feedreader-development

[Feedreader-development] Some things i'd like to implement

[Toomas T. <to...@i-...>]

Hi!

Marcus has done wonders with the source. I'm not absolutely catched up 
because of lack of time but i'd like to implement some changes/new features:

1. Change treeview X icon (icon what apears if feed is not available) to 
something better (globe with little red x in the corner)
2. Unread count. At the moment it is displayd like this

          If TreeView1.ShowLines Then
            cxOffset := 7
           Else
            cxOffset := 6;

At least in windows XP offset must be

          If TreeView1.ShowLines Then
            cxOffset := 9
           Else
            cxOffset := 8;

because it will not that clean if unread count is to close to feed title.

3. What community thinks about adding new item to subscribed feed 
rightclick menu : "View feed source". XML source will be displayed in 
minibrowser.

4. If user clicks on one subscribed feed and tooltips+hints are not 
enabled, feed information should display in minibrowser (at the moment 
minibrowser is empty till you click on some headline).

5. What does community think about last email about integration with 
shell? I could make deskband dll what stays on taskbar (user canselect 
it from "taskbar properties" > "Toolbars" > "Feedreader deskband" for 
example ) and displays popupmenu with subscribed feeds and subitems of 
feeds will be headlines. And there will be button to trigger update. I'm 
not quite finished with my ideas, will think about it more.

All these things i'd like to implement myself if there is no problem :)


Greetings
Toomas

I will do all these things myself....

Re: [Feedreader-development] Some things i'd like to implement

[Kyle C. <ky...@ky...>]

From: "Toomas Toots" <to...@i-...>

> 5. What does community think about last email about integration with
> shell? I could make deskband dll what stays on taskbar (user canselect
> it from "taskbar properties" > "Toolbars" > "Feedreader deskband" for


This is a nice idea, but I very much recommend that all known substantial
bugs should be fixed before substantial new features are added.

One example of a bug is this show-stopper that I reported:

1) Feedreader sometimes write invalid XML to one of its data files

2) when reading the file back in, it fail to parse, then fail silently with
no error message, yet lose the "read / not read" status of every item in
every feed.  (Code which fails silently in there is an error, is an
extremely bad idea, by the way.)

I've tried actually using FeedReader several times, and had to give up after
a few days because of this, every time.  This might be a problem with a
feed, but a requirement of a system like this is that no feed data problem
should every cause the system to lose data.  It must not rely on the feeds
being properly formatted, because that is not the reality of the RSS world.

Has this been fixed in the latest alpha version?  If so I'll give it try and
verify it.

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