What's new in Desktop BBC News 1.01
Jul 26, 2017
- Rare crash at start-up.
- Minor interface changes.
- Faster start-up.
New in Desktop BBC News 1.00 (May 6, 2015)
- Added: Video icon for video news items.
- Fixed: Crash at startup
- Fixed: View Using External Viewer in main context menu.
- Other: Entirely new method for parsing news items.
- Other: Old settings are lost due to a much faster rewrite.
- Other: Interface changes to the Article summary window.
- Other: Internal code improvements.
New in Desktop BBC News 0.99 Beta (Jul 8, 2013)
- Portable mode. See documentation.
- Added: Support within Settings - Interface for selecting a specific web browser.
- Added: Command line parameters. See documentation.
- Added: View Item Using (Built-in|External) Viewer to feed item context menu.
- Added: Summary Start/End colour settings to Settings - Colours area.
- Added: Direct link to the news item when using Copy to Clipboard.
- Fixed: Sometimes clicking a news item would result in multiple browsers opening.
- Fixed: Built-in Browser's location/size wasn't always being saved.
- Updated news links.
- Improved the dropdown feed selection menu.
- Significant internal code improvements.
- Further startup speed improvements.
New in Desktop BBC News 0.98 Beta (Jul 8, 2013)
- Fixed: Crash when entering an invalid address into the browser.
- Fixed: A number of somewhat rare crashes.
- Improved the main window's listview.
- Faster startup.
- Minor changes.
New in Desktop BBC News 0.97 Beta (Jan 28, 2010)
- Added: Hide Window Header to the main context menu and Settings window.
- Added: Mark All As Read to the main context menu.
- Added: Colours section to the Settings window.
- Added: Read Article Cache purging to the Settings Feeds window.
- Fixed: Somewhat rare crash when viewing articles.
- Other: Feed refresh rate can now be dropped down to 1 minute.
- Other: Small changes and additions.
New in Desktop BBC News 0.96 (Jan 28, 2010)
- Added: Disabling of the BBC News logo link at the top of the main window.
- Other: Updated the Pique exception library.
New in Desktop BBC News 0.95 (Jun 16, 2008)
- Fixed: String-to-Boolean startup error
New in Desktop BBC News 0.94 (Jun 14, 2008)
- Added: Right-click the Summary window now displays a context menu
- Added: Copy to Clipboard to the main list context menu
- Fixed: The Summary window caused the main window to change position when opening
- Fixed: Return/Enter was refreshing instead of showing the selected article
- Other: Lots of minor changes
New in Desktop BBC News 0.92 Beta (May 24, 2008)
- Fixed: "Latest Published Stories" was not being downloaded at startup.
- Fixed: Partially corrupted icon images due to the dotNet 1.1 compiler.
- Fixed: Removed window flicker at startup.
- Other: Changed colours of Feed Summary window for a sleeker look.
- Other: Enabling Prevent Dragging now prevents the window from being sized.
- Other: Updated for Windows Vista.