RE: ANN: Ticker.app (RSS monitor, alpha release).

[Marko Riedel]

Hello there,

I fixed some bugs in Ticker.app and changed some of its behaviour. 
It should now work with Google RSS feeds e.g. 

    http://news.google.de/?output=rss

Fixes:

* replaced NSUTF8StringEncoding by NSASCIIStringEncoding as this is what
lynx outputs

* headlines are now sorted by date if present in the RSS feed; the most
recent headline appears first

* the feeds panel is not displayed on startup if the user already has some
windows configured.

The homepage of Ticker.app is here:

     http://www.gnustep.it/marko/Ticker/index.html
 
BTW you need a dictionary of the English locale settings in order to parse
dates with NSCalendarDate (method dateWithString:calendarFormat:). Is
there a better way than doing


static id _english = nil;

+ (NSDictionary *)englishLocale
{
    if(_english == nil){
        NSBundle *gbundle = [NSBundle bundleForLibrary:@"gnustep-base"];
        NSString *path = 
            [gbundle pathForResource:@"English"
                     ofType:nil
                     inDirectory:@"Languages"];
        if(path!=nil){
            _english = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
        }
    }

    return _english;
}

Best regards,

Marko





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