Neowin NewsTray v1.0

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Heh I made this program using Perl scripting, lol Neat eh? But even though since it requires modules and and other stuff like the perl executable itself that's why it uses that much memory, I dunno why. It just compiles that big :s I am gonna try to make it module dependent so it can be smaller

I am planning to port this in C++ so it can be tiny, less than 500KB so it can take less memory.

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Heh I made this program using Perl scripting, lol Neat eh? But even though since it requires modules and and other stuff like the perl executable itself that's why it uses that much memory, I dunno why. It just compiles that big :s I am gonna try to make it module dependent so it can be smaller

I am planning to port this in C++ so it can be tiny, less than 500KB so it can take less memory.

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heh sorry about this guys but the project has been on hold because I dont have internet service at my home. When i get it back I will keep on updating it :), the reason the build was changed, i found a serious bug that crashed the program. So i overwritten the old build with the new one. ;)

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Some things you might like to take a look at and maybe change:

- Disable single left clicks on the icon (just because it can get annoying if you accidentally click it)

- Have an option to change the rate at which it refreshes (maybe introduce and Options form)

- If I select Forum Updates and I refresh it it says in the balloon "Latest News". You need to change this title to suit whatever the user has selected to update... so it should be "Latest Posts" etc...

Also you should change "Refresh News" to "Refresh" in the menu, because the user might not have selected News

- The program takes up 10mb of memory. That's quite a lot for a such a little program in the system tray. Maybe look through your code and take out what you don't need. Also make sure you unload forms or code from memory when they're not needed

- It may look better and be more effecient if you remove most of the menu options and stick them inside a form called Options. Then you can stick the option for update time in there and also move the option to select what type of News to update in there as well

:yes: All good suggestions.

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I can tell you from experience, you're not going to get that much below 10MB in memory consumption for this app, even written in C++. I think my C version was sitting at around 7MB, and people complained. So, I would just keep doing what you're doing and ignore the "OMG, it's 10MB!!" crowd.

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