SharpReader 0.9.3 is now available for download at sharpreader.net.
Changes since the last version are:
Lee, I'm new to this SharpReader thing I downloaded 0.9.2.1 a few days ago. I've just downloaded 0.9.3, how do I make sure the feeds I already have and are set up in 9.2.1, are saved?
Tony Goodson
Lee? who's Lee?
Either copy 0.9.3 over the old version or save it in a new directory and run from there - either way your existing feeds and items will be saved.
Posted by LUKE Hutteman at November 7, 2003 1:40 AMI have noticed that all of the releases you provide have "SharpReader.pdb" file. It means the performance is going to suffer to all of the symbolic debugging info.
thanks, Maxim
Posted by Maxim V. Karpov at November 7, 2003 8:18 AMNew version of SharpReader
I just loaded a new version of SharpReader, which is what I use to read other people's syndicated weblogs. The performance is significantly faster. If you have never used SharpReader, you can find the home page here....
Could I put in a request that the next version of Sharp Reader comes with a nice Windows Installer installation. If you develop it using VS.NET creating this takes less than 10mins.
Sharp Reader is a very good product but it would just add a bit of polish.
Martin
Posted by Martin G. Brown at November 7, 2003 8:35 AMMaxim: The reason I release debug builds including the pdb file is that this is the only way to still have linenumbers included in stacktraces. This makes tracking down the cause of any potential bug-reports a lot easier.
Martin: I'll look into that - thanks!
Ok, I have the new install. A minor issue. The popup do not follow my taskbar. I have my task bar at teh top of my screen, but the popups come from the bottom.
Posted by David Williams at November 7, 2003 9:22 AMLuke -- SharpReader is great, but there is on thing... Where is the feed list stored? I want to synchronize my feed list on my work and home computers, exporting and importing doesn't work very well for this since it always adds the new feeds in a new subdirectory...
Also, a minor bug, not sure if its fixed in the latest version. If you're viewing a feed, and the feed refreshes, any status changes of messages (like marking a message as read) will be lost when you select another feed.
Thanks for the great product!
Posted by Don McNamara at November 7, 2003 10:50 AMSharpReader's feedlist, settings and cache are stored in the C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\SharpReader directory.
That bug doesnt look like anything that was addressed in this release - I'll see if I can reproduce and fix it - thanx!
Luke, thanks for the new version. I have to say that the systray-popup feature is both surprising and cool!
Posted by aharden at November 7, 2003 11:11 AMNew SharpReader version out
lighter and faster, with a couple unexpected tasty widgets added
I SharpReader Rocks!
Just one question: how can i turn off systray-popups they are quite annoying.
Kooba
Posted by Kooba at November 7, 2003 12:38 PMKooba: right-click on "Subscribed Feeds" and select "Properties" - the feed properties pane will appear.
You can then change the "AlertNewItems" setting to "No", which will turn off the notification popup for all your feeds.
If there are certain important feeds for which you do want to be notified, you can override this setting by selecting those feeds and changing this setting for them.
Thank you for quick response!
Now i love it even more!
Kooba
Posted by Kooba at November 7, 2003 1:25 PMLuke, if there is a better place to submit bug reports please let me know. The Ctrl+O shortcut doesn't seem to work when the focus is in the feed text window.
Posted by evariste at November 7, 2003 1:32 PMI don't suppose the multi-select in headline view brings us any closer to a multi-select in the feed list? That would be much more helpful, in my opinion.
Posted by tamaracks at November 7, 2003 1:41 PMNew version of SharpReader posted
SharpReader 0.9.3, my news aggregator of choice, has just been updated....
evariste: a better place for bugreports would be an email to sharpreader-at-hutteman.com.
I'm not sure why Ctrl+O doesn't work when the internal browser has focus, but you can also use ALT-D to focus the address-bar and type new feed url there.
Posted by Luke Hutteman at November 7, 2003 2:12 PMLove the fact you don't have to be admin to run it anymore. Fantastic!
Posted by Are Bee at November 7, 2003 2:13 PMAre: one small gotcha there - while I did not test this, I'm sure you do need to be admin to initially register support for the feed:// protocol - I doubt a non-admin is allowed to register this...
Posted by Luke Hutteman at November 7, 2003 2:18 PMtamaracks: not sure the .NET TreeView component supports multi-select... Why do you feel you need this by the way? If it's just to see a combined view of multiple feeds then grouping them together in a category would also work...
Posted by Luke Hutteman at November 7, 2003 2:24 PMLuke,
It appears that the AlertNewItems is set to True for my current items when I went to 0.9.3. To be honest, this is really annoying, especially as I'm reading a post and the bottom right side of my screen starts filling up with all of these notifications ;). You may want to consider leaving this to False by default and giving the user an Options screen where this can be set to True for 1 or more feeds at a time (unless there is an easy way to do this and I'm just missing it).
Regards,
Jason
Posted by Jason Bock at November 7, 2003 4:26 PMOh, never mind - a previous post solves the issue I raised.
Posted by Jason Bock at November 7, 2003 4:28 PMHowabout allowing us to change the URL to a feed. That way we can keep the cache if the feed address changes without having duplicate entries.
Posted by Paul McNeely at November 8, 2003 1:52 AMLuke,
I have two machines that I just installed SharpReader 0.9.3 on. My feeds have begun to zero out.(0/0) My entire MSFT bloggers group archive is gone now. The machines have a nearly identical set of subscriptions.
I have not changed any seetings and have ample HD space for the feed list. Blogs that have not updated yet archives are intact. The only possible anomaly is that I have ~200 feeds.
Any ideas?
Posted by Adam Hill at November 9, 2003 1:40 PM[Multi-select] I really miss it when I have to move feeds into and out of categories. I've done some experimenting with how best to categorize my feeds and it's very hard to test when you have to move them one by one. But, I suppose if c# doesn't support it, then that's that.
Posted by tamaracks at November 9, 2003 11:19 PMNew version of SharpReader
The latest release of SharpReader boasts "faster startup and a lower memory footprint." [Waxy.org Links]...