Legacy version of Gixen?

philatexmail · Guest

I was always using the old (legacy) version of Gixen because it has a perfect layout for monitoring a larger number of bids and is more concise and condensed than the new version. But now I cannot find it anymore - what happened? Is there a new web address / URL for the legacy version?

Thanks for any help.

Joachim

Cupid · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 7599 Location: Bristol, UK

My guess is that the upgrade of the PHP infrastructure used by the site has forced the retirement of the legacy interface.
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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7129

Joachim,

I had to remove it. I had to upgrade the entire site to PHP 8 from PHP 7. PHP 7 will not be supported any longer, so even security updates won't be available in the future.

As PHP8 introduced many changes, deprecations, strong typing, this was a major change, resulting in changes and (new and now exposed) bug fixes all around, including fixing this forum third-party software. It took a long time to do.

I hope you will understand, but I can't invest another 10 days fixing the legacy interface. But what I can do - invest some reasonable time to improve the existing interface. Email me or explain here what exactly (and why) is so important to you.

philatexmail · Guest

Thanks for the explanation, Mario.

My problem is that with the new layout I see a maximum of two bids on the screen without scrolling, in the legacy layout I could see - if I remember correcty - around 8 to 10 sniper bids (Assuming the same screen settings). It was easy to check whether you have been overbid etc. , and it was easy to compare bids at a glance.

Cheers
Joachim

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mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7129

Joachim,

I understand. Have you tried Gixen Desktop Manager? This is available for Windows, and you may like it if you like one line per snipe display.

You can download it at https://www.gixen.com/gdm/GixenDesktopManager.zip

Guest · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:39 pm Post subject:

It would be nice if you could extend the table width by roughly an inch visually, which would keep most item descriptions to 1 line instead of splitting over 2 lines and eating up vertical space. On wider displays like 1920x1080, half of the screen width is blank white space currently.

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7129

I will check this with my web designer. Even if possible it's likely not going to be quick.