machine is no longer possible. This requires now a commercial licence. The price for Munnin-Business was greatly reduced and this licence type has now two restrictions: Postgres is not supported and a maximum of 20,000 items per day may be downloaded. The new Munnin-Enterprise licence type replaces the old Munnin-Business licence, i.e. there are no restrictions for this licence type! + Munnin will now show an error message if the database cleanup fails. * The minimum required Postgres version is now Postgres 8.2. This is necessary, because only that version offers features the greatly speed up the data access times. * Vista: Many state buttons are now colored grey so that they are distinguishable on the new "white" Vista scheme. - Vista: Searching for text in the description did not work. - Munnin did not stay logged in between program starts, even if the toggle was selected. - The best offer was not stored in the database if the item was quicksynced after it has ended and the details were retrieved afterwards. - Background scanning does now work correcly, if the first page retrieved contains only featured items. @ Searching for completed items on eBay Germany did no longer work. @ Searching items on ebay.com did no longer work. V2.2.010 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070627 @ The item condition was sometimes not detected when quicksyncing an item. @ The endtime was not correctly detected when searching for items on ebay.de. V2.2.009 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070620 * The cell background colour is now drawn correctly for identicons if the row is selected. * The developement platform was switched to VS2005. * Munnin is now statically linked to the CRT and MFC libraries, because Microsoft replaced the DLL hell by a manifest hell. @ Retrieving the item description for items listed at ebay.com did no longer work. V2.2.008 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070430 + New column in the listing window: "Seller Identicon". Shows a seller specific icon colored based on the sellers feedback profile. + The item title is now striked if an item was deleted or ended early by the seller. * Automatic data synchronization: Every visible item in the listing window will now be synced at least once if column "Seller" of "Seller Identicon" is visible. V2.2.007 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070424 + The item description in the database is now updated everytime when an item is reloaded. This does happen automatically except for multi-selection downloads. + New Option for the AutoSync program setting: "Update description after item has ended". This will update the description stored in the database after the item has ended. + Munnin will now show when the description was retrieved the last time in the item description header. - The "AutoScan" tab was sometimes removed, even if there were still results present (i.e. the navigation history was not empty). - The download-Turbo did no longer work correctly since this morning. @ Extracting the Shipping and Payment information failed, if the seller had answered questions from buyers before. @ The function "Open Feedback Page in Browser" did no longer work correctly, because eBay has changed the feedback URL. V2.2.006 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070329 - Munnin 2.2.005 which was released yesterday contained a bug. As a result the item description could not retrieved for most of the items. V2.2.005 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070328 - Parsing items with Best Offer failed sometimes @ The item description for Classified Ads could not be retrieved V2.2.004 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070315 @ Due to a the new Payment and Shipping layout, the item description could no longer be retrieved. V2.2.003 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070308 * Munnin will now show an error if the file extension for the license file is missing. * The mouse wheel in the item description now works immediately after an item was double clicked. * When viewing all shipping services in the item property window, Munnin will now open eBay's shipping calculator directly when the "Calculate" button is pressed. * The "Open in browser" button now acts differently. When the world symbol is clicked, the item will be opened directly in an external browser. When the arrow is pressed the context menu will be shown. * Munnin will now show a warning message if the time zone environment variable TZ is set and differs from the setting made in the Windows system property. * The item cache was increased: it will now use up to 5% of the physically installed RAM. - Dragging an item to a watch folder did not work if only a single item was selected and this item was then displayed in the preview window. - When retrieving all items from a seller by pressing the seller button in the item details, then in some cases these items were not assigned to the seller in the database. @ Only ebay.com: The item description could no longer be retrieved. @ Only ebay.de: Munnin did not always detect if an item was ended early by the seller. V2.2.002 (Raven) ----------------------- 20070123 + Pressing the new button (to clear all input fields) will now automatically move the focus to the search word field. * Munnin's AutoSync feature will now detect if an item was deleted by eBay (takes about 30 seconds). * Munnin will now detect if the system time is altered while it is executed. * The GUI is now more responsive if many background queries are active. * Munnin does now show "United Kingdom" instead of "Great Britain" in the English resources. * The English resources were adapted and are now consistent with the British English spelling. * Munnin will no longer show the User ID if it is safeguarded. - Munnin showed the "Renew subscription" question dialog for temporary license files. As a result customers who did renew their subscription were still asked to do so, until they received their final license file. - The start/end time fields in the item preview window were 1 pixel too small for the system font "Tahoma" (only Windows 2000/XP). - The German resources for the "Data Synchronisation" settings were not translated. - If a query was finished successfully for the item in the preview window and the customer was adding a comment, then the text was reset and the comment was lost. - If a buyer was NARUed then Munnin detected this not correctly and instead it set the sellers state to NARU. - Munnin did not detect member User ID's if they started with a "_", "-" or "." (because this is not allowed). However there exist members beginning with one of those characters if they registered before this policy was introduced. Munnin can now detect those members too. - The program update messages were always in German, even if the customer was running the English version. - Searching for completed items by seller did not work, if Munnin was not logged into eBay Germany. - The price filter did not work correctly on the English-language eBay platforms if the min/max price contained decimal digits. - The bargain search on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk did not return items cheaper than 1,00 USD/GBP. V2.2.001 (Raven) ----------------------- 20061230 * If the eBay search returns invalid pages, Munnin will now try to reload the page five times instead of three times. * If the listing window is maximised and a single item is selected and only the details should be reloaded (Shift-Enter), then Munnin will no longer maximise the preview window. - When searching in a category without using the advanced search parameters and specifying no search words, Munnin only retrieved the first result page. - Shop items that were started during daylight saving time and still running were incorrectly detected as having been sold. - The endtime is now updated correctly when a single quantity fixed price item is sold. - Pressing the new button when searching worldwide did remove the worldwide filter row. - When the category was changed the min/max input fields for bids were enabled even if the Bid filter was disabled. V2.2.000 (Raven) ----------------------- 20061213 + Munnin can now manage all search favorites in search folders. Unlike watching items, every search favorite can only be added to exactly one search folder. The following system folders are fixed: Not assigned: Show all search favorites that have not been assigned to a custom search folder. All : Show all search favorites. Members: Show only those that are searching for items from specific members. Categories: Show only those that are searching in categories. eBay : Show search favorites for the specific platform. Wastebasket: Can only contain deleted search folders. + Munnin supports now fully the "Best Offer" feature for BIN and shop items. Listing window: Two columns have been added: "Best Offers" shows the no. of offers made and "Accepted offer" will show the price if an item was sold because the seller accepted an offer. In this case the "Bids" column will show the text "BO". Details window: The text "Make Offer" will be shown in the "No. of bids" field when this feature is available. If an item was sold because the seller accepted an offer, the "No. of bids" field will contain the text "Offer Accepted" and the "Current bid" field will contain the accepted offer. + The item description preview was greatly enhanced and is now much faster (Munnin uses now the HTMLayout control from Terra Informatica). + New command in the "Item" main menu: "Search description [Ctrl-F]" opens a search bar below the item description. This search bar works like the one in Firefox and lets you search words in the description. + New functions: "Find similar items" (available from the listing and description context menu). When executed this command will open a dialog where search parameters based on the currently selected item are presented. Based on these parameters a new search query can be started. + Munnin can now retrieve only the item details without storing the item description and images in the database. Press Shift-Enter in the listing window or hold the Shift key when pressing the reload button in the details window to retrieve only the item details. This command is also available from the item listing context menu: "Retrieve only item details". + New Option when automatic archiving is activated for a search favorite: "Only add newly listed items". When this option is activated, Munnin will only add items to the watch folder when they are found the very first time. + New startup option for the background scanning startup mode of a search favorite: "Only trigger background scanning manually". When activated, Munnin will not trigger the background scanning for this search favorite. The background scanning feature can only be triggered from the search listing menu. + The background scanning notification emails can now be sent HTML formatted including gallery images for every item. This behaviour can be changed in the "Connection" tab of the program options. + The new info button right of the category history will show a property dialog for the active location. The property dialogs are also accessible via the context menu of the tree window and the "Member properties" dialog can also be activated from the item details Seller/Buyer button's context menus. + The new dialog "Member properties" displays information about a member: Handle, Seller type (Business or Private), Registration information, Feedback status, Powerseller status, ID verified or not and the store name if available. + The new dialog "Category properties" displays information about a category: The category name and eBay handle as well as the internal category ID. In addition it will show the no. of items stored in the database. + The new dialog "Watch folder properties" displays information about a watch folder: The folder name and the internal account and folder ID. In addition it will show the no. of items stored in the database. + The "New" button in the online search parameters can now be used to reset all search parameters. + A new advanced search option allows to search for items where the seller offers free shipping. + The new eBay search order "Best Match" is now supported. + The auction type in the advanced search parameters allows now to search specifically for Adverts, Best Offers and Now And New items. + Added a new bargain mode: "Featured". This will retrieve only featured items from the selected category (if the root category is selected, this will retrieve all homepage featured items). + New column in the item listing "Counter": This will show the counter value from the item details page. + New column in search favorites listing window: "Search folder". This columns will show the custom search folder where a search favorite was stored. + New column in search favorites listing window: "Free shipping only". Indicates if this search uses this filter. + Added a context menu to the item description: Copy: Copy selected text to clipboard. Find: Open search bar below item description. Find similar items: Search for items similar to the one currently displayed. Watch item: Toggle watch state. Retrieve item description: Reload item details. QuickSync: Quickly synchronize item data with eBay. Show more details: Show more item details. Open in Browser: Open this item in external browser. Load all item images: Load all images (even if they are currently not displayed). + Automatic data synchronisation was greatly improved: Detecting the item sales status is now much faster. + Munnin will now show a warning dialog before the licence file expires. After a licence file has expired the help menu command "Buy program upgrade" will become "Renew subscription". * The Buyer field will now contain the text "Safeguarded", if the bidder identity is not revealed by eBay. * When switching to the "Favorites" tab, Munnin will now show the search folder "All" by default. * The listing format is now shown with an icon in the listing window (before a text was displayed). * Munnin will now automatically try to reload pages from eBay if they do not contain valid data. * The seller/buyer handle will be coloured red, if that member is no longer registered. * The seller handle will be coloured orange if his location and the platform where the item was listed do not match. This makes it easier to spot sellers from Hong Kong and China. * Dutch auctions with BIN option are now properly detected. * If automatic data synchronisation is enabled, watched items displayed in the listing window are now synced at least once after Munnin was started. * The menu command "Favorites > Background scan mode" will now show an error if background scanning is prevented. * The automatic data synchronisation settings have been redesigned. There are no longer separate settings for running and completed items. * The end time will now be coloured green after an item has ended and all necessary information ware present to detect whether the item was sold successfully. The old behaviour was to colour the end time green if the item details have been retrieved after an item has ended. * The item condition icon will be updated as soon as the item details are retrieved. * The feature to automatically archive search results is now exclusively available for Munnin-Business customers. * If background scanning results are manually removed then the search favorite is removed from the history. * If the listing window is maximised and an item is double clicked, Munnin will now hide the listing window and maximise the details window. * If the display resolution is 1024 pixel wide, the bargain modes will only be displayed with images. Wider display settings will also show a text on the button. * Automatic data synchronisation will only be executed after the local time was synchronised with the official eBay time. * When connected to a Postgres database, Munnin will now execute an ANALYSE command when connecting to the database. * When the shift key is hold while a database compression is started (button "Compress database ..."), Munnin will now rebuild all indexes (only Postgres). * Munnin will now verify during startup whether it was correctly installed and has all required read/write permissions for the file system. * Filling item list was improved when a watch folder is displayed. * The check for valid member handles was improved. - The advanced search parameter filters were sometimes not correctly enabled/disabled if the category was changed. V2.0.013 (Raven) ----------------------- 20061125 @ Detect saveguarded highest bidder correctly for auctions exceeding 200$. V2.0.012 (Raven) ----------------------- 20061122 @ Only ebay.com: Retrieving the item details was not possible during the last 15 minutes before an item ended. @ When the seller offered a free shipping service, the costs were not detected correctly. @ In rare circumstances the return policy was not detected correctly. V2.0.011 (Raven) ----------------------- 20061011 - The highest bidder was not detected, if his feedback was 0. @ The commands Find/Goto member were broken. @ The shipping costs were no longer detected correctly. V2.0.010 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060901 @ The shipping costs and destinations were not detected correctly for items listed at ebay.com. V2.0.009 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060802 + Munnin now displays a warning if the item description for a shop item cannot be retrieved, because the seller is on holiday. + Munnin will now detect (none Real Estate) classified adverts correctly. * The startup splash screen will now show texts instead of dots (before the resources are loaded). * Invalid "html" tags in the description are now removed. - The shipping costs were no longer shown in the item details if the description was not yet retrieved, but a QuickSync was performed. @ Due to changes at eBay QuickSync was broken. @ The sellers return policy was sometimes not extracted. V2.0.008 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060708 * The item history dropdown is now always wide enough to hold all data. * It is now possible to specify distances of 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 miles/kilometer when doing a proximity search. * QuickSync: Munnin will now detect when a fixed price item (with quantity one) was ended early because the item was sold. @ Searching for running items by seller was broken. V2.0.007 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060525 * If an item is opened directly (F2) the details window will now be made visible if necessary. - Background scanning queries are now repeated correctly (before they were reexecuted with a 15 second offset). @ For some items the description was no longer retrieved. V2.0.006 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060516 + Munnin will now show a different image in the item listing after the reserve price was met. + Added a new system watch folder "Recently finished": this folder will display all items that have ended after Munnin was run the last time. + The customer can now define the external browser Munnin uses. This must be done manually by creating a text file "~/data/settings/browser.txt" in the Munnin program folder. Write the complete path to your browser into the first line of this file. @ Retrieving the item details was not possible during the last 15 minutes before an item ended. @ eBay no longer allows to search by "excluding words only" in categories of level 1 or 2 (until this change was introduced it worked at least for level 2 categories) @ The Setting "Remove store items from normal search queries" in the "Default Values" preferences did no longer work for ebay.com (shop items were always removed). V2.0.005 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060329 + When searching completed items, Munnin will now detect if the reserve price was not met. - Munnin did freeeze for a minute if a dialog was shown during a drag operation (scrollbar scrolling, drag&drop, etc.). - If multiple search favorites are started simultaneously they are now drawn bold as soon as they are started. - The counter image was not reloaded with the item description. @ The sellers country was not always detected correctly during QuickSync. @ Today eBay started to show the new page layout for item descriptions. V2.0.004 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060310 * The installed licence will now be shown in the window title. * Munnin uses now the correct system font (Tahoma on Win2k/XP; MS Sans Serif on Win9x). - Searching completed items in subcategories without search words did not work. - Shop names were not correctly extracted if they contained spaces. @ The item description was no longer retrieved correctly for items listed at ebay.com. V2.0.003 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060228 + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Background scan: items found". Will display the no. of items that have been found by the background search. * The "Yin-Yang" search option can only be used if search words have been specified. * The "No. of bids" filter cannot be used when searching for shop items. @ Searching eBay subcategories did not work correctly if no search words were specified. In that case Munnin returned all items listed in the category, even if additional filters were applied (bids, price, etc.). V2.0.002 (Raven) ----------------------- 20060218 + New option in the "Default Values" program preferences: "Remove store items from normal search queries". Since February 2006 eBay returns additional store items when searching for items. If you want to see the original behaviour again (i.e. only see store items when specifically searching for them), you should enable the store item removal. + An image is now displayed in the item history indicating the item condition. + The seller/buyer buttons in the item details display now an icon indicating whether it is a private or business account. + Right clicking on the seller/buyer button in the item details will now show a context menu to show member related pages in the browser. + The background scanning alarm dialog will now show the items in the order they were listed on eBay (newly listed items come first). + New option the "Background Scan" program preferences: the customer can now configure Munnin to automatically remove old results as soon as new items have been found. + Munnin will now display the customer's comment below the item title in the "Item ending soon" dialog. + It is now possible to specify a minimum BIN price when filtering background scanning results. + Munnin will now show a warning, if background scanning is not possible due to the database settings (i.e. if all items are deleted at program exit). + Extended the item web menu: "Report this item to eBay" + New column in the item listing "Row number": This will contain consecutive row numbers. These numbers always start at 1 and should make it easier to identify specific rows. + Munnin now supports the free shipping of digital items (digital delivery). * Munnin will now mark every tenth row in the listing window. - The height of submenus was too small. - Munnin coloured the "Seller Type" column instead of the "Seller Location" column. - The alert window notification for background scanning results could not be removed. Munnin did reenable it automatically when the search properties dialog was closed. @ Munnin did no longer detect when a seller ended an item early. @ The counters were no longer extracted correctly. @ If more than 999 result pages were returned by eBay, Munnin did no longer detect the total no. of pages correctly. V2.0.001 (Raven) ----------------------- 20051222 * The "Background Scan Alert" dialog was enhanced: It is now possible to go back to the previous item and the listing time is now displayed. The item title should now always be completely visible. * If the BIN filter is enabled for background scanning, Munnin will only display the BIN items found in the listing window. Until now all new items were displayed. * Columns Category and Category Path are now sorted alphabetically - but only within the current page. * Selecting all items in the listing window using the Ctrl-A accelerator will now automatically set the focus to the listing window. * Munnin will now show a warning, if an online query is started, but no internet connection has been established before. * When switching to the search favorites the first time after Munnin was started, it will now always show all stored search favorites (worldwide). * If none of the selected items is currently watched, Munnin will no longer display a question dialog. This only applies when the customer tries to delete items using the "Delete" key. - Munnin did not always delete old items at program exit when a JET database was used. @ The shipping costs were not always extracted completely. V2.0.000 (Raven) ----------------------- 20051211 + Munnin-Business now supports the PostgreSQL database: Minimum requirement is PostgreSQL 8.1 and psqlODBC 08.01.0102 + Added support for all eBay platform currencies when searching worldwide. These additional currencies are not available when searching on eBay directly. + Toggle buttons in the online search parameters will white backgrounds if they are selected. + Next to the query history has been added a button displaying the "Search history". This allows an easy navigation between search queries executed in the current session (without having to switch to the search "Favorites" tab). + New option the "General" program preferences: "Minimise to system tray". If activated, Munnin will disappear from the task bar when it gets minimised and a symbol will appear in the system tray. + Munnin now detects and displays the shipping costs when the item listing page is retrieved. + The seller type (Private or Business) is now stored in the database for every item and member. + It is now possible to search by seller type using the advanced search parameters. + New column in item listing window: "Seller Type". This columns shows a symbol indicating a private or business seller. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Seller Type". Will show whether the search was conducted for a special seller type. + New column in item listing window: "Border". This columns shows a symbol, if the seller promoted his item by a border on the listing page. + Munnin now shows all subcategories where items were found. This can be toggled in the dialog. + New "Yin-Yang" search option in the advanced search parameters. If activated, Munnin will search on all eBay except the currently active category. Useful to find items listed in the wrong category. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Exclude category". Indicates whether the new "Yin-Yang" search option was used for a search favorite. + Munnin now supports gallery images in the listing window. The "View" menu controls how gallery images are displayed (toggle on/off and set the image size). + Munnin displays now a gallery image below the item details (left of the item description). + New command in the context menu for images in the item preview: "Reload image". This will download the image again from the internet. + New command in the context menu for images in the item preview: "Save image ...". It allows saving the image to disk. + New command in the context menu for images in the item preview: "Show this image as gallery image". This allows any image in the description to be used as gallery image. + New command in the context menu for images in the item preview: "Restore original gallery image". Restores the original eBay gallery image. + When the item description is retrieved, Munnin will automatically assign a gallery image. This option is enabled by default, if the seller uses the eBay image service. However, it is possible to alter this behaviour in the program settings so that Munnin will show a gallery image for items containing an image but not using the eBay image service. + Added new tab "Images" in preferences dialog: This allows to specify the program settings for images in the item description and for gallery images. + Keyboard accelerators for gallery images: Show/hide gallery images Ctrl-NumPad * (or F8) Increase image size Ctrl-NumPad / Decrease image size Ctrl-NumPad - Directly set image size Ctrl-NumPad 1..5 + A toolbar was added for gallery images. + Munnin now saves the state of all toolbars. + Munnin's new "Bargains" search make finding good bargains easier than ever. This bargain search can be performed in any category. Even in the main categories which is not possible on eBay! Mode "Bargains": All items with no bids ending within 3 hours and costing at most 1 EUR. Mode "Last Minute": All items ending within one hour and at most one bid. Mode "Proximity": Returns all items nearby. Mode "Hot items": All items with more than 25 bids. Mode "All items": Will return all items listed in a category or by a seller. Mode "Customised": Allows searching using the advanced parameters: Remaining time, Maximum no. of bids, Maximum price and Proximity search. + The new tab "Background Scan" will display all items found during the last background scan. The navigation history allows you to select the desired search favorite. + Added new tab "Background Scan" in preferences dialog: Background scanning can be enabled/disabled globally here and it allows to specify exactly the permitted notification methods. + Allow email notification for new items found during a background scan. The no. of notification emails sent by a licenced version has a daily limit. + The "Connection" tab in the program preferences was enhanced to check the email settings and display the remaining daily contingent. + Added a new main menu "Favorites" to execute often used commands without using the context menu. Start search favorites => Start all selected search favorites Start search favorites (all pages) => Start all selected search favorites and retrieve all pages Background scanning: Rerun selected => Triggers a new background scan for all selected search favorites with enabled "Backgroud scanning" option. Background scanning: Rerun all => Triggers a new background scan for all search favorites with enabled "Backgroud scanning" option. Background scan mode => Shows the current mode and displays the program preferences for background scanning. Properties ... => Shows the properties for the selected search favorite. + The new AutRun option allows you to automatically run search favorites when Munnin is started. + New command in the search favorites listing context menu: "Toggle AutoRun". This enables/disables the AutoRun option for all selected search favorites. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "AutoRun". Indicates whether AutoRun is enabled for a search favorite. + Background scanning: This new function allows searching for newly listed items. It allows easy monitoring of categopries or sellers when used in conjunction with the new automatic archiving functionality. In addition, the customer can be notified (via a dialog of by email) if new items have been found. Notifications can be enabled individually and might be based on the Buy-It-Now price. + New command in the search favorites listing context menu: "Toggle background scanning". This enables/disables background scanning for all selected search favorites. + New command in the search favorites listing context menu: "Background scanning> rerun selected". Triggers a new background scan for all selected search favorites with enabled "Backgroud scanning" option. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "background scanning". Indicates whether background scanning is enabled for a search favorite. The symbol changes if a background scan is currently active. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Last background scan". Displays when the background scan was executed the last time for a particular search favorite. + Munnin can now play all sorts of sound formats (WAV, MP3, AVI, etc.), which are supported by the installed Mediaplayer. + Automatic archiving allows to assign an individual watch folder to every search favorite. All items returned by a search will automatically added to the specified watch folder. The watch folder is assigned/altered using drag&drop: Simple drag the search favorite from the listing window onto the desired watch folder. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Automatic archiving". Indicates whether automatic archiving is enabled for a search favorite. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Archive folder". Displays the watch folder used for automatic archiving. + New command in the search favorites listing context menu: "Toggle automatic archiving". This enables/disables automatic archiving for all selected search favorites. + New command in the search favorites listing context menu: "Properties ...". Will display the search favorite properties dialog. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Type". Indicates whether this search favorite is searching items in a category or from a seller. + Munnin now displays the feedback percentage for buyers, if this information is available. + Munnin supports now searching for items from specific sellers. Important: when searching for items by seller, Munnin will also display shop items, if the auction type "All" was selected in the advanced search parameters. + It is now possible to search by condition (new/used) using the advanced search parameters. + Munnin now supports the auction type "Store Inventory" in the advanced search parameters. When a shop item is displayed in the item preview, the bidder field will display the text "Fixed price (eBay store)". + Munnin now supports the sort order "Time: newly listed" in the advanced search parameters. + The navigation history is restored between program starts. This can be altered in the "General" tab of the program preferences. Currently the last 100 entries are restored. + Watch folders can now be moved within the tree hierarchy by pressing the ALT key during the drag operation. Before, watch folders could only be dropped into other folders. + If required, the watch folder tree now scrolls vertically during a drag&drop operation, if the upper/lower border is reached. + The "Seller" and "Buyer" fields in the item details are now pushbuttons. After pressing one of these buttons, Munnin will start an online search for items listed by that member. Note: Hold down the shift key when pressing the button to view all items of that member stored in the local database. + New command in the "Member" main menu: "Goto ...". This will open a dialog where the handle for an eBay member can be specified. + New command in the "Member" main menu: "Find ...". This allows searching for members, if the exact name is unknown. + New command in the "Item" main menu: "Load all images". This will load all images for the item displayed in the preview window, even those which are currently not visible. + The shipping costs calculator now displays the eBay platform where the item was listed. And additionally, the country where the seller has registered. These fields will be coloured, if they are different from the item location specified by the seller. + Entries in the column "Item location" will now be coloured if the location specified by the seller does not coincidence with the eBay platform were the item was listed or the country the seller registered at. + Munnin now supports searching for wildcards within words. Example: "game*boy" will find all words beginning with "game" and ending on "boy". "game*?boy" (Question mark after the wildcard) will even find phrases if they are not written in one word. + Shop information will now saved for every seller. + New column in item listing window: "Reserve Price". Indicates whether the reserve price was met or not. Sorting by this column is possible! + New column in item listing window: "Listing Format". If available, the listing format of this item will be displayed: Chinese auction/Dutch auction/Fixed price/Store Item/Advert. + New columns in item listing window: "Category" and "Category path". They can be used to display the category (or the full category path) where an item was listed. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Item condition". Will show whether the search was using the item condition. + The payment method "Loan check" is now supported (only eBay Motors USA). + When clicking on a hyperlink in the item description that links to another item or to other items offered by the same seller, Munnin will not open these pages in an external browser, but will load the data directly from eBay and display them. + The popup menu "Open in browser" in the item navigation bar contains now a new entry for the seller and buyer submenu: "Visit eBay-store". They will be enabled, if the member runs an eBay store. * Munnin now directly opens the webpage to view all questions for an item. * The available program licences were changed. Munnin-Impression is no longer available for sale. Munnin-Private was removed completely and replaced by Munnin-Advanced and Munnin-Professional. * The licensing scheme was changed to a yearly subscription. All updates are included during the subscription. * Starting multiple instances of Munnin on one computer is no longer possible for Munnin-Light and Munnin-Impression. * Image downloads will now only start after the version information from the server was checked. * Double clicking on a category in the dialog "List of categories where items were found" will now open that category in the tree window. * When searching for completed items, Munnin detects now when the seller featured the item by a border or a background colour. * The "Item condition" column is displaying an image instead of text. * The dialog "Items ending soon" was completely rewritten: The remining time is now updated. If multiple items are ending soon, the desired action can be applied to all items. If requested, the dialog will be closed automatically, after the item has ended. This can be controled in the "Warnings" tab in the program preferences. * The "Image" column will now be automatically inserted, if gallery images are enabled. * The buttons above the tree window are now arranged vertically. This leaves more room for the listing window on displays with 1024x768 resolution. * Hitting the Enter key in the page status dialog will now start downloading the requested pages (before the dialog was closed). * The item title is now saved encrypted into the database. Only Munnin-Business allows decrypting the item title and thus full access to the database. * The currently active query will now get interrupted automatically after one minute, if it does no longer respond. * An image will be reloaded automatically, if the download does progress within 30 seconds. * Canceling online queries should be much more responsive. * The page status dialog was rewritten: The two columns were switched and the button "Start download" can be used to trigger the page download. Before, the dialog had to be closed to start any download. * The program tabs were renamed: Category offline => Database Category online => Bargains Search online => Powersearch My search => Favorites * Munnin will now sznchroniye the system time as soon as an connection is established. * A general "Sound file settings" dialog was added to select sound files. * The command "Rename" was removed from the search favorites listing context menu. It has been replaced by the "Properties ..." command. * Munnin removes all items from the "Mature" category on ebay.com when browsing/searching for items by seller. * Before starting a search favorite for completed items, Munnin checks whether the customer is logged in. * In case the customer settings were not saved correcly during the last program exit, Munnin will try to restore the previous valid settings. * Munnin now remembers the horizontal scroll position when switching between dirrerent listing types (items, search favorites, etc.). * The text "Ended" will now be coloured brown, if the item was QuickSynced after it has ended. This applies to both: item details and listing window. * The "Goto item" dialog will now remember all item handles previaously entered and in addtion the item title will be displayed. * Munnin now always detects, if an item was ended early by Buy-It-Now. In that case the item details will no longer show the current bid. * The "Bids" column in the listing window will now display the text "BIN", if an item was ended early by Buy-It-Now. * The background colour of the current bid is coloured orange, if the reserve price was not yet met. * Fixed price items are now detected directly when searching for completed items. * Items with a (not yet met) reserve price and a Buy-It-Now price are now detected when the listing page is retrieved. * Munnin will now diaply a warning that browsing searching the "ebay.com > Everything Else > Mature Audiences" category is not possible. * If the item description was not retrieved before, Munnin will now display a hyperlink in the preview window. Clicking this link will retrieve the description. * The program settings are no longer saved in file C:\Program files\Munnin\data\settings\accountData\standard.xml. The new location for Munnin 2.0 is C:\Program files\Munnin\data\settings\standard\settings.xml. * The sugested name for a search favorite will now take all used search words into account. * Munnin will now stop trying to AutoSync item data after QuickSync failed 5 times. - Column widths are now calculated correctly, if the column contains only images. This equaly applies when double clicking the column header divider or when pressing the "Ctrl-NumPad +" key combination. - The grid lines in the listing windows were not always drawn correctly under Windows XP. - Images contained in the item description were sometimes not displayed (or saved to the database) after they were downloaded. - Munnin will only stay logged-in at eBay for 24 hours, even if "Keep Munnin signed in between program starts" was enabled in the login dialog. The reason is that the login data eBay provides automatically expires after 24 hours. - If no custom watch folder was created before dragging an item onto the "Watch" button above the tree window, Munnin would no longer respond. - Shipping costs were not saved correctly to the database for items listed at one of the following eBay platforms: NL, FR, ES, BE, IN. V1.10.013 (Bird) ----------------------- 20051208 @ Searching was broken for eBay Germany. V1.10.012 (Bird) ----------------------- 20051118 + The newly added sort orders when searching online for items are now supported for eBay Autralia, Switzerland and Austria. - The item preview pane vanished sometimes completely, if the tree pane was resized. @ The sellers return policy was not always extracted correctly. V1.10.011 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050929 @ The shipping costs were sometimes not correctly detected, if the seller had specified different costs for multiple countries. @ Searching/browsing was broken. V1.10.010 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050907 + Added support for new shipping destination "European Union". + Selecting a watch folder will now automatically show the listing window, if it was hidden. * Fixed the new "feature" eBay Germany had introduced: Munnin will return only items listed at ebay.de. Normally, eBay Germany now returns all items where the item location is Germany, even if the seller does not ship to Germany. @ Extracting the item specifics did no longer work. @ Only ebaymotors USA: Searching/browsing was broken. @ Only ebaymotors USA: The item title will not be altered if the description is retrieved. V1.10.009 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050730 * In some rare cases Quicksync did not work. @ ebay.com: Searching was broken due to changes at eBay. V1.10.008 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050717 @ ebay.com: The item descriptions could no longer retrieved due to changes at eBay. V1.10.007 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050620 * Suggested search favorite name will now contain all search words. If no search words have been specified, the category name will be used. - Munnin could hang (or even cause a blue screen), if the item description contained a very tiny image that was tiled over a large area. @ QuickSync (and consequently AutoSync) were broken. @ ebay.com: Shipping destination was renamed "Americas" -> "N. and S. America" @ ebay.com: Parsing item details occassionally failed, if the seller had an ebay store. @ ebay.co.uk: Shipping insurance type (and costs) were no longer extracted. V1.10.006 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050520 + Munnin now supports the new currency SEK (Swedish Krona) from items listed at eBay Sweden. * When browsing eBay Austria, Swizerland, Canada, Australia or Great Britain, Munnin will now return only items listed at these sites. The default behaviour when browsing a platform category is to return all items listed in that platform AND all items available to the platform's country. * When a search faforite was rexecuted, the "No. of items found" value was not updated. * Extracting item specifics on ebaymotors and in category "Real Estate" was improved. * QuickSync will now handle item titles correctly if they contain invalid characters (like CRLF). * QuickSync will now detect seller handles correctly, if the user handle contains parenthesis. * Faulty images are now detected and only decoded once. - Login was not possible if the password contained characters like "&", etc. - The splashscreen was not refreshed if a dialog was displayed while it was visible. - Preview images for carad listings (only ebaymotors) where not always loaded successfully. @ Browsing/Searching eBay.com was no longer possible, because the listing layout was completely changed. eBay now uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). V1.10.005 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050428 + Munnin now supports the new currencies PLN (Polish Zloty) and INR (Indian Rupee) from items listed at eBay Poland/India. * When switching from "My Search" tab to another tab, the category "Worldwide" will no longer be transfered to the new tab. * Added autoscroll to tree view during drag&drop. - The default ZIP/City code in the search parameters was no longer valid after a search favorite was executed. @ Loading item details/description on German-language platforms was broken. @ Loading item details/description was broken (only eBay Motors) @ Real Estate Adverts: Loading item details sometimes failed (only items listed on ebay.com). @ The shipping destinations were no longer extracted for items retrieved from ebay.com. V1.10.004 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050321 + Munnin now supports searching for typos if the search word is prefixed by a tilde character "~". Example: Searching for "~Munnin" will find all items containing the word "Munnin" and all possible typos "Munin", "Muninn", etc. Is the search word is prefixed by two tildes "~~" then the no. of wrong spelled words is increased. - Searching completed items was not possible (only Windows XP). V1.10.003 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050316 + New menu entry "View all questions" to see all questions a seller was asked for an item. Use the "Open in browser" popup menu in the item navigation bar. + Munnin will now already know the item location when the items are returned from a listing page, i.e. before the item details have been retrieved. * Munnin could not connect to eBay, if the Internet Explorer was configured to "Work Offline". * Munnin assumed, that the seller always ships to the country were he is located, but that is not necessarily the case! * When searching for completed items, the only supported sort orders are (remaining time, price and distance). * The image previews at the bottom of the description support now the new gallery image sizes. - AutoSync is no longer performed for items deleted by eBay or ended early by seller. @ The no. of bids and the current bid was no longer extracted correctly, when searching/browsing items. @ Munnin did not always recognize items deleted by eBay. V1.10.002 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050302 - On some systems version 1.10.001 crashed at startup. @ eBay Canada now also shows items listed at ebay Great Britain and eBay Australia. @ Due to changes at eBay Germany, the item descriptions could no longer retrieved from that platform. V1.10.001 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050301 + Customer can now configure whether the warning sound is played once or repeatedly (the default) while the warning dialog is shown. * Selecting "All" from the page number drop down (online search) will now limit the no. of items to 10000. * The text "Beendet" (remaining time) was not translated into English. * Munnin-Light: Improved the advert window: it now shows several windows with the advantages of a licenced version. - Logging into eBay was not possible, if the password contained German Umlaute. - AutoSync tried to reload the item, even if it was no longer available at eBay (ended 90 days ago). - In rare occasions items were incorrectly marked as deleted. - Images in first column were no longer drawn correctly after altering the listing column order (inserting a column before the first column). - Munnin did not stay logged in between program starts, even if the option was activated. @ Munnin no longer extracted the categories where items have been found in an online search. @ Munnin did not always detect when a seller ended an item early. V1.10.000 (Bird) ----------------------- 20050203 + Munnin can now search for completed items on all ebay platforms. This requires logging in and is only available for Munnin-Private and Munnin-Business customers. + QuickSync: This new feature will retrieve the most recent item information from eBay _very_ fast! To QuickSync the item currently displayed: Use the button next to the item status or press Ctrl-F5. To QuickSync all items selected in the listing window, select "QuickSync" in the context menu or press Ctrl-Enter. + AutoSync: This new feature will keep the information displayed in Munnin in sync with the real data from eBay. Can be individually configured in the "AutoSync" tab (Options dialog). + There is a new option in the advanced search parameters: Limit search by no. of bids. + Munnin now supports searching by ZIP or City code on all 7 eBay platforms in the advanced search parameters. This replaces the old regional search. + Customer can now login/logout from individual ebay platforms through the "Auction Sites" tab (Options dialog). + The item progress (details navigation) will now display how old the retrieved item data is. + New column in item listing window: "Last time synchronised". This columns shows when the item was last time retrieved from eBay, i.e. how old the displayed information really is. + New Option in the database settings: "Delete unreferenced eBay users"; This will remove all users from the database that are no longer required. + Customer may now specify his location (By ZIP code or by city) in the "Default Values" tab (Options dialog). + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "Completed"; Search completed/running items. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "ZIP"; Shows the ZIP code for regional search favorites. + New column in listing window when displaying search favorites: "City"; Shows the city for regional search favorites. + Using the technology from http://www.toolhaus.org, Munnin can open web pages to display only negative feedbacks from sellers or do a mutual feedback check between seller and highest bidder. Use the "Open in browser" popup menu in the item navigation bar. + Munnin will now save regular backups of the user data (watch folders, search favorites, etc.). + Munnin will now warn the customer if the database size gets too big. Additionally, the customer is asked to compress the database at least every 6 months. * The context menu for the search listing columns was restructured in submenus. * New supported sort orders, when retrieving items from ebay: "Payment: PayPal first/last"; "Distance: nearest first" * Pressing Ctrl-Enter in the listing window no longer opens the selected item in an external browser. Instead, Munnin now does a QuickSync for all selected items. - The no. of item attributes was restricted to 20 attributes. @ Munnin did no longer recognize items deleted by eBay. @ Browsing/Searching on ebay failed occasionally, if very few items were returned. @ Only ebay.com: Parsing items failed occasionally. @ Only ebay.com: The return policy was not extracted. @ Only ebay.com: Shipping destination was not extracted. @ Only ebaymotors.com: Browsing was broken. V1.8.003 (Birdie) ---------------------- 20041223 + The "Item ending soon" dialog now contains a button to bid on the item. - "Open in Browser" was broken. V1.8.002 (Birdie) ---------------------- 20041220 * If the item is older than one year, the time columns no longer contain the time, instead the year is printed. * The button "Shipping costs calculator" next to the min/max shipping costs is no longer drawn flat. @ Browsing and searching on ebay.com was broken. V1.8.001 (Birdie) ---------------------- 20041123 - The Andale counter was not updated, if the item description was already in the database and the item was reloaded. - In some occasions Munnin did not show the images in an item description, if they were downloaded some time after the description was initially displayed. - When the item details were retrieved the first time from eBay, Munnin sometimes said that the seller is not shipping to the customer's country even if the seller had specified shipping services for that country. After restarting Munnin the correct shipping costs were shown. V1.8.000 (Birdie) ---------------------- 20041117 + The new button "Shipping costs calculator" next to the min/max shipping costs will open the item details dialog and display the shipping calculator. + The item details dialog was completely rewritten and contains now 3 tabs: General, Payment, Shipping Costs. + Munnin's Shipping Calculator will show the total costs for an item based on the selected shipping service and the no. of items purchased. + Munnin now fully supports the eBay shipping services. The data is shown in the "Shipping costs" tab of the item details dialog. The item details now show the min/max shipping costs. + Munnin now supports the "Now & New" condition that was introduced by eBay. An additional listing column was added: "Now and New". + Munnin now supports the "Seller's Return Policy" that was introduced by eBay. The data is shown in the "Payment" tab of the item details dialog and an additional listing column was added: "Return Policy". + Munnin now retrieves and stores item subtitles. The data is shown in the "General" tab of the item details dialog and an additional listing column was added: "Subtitle". + Munnin now stores the initial number of items available. An additional listing column was added: "Initial quantity". + Munnin now supports item lots. An additional listing column was added: "Items per Lot". + Munnin now supports item condition. The data is shown in the "General" tab of the item details dialog and an additional listing column was added: "Condition". + Munnin now supports Paypal payments. An additional listing column was added: "Paypal". + Munnin now supports searching by ZIP code on ebay.com (advanced parameter). + Added new tab "Default Values" in preferences dialog: Munnin will use these standard values for online search queries. + New option in the "General" preferences: "Customer location" (also shown in startup wizard dialog). The correct location must be specified, so that Munnin can calculate the shipping costs for that country. + New option in the "Internet" preferences: "Check for new program version at startup". If activated, Munnin will check for program updates as soon as it is started _and_ an internet connection has been established. + New option in the "Internet" preferences: "Automatically download all images with item description". If activated, Munnin will start downloading all images for an item as soon as the description is available. Otherwise the images will be loaded the first time the description is displayed. + New entry in "File" main menu: "Check version ..." allows to manually check for new program versions. + New entry in "Item" main menu: "Open in Browser ..." will open the selected item in browser. Accelerator: Ctrl-B + New entries in "Item" main menu: "More details ..." will open the appropriate tab in the item details dialog. + New entry in "View" main menu: "Listing Columns" will display the listing column context menu to show/hide individual columns. + New entry in "View" main menu: "Item details" will show/hide the item details to get more space for the item description. + Added a new menu entry to the seller/buyer menu (open in browser): "Contact member". + Mapped functions to the middle mouse button: : Load item details, : Show item details, : Open in browser + Pressing "Ctrl-Enter" will open the item in browser, if the item listing has the focus. * The item listing column widths are now set to reasonable values (when Munnin is started the very first time). * When Munnin is started the first time, the columns for item condition and minimum shipping costs are visible by default. The listing flag columns have been removed. * If a new program version _and_ new categories are available, then Munnin now downloads the categories before installing the update. * When multiple items are selected, the download status will now be correctly updated (before, the download status was no longer shown after changing the selection). * Starting and executing multiselection downloads was greatly improved and should now be significant faster. * If an item is a Real Estate advert, the shipping costs display "Real Estate". * It is now possible to repeat an online search in several categories by selecting multiple entries in the dialog showing the categories where items were found. * If the seller does not ship to the customers location at all, the shipping costs display "US: No shipping". * The listing columns min/max shipping costs will now be coloured depending on the costs. * The splashscreen will now disappear as soon as the program has started. * The context menu for the listing columns was restructured in submenus. * Images that contain the backslash "\" instead of the slash "/" in there URL are now displayed. * Munnin will now use the standard E-Mail program when a mailto link is activated. * The html preview is now even faster and supports tables with colspan attributes. * The auction type "Dutch Auction" is no longer available in the advanced search parameters. * If the only item attribute present was the condition, then this will no longer be displayed in the description. * The item details can now be hidden (pressing F9 or using the button next to the item navigation). This leaves more space for the item description. * New sort orders available in advanced search parameters: eBay Germany: "Time remaining (used first)", "Time remaining (new first)". eBay USA: "Distance (Nearest first)". Note: sorting by distance is only possible when searching by ZIP code. * Munnin now supports all operators when and searching by quantity (>=, =, <=). @ The shipping costs and item location was no longer detected correctly. - The horizontal scroll position of the listing window was not restored when navigating to another page. - Munnin still displayed the last retrieved rating after a seller changed his profile to private. - Fixed a bug in multiselection download, when up-to-date items were selected. The details for these items were retrieved offline and slowed down the reload process. - Fixed a serious bug, that could lead to low system resources. The result was that the item description was suddenly drawn in the top left corner. - If an invalid image link was encountered, it could happen that not all images of the description were shown. - Munnin now no longer consumes a lot of system resources, when a lot of items details are retrieved - If not all images of the description were loaded yet, then the large image was not displayed in the correct size until all images had been loaded. - The standard buttons (OK, Cancel, etc.) appeared in German, even if Munnin was started in English. V1.6.005 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20041026 @ Browsing and searching on ebay.com was broken. V1.6.004 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20040811 * Munnin now uses the standard windows background colour for the tree view. * All weblinks to the Munnin homepage were hardcoded to the german pages. * All ebay pages that will be opened in a browser will be redirected through a Mediaplex URL. - Images were not loaded correctly, if they were retrieved from a SSL Server. @ Browsing and searching on ebay.com was sometimes broken. V1.6.003 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20040801 * Opening pages on eBay in an external webbrowser did not work correctly on some PC's. @ Browsing categories on ebay DE/AT/CH was broken. V1.6.002 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20040720 + The button "Open in browser" in the item navigation opens a popup menu now. This allows you to open additional pages related to the displayed item (item details and bidding history as well as the seller's/buyer's feedback, other items and the AboutMe page). + The font for the item listing can be changed through the general program preferences. The new standard font is Verdana 9 Punkt (before: Arial 11 Punkt). + New columns in the item listing: Handle and feedback of the seller/buyer (sorting not possible). + The seller comlumn in the item listing is now coloured depending on the seller feedback. + The user comment comlumn in the item listing is now coloured correctly. + On program exit, Munnin now remembers the hidden panes of the GUI. This behaviour can be changed through the general program preferences: "Remember hidden panes". + On program exit, Munnin now remembers whether the categories or the watch folders were visible. + On program exit, Munnin now remembers which categories/watch folders were expanded. * Accelerator to open program preferences: Alt-P * The program preferences dialog now remembers the previously shown page. @ Failed to load the item details and description due to changes at ebay.com. V1.6.001 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20040701 + User may now select the specific end times when brwosing offline. + The seller's item details now also show the percentage of positive ratings he received (alternating with the total rating). @ eBay parsing was no longer working correctly. V1.6.000 (Fledgeling) ------------------ 20040601 + First international release