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- 0.9.1 - 7 Dec 99
Some great new features and bug fixes:
- Fetching of stories from
providers is now asynchronous. This means an end to annoying lockups
while Headline Viewer waits for slow or offline servers to respond.
Clicking on a provider name makes the provider current, and
initiates (if necessary) a story fetch. The fetch is initiated if no
content has been loaded or if the loaded content is older than the
refresh interval specified for the provider. Thanks to the
background fetching feature (see below), content can be
fetched before it is needed.
- Headline Viewer can now load
provider information "in the background," so that new
information is made available even before you need it. Additional
control of this background fetching is provided in the General tab
of the Settings dialog. The Background Updating control has three
values:
| None |
If this option is selected then no
background updating occurs. Story fetching occurs only when
the user clicks on a provider name.
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| Visible Providers |
If this option is selected then
background updating is performed for all providers in the
visible portion of the Active Providers List. Headline
Viewer will initiate and manage a number of background
fetches in parallel
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| All Providers |
If this option is selected then
background updating is performed for all of the providers in
the entire Active Providers List. Headline Viewer will
initiate and manage a number of background fetches in
parallel |
- A new "Windows"
skin is now provided. This skin is available in the Skin Gallery,
and is not actually a skin at all. When this skin is selected,
Headline Viewer providers a native Windows look and feel, including
a caption bar.
- The old "Default
Skin" is now the "Yellow and Blue Skin".
- The Active Provider List is
now scrolled to ensure that the selection is visible in the
following situations:
- On startup
- After the use of the Settings dialog
- After each automatic timer-driven flip
- New Providers:
Lark Farm
allUSB
Eclectic
AppWatch
- Removed Providers:
Jacob's Angst
Floach
- Headline Viewer now issues
an error message if it cannot load a seemingly valid skin. To avoid
irritating and repetitive messages, errors are displayed the first
time that the Skin Gallery is used, and when the F12 key is used to
reload a skin that is under development.
- The program's name is
officially "Headline Viewer," not "Carmen's Headline
Viewer." Various captions have been renamed to reflect this.
- The To-Do List now has a
close box. Closing the list automatically checks all of the items.
Also, the user is directed to the Headline Viewer survey if they
have not yet filled it out.
- The To-Do List now works
properly when the display is set to use large fonts.
- Fixed a mislabeled category
in the External Provider Lists tab of the Settings dialog.
- Double-clicking on a
provider's site image now visits the provider site.
- Fixed some problems that
would cause an empty article list if the information downloaded from
the provider included badly formatted date values.
- The Statistics tab of the
Settings dialog now includes a "Chars Read" item. This
field counts the total number of characters read from the network.
- When the F12 key is used to
refresh the current skin, the skin is now completely reloaded.
Previously, only the images were loaded.
- Fixed a problem where the
skin "outline" was offset by 1 pixel down and to the left.
- Fixed a nasty bug which
would cause Headline Viewer to lock up on certain defective
information fetched from a provider.
- Fixed a glitch where the
flip timer could go off right after a keyboard navigation of the
Active Provider List, causing a jump.
- The Help button is now
hidden when the other buttons are hidden.
- Fixed the widths of the
article headers to eliminate a few pixels worth of gap.
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