fraggle42 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 UPDATED VERSION : NOW WITH INSTALLER AND WILL WORK ON WINDOWS XP, Vista, 7 and 8, 32 or 64 bit. Hi guys, I have developed a little tool that allows you to find out all the information (that I have been able to gather) for any TD that is on any of the 4 rep forums, RWG, RWG.bz, RG and RWI. (it includes options for WUS and TZ-UK but I haven't entered anything for them) It allows you to select which forum you want to see the trusted dealers for, and also allows you to narrow the choice down to watch sellers, strap sellers, part sellers, other items sellers, and repair / maintenance people. The Watch and Strap sections are complete, but the other sections I'm sure there are a lot more TDs / members out there that provide these services - if you are one such person, please PM me to be included. If anyone wants to redistribute this on any of the other REP forums, feel free to do so. DO NOT TRY TO DISTRIBUTE IT ON ANY GEN FORUMS!!! IMPORTANT INFORMATION PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU BUY FROM A DEALER WHO IS NOT A TD ON THE FORUMS YOU ARE A MEMBER OF, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN IF ANY PROBLEMS HAPPEN! Please read my next post, it explains this in more detail. How To Use This is what the main page looks like:- It is as simple as it looks! If you want to narrow your search, use the check boxes to select what you want. Click "View". A new window will appear with all the data found. Any links into the forums are clickable. Any links to dealer websites that have been verified are clickable. Any links to dealer websites that have NOT been verified are NOT clickable. If you want to use these, first go to that dealers forum page and double check the website address is correct and then cut and paste the website link into a browsers address bar. (And if the link provided is correct, if you want to you could send me a PM letting me know so I can change it to Verified status!) You can download an installer for the program from here:- http://rapidshare.com/share/B6C0BC178FF1E15B8612D7EF0BC0E91C It requires .NET 3.5 SP1 to run. This is part of Windows 7, so if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8 it is already there. For those Windows XP or Vista users, when you run the installer, if it detects that .NET 3.5 SP1 is not on your PC it will ask if you want to download and install it, if you say yes it will go away and do that for you, and then continue with the installation. The actual program itself is tiny but I've had to wrap it in an installer to guarantee it will install correctly on anyones Windows PC. Any problems, please PM me. Richard Mods : If this contravenes any rules please whip the rapidshare link out / delete the post and PM me with a slapped wrist, and if so, I apologies in advance! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggle42 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 To expand on the Important Information in the first post, I want to make it crystal clear that you must ONLY buy stuff from dealers that belong to forums that you are a member of. If you ignore this rule, the mods here (and anywhere else) will not help you if a problem! To help explain this, here's an example. Imagine a new member, they are only a member on here, RWG. They see this tool and have a play with it, seeing what dealers exist on other forums. They follow a link to "JoeBloggsExampleCompany" and decide to order a watch. What they forgot is that this dealer is ONLY a TD on (for example) RWI. They have a problem with the order. He can't ask the mods here for help, the dealer is not a TD here. He can't ask RWIs mods for help, he's not a member there, and even if he joins, he was not a member at the time he ordered the watch. He's screwed! He's completely on his own trying to sort the problem out. So, please beware and always remember this when looking at dealers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpz5142 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Sweetness! I'm still on 32bit XP so I can't try it out but when your able to release it for 32bit OS I'll definitely give it a try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droptopman Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Wow Fraggle what an awesome resource. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputim Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Fraggle nice tool and thanks for the effort! Will there also be a mac version in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Nice work mate! What about a web version? That works cross-platform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggle42 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 New version released! This version has been wrapped in an installer to ensure that it downloads .NET 3.5 SP1 if it is required and takes care of all the other stuff Windows needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggle42 Posted February 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 A Mac version? Sheesh, there's always one! No, sorry And an online version would be easy to do, but worries about hosting the web page in the UK in connection to reps worries me, so it'll stay as a small app for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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