Marcus Hettlage wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started to reorganize the released Source-Code.
> I started by removing the ICOM-XML-parser. The code
> now uses only the XDOM-parser
>
> Another component I've already exchanged is the Tray-Icon-component.
> I replaced it with CollTrayIcon, because this is available with Source.
>
That's cool. Then I choosed tnotificationicon component, there was
something that made me not choose cooltrayicon. I guess, it was this
bubble notification. But at the moment, I have made feedreaders own
notification dialog, there is problems any more.
> The next thing I did was to start restructuring the code. I started to
> eliminate unused code and started to restructure it, so that it can
> be extended a little bit easier.
Ehh... That's me. Actually this is quite only program I developed in
Delphi, that's why I maybe did not use the best technicues. Second
problem is lack of comments. Code is quite ;) understandable to me, but
others are in little trouble i guess.
>
> The next things I'm going to do is change the handling of the
> display in the TreeView. I'd like to see an option to enable a bold font
> for feeds that have new messages, i.e. like Outlook Express.
This is the thing I thought about, too. Only problem, is that I could
not get standard treeview to do that. Extremely cool treeview component
is here:http://www.delphi-gems.com/VirtualTreeview/VT.php , but it's not
dropin replacement.
>
> Another thing I'd like to add is a kind of "import the browser favorites"
> and check them for updates as well. For me it would be sufficient
> if I knew that a page was changed. I don't need more special logic
> in this area. But maybe someone else?
What do you think, if we modularize feedreader. So we have one module
for "web page updates" and second module for example for nntp
(newsgroups) servers and so on. Feedreader will only trigger update
procedure and shows headlines from modules.
>
> I've already implemented a kind of "Newspaper"-feature, that
> displays all unread messages on a single HTML-page.
> This feature is nearly identical to the one in NewzCrawler.
Actually Feedreader has internal webserver, so user could check all
headlines from another computer (if on the road for example). It's nice
if we integrate the look of both views (webbrowser view, and internal
html-page view).
>
> As I've already said I'm not yet ready with my planned restructuring.
> This will create a lot of new units. I think I should finish this before
> I put the Source back into the CVS. I hope that I'm through until the
> end of the month.
Cool.
>
> What compilers will we support?
> I've currently only Delphi 7 Pro available. What about you?
>
I have Delphi 6 Ent, but the nicest thing will be, if we could get
Feedreader compiling on Delphi 7 personal. In my opinion users could
use it for free.
Greetings!
Toomas
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