Neowin NewsTray v1.0

[Farchord]

Another thing I noticed, that lil proggy takes 11 mb of memory when runned! :s sup with that?

[codezero]

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.

[Farchord]

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.

cool ;)

[Liquid]

i help on this project, the littlest as possible by making the installer, but i need a host to put it on

[NeoMayhem]

Very nice, this is cool :)

[akaj23]

I already PMed this site to codezero, but for anyone else who's interested:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001009/SJL/feeds/feeds.html

Has some cool links to XML versions of websites. :)

[Japlabot]

i just tried to download the 56 build but the about box says it's the 23 build!

[JHAres]

i help on this project, the littlest as possible by making the installer, but i need a host to put it on

You must ask author permission before doing anything... :rolleyes:

[codezero]

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. ;)

[KaKao]

No news on this?? :(

[Daniel F. Administrators]

moved to Software (Branding) Contribution

[Sn00pY]

can you say KlipFolio?

[ceminess]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...ws%20tray&st=60

hmmmm :shifty:

I still have his news tray, and your beta is a lot like his, although i like his better with the pop ups and stuff.

[Yuxi]

This is pretty nice! :D (Y)

[mihir]

quite cool, well done

[dougkinzinger]

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.

[+chorpeac MVC]

Ok I was hoping to see some screen shots, but the ones people posted are already dead links. Could someone put them up again, maybe a little more permanent this time. :)

[azcodemonkey]

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.

[Frank]

If someone will give me the program for this, I will host it on my server. Contact me with where I can download the file.

[Radium]

can you say KlipFolio?

Kliiip-Foooliooo

Yes, I can.

Only strange people use software like this... those who can't get enough. :)

[Japlabot]

Kliiip-Foooliooo

Yes, I can.

Only strange people use software like this... those who can't get enough. :)

well that's a bit of that's got nothing to do with anything :s :o

[Wannes]

i am getting a 404 atm. :(

[hostage]

same here .. 404

[MSN6]

cant download and cant see any screenshots as well... :no:

[Frank]

yeah, i would like this prog, and I would even host it for free if someone could come up with the original copy.