September 26th, 2011· Articles grouping can be preserved now across sessions.
· Workspace child-windows now contain the close-button.
· Enhanced International language support.
· Misc tweaks and improvements.
April 8th, 2011Newsboxes:
· System newsboxes are now displayed at the top of the Boxes menu.
· System newsboxes hot-keys: Ctrl+F1 - Ctrl+F5.
· Boxes menu now contains "New" menu item, which allows us to create the newsbox from the menu, at particular hierarchy level.
Newsbox Summary/Preview Pane:
· Increased articles selection speed.
· Rooster no longer uses temporary html file for Preview Pane content.
· Preview Pane now displays multiple selection content.
· Options/Preview Pane category.
· Now we can specify the font, and default font size, for newsbox summaries.
· Font sizes can be changed dynamically, for individual newsboxes.
· Specific font size can be set for each newsbox.
· Option to use the same column widths for all newsboxes.
· Now we can change the order of columns.
· Tag the entire summary switch.
March 30th, 2011Windows Management:
· Two interface styles merged into one. Now we can dock/undock principal windows individually (boxes, feeds, tasks).
· Articles can be opened now inside the main workspace window.
· Newsboxes can be opened now outside the main workspace window.
· Workspace statusbar.
· Workspace Window menu.
· Workspace windows navigation hot-keys: Ctrl+Tab [next], Ctrl+Shift+Tab[previous].
· Workspace window is new default pilot window if "Move windows together" is checked.
· When starting up the session, Rooster now reopens all tools-windows that were not closed manually when the session was ended.
· Windows system menus and the tray menu updated.
· Misc improvements and bug-fixes.
Idle Mode:
· Mouse movements alone now do not count as user activity. (This due increasingly high mice sensibility.)
· So to break from Idle-Mode user has to press the button on the keyboard, or click with the mouse.
· News-Watch (global periodic check) is now automatically suspended in Idle Mode.
· Manual Idle Mode switch. Relevant menu is: "Session/Enter Idle Mode".
· Now we can manually resume individual pending tasks (via "Task/Resume" menu).
General:
· Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when opening large number of articles.
· [x64] Fixed a bug that would prevent opening and/or correct display of newsbox summaries.
· Rooster no longer uses temporary files to store articles on display.
· Search engine updated.
· Plain text editor now displays URLs in blue letters. URL-cursor over URLs.
· Opening of plain text URLs integrated into general link-policy (on/off line, history, security).
· Fixed incorrect release # number display at the About box.
Common Dialogs:
· Rooster now uses pre-Vista version of file-selection dialog.
· File-selection dialogs are now systematically closed and destroyed on exit.
March 9th, 2011Feeds List:
· Multiple selection / Perform action on several selected feed simultaneously.
· Miscellaneous graphical enhancements.
· Dynamic search "as you type".
General:
· Various stability improvements.
· Default article HTML token updated.
· More accurate articles age calculation.
December 11th, 2010General:
· Rooster 64-bit Edition.
· Configuration files can now be stored in users data folders.
Enclosures:
· Enclosures naming convention.
· Article/enclosure internal pop-up menu -> Apps key/Righ click.
· Article/enclosure Windows Explorer pop-up menu -> Shift+F10;
· Article/View/Set Focus On/Enclosure Pane.
· Article/Enclosure pane updated.
· Enclosure double-click event (Open).
· Open+[Shift]: Open enclosure, hide program interface.
· Open enclosures with: Default application / Specific media player.
· Additional command-line parameters for openning enclosures.
· Article/Enclosure/Download hot-key: Ctrl+Ins.
· All selected enclosured passed (as a list) to the application, on Tools/Enclosures -> Multiple selection + Open.
· Added file-types security check on Tools/Enclosures -> Selection + Open.
· Enclosures Tool: Enclosure double-click event (Open).
· File-type icons are drawn now on Enclosures Tool list.
· Enclosures Tool: Opened enclosures are displayed in different color.
· I am color-blind so I don't know how to describe it, but it's red 128, green 128 and blue 128.
· Fixed broken dynamic update of enclosures list.
· Filter bar. When active - show only matching enclosures.
· Enclosures Tool status bar.
· Misc improvements.
User Settings:
· Setting sub-categories.
· Reset settings to default values, per (sub) category.
December 30th, 2009General:
· Misc security enhancements.
· Misc graphical interface enhancements.
Storage Space:
· Non-portable mode - Store settings inside the Windows Registry.
· Non-portable mode: Maintain same settings for all users.
August 6th, 2009· Download Headers" option.
· By default, it's "On" for (new) UNG subscriptions and "Off" for (new)
· RSS subscriptions.
· Feed/Properties/Formatting: Display online content (by default).
· Article/View/Offline now "sticks" regardless of Feed/Formatting, or
· Offline mode settings.
· Offline Mode has a precedence over "per article settings" (Article/View/Offline).
· Feed/Formatting determines initial Article/View/Offline option.
· Fixed a bug bug that would cause a crah on startup, if some configuration files
· are not present. [3.1]
· XP common-controls style is supported now.
· News-Strip.
· Article Window
· RSS articles: Feed logo is displayed, at the top right corner
· of the window, scaled to 48x48 pixels.
· UNG articles: X-Face is displayed, at the top right corner
· of the window.
· Enclosure list & pane.
· Enclosure Download/Open button.
· Filters
· Incoming filters" were ignored in some cases.
· Faster filters processing.
May 24th, 2009· Templates
· Drafts can be created now from pre-defined drafts i.e. templates.
· Templates box.
· Usenet Newsgroups
· Basic support for Usenet Newsgroups.
· New type of subscription: Usent newsgroup.
· Options/Usenet Servers.
· HTTP Feeds Redirection
· If server returns 301, 302 or 303 ("Moved Permanently", "Found" or "See Other")
· feed URL is replaced with the new one, if new location is specified.
· Old URL is appended to the Links History.
· If server returns 300 or 307 ("Multiple Choices" or "Temporary Redirect")
· feed URL for the task is replaced with the new one, if new temporary location
· is specified. Subscription information is not updated.
· New temporary URL is appended to the Links History.
· Added support for "soft" redirection. That's when the feed content indicates
· new location, instead of the RFC headers. Old URL is appended to the Links History.
· Newsbox Summaries/Articles
· Forward (selected) article(s).
· Article/Save As/Template.
· Additional toolbar icons.
· General
· Faster major online operations.
· Major online operations are yet more resources efficient.
· Logging significantly expanded.
· New set of sample subscriptions.
· EDS
· Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if certain functions are invoked from the addin.
· EDS addins are now thread-safe objects.
· New method: DisplayLog().
· Single Window Interface
· Action/New/Draft Using: Plain Text/HTML/[Template].
· Session/Quit menu item.
· Multiple Windows Interface
· Desktop toolbar options: always on top/pilot/switch interface style/close.
· Desktop toolbar now contains custom made buttons.
May 5th, 2009· Posting
· Now it's possible to post the articles.
· Author options.
· Composing Articles options.
· Posting Articles options.
· Feed Properties/Posting options.
· System newsboxes: Drafts & Posted.
· Browsing Articles
· Auto-close current article, after transferring.
· "Locate" article didn't work quite right in some cases.
· General
· Main program description changed from "RSS Reader" to "News Agent".
· Select All/None was ignored when the article is edited.
· Various improvements on message indexing.
· Notifications
· Options/Notifications: Show newsbox tray icon.
· Newsbox tray icon balloon.
· Right click on the icon re-opens the balloon.
· GI
· Now it's possible to switch on/off Boxes and Feeds panes (SMW mode).
· Misc improvements related to the panes layout.
· Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if the combo box is empty, while
· closing settings controls.
· SMW: View/Top Newsbox/Set Focus.
· SMW: View/Top Newsbox/Close.
April 22nd, 2009· Edit/Save the Article
· Now it's possible to edit/save the articles.
· Standard edit-text operations: Cut, copy & paste.
· Switch article format from/to HTML to/from Plain Text.
· Insert current date/time in long/short format.
· Insert text from file.
· Rot13 encryption/decryption (use for spoilers and other fun trivia...).
· Edited/Not Edited status-bar indicator.
· General
· Added support for RDF-formatted feeds.
· Carriage-return + line-feed pair order/presence dynamically adjusted on article
· download and index rebuild. Pairs are converted from UNIX/Mac to Windows standard.
· Main Menu/Browse/Subscriptions was not available when invoked from a article
· or newsboard window.
· Task progress indicator was not accurate when downloading enclosures in some cases.
· Additional Desktop icons scaling; matching Vista's 48x48 & 24x24 i icons.
· (If you are really really really missing those 64x64 icons, let me know...)
· Article/Locate was broken if triggered right after the article is transferred.
· File Articles [NFA-Files]
· Article/Locate -> Open the folder.
· File-article status/priority is now saved/read from specific RFC header.
· Misc improvements.
March 24th, 2009· Subscription Groups [Properties]
· Member subscriptions pane.
· Summary pane (default).
· General
· Misc graphical updates.
· Enclosures
· Enclosures Tool.
· Feed/Properties/Enclosures: Files are hosted via proxy
November 27th, 2008· News Ticker
· Resume scrolling after __ seconds.
· Auto-clear articles published before [age category].
November 19th, 2008Find Articles:
· New criteria: Category/Annotation/Feed Alias.
· New conjunction options: is/is not/starts with/ends with/matches RegExp.
· Faster search.
· Multiple threads search. / Single thread per newsbox.
· Conditions/Reset.
· Results/Selected Items/Clear.
· Options/Browsing Articles: Clear Results when closing Find Articles window.
· Misc improvements.
Filters:
· Save/Append/Load Filters Set.
· Filters/Clear.
· Match case option.
· New criteria: Headers Block/Enclosure Name/Feed Title/Feed Alias/Newsbox Name/Tag/Category/Annotation.
· New conjunction options: is/is not/starts with/ends with/matches RegExp.
· Filters Manager menus.
Tokens:
· Tokens Manager tool.
· Token: Edit/Duplicate.
· Options/Tokens: Apply article/feed specific tokens for the Preview Pane.
· If on-display token is specified for the feed, plain text
· articles are displayed with HTML viewer by default.
General:
· Various Demo-Mode restrictions replaced with 30-days trial period.
· Fixed a bug where articles could me "merged" when multiple feed
· subscriptions are linked with the single newsbox.
· Faster articles transfer and articles download.
· Multiple windows layout: Fixed "invisible newsbox window" bug.
· Options/Startup: Load menu item images.
· Misc interface tweaks and bug-fixes.
· Show Splash Screen.
Feed Properties:
· Advanced Info pane.
· Web Sites options.
· Carbon Copies options.
November 8th, 2008· If on-display token is specified for the feed, plain text articles are displayed with HTML viewer by default.
· Multiple windows layout: Fixed "invisible newsbox window" bug.
Feed Properties:
· Advanced Info pane.
· Web Sites options.
· Carbon Copies options.
July 18th, 2008· Display Tray-animation on new articles.
· Tray-animation options (Options/System Tray).
· Fixed a bug where Tray-animation is not displayed when
· "Always display icon in System Tray area" is not checked.
· Faster articles download.
· All options are now available in Demo-Mode.
· Misc tweaks and improvements.
· Help/Send Feedback.
· Fixed a bug that would make newsbox window invisible, right after Newsbox Properties dialog is closed with Enter.
May 7th, 2008· System Tray Options
· Display Tray-animation on new articles.
· Tray-animation options (Options/System Tray).
· Fixed a bug where Tray-animation is not displayed when
· "Always display icon in System Tray area" is not checked.
December 4th, 2007· Full WinSock support.
· Newsbox Category column.
· More detailed task messages.
· Single Main Window GI style: Tasks pane splitter.
· Article/Newsbox Summary: Open referred website.
· Article/Newsbox Summary: Open website with comments.
· Fixed a bug where Tray-animation would stop on simultaneous downloads.
· Fixed a bug where fixed size and adjustable buffering options where swapped.
· Newsbox tray icon.
· This icon indicates that new articles were downloaded to particular newsbox. Tooltip text displays number of new articles.
· Click on that icon to open the particular newsbox.
· Enclosures: Faster download.
· Articles List: "Enclosure Available" graphical indicator.
· Article/Newsbox Summary/Enclosure: Download.
· Article/Newsbox Summary/Enclosure: Open URL.
· Settings/information panels.
· Download articles: Published since the last check.
· Download articles: Published during the last _X_ days.
· Download enclosures: Skip enclosures over _X_ KB in size.
· Notifications: Global/Feed specific.
· Auto-check: Skip hours.
· Auto-check: Exclude from the News Watch.
· User description.
· Status information.
· Text input.
· User identification.
· Program identification.
· Feed information (basic/advanced/exotic).
· Feed logo.
· Summary of active settings.
· Filters - Filter action: Generate Filter Report. Updated GI.
· Tokens are now applied "on display" - articles are stored inside the newsboxes in their original format.
· The "old school" application will be available in different form.
· Article/View/Apply Token menu item.
· This menu displays all available tokens. Tokens can be applied on articles "on the fly".
· Tokens can also be applied automatically. See Feed/Properties/Formatting.
· Fixed a bug where incorrectly formatted token could case "spinning" when the article is opened.
· Options/Tokens: Open selected token.
October 25th, 2007· General Interface Style (Options/Windows Layout)
· There are now 2 main styles: Single Main Window (3 Panes)
· & Multiple Main Windows.
· Addins are displayed on, and can be started from, the Tools menu.
· COM addin can no longer start Rooster (via COM interface) if Automation is disabled.
· Ticker menu added to the main program menu.
· Main program menu can be accessed from the Ticker window (Hot-key: Alt R).
· Removed the button from the main panel.
· Ticker Options Panel (Options/News Ticker)
· Auto-clear: Read articles / Deleted articles.
· Auto-clear options: Immediately after opening/deleting / Every _X_ minutes.
· Fixed a bug that would prevent the sizing, in same cases.
· Options/Startup/Always Open/News Ticker.
· Article author is displayed next to the headline now.
· Custom background/text colors.
· Auto-stop on unread items.
· General miscellaneous UI tweaks & improvements.
· Browse/Tokens opens the Tokens folder.
· New installer.
August 17th, 2007· Now it's possible to assign CE (Character Encoding) per article basis.
· Initially, Rooster sets the CE for the article depending on the "language" tag, if present. (If the language tag is not present, System Default CE is set.)
· When the CE is changed/set for the article, it applies not only for the HTML viewer, but for the text viewer and text labels as well (Author/Feed/Headline/Date).
· Now it's possible to assign CE per newsbox basis.
· (Initial CE for the newsboxes is System Default.)
· Fixed a bug where System Default CE wouldn't be identified correctly.
· Added support for Windows code pages.
· Newsboard/Save As (Ctrl S), Newsboard/Print (Print P), View/Source, View/Print Preview, View/Text Size/Increase (Ctrl 8), View/Text Size/Decrease (Ctrl 2), View/Text Size/Normal (Ctrl 5), View/Find Text (F3), View/Character Encoding
· Updated Newsboard token
· Fixed a bug that would cause a crash on exit, in some cases, if Newsboard(s) is/are left open.
· Newsboard now operates in two modes: Feed (online) and File mode. File mode allows us to view rss/atom files.
· Rooster now opens rss/atom files via command-line.
· If Rooster is registered as default feeds reader, it's registered as default application for "rss" and "atom" file types as well.
E-Mail Forwarding Options:
· Quote only the selected text.
· Strip HTML tags by default ([ Shift] for original format).
· Quote sign for plain text forwards.
· Word wrap at column # (for plain text forwards).
· Quote sign for HTML forwards: None/Indent/Quote Bar/Small Quote/Cite.
· Quote lines: Top line. Quote lines: Bottom line.
· Tasks window on new tasks: Show
· Tasks window on new tasks: Restore
· Tasks window on new tasks: Minimize
· Tasks window when there are no active tasks: Minimize
· Tasks window is now closed if there are no active tasks and "Close" is checked, for no active tasks action.
· Search results can again be opened with a double-click (1.6).
· Conjunction option "Does not contain" was missing.
· Help button.
· Action: Play the Sound
· Action: Display at Newsticker
· Action: Print
· Action: Open the Article
· Action: Open the Newsbox
· Action: Display Information-Dialog
· Action: Copy to Newsbox
· Action: Delete
· Demo-Mode is restricted to 5 filters.
· Misc improvements.
· Article: Priority statusbar pane now displays images.
· Article: Tag statusbar pane now displays image.
· Article: Enclosure statusbar pane now displays enclosed file name, if any.
· Article: View/Text Size/Increase (Ctrl 8), View/Text Size/Decrease (Ctrl 2), View/Text Size/Normal (Ctrl 5), View/Select/All (Ctrl A), View/Select/None (Ctrl N), View/Find Text (F3), View/Character Encoding
· OPML: Outline sub elements (tags) were not scanned.
· Groups, for imported feeds are automatically created, if present.
· OPML: For convenience sake, groups are automatically derived from parent's outline tag, if parent outline tag indicates "a group of feeds". Those new groups are assigned to Feeds imported from "child" outline elements.
· Select all items hot-key: Ctrl A
· Deselect all items hot-key: Ctrl N
July 6th, 2007· Extra Warnings (See Options/Extra Warnings).
· Network options are available in Demo-Mode now.
· Brand new tasks management!
· Tasks lists now populates >100x faster.
· Stop-task from outside the thread.
· Stop-task hot-key: Esc.
· Maximum number of concurrent tasks.
May 27th, 2007· Fixed a bug that would cause "spinning" when large number of articles is transferred from one newsbox to another. / Faster articles transfer.
· Rooster now stores subscription information inside the OPML-files.
· General Tools: Import Subscribed Feeds
· General Tools: Export Subscribed Feeds
· Command-line support for OPML-files.
March 29th, 2007· Rooster is now more tolerant towards incorrectly formatted RFC dates.
· Fixed a bug that would cause valid published-dates to be replaced with download-dates.
· Faster date-sorting.
· Articles that are opened 10 times or more are flagged with the Star (next to the Headline).
· Articles that are published within the last hour are flagged with Chili Paper (next to the Date).
· Articles that are published more then 7 days ago are flagged with the Ice Cube (next to the Date).
· Now it's possible to speciffy ISO character sets for box list items and the preview pane.
· Supported character sets are: Western European (iso-8859-1, us-ascii), Japanese (x-sjis), Korean (johab), Chinese Simplified (gb2312), Chinese Traditional (big5), Central European (iso-8859-2), Cyrillic (iso-8859-5), Arabic (iso-8859-6), Greek (iso-8859-7), Hebrew (iso-8859-8), Turkish (iso-8859-9), Thai (iso-8859-11), Baltic (iso-8859-13)
· To specify default character set for particular newsbox click: View/Encoding.
· If System Default menu item is checked, default character set for particluar newsbox will
· be Windows default character set.
· News ticker displays headlines for downloaded articles.
· To open the particular article, click on the underlined headline.
· To have News Ticker notify you about the articles from particular feed, check
· "Add to News Ticker" at the Feed Properties dialog.
· To open the News Ticker manually, click Tools/News Ticker.
· To open News Ticker pop-up menu: At the top right corner, you will see itsy bitsy teeny weeny
· dot. Click on it!
· Flagged articles can not be deleted.
· New hotkey for Box/Article/Delete: [Delete] button.
· New token macros
· Removed obsolete "Preserve HTML formatting" option from the Feed Properties.
· To locate particular article in the newsbox summary, click Locate from the Article menu.
· Main article headers are displayed at the article window.
· Fixed a bug that would cause Box/Article/Selection menu grayed out if there are selected articles,
· after articles downloaded to an empty newsbox.
· Fixed a bug where Delete Article menu item/toolbar is grayed out if article transferred from trash.
· Fixed a bug where new settings are reset when the second program instance is started.
· Rooster is now more tolerant towards not standardized feeds.
· Network Options
· Newsbox/Cabinet/Box Set Menu: Find Articles menu item (Hot-key: Ctrl Shift F)
· Open Find Articles window with selected item checked (If Cabinet/Box Set, all child-items are checked).
· Help updated (a little bit).
March 19th, 2007· Article Tags
· To set up the tags click Options/Tags.
· Single tag consist of the color label and the text line.
· Article Flag
· Article Priority
· Use tags, flags and article-priority to categorize and prioritize articles.
· Print Article
· Print Preview
· Tasks-active: Stop the task. (Hot-key: Esc)
· Tasks-inactive: Clear the task item from the list. (Hot-key: Delete)
· Tasks-all: Log selected task description. (Hot-key: Ctrl L)
· Tasks-all: Copy selected task description. (Hot-key: Ctrl C)
· Bow window: Articles list rows are higher for 2 pixels.
· Bow window: Articles list row focus rectangle is now drawn around the entire row.
· Box window: Articles list is now populated/cleared much faster.
· Tasks window now contains the toolbar.
· Article window: Print, Tag, Priority, Browse Previous/Next toolbar buttons.
· Box window: Select Article(s) toolbar button.
· Number of GUI improvements.
January 17th, 2007· Fixed a bug where some feed groups are not displayed on the Feeds window when feeds.ini imported from Feeds Eudora plugin.
· Added status bar for the Article window
· Toolbar for the article window
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