Do you also exclude the "featured", "Girls Store" and "Previews" tabs of the GUI from being part of "the software"?

Yes, I would make the following exclusion.

Web pages or Frames being displayed in Window, Where the Software does not control the content or formatting.
for me would be an exclusion.

the Software merely presents a window for the content to be displayed.

That I find to be a very artificial and essentially meaningless distinction. The fact that somethng is is implemented in one set of languages (html, xml, css etc.) does not mean that is not software, and even more so when that "data" includes embedded java, javascript or other scripts. Data files are software, code is just data used in a particular way - this being one of the major premises of computing since the time of Turing or even Babbage.

Many of these surely have been mentioned earlier on in this thread, but here's my list regarding software:

1) In "Now Playing" tab I'd like to see a progress bar running on the clip currently playing. See picture #1 on top

2) As many others, I would like to see a step 5s/10s/20s etc. forwards / backwards on right click context menu, when viewing a clip.

3) Make card release date visible also for cards in My Collection (see picture #2 on top). Currently you can only see it if you haven't bought the card.

4) Add grouping options so that you can sort/view your collection or Girls Store grouped by performer with headers (see picture #3 on top) and optionally include non purchased cards of the performer from the Girls Store e.g. greyed out. This grouping would make performers who are not mentioned first in duo cards to correctly group with other cards of her. Now, if you alphabetically order the cards by name, they get grouped with cards of the first named performer. And if the non-purchased cards were visible here (e.g. greyed out), you could easily see the completion status of that performer in your collection. Secondary sorting option should be added to dictate, in which order each performer's cards would be sorted within that grouping (=card name/card number/release date etc.)

5) Make Clips view available for cards not purchased yet. This would help people to determine, if they want the card or not, in case the amount e.g. pole clips, table clips, xxx clips etc. are essential to them.

EDIT: 6) adjust the auto checking of allowed posts in this forum... I had words My Collection (on point 3)) inside quotation marks in my initial post, and the post was forbidden. I removed the quotation marks, and the post was accepted. Why are quotation marks offensive to this forum? If this kind of filtering is necessary, please make the posting rules viewable whenever a post is rejected. Quotation marks are not something one intuitively should know to avoid.

The analogy that @lukaszr gave is spot on...

If you use a software Browser like Google Chrome
and Visit Bing.com, and Bings Search box doesn't work
And then you Use FireFox and the search box doesn't work

Do you put the blame on Google Chrome and Firefox?

There is a Specific Difference between the Software the GUI,
And Web Pages displayed in a Frame.

This Thread is about the Functions of the GUI, the Software.

Not about the Functions of the Web Pages, displayed by the GUI as a frame.

How about a Web page that Accepts Feeds from Advertisers..
The Web Page doesn't control the Content and Formating of the Ad, it only displays the Ad as a Feed.

Display Ad Here
The actual Content, images, format, links of that Ad
are not controled by your web page,

you only Control the Provision for the Ad to be displayed.

The Software GUI, provides a Provision for the Web Fourm to be Displayed.
The Software GUI does not Control what is displayed in that box, it only Provides a Box to display it in.

So lets leave at this simplistic Description...

The GUI is the Software this thread is about...

The Forum View and any other View displayed in a box, is a separate issue.

^^ About my previous post, it is odd that "Now Playing" (with quotation marks) was accepted, but for some reason "My Collection" wasn't... and in this post I can add the quotation marks also for "My Collection". Maybe there are some other reasons for rejecting forum posts, but the only thing I changed from my initial post was to remove the quotation marks from "My Collection" (I missed the ones I used in "Now Playing")...

Anyway, information about auto-rejecting reasons would be nice to know so that we don't accidentally lose what we have written - and not having to remember to use text-editor as copypaste safety whenever posting anything.

The GUI is the Software this thread is about...

I have two problems with that

1) The GUI is only a part of "the software". The GUI is the client part of a client-server piece of software.

2) Part of the functions of the GUI is to display the Forum etc. How it does that is "only" an implememtation detail.

1. All possible cards reformated to 3k
2. All possible cards reformated to 1080
3. Tagging and playlist system similar to access db...that is runs well.

Give it a try
https://virtuastripper.net/files/broswer/

or this is the direct to Download link
https://virtuastripper.net/files/broswer/GSSBrowser.zip


it's a very simple web browser...
type in a url, click GO ! ( must click go I didn't code it to accept the Enter key )

Right Click to use Back

Type in this URL, or just copy and paste it... Login

www.iStripper.com

Open the Forum

now,

Is the Forum part of my Software, or is it a Separate entity?

@Wyldanimal - please note that I did not say that the forum was part of "the software" only that "the software" included a browser for the forum. That you can use some other software for that function is irrelevant, you can also use one of the alternate programs to view your collection of cards but that does not make any part of the "My Collection" tab of the GUI not be part of "the software" and theoretically you could, in principle, replace the clip player and not need to use "the software" at all.

You seem to be ***** the meaning of "the software" with "the client program". "The software" includes a number of programs three of which (the installer, the uninstaller, and the client) run on the user's PC. There used to be a fourth, the downloader. It also includes data files used by those programs and software resident on Totem's servers. Part of the software was written by Totem and part was written by others, e.g. the qt libraries, but is used by that written by Totem.

"The forum" as such is not software at all - it is at a higher level than that - but it is made concrete by software. To be strictly accurate, but pedantic, the text of this messsage once it is stored on Totem's servers is part of the software of that higher level construct (but not of lower level software we have been calling "the software") though it is common to exclude such simple data from that term.

Now I am somewhat ***** here. If the forum section contained in the GUI, the Store tab and all that it contains, the My Collection tab with all that it contains and the Featured tab with its contents are all not part of the iStripper software, then what is this software? An overlay video player? Would someone ELI5 please.

An overlay video player?

Yes, it is:
https://www.istripper.com/information/faq/display

FAQ: What is iStripper ?
iStripper is a unique technology of video incrustation to display videos of sexy girls directly on your taskbar, with no background, just as if they were living inside of your screen.

@Chicsans - What is loosely refered to "The Forum" is not in itself software, it is functionality provided by software just as "Web Browsing" is not software but is functionality provided by a Web Browser.

In the case of "The Forum" the functionality is provided by a combination of software elements, in particular part of that functionality is provided by a part of the iStripper client (vghd.exe), or by alternatives such as a web browser, running on the users PCs and partly by software (programs and data) on Totem's servers. The forum is none of these things, nor is it the combination of those things - it is something provided by that combination.

The same applies to the other functionalities provide by the iStripper software.

This discussion over the GUI vs the Forum Start by you making this statement..

" e.g. try searching the forums for a three letter word such as USB that you know has been used in a recent posting, or to have the results of a search appear in any sort of logical time order"

Since the Search feature is not Controlled by the GUI

the Software can not Address the Issue you brought up.

The Software Provides a Viewing Pane, with which you Connect to web page and View it.
It is thus, that the Search Function is part of that web page and NOT part of the GUI.

Look out your Window and Watch a Car drive Down the Street.
You Can no more control the Direction the Car travels through your Window, than the GUI can Control how the Forum Search Works.

@Wyldanimal - "The Software", as I explained earlier, is not just the vghd.exe program. It, of necessity includes software on Totem's servers. What you have said is correct when talking about "the client software", it is not correct when talking about the iStripper software as a whole.

Here's a thought for all...Hit the ''ON or Fullscreen'' button on the right side of the software and let's watch some beautiful nude ladies dance and try to forget the software woe's for a while......Ahhhhhhhh that's better isn't it ?😀

@TheEmu

Go Back and Read what REX posted...
He Clearly was not Asking about the Forum Functionality.
While there is Nothing wrong with bringing up Ideas about the Forum Functions.

It was NOT his Intent when he Created this Thread.

You Still Fail to come to terms with that !

The GUI and the Software that you Download and Install, Is different than that of the Forum you See
using the GUI as a Viewing Pane.
Sure there is some colorization and fonts, but the Function of the Search Box, is Separate from the GUI.


REX's question was about the Software that you Download and Install,
which in Simplistic terms, we refer to as the GUI

there is NO NEED to make it more Complicated than that...

GUI - Software you Download and Install
Forum, Designed and Functions separately, the GUI is used as a Viewer

Simple, Easy to Understand...

I have seen no statement by Rex to that effect, only yours and hebasu's assumptions about what he meant by "The Software".

OK Emu. Stop right there !

Now you're just being disruptive.

We are not assuming anyhting. It is FACT !!!

Hebasu, you have asserted that Rex meant "the client software" when, IN FACT (to repeat your emphasis), he said no such thing. I prefer to believe Rex meant what he actually said rather than your interpretation. It is possible of course that Rex did mean to say what you claim, but it is not what he actually said.

What part of "Stop right there !" do you not understand ???

Guys, don't you realize that all this is non sense... being software, being web, being this or that, included or not in what Rex had asked... Come on !
The only interesting thing I will keep from that discussion is the idea of adding an auto-update OPTION.
Thank you

"fixes or add-ons to iStripper?" is such a broad question it could include t-shirts, novelty card packs, and mugs. (i took it to mean the main app though)

some clarification directly from Rex please so this thread can get back to the *****. :D

And the winner of “Explain it Like I'm Five” is @lukaszr for the brief and simple explanation that he was able to provide.

I will have to show @TheEmu ‘s answer to a twelve year old with the hopes that she can offer a translation to a five year old's level

The only interesting thing I will keep from that discussion is the idea of adding an auto-update OPTION.
Thank you

I hope my post in the middle of that melée got noticed however, and that at least some of the suggestions might be considered whenever next version is coming out :)

I don't think it's very nice to be too hard on a very intelligent person who thinks outside the box and simply got a little carried away. And this isn't for ANYONE in general...Just sayin because the respect I have for that person that has done alot for the community over the years.

Please continue the fix suggesting....

@Dfner - i agree with your suggestion regarding displaying the cards in "My Collection" in a way that groups all the cards for a model together and clearly separates them from those of other models. This could be done by ***** a new line for each model as you have suggested, however a possible alternative would be to replace the individual cards with a "pile of cards" for each model (with perhaps an option to spread a pile at a time in order to see the individual cards). The advantage of this approach would be to reduce the amount of screen space required for displaying the entire collection and thereby make browsing at the model level a bit easier for those with large collections by reducing a few thousand cards to a few hundred piles of cards - currently 606 of them according to the website which would fit quite nicely into less than a hundred lines of piles and require a just a few pages for a full collection. The same could be done for the GUI's "Girl Store" tab.

The web site already offers a similar capability via the "our models" tab but its not quite the same as either of our suggestions because it does not take the individual user's collection into account.

...however a possible alternative would be to replace the individual cards with a "pile of cards" for each model (with perhaps an option to spread a pile at a time in order to see the individual cards).

@TheEmu

This sounds good, if this solution would have the "piles" contain every card of each model regardless of the alphabetical order of duo cards. The fact that models currently are sorted arbitrarily by which ever model of duo cards are listed first is my biggest peeve of current "my collection" view. If these piles took care of that, it would be better solution than what I suggested.

@Dfner - yes I would envisage each pile to contain all the cards for a model so some cards would appear in two (or more) piles. That makes it a little more complex than just a different format for the "My Collection" page but it should not be a big complication.

@Gkar45 - no, its nothing like playlists, its a way of displaying "My Collection" (or the Girls Store) such that instead of being a block of, in my case, over 3900 cards it is a block of just 606 piles of cards, one per model. Much easier to see what models there are in the collection than if the individual cards are dispalyed.