Shoutbox

Feedreader which provides toast alerts when new items come , theres also a feed reader and some other cool things


install it then click a plus menu and select rssreader -> Configure... and add a feed.

http://svn.thedt.net/release/rssreader.plsc

(subversion stuff here http://svn.thedt.net/www/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/scripts/...pts/dt/rssreader/ )

every week this will check for updates and if it finds any it will prompt you to download it.

Todo
- make two interfaces one "novice" mode and one "advanced" mode for adding/editing feeds
- a "remind me later" button for update interface

Known Bugs



Change log
Version 1.1.8
- now fully translatable using the xml files in the /languages subfolder and a language chooser in the options
- added an option to stop logging new feeds in event viewer
- added "133t" language option

Version 1.1.7
- Fixed some feeds that the xmlhttprequest didnt auto turn into xml eg http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml
- Improved the html parser
- added two default feeds for first time installers , the Plus Live site feed and the Script DB one.

Version 1.1.6
- Fixed the url replacing regular expression now it will replace urls where href isnt the first attribute.
- When sending articles from the Feed reader messages are send in groups of 1000 characters (using my new sendPartedMessage function)


Version 1.1.5
- Added Ability to enter username/password for feeds that use HTTP basic auth
- Improved errors that show when adding a script.
- when adding a script if it needs a login it will auto show the window and then redownload once you've finished

Version 1.1.3
- Added Send to Contact in feed viewer
- Added a send script to contact button in the about window
- improved html stripping function

Version 1.1.2
- started cleaning the code , all functions in rssreader.js and window.js now have comments
- a new url security window will show up if a toast url isn't a real one (eg is a bad system command or something...)

Version 1.1.1
- Increased width of feedViewer
- added about window
- added commands (/feedreload , /feedchecknow , /feedshow , /feedconfig , /feedpsdmconfig , /feedabout )
- added "check feeds now" menu item

Version 1.1.0 ( yay for skipping versions)
- Added update PSM to news item feature
- fixed a deleting feed bug which left a node after being deleted

Version 1.0.8
- Added ability to enable/disable feeds via checkboxes
- Fixed toast callbacks after api change

Version: 1.0.7
- Added Feed viewer ... to access click the plus! icon and select rssreader -> View Feeds...
(see screenshot below)

Version: 1.0.5
-Fixed mimetype problem with responseXML not loading ... now i force it to
-Fixed a extremly dodgy cacheing bug , would cause the cache to be only valid every second download.

Version: 1.0.4
- Added Atom support
- Added rss RDF support
- Improved parsing of html in toasts
- Fixed auto update showing before user is signed in (so user cant install it) - thanks absorbation for finding it.

Version: 1.0.3
-Added email me updated feeds if my status is not online (busy/away/on the phone/out to lunch/appear offline)
-Added checkbox to disable/enable auto updates
- changed rss timer to a Timer.setInterval

Version: 1.0.2
- Id's didnt get created with numbers in them , but in the add window code they did (thanks chestah for finding this)
- added clickable toasts to preview
- fixed html entitys in preview toasts


Version : 1.0.1
updated to use the different toasts so i could use formatting.
fixed the cache dies bug  , so you shouldnt get anymore toast floods.
'title' element is now shown in toasts and bolded , the next release will have an option to configure this.


Screenshots of main window , a toast and the add feed window


Update psm window



Update window


Feed viewer

Incredibly handy, nice work.

Great work -dt-

what's the RSS (if there is one) for the mess.be news

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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Originally posted by Jellings
what's the RSS (if there is one) for the mess.be news

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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www.mess.be/news.xml

messenger web news still doesn't work mate

http://www.msgweb.nl/en/msn_messenger_news.xml

with the mess.be one it gives an error when i click "parse" (error: 403: forbidden) *confused* is there a way to be able to get rss from mess.be or will it always be forbidden?

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Originally posted by Jellings

+i see a mess.be forums RSS thing in the screenshot, what's that?

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i meant i see a msghelp.net forums RSS thing in the screenshot..

latest threads feed http://shoutbox.menthix.net/backend.php?get=latestthreads

If I use the edit button to edit a feed in current feeds
I can only use the 'Add' button to confirm my modification which does not modify the original feed but create a new one
Is it a bug?

Oh I'm loving this its awesome as great work