ceminess Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 your test build didn't work, i tried messing around with my router a bit and still nothing worked, if i don't click the okay button on the error message and i right click on the N icon it won't show any news or something, so it is like it can't access the internet. is there a way i can change what port it uses, that might change something.? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1048514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted July 15, 2003 Author Share Posted July 15, 2003 Hmm... are you running XP SP 1? < I know, I'm taking stabs here > :blink: Are you running a firewall like ZoneAlarm, or Norton? There isn't a way to change the port. HTTP runs on port 80, so I still contend that if you can access the web, this should work, but I will keep digging to see what I can find. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1048618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceminess Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 yes xp pro with sp1 and yes i am running zonealarm but i shut it down when i ran it and still the same thing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1048624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCom Posted July 24, 2003 Share Posted July 24, 2003 Tested on: Windows 98se + IE 6 SP1 NewsTray loads, places itself on the tray, then quits. After installing MSXML 3: Same result. The icon stays on the tray until mouse is moved over it, then it dissapears (no biggie, gdi prob) . An instance is not found in running processes. Prog just runs, then unloads itself. no crash or hang. Consider this the first "flood" of win98 compatibility requests ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1071490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted July 24, 2003 Author Share Posted July 24, 2003 Consider this the first "flood" of win98 compatibility requests ;) :cry: I'm pretty much set against supporting 9x, unfortunately. 9x doesn't support Unicode very well, which adds a lot of instability. I would have to rewrite the HTTP handler to use WinInet, which looks like it would suck, and considering that I'm writing this in my spare time, it would be a while before it happens, if at all. Not only that, I have no 9x machine to test on, which makes things evermore difficult. Trying to debug something through an end-user is not even remotely feasible. I'd be more apt to port this to Linux than write for 9x. Once I've "finished" this thing to a reasonable conclusion, the source is going to become public domain. If there is a big enough push for 9x compatibility, someone else is going to have to write it. Sorry to have to break that to you. I'll get a little more time to work on this in August, which means I'll probably have another stable release and will more than likely have a final before September. Honestly, this isn't that hard of an app to write, so I could forsee someone taking the source to make it 9x compatible soon after it's released. I'm doing my best to abstract the essential components enough to make for easy maintenance. Thanks for your interest. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1071550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted July 24, 2003 Author Share Posted July 24, 2003 Ok, there may be hope for the 9x'ers. If I can get the runtime memory down for a .NET version of this app, I'll probably go with that, so you'll get to play with it. :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1071584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted July 25, 2003 Author Share Posted July 25, 2003 OK, some news. I've gotten the .NET version of this close to presentable last night. Thanks to dannysmurf for giving me the impetus to try the SetProcessWorkingSetSize function to reduce memory consumption. It works almost too good... :shifty: Average memory consumption drops to around 1-2MB, sometimes lower... in debug mode. This should hopefully solve the 9x issue. Features/Changes: - Proxy support is being added.- Visual configuration is being added.- News items are no longer being placed at the top of the dialog, but are made a submenu of the news feed. - this may be configurable if requested -- No balloons anymore. Working on an Messenger-ish slide down window with clickable links for news notifications.- Xml is parsed with XmlTextReader, so no DOM overhead, except when saving settings.- Considering skinning options for menu, tray icon, and slide down window.- Going to eliminate those html escapes... eventually. Any other ideas? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1075568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macman87 Posted July 26, 2003 Share Posted July 26, 2003 nice program... really cool... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1078353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCom Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 weenur, thats music to my ears :) Im keeping an eye on this thread for the win98 release. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1080562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackice912 Veteran Posted July 27, 2003 Veteran Share Posted July 27, 2003 My taskbar loves this little program. I'll be monitoring this thread and posting any glitches I run into (If any). :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1080619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quick Reply Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 still looking good, PM me for me to test it on windows 98se since you say that you don't have access to 9x ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1080657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
[hxc] Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 where the hell have i been? i want this!! :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1118339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceminess Posted September 6, 2003 Share Posted September 6, 2003 must have an update, i need to know what's going on :p i know we lost some of this thread sense neowin got formatted, but it has still been a while sense an update. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1136494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted September 6, 2003 Author Share Posted September 6, 2003 Update: I'm stuck in limbo and can't get out! Ok, maybe not limbo, but I've been overwhelmingly busy in the past month with work, and now I have school to contend with as well. However, things are settling enough to where I can get some work done on NNT. I'll post a more complete update later this weekend, and possibly - if everything goes well - a new link. :) I did lose my source code, so I had rewrite the .NET version completely. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1136742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted September 8, 2003 Author Share Posted September 8, 2003 Well, things didn't go as I had hoped. The main thing is developing a parser that's generic enough to handle extended RSS metadata so the app can be used for feeds other than Neowin. Neowin uses a very simple metadata, whereas Slashdot has very extensive metadata that can be leveraged. I'd like to have the metadata that is exposed be user configurable, too. I'm also trying to get a decent object model, which I think I finally acheived. I'll give another update later this week. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1142228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtLENIN Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 url dont work :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1142242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted September 8, 2003 Author Share Posted September 8, 2003 url dont work :( Yeah, sorry. I took down the original due to a baaaad, baaaad bug I should have caught before I released it. Since then, my hard drive crashed and I lost what work I had done. I'm getting closer to a beta release... again. lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1142263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtLENIN Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 hehe.. okay ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1142322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceminess Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 any news on a beta release yet. it has been about a month. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1227391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsnotabigtruck Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 weenur, PM me for a .NET RSS DLL I made. It supports to the letter the RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, and 2.0 standards (both ones using RDF and ones without). It is more complete than some other implementations because it supports RSS modules. That would make it easier to leverage Slashdot metadata. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1227415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azcodemonkey Posted October 6, 2003 Author Share Posted October 6, 2003 any news on a beta release yet. it has been about a month. It's still coming. I've had a large project that I've actually been paid to do that has been taking all my time, as well as school. I'm going through the beta phase on the project, so it should be mostly bug fixes and ui changes for the client. I've been working on the news tray a little at a time over the past month. I've done a lot of unit testing, which is pretty rare for me. ;) Trying to pick up some better coding habits. I'd like to make this news reader flexible enough for other feeds, and easy to configure. I want to get this sucker done as much as some would like to see it done. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1228277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted November 4, 2003 Administrators Share Posted November 4, 2003 moved to Software (Branding) Contribution Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1329461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcdShdw Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 bad link Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-1329473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade2deep Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Sorry azcodemonkey but the link is not working could you provide a new link ? Thank you gladly appreciate Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-588991369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Alex- Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Haven't you noticed that EVERY thread you've replied to has been dead for 4 bloody years?! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/91794-beta-neowin-news-tray/page/3/#findComment-588991435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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