[Applet][VGA][13 May]RSS Reader Beta 4 (Sonnar Style)

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[Applet][VGA][13 May]RSS Reader Beta 4 (Sonnar Style)

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Started 11 months ago by joelaloose
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joelaloose
Member
Let me introduce you the first beta version of my RSS Reader Applet.

Todo :
- ~~Correct the timer to allow automatic update of the news~~
- Enhance the display of the full news (drop the html tags)
- Find a better way to display the news title
- ~~Correct the display of accentuate chars~~.
- Work on other designs

The first thing you will have to do after installing this applet is selecting your favorite rss feed (configure -> Select Rss feeds) and then update the news manually (configure -> Update Now)

PS : If you are french speaker I put a set of french language rss feeds, you simply have to rename the feeds.fr.xml in feeds.xml to take them into account.

ChangeLog Beta2
- Add scrolling capacity (click on scroll button to display the 6 next news, click again to display the first ones)
- When you click on the full news you will be redirect on the online news
- Small display changes
ChangeLog Beta3
- Allow Auto Update
- Small Code Improvments
ChangeLog Beta4
- Support of accentuate chars (é,è,à,ù,ç,...)
Attachments
1. RssReaderVGABeta4.zip (30.4 KB, 1,396 downloads) 10 months old
2. RssReaderVGABeta3.zip (30.2 KB, 428 downloads) 10 months old
3. RssReaderVGABeta2.zip (30.1 KB, 386 downloads) 11 months old
4. Screen02.png (46 KB, 44 downloads) 11 months old
5. Screen01.png (130.1 KB, 47 downloads) 11 months old
6. RssReaderVGABeta1.zip (27.7 KB, 87 downloads) 11 months old
Posted 11 months ago #
Nimche
Member

Very Nice.

Thank you

Posted 11 months ago #
colorado_al
Member

Awesome! Keep up the good work!
Working well on my HTC Touch Pro!
No technical problems at all (besides the ones you mention in the todo list)
I understand that it is a beta.
A few requests?
Allows only 6 items from each feed. Any way to scroll to the additional items in the feed?
I see the "online" tab, which is also great! Perhaps allow a touch on the full text to open the web link? Not sure if this is possible, as I know that many do not have touch screen.

Great app!
+1

Posted 11 months ago #
Montecristoff
Pointui

Very nice work joelaloose!
I think a lot of Homers around here have been waiting for this...

Many thanks!
And as usual, you already know where I add it ;)

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

nice.. is it possible to change the list of the RSS that u make in this app? coz i want to put some of my medical journal RSS. thx..

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member
hey.. i've try to edit feed.xml of this app. and i can put AAP journal RSS there. but... the view limited. no scroll. and from 20 RSS topic of this journal, only 4 that can be seen in this applet.
There is also some problem when URL of the RSS is not end up with .XML. No article viewed at all.. there is one example in feed.xml of this applet. NYTimes Business.
Attachments
1. NYbusiness.png (120.8 KB, 8 downloads) 11 months old
2. AAP_journal.png (76.1 KB, 6 downloads) 11 months old
Posted 11 months ago #
michaelp
Member
Thank you for your great work on this applet. To make more use of the 2.0.28e full screen space can I respectfully request some additional work;

If you edit "while (cpt < 9)" and place it on a "non sonnar 5 day weather" background
you get this -

To better use the interactive space in the applet can I suggest
- move RSS header from top to bottom of screen (as it is read only)
- move the RSS icon to top right of screen where it can be tapped for next feed or tap n hold for settings, or you could stick with your current icons underneath each other in the top right of region

In addition it would be helpful to include an easy way to add user RRS feed URL's from within the applet

An option for the passive section of screen, should you extend your frame, would be local weather (as in today applet but reformatted to spread across the bottom of the rss display.

This applet completed my applet suite of functional, everyday, timely information on .UI!
Well done.
O2 FlameVGA, WM5, .UIv2.0.28e
Attachments
1. 9_feed_lines.png (109.2 KB, 40 downloads) 11 months old
Posted 11 months ago #
joelaloose
Member

Thank you for your feedback
- colorado_al : I add a scroll button on the new beta 2 version
- marnalom : you can edit the feeds.xml file to add your own feeds, concerning the feeds without the .xml suffix I have to investigate, I don' now for the moment.
- michaelp : to add a new feed you can edit the feeds.xml file.

question to PointUI Guys : Is it an easy way to intepret the html tags from a string, or better, a screen interpreting html ?

Posted 11 months ago #
Montecristoff
Pointui

Is it an easy way to intepret the html tags from a string, or better, a screen interpreting html ?

Not yet...
Joel has built a html renderer. I will talk with him to see if we can include some html rendering methods in scripting.

Posted 11 months ago #
rogmar
Member

Very nice.QVGA?

Posted 11 months ago #
colorado_al
Member

Thanks for the quick update!! Scroll is great! Click on full text to open web link great!
Working well on my HTC Touch Pro!

1 bug found:
When I have 6 Feeds listed under "select feeds",
When I view the feeds on the main screen, I have to click "Next Feed" 2 times at the #6 feed to get back to #1.

If I only have 5 feeds listed under "select feeds" and #6 is empty, it goes from #5 to #1 with only 1 click on "next feed"

Thanks for the great work!!!

Posted 11 months ago #
zenkinz
Member

non sonnar version and wvga please? :)

Posted 11 months ago #
TZT
Member

brilliant! QVGA version is planned? :)

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

thx for the quick update joel.. but you haven't solve any of my problem yet. you only put scroling ability in front line. but when it come for me to read, no scroling ability which i really need to read the journal. you can see my picture in my first attachment. i can only read until half of method. there is more after the method. do u mind to put scrolling ability in read section please.. thx.

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

greeting michaelp.. so u use xda flame just like me.. can u explain how can u make this lovely RSS applet to look like yours as showed in your pic.. coz honestly i don't really like sonnar background.. hehe.. i try to copy file background from nonsonnar wheather.. it works. but non like as shown in your pic above.. and one more thing michaelp.. how come your RSS applet has so many spaces? do you mind to explain a step by step direction to make this lovely RSSreader app to look just like your pic above.. explain to me just like u explain to a kid.. coz i know nothing about programing.. thx so much..

Posted 11 months ago #
joelaloose
Member

marnalom sory for your problems but you have to be a bit more patient... I have to investigate for this, I have currently no response for this issue, and developping pointui Applets is not my job, I just share what I developped for my personnal usage.

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

oke joel.. i understand.. i'll wait patiently.. i still can read it using beyondPod.. i just love to read RSS directly from home screen.. :) en your applet make it possible..

Posted 11 months ago #
michaelp
Member
Updated files 6/4/09 - marnalom, thank you for your comments. I can't take any credit as I have only mixed and modified the hard work of others.

The screen shot from post 7 was for the purpose of discussion. You will notice from my requests that several changes need to be made for it to work as it should. Some of these I have been able to do including;
- moving the 3 applet function keys to the top of screen
- allowing 12 lines of feed in a single view
- bringing the last 6 lines of feed from inactive display to interactive display by using the scroll function so the lines can be 'clicked' for details

Installation;
In folder \device\program files\home2\appletribbon\RSSReader\
- Rename your current RSSReader.cs file to oldRSSReader.cs
- Unzip, copy and rename attached RSSReader.cs.txt to RSSReader.cs in above folder
- Copy .jif files to above folder

Restart .UI Menu>Help>Disclaimer>Exit
To undo these changes simply rename/remove the new RSSReader.cs file and rename your oldRSSReader.cs to RSSReader.cs
More mods I have done here

My preferred view in black
Attachments
1. RSSblack.zip (102.1 KB, 152 downloads) 11 months old
2. RSSblack.png (81.9 KB, 18 downloads) 11 months old
3. RSSfeed.png (88.7 KB, 17 downloads) 11 months old
4. RSS6lines.png (101.1 KB, 15 downloads) 11 months old
Posted 11 months ago #
asraf09
Member

W(Q)VGA pls...

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

i have download your attachment, i have try it. thank u so much michaelp. i'm free now from sonnar background.. hihi.. (i'm sory sonnar.. your background is nice.. but i like nonsonnar background more.)
by the way michaelp.. u do a lot of modif in this pointui.. i like it. but i think it's to crowded is 42 name and application appear in home screen. 24 will do good i think..

Posted 11 months ago #
marnalom
Member

i'm now planning to learn what did u do to rssreader.cs. i also want to make modif just like u do. its trial and eror.. but there is nothing wrong about it. but its latter.. i have to focus on my exam first.. when i finnish my exam, i believe i can make a bit progression about my knowledge in programing.. hahaha... hope this isn't just a dream..

Posted 11 months ago #
michaelp
Member

Post #18 updated
If you open the RSSReader.cs in wordpad I have highlighted the values I have changed in Bold.

You will notice I have also borrowed jif files that are better suited the dark background (Thanks to messages applet)

The latest zip provides some minor repositioning of icons and allows update interval to be configured (coded but not switched on in the original release)

Posted 11 months ago #
colorado_al
Member

Any work on Auto Update instead of Manual Update?

Posted 11 months ago #
madgeek
Member

W(Q)VGA pls...

i second that. if i knew how to convert the jifs i'd do it myself.

Posted 11 months ago #
strages
Member

would indeed really like a autoupdate ;) and maybe a function that can be build into todayscreen applets.. where you can see how many rss updates there are ;)... plus a builtin rss finder.. like the weather applet.. more sms/email like rss only titles display function... man! gl there is lot of room for improvement and alrteady a lot of great work is done!

tx

Posted 11 months ago #
jafced
Member

Great Applet, very useful !
Btw I have a small bug, not a big deal but if it can be fixed it would be great. Does any french speaker/reader who checks for french rss feeds have trouble when rss feed displays "special letters" such as É - È - Ê - À - Ù - Ç - Œ - etc...
For mine, those letters don't appear and words containing those symbols are cut i.e.: "opéra" is "opra", "aprÈs" is "aprs"...
Can it be fixed ?
thanks for your replies!

Posted 11 months ago #
joelaloose
Member

Thanks all for your feedbacks,
I am close to finish the auto update stuff
@jafced : your issue is related to encoding, I already know this (I'm french speaker too) but I currently have no idea how to solve this.
I won't be at home during 10 days, so you should wait a bit for updates :(

Regards

Posted 11 months ago #
strages
Member

btw joelaloos.. is there anyway to be able to have authorisation with username and password for microblogging sites as twitter?.. the rssfeed is perfect from that site for you rapplication.. however it needs a username and password :S

btw love the application.. put it to test for real now and it actually already did most of the things i expected it to!

good work mate!

PS: if anyone knows a different solution to be able to have the twitter rss inside a normal rss client like this.. plz tell so ;)

Posted 11 months ago #
jafced
Member

Merci Joel for the reply ! I'll be patiently waiting then !

Posted 11 months ago #
azathyel
Member

Any QVGA version so far?

Cheers from Spain

Posted 11 months ago #