Informant Documentation
Version Changes
- 1.0.0, Preview Release 3
- Fixed the server login code for servers that require authentication.
- Fixed the Connection window so that it displays quotes properly, in the right font size, and refreshing properly. Also greyed it slightly, and made it a tad larger.
- Disabled the "Kill" button on the Connection window.
- Completed the article quoting functionality, including the "Quote" button, and the quoting settings, including sig stripping.
- Made sure that the buttons in the Manager window are added/deleted when newsgroups are subscribed to or unsubscribed from.
- Fixed the grey ghosting in the headers list in the Newsgroup window.
- Fixed a problem when storing double-quotes; before, it would display a bunch of backslashes wherever there was a quote. Now, it'll just display the quote.
- Added a confirmation dialog when sending posts.
- Added attributions when quoting (e.g., "On <date>, <author> wrote:").
- Fixed some incomplete code used when displaying message headers on the Newsgroup window; it should now be able to display any headers.
- Enabled inserting your signature before you actually compose a post, rather than afterwards.
- Added '*' for an entry in the Newsgroup window, if its article has been downloaded, and 'R' for an entry, if the article has been read. This won't be immediately updated.
- New posts are now by default queued, then sent immediately.
- Added an option to not send messages immediately (just queue them).
- Added a "Send Queue" button on the Newsgroup window, which sends all queued messages. This makes Informant basically an offline newsreader.
- Fixed a major bug that was chopping out two characters in certain messages.
- Fixed a bug in the newsgroup window, which was getting confused when the References header had trailing spaces. This should fix "Unexpected error in [this window]" errors.
- Added an uninstaller app, "Informant Uninstaller"
- 1.0.0, Preview Release 2
- Disabled the "Download Attachment" menu item (it doesn't do anything).
- Fixed a bug in the Newsgroups window that caused Informant to crash when you clicked on "Subscribe" with no newsgroups downloaded.
- Changed "Double-click here to load list" to "Double-click here to display list" in the Newsgroups window.
- Fixed the "Double-click here to display list" display in the Newsgroups window. Now, if you have no newsgroup list, that prompt will not be displayed.
- Fixed a bug that caused a debugging file called "Informant.temp" to be created in the user's home directory. This file can safely be deleted.
- Added code to log in to servers that require authentication. Still untested.
- Added "Download bodies with headers" code.
- Changed the "Newsgroups" button on the Manager window to be labelled "Subscriptions".
- Cleaned up some debugging code.
- Fixed the quoting code, thanks to J. B. Moreno.
- Added Irfon-Kim Ahmad's icon.
- Made Informant a registered viewer for MIME type "text/news"
- 1.0.0, Preview Release 1
Initial release.