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[Sebastian Kostuch <>]

Hi,
recently I have pushed few commits related to flash client:
1. Added possibility to restart test after first completion (FlashIssue113 branch)
2. Active button in result view is now being highlighted (FlashIssue118 branch)
3. Console output is now little more legible (FlashIssue116 branch)

Please feel free to review them. Any comments are welcome and appreciated.

Regards,
Sebastian Kostuch

On 10.02.2014 19:06, Tiziana Refice wrote:

Hi Will,

I will review the patch in the next few days.

Thanks!

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Will Hawkins <> wrote:

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 08:44 EST, Tiziana Refice <> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Aaron Brown <> wrote:
>
> >  Hey Sebastian,
> >
> >  On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Sebastian Kostuch <>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > after comparing flash and java clients I have prepared some initial list
> > of suggestions/improvements which could be done to make the flash one
> > better. Please check them and let me know which one are worth/not worth
> > doing. Also if you have something to add feel free to announce it in
> > response :)
> >
> > Flash client improvements:
> > 1. Add some basic options at start page (for example prefered IP protocol,
> > server name)
> >
> >
> >  I'd prefer these options be hidden in an "advanced" button that would pop
> > up a dialog box allowing you to set them. The groal, of sorts, should be to
> > make the default 'view' simple, and with as little jargon as possible.
> > Basically, just a "Start Test" button, and some text like it is now. Also,
> > it'd be great if the text could be set via the HTML so sites could
> > customize it.
> >
>
> About the protocol, I am not sure whether it's possible to select IPv4 or
> IPv6 from within Flash.
> (Flash gives very limited access to the TCP/IP stack).
>
> Just FYI: About the server selection, I will commit shortly a JS snippet to
> automatically select the closest NDT server (among all the NDT servers
> hosted on the M-Lab platform).
>

Hey Tiziana!

I posted a patch to some of the code related to this: https://code.google.com/p/ndt/issues/detail?id=111 I hope that it works. Let me know if you have feedback!

Will

>
> > 2. Add possibility to re-run test after first completion
> >
> >
> >  Seems reasonable.
> >
>
> SGTM
>
> >
> > 3. On Results/Details/Errors/Debug views add appropriated title (or just
> > highlight somehow active button)
> >
> >
> >  It'd probably be good to make it easy for a site to disable the DEBUG
> > button. Also, ERRORS should probably just be merged into results somehow.
> >
> > 4. Maybe add ability to download results as file
> >
> >
> >  You'd probably need to save the results that are already there since you
> > can't re-request results from NDT; it throws them out after its done with
> > the test.
> >
> > 5. Add some basic progress bar during tests (indicating how many tests are
> > completed/left)
> >
> >
> >  That would be good, though it'd probably be good to leave it as a
> > percentage instead of a "number of tests remaining".
> >
>
>
> AFAIK, any UI animation can only be done outside Flash (for example in JS),
> because Flash is single threaded.
>
> >
> > 6. Make some changes in text result presentation (for example errors will
> > be in red color, date will be bolded etc)
> >
> >
> >  Seems reasonable.
> >
>
> SGTM
>
> >
> > These of course are only proposals so feel free to comment
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sebastian Kostuch
> >
> >
> Thanks!
>
> >
> >
> >  Cheers,
> > Aaron
> >
> > Come visit the new www.internet2.edu
> >
> >