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If you want to try a client with v2 (and v1+v2 hybrid) support, I've just released PicoTorrent v0.20 [0] based on Rasterbar-libtorrent 2.0 :) [0] https://githu

If you want to try a client with v2 (and v1+v2 hybrid) support, I've just released PicoTorrent v0.20 [0] based on Rasterbar-libtorrent 2.0 :) [0] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.20.0 https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...

lebaux 6y ago
Nice. If anyone is wondering if they should try this, picotorrent is probably the most lightweight GUI torrent client for windows (no linux/mac version).
- miki123211 6y ago
  What are you using for the GUI layer, and what's your stance on accessibility? The fact it's Windows only gives me hope.
  - viktorelofsson 6y ago
    I'm using wxWidgets, so it's the Win32 API at the lowest layer. For accessibility I want to make it support the NVDA screen reader which I think would make it support other readers as well :)
    - mwcampbell 6y ago
      wxWidgets is a decent choice. Not all of its controls are accessible though. Most infamously, the wxHTML control (wx's own HTML engine) isn't accessible, but the web view control (using the OS's web browsing engine) is accessible if you futz around at the native layer to force the keyboard focus into the right place. Also, on Windows, the list view control is accessible but the data view control is not. Frustratingly, the opposite is the case on Mac and (I think) GTK. I suggest you test with Narrator rather than NVDA. Disclosure: I work on the Narrator team at Microsoft. But that's not why I say this. The reason is that NVDA and JAWS have some ugly hacks that they can use to make some GUI implementations (particularly using Win32 with GDI for graphics) accessible even if they're not accessible by design. For details, do some searching on the term "off-screen model". Narrator doesn't have this, so if your product works with Narrator, you know it's really accessible.
      - viktorelofsson 6y ago
        That's really valuable, thank you!
ksec 6y ago
Thank You. Will definitely check it out given uTorrent on Windows does't get much update anymore. I want to ask, were Rasterbar-Libtorrent and Libtorrent always the same thing? I thought they were different implementation? Did they merge or did memory serve me wrong. I couldn't Google anything useful so I just ask. In the era of streaming It has been far too long since I look at anything BT.
- viktorelofsson 6y ago
  There are two libraries called libtorrent - Rasterbar-libtorrent (the one in this discussion, made by arvidn) and rakshasa-libtorrent (made by rakshasa).
  - ksec 6y ago
    Arh... that is why I keep getting confused with the naming. Thank You.

lebaux 6y ago

Nice. If anyone is wondering if they should try this, picotorrent is probably the most lightweight GUI torrent client for windows (no linux/mac version).

miki123211 6y ago
What are you using for the GUI layer, and what's your stance on accessibility? The fact it's Windows only gives me hope.
- viktorelofsson 6y ago
  I'm using wxWidgets, so it's the Win32 API at the lowest layer. For accessibility I want to make it support the NVDA screen reader which I think would make it support other readers as well :)
  - mwcampbell 6y ago
    wxWidgets is a decent choice. Not all of its controls are accessible though. Most infamously, the wxHTML control (wx's own HTML engine) isn't accessible, but the web view control (using the OS's web browsing engine) is accessible if you futz around at the native layer to force the keyboard focus into the right place. Also, on Windows, the list view control is accessible but the data view control is not. Frustratingly, the opposite is the case on Mac and (I think) GTK. I suggest you test with Narrator rather than NVDA. Disclosure: I work on the Narrator team at Microsoft. But that's not why I say this. The reason is that NVDA and JAWS have some ugly hacks that they can use to make some GUI implementations (particularly using Win32 with GDI for graphics) accessible even if they're not accessible by design. For details, do some searching on the term "off-screen model". Narrator doesn't have this, so if your product works with Narrator, you know it's really accessible.
    - viktorelofsson 6y ago
      That's really valuable, thank you!

ksec 6y ago

Thank You. Will definitely check it out given uTorrent on Windows does't get much update anymore. I want to ask, were Rasterbar-Libtorrent and Libtorrent always the same thing? I thought they were different implementation? Did they merge or did memory serve me wrong. I couldn't Google anything useful so I just ask. In the era of streaming It has been far too long since I look at anything BT.

viktorelofsson 6y ago
There are two libraries called libtorrent - Rasterbar-libtorrent (the one in this discussion, made by arvidn) and rakshasa-libtorrent (made by rakshasa).
- ksec 6y ago
  Arh... that is why I keep getting confused with the naming. Thank You.