Re: [Rssview-developers] RssView progress

[Martin K. <ci...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 08:40, Christoph Walcher wrote:

> >2) Proxy support settings should be complete: user & password for
> >   proxy authentication are missing.
> >  
> >
> Proxy Support with username & pwd could be tricky since we have to load 
> all external URLs via a special Http Connection. Perhaps you know a less 
> time intesive way to implement that feature.

It will be difficult, if the images in the HTML part are loaded 
automatically. It seems there is only one way to do this and add
a "URLFactory" class which decides about if URL-connections are
made with proxies and with authentication (it is only 1 method
which solves the authentication and another one which does some
base64 encoding).

You are right, let's skip it this time. I thought that we have
also http.proxyUserName and http.proxyPassword properties which
do this job. But I think I was wrong. I need to setup squid to
require authentication to check this.

> >4) Can we save the column widths in the table in our settings?
> >  
> >
> No Problem. RssSettings uses the XmlEncoder decoder. Adding these width 
> integers should be a 10 minutes job.

One question about the serialisation which is done in RssSettings.
Does it break the old stored configuration, after you've 
added/removed some settings?

Did you try it out? I was never asking myself how Java is doing
serialisation.

> >5) Can we have status icons in the "New"-Column instead of the
> >   checkbox (might be an advantage in future)?
> Bad idea in my opinion because the cell editor for boolean comes for 
> free and a cellEditor for image columns does not. Would be better if we 
> delay that until we really need it.

OK.

One more question. The articles are all persistant now. I think, we
should provide the users with an option to clean the database, if
they want it. Just to make sure that users with small disk quotas
and small partitions are not annoyed. And it "feels" better when
you have more control about what's being hold in the database.

Martin