Version 26 of RssPoint

Updated 2004-06-24 09:02:20

by Michael Jacobson

This application displays RSS news feeds in folders. Each of these items can be clicked and the corresponding webpage displayed in the browser.

NOTE: This application is MsWindows only as it uses optcl to embed MSIE as the web browser. It is based on code from WippleWobble - A Mini Web Browser (for Windows) and A little XML browser.

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To download the current version, packaged as a starkit, use this link [L1 ].

Updated Build (23/6/04)

  • Rss feeds updated every 5 minutes
  • Force refresh of feeds (right click)
  • Drag and drop a RSS link (from MSIE) onto tree to add a new news source
  • Tree ballon help now displays when item was published
  • Stores all RSS feeds in registry
  • Delete news feeds (right click a item)
  • Stores and Loads screen placement and state
  • Display Unicode correctly in the Tree

TO DOs:

  1. Use updateFrequency and updatePeriod (and/or use GET) as update rates for pages
  2. Change ballon help to be time since article published
  3. Under the News Feed have folder for Today and Old
  4. In tree, paint new posts blue, and visited ones purple

male - June 24th, 2004:

The last version, downloaded June 24th in the morning (GMT) behaves a bit odd, when started the first time.

  • the window is very small and seems to be arranged wrongly
  • the tree is not shown and there is only a chance to change the panes by clicking and dragging in the status bar
  • the vertical scrollbar of the tree don't work and don't even draws its contents on the display. It shows the contents of the last window shown before raising RssPoint to the top.

After closing and restarting the application seems to behave normal, but the tree is always not shown in the beginning of the session, because the tree pane has always the width 0.

It looks like not having default values, when started the first time on a new system and not having registry values to work with!

A second thing - is it possible to bind more key events to the tree, like <Prior>, <Next>, <Control-Home> and <Control-End> to move page wise and to the top or the bottom of the tree?

male - June 24th, 2004 (2nd):

Sorry, but there are more inconviences:

  • I added news feeds per drag'n drop
  • suddenly the vertical tree scrollbar don't work anymore
  • clicking on it, don't scrolls anything
  • it is not redrawn anymore
  • the scrollbar behaviour doesn't change after restarting RssPoint
  • right clicking on a feed and selecting update doesn't work - don't work with the feed, that had definetly changed, that time the tcler's wiki

So, it looks like a background error, that causes some callbacks to be not executed anymore.

A question - is it possible to right-click in the tree to have a context menu, even if no tree node is selected? If a right-click selects an element like a left-click and than shows the context menu, than it would behave normal on MS Windows.

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