Cabbage Desktop / Cabbage Mobile mega thread (Desktop/mobile texting app)

actuallylike · 11-08-2011 1:20pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Hmmmm, very odd indeed and slightly worrying. -30 is what you're supposed to get but it looks like you can't connect to my website at all over vodafone mobile internet. I'll look into it. Thanks for trying it out and glad you got it working

Thank again for your help, I realise you must be swamped with requests from the sheer size of the thread. Hope you get it working and I'll be going to the paid version as soon as possible, thanks again.

califano · 12-08-2011 1:18pm

At work i can login to meteor and send texts from the meteor website but desktop cabbage cant connect to the site. Is this a catch the network admin put on or is there an alternative way around it?

test failed errror: (-2) could not connect to the site.

Sam Vimes · 14-08-2011 8:57pm

rounders123 wrote: »

At work i can login to meteor and send texts from the meteor website but desktop cabbage cant connect to the site. Is this a catch the network admin put on or is there an alternative way around it?

test failed errror: (-2) could not connect to the site.

Can you click more->extras->diagnose sending problems, follow the instructions and pm me the results please

Sam Vimes · 14-08-2011 8:58pm

LIGHTNING wrote: »

What would be nice would be an option to clear the last text when you open the mobile program. Its a bit of pain having to go to the options and hit clear text.

Is this the android app or the java one?

Sam Vimes · 15-08-2011 4:21pm

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Sorry the Win 7 phone version.

What is the name of the app you're using? I don't have a win7 phone version but there are a few that use my server as a back end

madmoe · 25-08-2011 12:31pm

Hi Sam,
Moved machine today from XP to Windows 7 here at work and would love all my Cabbage history, phonebook etc. to work exactly as it did on XP. I ran the latest installer on Windows 7 and found a load of files here on the original XP machine (C:\Documents and Settings\mmoran\Application Data\Cabbage). There does not seem to be a corresponding directory on Windows 7 that I can copy all these to though?

Cheers,
M

Sam Vimes · 25-08-2011 2:05pm

madmoe wrote: »

Hi Sam,
Moved machine today from XP to Windows 7 here at work and would love all my Cabbage history, phonebook etc. to work exactly as it did on XP. I ran the latest installer on Windows 7 and found a load of files here on the original XP machine (C:\Documents and Settings\mmoran\Application Data\Cabbage). There does not seem to be a corresponding directory on Windows 7 that I can copy all these to though?

Cheers,
M

Hi, the location on Windows Vista and 7 is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\cabbage

You might have to make hidden folders visible to see it. You can also get to the folder by clicking start->programs->cabbage->cabbage logs

madmoe · 25-08-2011 3:33pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Hi, the location on Windows Vista and 7 is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\cabbage

You might have to make hidden folders visible to see it. You can also get to the folder by clicking start->programs->cabbage->cabbage logs

Happy days Sam! That worked a treat mate :-)

M

madmoe · 31-08-2011 11:05am

madmoe wrote: »

Happy days Sam! That worked a treat mate :-)

M

Hi Sam,
All was working fine until this morning now I keep getting a message saying "Cabbage has stopped working", windows is checking for a solution to the problem each time I click Send? Happening no matter who I try to send to and no matter what the text is? I tried an uninstall and re-install but keeps happening :-( On Windows 7 Professional.....

Cheers,
M

Sam Vimes · 31-08-2011 4:13pm

madmoe wrote: »

Hi Sam,
All was working fine until this morning now I keep getting a message saying "Cabbage has stopped working", windows is checking for a solution to the problem each time I click Send? Happening no matter who I try to send to and no matter what the text is? I tried an uninstall and re-install but keeps happening :-( On Windows 7 Professional.....

Cheers,
M

Can you rename that cabbage folder to something else and install the program again?

And if remaming the folder fixes the problem would you be able to zip it up and email it to cabbagetexting[at]gmail.com

madmoe · 01-09-2011 8:56am

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Can you rename that cabbage folder to something else and install the program again?

And if remaming the folder fixes the problem would you be able to zip it up and email it to cabbagetexting[at]gmail.com

Morning Sam, renaming the folder and then re-installing has indeed fixed the issue. Now though my phonebook and history are empty :-( Which folder do you want me to zip up and send to you? The new Cabbage folder or the old one? I renamed it to Cabbage.old....

Cheers,
M

Sam Vimes · 01-09-2011 9:09am

madmoe wrote: »

Morning Sam, renaming the folder and then re-installing has indeed fixed the issue. Now though my phonebook and history are empty :-( Which folder do you want me to zip up and send to you? The new Cabbage folder or the old one? I renamed it to Cabbage.old....

Cheers,
M

I'd like you to zip up the old one. One of the files has become corrupted and if I can find which one it is I should be able to fix it and send the whole lot back to you so you can get your history etc back

madmoe · 01-09-2011 9:22am

Getting this error message when I try to attach the .zip file in Gmail?? Should I remove .exe files before sending or rename them and then zip??

Error

Cabbage.old.zip contains an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file.

Sam Vimes · 01-09-2011 9:39am

madmoe wrote: »

Getting this error message when I try to attach the .zip file in Gmail?? Should I remove .exe files before sending or rename them and then zip??

Error

Cabbage.old.zip contains an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file.

Yeah sorry you should remove cabbagesender.exe and cabbagesender2.exe and then you should be able to send it

madmoe · 01-09-2011 9:43am

On its way Sam....

Sam Vimes · 01-09-2011 10:18am

madmoe wrote: »

On its way Sam....

Hmmmm, I can't make this crash, It's working fine for me. I'm on vista so maybe it's a windows 7 issue.

I'd like you to try something for me please. What I'd like you to do is put one file at a time from the old directory into the new one (replace the file in the new directory with the old one) and try to send a message each time. You should put them back in this order:

1. logins171.txt
2. vars.txt
3. All files with 'book' in their names
4. history.txt and historycache.txt

If you put one of those files (or group of files) back and the program stops working again let me know which one caused the problem. If you put them all back and the program is still working then happy days because you'll have your logins, phone book and history back

madmoe · 01-09-2011 11:36am

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Hmmmm, I can't make this crash, It's working fine for me. I'm on vista so maybe it's a windows 7 issue.

I'd like you to try something for me please. What I'd like you to do is put one file at a time from the old directory into the new one (replace the file in the new directory with the old one) and try to send a message each time. You should put them back in this order:

1. logins171.txt
2. vars.txt
3. All files with 'book' in their names
4. history.txt and historycache.txt

If you put one of those files (or group of files) back and the program stops working again let me know which one caused the problem. If you put them all back and the program is still working then happy days because you'll have your logins, phone book and history back

Replaced each one as advised Sam and it's sending fine now and all my history plus phonebooks are back :-) Nothing has crashed so far....

M

BostonB · 01-09-2011 11:59am

I sync all my cabbage files between windows 7 (64) and XP on a number of machines, laptops and its not caused a crash in it self. However I do find I get errors when I use the app to edit the phone book. But it works despite the errors.

Sam Vimes · 01-09-2011 12:29pm

madmoe wrote: »

Replaced each one as advised Sam and it's sending fine now and all my history plus phonebooks are back :-) Nothing has crashed so far....

M

Good. Let's hope it stays that way

BostonB wrote: »

I sync all my cabbage files between windows 7 (64) and XP on a number of machines, laptops and its not caused a crash in it self. However I do find I get errors when I use the app to edit the phone book. But it works despite the errors.

You get errors when editing contacts? What kind of errors?

BostonB · 01-09-2011 12:51pm

Well I can't reproduce it now you ask me. Maybe it was an older release. Ignore it for now.

Sam Vimes · 01-09-2011 12:52pm

BostonB wrote: »

Well I can't reproduce it now you ask me. Maybe it was an older release. Ignore it for now.

That's what I like to hear :P

BostonB · 01-09-2011 12:56pm

Other than provider issues Cabbage on the desktop has been rock solid for me for years. Greatly appreciated.

Sam Vimes · 10-09-2011 2:14pm

A note for people using the www.cabbagetexter.com server to send messages from their own apps etc:

My web hosting has limited the length of parameters allowed in HTTP GET requests to 512 for security reasons so if someone sends a message with more than 512 characters the message parameter comes throught to the script blank and the message fails.

I've updated the script to work around the problem though. If someone tries to send a message with more than 512 characters the message can be split up into 512 character chunks and sent as separate parameters. So the first 512 characters should be sent with the parameter m= as normal, then the next 512 should be sent as m1=. The next 512 should be m2= etc.

This code is what I use to do it:

String tempMessage=message;
String splitMessages="m=";
for(int i=1;tempMessage.length()>0;i++){
	if(tempMessage.length()>512){
		splitMessages+=URLencode(tempMessage.substring(0,512)) + "&m" + i + "=";
		tempMessage=tempMessage.substring(512,tempMessage.length());
	}else{
		splitMessages+=URLencode(tempMessage);
		tempMessage="";
	}
}
urlEncodedMessageParameter=splitMessages;

This only matters if requests to the server are being sent as GET requests. If you're sending them as HTTP POST messages can be as long as you want

Dean_Mc · 14-09-2011 8:34pm

Cheers for the update

Craigels · 15-09-2011 12:27am

is there anyway for me to reply by default with this app rather than having to read my message and then having to go out of it and into the app to reply it so annoying having to do it everytime

Craigels · 16-09-2011 3:22pm

any ideas guys ?

Sam Vimes · 16-09-2011 3:26pm

Craigels wrote: »

is there anyway for me to reply by default with this app rather than having to read my message and then having to go out of it and into the app to reply it so annoying having to do it everytime

Assuming you're talking about the Android version, yes there is. Cabbage Ultimate

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbageultimate

It's 99c though

Dean_Mc · 18-09-2011 3:13am

Sam, I emailed you but I wanted to check too, does the new url structure affect the old one if I do &m=<a message less than 512> does it still work?

Sam Vimes · 18-09-2011 3:29am

Dean_Mc wrote: »

Sam, I emailed you but I wanted to check too, does the new url structure affect the old one if I do &m=<a message less than 512> does it still work?

Yeah that still works. I found out about this new restriction because one person emailed me about long messages not working. I haven't released the fix yet because it seems most people don't send messages that are long enough to notice the problem

Craigels · 18-09-2011 9:25pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Craigels wrote: »

is there anyway for me to reply by default with this app rather than having to read my message and then having to go out of it and into the app to reply it so annoying having to do it everytime

Assuming you're talking about the Android version, yes there is. Cabbage Ultimate

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbageultimate

It's 99c though

Thanks it works a charm

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