I finished the MoblockControl class which I think works great as well as the MoblockInfo class, and I made some changes to the GUI to test them.





Having finished all the necessary classes for now, I've started developing the final GUI from scratch. However I would be grateful if someone could test the old one, just to make sure my classes work.

Here is the link for the latest code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/75411518...1a.tar.gz.html

You need to have the packages libqt4-core, libqt4-gui and libqt4-dev to compile it. Use the following commands to compile and run the program.
PS. The program does NOT change the blocklists.list at the moment, it just creates a file named templists.list in the working directory with the new settings.

Screenshots of the upcoming GUI:





The first tab is almost fully functional(the button doesn't work yet) and I will soon work on the others. Suggestions are welcome once again.

I've tested the old interface for a little while and It seems good.

The new interface looks great.

I have a couple more suggestions, but you are probably already planning these:
Be able to minimize mobloquer to tray.
The recently blocked list should autoscroll

I thought of another great feature but I am not sure if its even possible, and it may be possible without your interface. My idea is a firefox extension that adds a button to the toolbar which can be clicked to enable or disable http blocking and it can also show the status. This may be possible without a program, but i really dont know anything about writing firefox extensions, but if its not possible then mabye its possible your program could have a function which firefox could call and then your program could disable/enable http blocking. That would be amazing, but otherwise a secondary menu on a tray icon with an entry for disableing/enabling http blocking would basically be the same thing.

Mobloquer is looking great. I am really looking forward to the finished interface.

Thanks for the suggestions, I was under the impression autoscroll was enabled. I'll fix it when I have the time. And yes, their is certainly going to be a tray icon when the GUI is finished.

I don't know how to code firefox extensions either but it would be fairly easy to add an option to the tray icon menu to enable or disable http blocking.

I had some free time today, so I cleaned up the code a bit and I added auto scrolling support as well as a basic tray icon. I also started using icons, mainly from the beautiful set Crystal.

Here's the latest screenshot:

There is just some fantastic and speedy progress being made to this UI. I look forward to being able to use it!

Btw, a simple request: is there a possibility of including support in the UI for IP white-listing?

Keep up the great work, jimtb :)

The three tabs, "Logs" and "Blocklists" and "Manage" are fully functional at the moment. However I have chosen not to save any setting in real configuration files until I have finished and tested everything a bit. Also, the first stable version will not give the user the option to add a new blocklist due to the fact that this would be a bit complicated and I think that it's better to have something that works and then start adding new features.







First of all, thanks.

Of course I can add support for IP white-listing although I don't know if removing the IP or whitelisting it has any difference. Currently the button in the "Logs" tab adds the selected IP to the IP_REMOVE list in moblock.log but if whitelisting it is better explain why please, and I can easily change this.



PS. I am going to need an icon for the application sooner or later. It would be great if somebody could design a one.

IP_REMOVE will add the IP so that the blocklist will be grep'ped to remove lines containing $IP. This will not work in most cases.

Whitelisting adds the IP so that there will be a iptables target RETURN in the chain (INPUT/OUTPUT/FORWARD) that you configured. This will work in all cases.

greets
jre

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Author of blockcontrol, previously moblock-control.

Thanks for helping jre. I have one more question though. There are four options in moblock.conf:
Moblock gives information about the connection type( IN, OUT and FWD ) but it gives no information about the protocol it blocked. Is there any way to know this? If not should I add the IP only in IP_TCP_xx or in both IP_TCP_xx and IP_UDP_xx?