NetNewsWire 2.1b33 Change Notes
23 April 2006
This page lists the changes in NetNewsWire since 2.1b32
The current beta of NetNewsWire is available via the beta page. The current release version of NetNewsWire is available via the NetNewsWire home page.
Changes since 2.1b32
Demo expiration fix
The beta-time-bomb code and normal demo expiration code were both running, which could lead to a bogus time-bomb message. Fixed.
+ button in lower-left corner
If you hold down option key and click on the desktop to hide NetNewsWire, then come back to NetNewsWire, the + button would be the smart list button. Fixed.
NewsGator Syncing: try refresh, and then check if unreachable
In a previous beta, when refreshing feeds via NewsGator, NetNewsWire first checked to see if NewsGator was reachable (via SCNetworkCheckReachabilityByName) -- but for some people this seemed always to say NewsGator was not reachable, even if it was, so their feeds didn't get refreshed. So now we check for reachability only in the case of a download error. If not reachable, then we assume the user is offline. (Which may not always be true, given the apparent weirdness with SCNetworkCheckReachabilityByName, but at least feeds will get refreshed, which is the main thing.)
Also: instead of just posting the offline message once to the Errors List window, it's done every time. This makes diagnosis of problems simpler. (If you refresh and get an error message as opposed to refreshing and getting nothing.)
NewsGator Syncing: turn off sync message
If there's an error connecting to NewsGator, the error sheet does now say that you can turn off syncing temporarily and turn it back on later. (There already was an Open Sync Preferences button on this sheet.)
Subscribing and feed: URLs
If you click Subscribe, then paste a feed: URL into the sheet, it will now work to subscribe to that feed.
Combined View Spacing
Possibly fixed some lingering bugs with Combined View spacing. (I couldn't reproduce them in the first place -- but I made it more aggressive about figuring out spacing, which may do the trick.)
