[Coming Soon] FlashFXP Feature List & Developer Notes

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Hello Mat,

Its nice to see your following our progress.

The design and logic is somewhat similar but I'm really not sure what to say, other than that great minds think alike?

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In all seriousness, I didn't intentionally copy your UI design, the fact that they are somewhat similar is a bit of a mystery to me.

I came up with the listbox with a header and button controls and went from there, this design has replaced most of the old lists, like the ones in the filter dialog and is used in the new schedule, its clean and functionality, though I was informed by a couple blind users that the new design less than ideal for them.

The text styling is based on delphi language coloring syntax I use.

Originally I had buttons that allowed the user to insert IF AND THEN along with the comparison expressions but this ended up being too involved for the user.

EDIT/

I've been wanting to display the file transfer rules as IF THEN statements for ages, such as this thread specifically this post from back in 2004.

I'm not sure why this is being compared to ultrafxp. But I like how rushftp.com redirects to smartftp.com, I thought it was renamed rushftp, not ftprush, but I guess its an obvious mistake. A big win for you guys.

In a sightly unrelated topic, I've got some big news coming next week...

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Mat

I looked at the Dialogues and while you have to admit the logic is somewhat similar because there is not too many ways if at all possible of doing the same the whole design is by far more complete in both options and flexibility with ffxp then what you show from you program.

Its good that you think that smartftp is setting the standards in the ftp market however its not the case with every single option and ui that anyone comes up with otherwise its like the chicken or the egg case here since their both FTP clients then at some stage similarities will occur because the lot of FTP client and server are limited... Claiming someone has stolen your design is while serious clearly unfounded since by extension UI and option on the whole dialogue are clearly not the same.

There is always the scenario you have to look at since FFXP is as much as a ftp client as SmartFTP and its a little off to think just because something is similar than it must be ripped off.

I could sift trough dozens of FTP clients and claim they are all the same fundamentally so who stole who's ideas?

I'm a designer and on field on the internet is more saturated by ideas that originality is almost impossible we use same techniques and inspire ourselves in others work to achieve what we need but we not at each others throats or in court just because we done a shine or reflection or design that has similar elements in it, it would just stop evolution if we all stopped improving.

I a sad day when more grief has to be had for such coincidental and inevitable clashes occur, shame really.

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