New version RSSReader plugin

[Heyt]

But why don't you define SelectedGeneralText to something similar as GeneralText? You can define other colors for the composite images

I want to keep the selection on the selected feed, even if the focus is on the items. By this you can see in which feed you are.
The thing with another textstyle is a nice work-around. Thanks for the idea, i will use it until there is another possibility.

Just make your composite images a few pixels lower. The plugin stacks all entries in a list using their 'natural' heights. For the entries in GeneralText or SelectedGeneralText this is the font-height, for your composite images it is the size you've specified as the height of the composite image.

OK! I found the proper height for the composite images. But then there is another problem. There are some free pixel over a text line but none under it. This looks OK when no selection is on it, but if i put one on it looks some how strange. At the moment i set the y position of the text in the selection to -1 but then the text hops up and down if i change the selected item. Do you see any chance to insert something like a spacing between the lines that could be defined in the skin?

[pauly666]

I loaded the latest version last night, and when I try to connect to the Wiki to see the latest I get a pop-up window with a page error, i.e. it fails to connect.

I had the same issue with a number of the default feeds--anyone else? Some worked, some didn't. The Dilbert feed didn't work... nothing happened when selected. Works fine in my Comics plugin though.

I can attach the error messages tonight if need be, and I'm accessing via an MVP if that makes any difference.

Thanks!

[HenkH]

If some of the feeds work your network connection seems to be fine (if you run the MVP-Server as a service it might run under the 'System' account which may have other internet credentials). Have you tried accessing the feeds with a Windows Based RSS-Reader (e.g. SharpReader)?
Maybe you're on a slow or busy internet connection. The request timeout (for getting the feed and all the textual data) is hardcoded to 20 seconds, which might be too small in your situation.

[HenkH]

I've just updated the plugin at the Wiki:

Update History 4/09/2005 v.4.4

• Better support for image feeds
  
• Feeds can be marked as 'Image' in the config dialog
  
• FUNC/Delete key switches between Text and Image details (see skin.xml
• for hint text)
  
• When no skin is found the default (Blue) skin is used
  
• Appearence of nonfocused Selected feeds/items can be defined in skins
  
• Included example newsfeed_comics.xml with lots of Comics Feeds
  

[HenkH]

4/10/2005 v.4.5 (HenkH?)
- Fixed a few nasty bugs introduced in the previous release