Carmen's Headline Viewer
Version 0.9.0 History
   
       
 
  • 0.9.0 - 20 Oct 99
    Some great new features and bug fixes:
  • The program is now fully skinnable. A Skin controls the appearance of the Main Window, along with its shape. Right now, Headline Viewer comes with two simple skins. You can switch to a new skin using the Skins tab of the Settings dialog. The tab lists all of the skins in the Skins directory. By default this is the "Skins" directory within the directory where Headline Viewer was installed. Clicking on the name of a skin will display a preview of how Headline Viewer will look on the right, and it will also show you more information about the skin at the bottom. This information includes the name of the skin, and the name, email address, and web site of the skin's author. You can visit Headline Viewer's Skin Site by pressing the link below this information, and you can also learn how to build a skin of your own by pressing another link.
  • The Skin Creation Guide may be found at http://www.vertexdev.com/HeadlineViewer/skinguide.html.
  • An interactive "To-Do" list now provided. The To-Do list will lead you, step-by-step, through the major features of Headline Viewer, and then politely put itself away once the user has finished each step. Its cool, really cool.
  • New Providers
    43 new Providers from Moreover:
    East Timor News
    Cricket News
    Olympics News
    India News
    Pakistan News
    Stock Exchange News
    Online Banking News
    Database Industry News
    XML News
    New Zealand News
    Engineering News
    Personal Finance News
    Football News
    Baseball News
    Basketball News
    Golf News
    Motorsports News
    Tennis News
    Israel News
    North Africa News
    Linux News
    Vertical Portals News
    Caucasus News
    Central Asia News
    Czech and Slovakia News
    Fedwatch News
    Hungary News
    Online Content News
    Ireland News
    Networking News
    M&A News
    Online Auction News
    Poland News
    Real Estate News
    Science News
    Silicon Valley News
    Top Business News
    Top Finance News
    Top Internet News
    Top Media News
    Top Stories
    US Education News
    Web Developer News
  • New Providers:
    Red Herring
    Salon
    OS Opinion
    VBWire
    ASPWire
    CEWire
    SQLWire
    DisneyWire
    LinuxPlanet
    Developer[nation]
    Perl News
    XMLHack
  • 9 New Providers from Epinions:
    Automotive
    Computers
    Electronics
    Books
    Movies
    Music
    Outdoors
    Sports
    Travel
  • Updated Providers (these are fixed automatically when you upgrade):
    Themes.org works once again
    Ars Technica - Site URL
    Geek News - Data format
    Internet Alchemy - Data URL
    SmoG Alert - Data URL
    CamWorld - This site is no longer syndicating its content; it has been removed
  • Greatly improved memory utilization, reducing it to approximately 1/3 of the previous version. Headline Viewer is now far lighter in weight than a web browser.
  • New Settings tab, "External Provider Lists". The 4 buttons on this tab were moved here from the Providers tab to reduce clutter and to make room for more detail. For each provider list, the date it was last loaded is shown. If the provider list has never been loaded (or if you last loaded it in a  version prior to 0.9.0) then the string "(never)" is shown instead.
  • New text format character, "H". This character is used when the day and time portions of a date are encoded in distinct lines of a text-based provider's output. The "H" (Hours) appends the line of text to the text from any other "D" (Date) line. The append is done after the entire record has been processed.
  • New mailing list subscription option for the chvskin list. This list is for those who use and create skins for Headline Viewer.
  • When the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons in the Providers tab of the Settings dialog are held down, they will now repeat. This makes it much easier to adjust the order of the providers. Note also that you can (and have been able to for a while) select more than one provider and move them all simultaneously. If you hold down the Shift key while clicking
    the button, the repeat interval will be decreased by a factor of 10.
  • Fixed a bug which would needlessly reload text-based providers when they were clicked in the Active Providers List.
  • Removed some blinkiness when changing providers.
  • The horrid blinkiness when deleting a bunch of providers has been removed.
  • Fixed a bug which would make the buttons on the main dialog show upeven if supposedly hidden, when the dialog was sufficiently narrow.
  • Dropping an URL on to the Site Image no longer generates a runtime
    error.
  • The "Make Inactive" context menu command on the Active Provider List is now somewhat faster.
  • Large provider images no longer overlap the "Active" checkbox in the Providers tab of the Settings dialog.
  • The Data URLs of certain sites are now protected. When you examine such a provider in the Settings, the URL will not be shown. Instead, the field will display the string "(Protected)".
  • Fixed a rare bug that could cause the message "Error in lstArticles_DblClick!" to appear if the number of stories for a provider decreased when the provider was refreshed as a result of the first click of a double click sequence.
  • Fixed a rare bug that could cause use of the Statistics tab to cause a crash if there were no active providers (b21).
  • Fixed a problem with duplicate providers from StartsHere.net (a file extension changed and both the RSS090 and RSS091 versions were being loaded).