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[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yes this may well be the case, I guess you are cooking the files (so you get the usual problem of them being copied to windows first). Try replacing the Facebook.ApiApp.dll in the RSSTab install folder with the one from the cab, hopefully that will show if that is the problem or not.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

I have the FBApi file in the installation folder, as it is in the cab file. I have the facebook tab the FBApi from the Facebook Tab.cab. FB tab works fine. RSS tab only when the error occurs.

this is a screenshot from the installfolder
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
I think when you cook files, it replaces any duplicates since when it builds it, it copies everything to \windows\ first and then to where it needs to go. Try extracting the file out of the RSS cab and placing in same dir as the RSSUtil app.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

no, that everything was correct. I have found the error. the file was write protected for whatever reason. I saved this and then it goes

thanks
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Glad it is sorted!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

no.

the clou is: rename the \Windows\Facebook.ApiApp.dll to \Windows\_Facebook.ApiApp.dll in the RSS pack and which remains in the Facebook tab as it is. and then it works well with the neighbors

pixelfreak
[Windows Mobile Software Development] light_n_roses:
I'll test you and let you know !
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
A thanks and a virtual gold star for you! Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] light_n_roses:
mhm the 269..._manila file has the sma code of the RSS tab for this new tab right ?!?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yes, it replaces the files it refers to instead of changing that one.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] light_n_roses:
mhm so I have to install the norma RSS tab with facebook funcionality and then the facebook theme right ?!?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

i have a problem with the RSS tab Ver.4 with the Kyrillisch (Russian) language.

many thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
The theme would work with any of the later versions, it's just the same as the other theme but different colours/icons.

Unfortunately it appears that the encoding of the file is not supported, I was hoping to resolve issues with file encoding later. At present I'm not able to work on it.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

which must be berabeitet file. or must be created a new file?

pixelfreak
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
I can't remember now, but I think it will attempt to load and covert the file format itself (compact .net has limited support for encoding).

Are you downloading the file from the RSSTab or through RSSHub?

The file ideally needs to be UFT-8. If possible let me know what encoding the file is, or post the feed link.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

I have one link. The files are also generated and have been all UTF-8 format. It is where the problem differently. The RSS reader does, but in the tab there brobleme. He can not even open chxxx.xml sometimes. Some files are in

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

utf-8 can i read. the other files can i not read. NOT OPEN THIS FILE

if I have a file that can not be opened in UTF-8 encode and the headline with encoding: utf-8 writing, so they are opened. but with the wrong characters. When I feed the xml file in UTF-16 save and bring notepad and save it in unicode, then open the file and also the characters are right in Cyrillic

you have to do just that all be saved in unicode, and also be downloaded and where. may be that the file is in the Meltwater.RSSSystem.dll. there are many ?????
[Windows Mobile Software Development] master_lie:
Russian Language

That has translated the entire file to support the Russian language.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

many thanks friend

i have the manila in my kitchen.Now I just have to wait on meltweater until he has a rat for the coding error
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
ronny2005 and master_lie, PM me with your codes from the settings pages and I'll send you Donate codes.

Unfortunately the support for international text coding is reduced in compact .net, so where in normal .net you can switch between them easily, compact .net you can only convert some (sometimes it also depends on your rom).

So far I think it can handle UFT-8, gb2312, iso-8859-1, I guess the windows-1251 file is the one causing problems. Note, if you convert the encoding of the file you'll need to change the xml encoding name too probably.

Something you can try is to change the xml encoding name to gb2312 or iso-8859-1 and see if it can deal with it (without changing the file encoding). If it can, then a fix is a lot simpler.

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At the moment I do not have any time available for WM coding, so I'm not able to work on and test a solution for this (from past work it is non-trivial due to the poor .net support). My WM phone is no longer my primary device, as it was I was leaving it running android more and more, only switching back for the RSSTab or SatNav.

I have however found an excellent android podcast program which does practically everything I had in mind for the RSSTab (and more). BeyondPod addresses many of the issues I've had with normal podcast programs, and it does an excellent job of keeping my feeds up to date and ready for viewing.

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[Windows Mobile Software Development] -pixelfreak-:
re

that's a shame for you not to continue working on this app. there is still some use where your tab. It must indeed be generated only creates all the xml file in unicode. in any file is indeed now a part of the encoding specified

it is not the problem in what the headline is the xml rather than what the xml file is stored. I can gb2312, iso-8859-1, windows-1251 and they have abpeichern in unicode. and they are all readable. the problem lies solely in the fact that all files with. xml is stored in Unicode, otherwise they are not readable
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yes, it has been a difficult choice, but I may return to it at some point but at the moment I am focusing on other projects. As it was, all it would have taken is a drop of my phone and I'd not be able to develop any more anyway.

You can be sure that I'll bring some interesting developments to whatever new project I approach, always like to push the boundaries of what we can do with our devices.

Huge thanks to everyone for their support with my development work so far.

UPDATE:

Another thing is that other projects may well provide additional features which I can then bring back to the RSSTab in time. Currently there is one particular feature which I'm experimenting with on my other project which could prove VERY useful to the RSSTab.

Not sure I understand, I think you are saying that it only works if they are converted to UTF-8, which is fair enough. The donate version may do it slightly differently, I can't remember right now (but you are welcome to have a donate code to try it).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] User_99:
Thx for your effort and making RSSTab. Last version is working fine here and via RSS hub update the encoding problem is not a big problem.

Maybe you will come back with some great new features and solutions for RSStab :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] JDog2pt0:
Having a small problem with RSShub. It doesn't support .rss e.g. "XXXXX/XXX/XXX.rss"

Anybody run into this issue before?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
I've not come across .rss files before, I imagine they are identical to .xml files just different ext. Not tried it with the update method from the tab itself, perhaps that may work, I suggest you post an example url so others can experiment.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] JDog2pt0:
Thanks for the reply. That was one of the first things that came to mind, howerver I am greeted with this error : Unable to read file : \Program Files\RSS Not sure if it's being cut short or what because there is no just "RSS" folder.

Here is a link

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/zip/index.rss
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Ok, looking at the file it is xml but perhaps non-standard RSS format (or at least different enough to break things).

Your options:

1. You may be able to edit the RSSHub channels.opml file directly and insert the url - I guess RSSHub filters out other exts (just make a copy of another channel and ensure you increment the id's). Make a backup first of your RSSHub feed directory just in case.

2. Use a different RSS Reader, i.e. one that supports GoogleReader and add it in there (GoogleReader seems to support it).

3. Add the feed to a new Google Feedburner feed, you can then choose the feedname and it'll probably clean up the input feed. [RECOMMENDED]

Let me know if you want help with any of the above options, I think option 3 is probably the simplest solution (if you don't have a google feedburner account I can just create the feed for you).

In fact try this (just created a feed for you to try):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/JDog2pt0Craigslist

If it works, then try creating your own...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] JDog2pt0:
Meltwater, you aren't going to believe what it was. If you hadn't posted the feedburner link, I would have never figured it out. Anyways, it was because I didn't have the "http://" in the link.

Also, that was the link I wanted to work. I'm a cheap bastard :o Though, in my defense, I did get a free turtlebeach headset using that. :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] JDog2pt0:
Donated, not sure what to do next.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
PM me the code from your advanced settings page, and I'll send you a code to enter for your device.

Thank you for your support and I am very glad you found the issue. I didn't think about the http:\\ bit, I've been caught out by that in RSSHub too.

Sorry since I no longer use WM it's not too easy to test things anymore, but hopefully you can have fun with the software as it is.

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] vannanta:
its working on my xperia x1 cooking rom with sense??
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Sorry please clarify.

It is or it isn't?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] vannanta:
finnaly run smoothy on my xperis x1...but if i try to filter feed its pop up "error filter feed not available" any idea? thanks alot....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Have you set up your feeds in categories within RSShub. Sorry but I don't have it any more to test.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] atillaersoz:
how can apply this tab to hd mini
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Read through the first few posts in detail, they should contain all the information required.

Note, I no longer have a windows mobile device, so it is provided as is.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi meltwater,

You are a Part of Android too? In any case it is good to see you.

Are you busy with things? Please pm me.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Great to see you too, I've skipped serious android development for now.

Instead I am one of the founders of the Raspberry Pi community Magazine, the MagPi!

www.themagpi.com
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
This is the only way I can see to do it at the moment, your suggestion is to create a sense tab container which displays an un-modded program in a window.

If we could do that, then we would, but so far it's simply not possible (well at least for me).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Here my slider main icon for the RSS-Tab, more GTX looking.

The icon under the slider is a todo fo me.

The icon in the slider must be solved. But this little bug is noticed once.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
WE? Or you? Do you know how many work that is. And then it must work on ebery phone type. Possible you can startup to code this basicly?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Have a dig around the facebook tab threads, I'm sure we had similar issues with the icons on different roms (I've unfortunately forgotten what the fix was).

Have you tried using 5AB7F814_manila_unused (from the 20100802 - Basic Tab\Source)? I removed it since I was getting the old double slider icon issue.

Re-releasing the development pack (since all build folders were missing the key file). Contains the very latest baseline (you'll need to copy your channels.opml file from your proper RSSHub channel storage to your test location or change the "RSSFeed.FeedDataStore" reg key) - channel is by no means complete yet though (no navigation to other feeds and you have to refresh the tab by sliding in/out, categories are in with the feeds, layout not done etc etc).

Oh, and I like the GTX preview icon.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
I have found this file some minutes ago before your post :D. Same thoughts, that's dangerous. With that the icon issue on active slider is solved for me.

Will check it...

BTW: you have changed the xdadev icon. Looks cool now.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Really can't remember how we solved it now, since FbTab works for both without modding.

My friend Drakknar did it, clearly has some graphical skills greater than my paintbrush effort. Drakknar also did a new about screen for the next release of the FbTab, when it's ready.

UPDATE:

Added Control Design Ideas to the wiki, this is how I'll handle moving between Channels and Feeds etc.

RE:mike2nl EDIT 1:

Yep nice icons. Can you do some colour versions for the normal tab too, will be nice to have a choice!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
For now the icon in slider is working, and i will take alook for the GTX part from now on ;). The about icons i have seen in one of the folders in the 20100819-Sense RSS-ProjectLaunch directory. Good idea.

EDIT 1:

first three screenshots for the GTX modded RSS-Tab. What do @all think about that?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi meltwater,

Graphics Resizing Code Needed

about that i think i have read something in the iPhoneToday thread.

Possible someone there have an idea. I can not say that is the solution, but possible an idea.

link:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6854913&postcount=1812
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Not quite sure I understand what you are referring to?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
The point is that in iPhoneToday the graphic is automatic scaled for the icons. Possible you can use the same technic?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
It doesn't mention how it does it, have a brief look at the code and can't see anything obvious.

Sense will resize the images to fit the space, but it does it every time it comes onto the screen which slows it down, simply creating small copies of the images (Like Ch160-Logo.img and Ch160-Logo2.img) makes it nice and quick. I'm sure I could find info on how to do it, but looking at other stuff at the moment.

Having looked at that project, considering using google code for the project, it's not too bad for browsing code from. Depends on what I need to install to use it.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
OK, it was only an idea,. I have looked deeper in the code. But i will search further for that issue. Possible i can find something in the linux world what is portable to us...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
no problems, fighting with object lists at the moment, doing my head in.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
@meltwater:

Package:

You know you have added the \ = back slash to the reg file?!

This is from the reg-file:

This is from the registry:

I think we have to go back to the previous version !?

I have added a file with my entries for RssFeed in the registry.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Well I've updated the RSShub so it didn't add \ when it used the reg key, so it should now need it (so consistent with other file path keys).

I'll check it out.

Update: It works fine with my current build, the change was in the last baseline. The generated filelinks only have single \ on mine.

I gave up on the object lists last night, weren't doing it for me. But now have simple list of all feeds in the channel list option (in latest WIP Package).

Now to work on the navigation between them (as described in the wiki Control_Design_Ideas).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi meltwater,

i have running the last update and there is an error. But here in the

office i can not work 100% on RSS :D. At home i will check all things

again and report here.

BTW:

it is not an RSS issue it is for the FBtab. I have changed the GTX color

a little bit to blue. You know the RSS screenshot? What do you think

about the black-blue for the FB-Tab?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yeah the office does get in the way a bit, slows down progress.

Looks nice, I think the gradient is much better than the solid block, although might adjust the size in relation to the font later on.

Slowly getting there with the next stage for this tab, but taking a bit to get it going.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] maan1976:
Great work guys ,youre almost there

any expected ETA of the alfa public testing,or beta release (cab or raw files)

Iam so excited to see such a proffesional results , shame on HTC ,meltwater has proven again that the developers are way way better than the manufacturer because they are not thinking only about money and profit .

GOD BLESS YOU BRO.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
There are so many factors on an ETA, such as what help appears, what we choose to implement, but I expect it will be a while (beyond the basics of what we have now there is a whole load of extra stuff which would be required for managing and handling feed setup/updates etc and I've no idea how the actual feed items should be displayed yet (webBrowse control would be ideal but I've had major issues with it with & WM6.5.x so will need some serious help on that).

The more help that is given the better the tab will be and the faster it will be ready.

Having said all that, the basic functionality is getting there as a simple viewer of RSS feeds (at least without viewing the items) so for podcast type feeds it will be usable fairly soon. Not release standard but do able.

I expect HTC are fully focused on Android and windows phone 7 now.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] maan1976:
thnx appreciate it
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
In one woed, cool and amazing. Industrial and home automation are a part of my day job!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] atillaersoz:
icons are very big for hd mini

how i can decrease them
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
You could try editing the graphics files (details should be in the section regarding themes). It is not something I can help with now though, since I've not looked at any of it for over 18 months, and have nothing to test with anyway.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Progress update:

Ok, very basics of the navigation is in and working. It is very limited and I've got to replace the hard-coded information with genuine feed data but it seems to work. Also screen update is not automatic yet (although working towards that - mechanism is there to do it), until then I've enabled the "Update Now" to reload the tab data.

Also the feed list is very slow due to the need to resize the icons, will probably resize mine in the directory manually until we have code to do this.

I'll post the WIP files later on, hopefully without the hard-coded GeekBeat data.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi meltwater,

this sounds good. I will do my tests again to see how far it is working.

Thanks for the new release...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] zard:
Hi guys, nice work. Managed to get the tab working, and reading through all the posts, finally got the feeds and icons in.

Issue:

1. See my screens, left softkey and right softkey menu are showing "IDS...". What is the possible issue here?

2. List Channels gave me error message about "RSSUtil.exe".

3. While doing a few more test, my tab resulted with all the feeds display gone.

Below are all the screen shots I've taken.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yeah the tab is NOT user friendly, mainly testing the ability at the moment.

1. At the moment I've not created RSSTab language files, so the IDS_ names are not populated. However, if you have the facebook tab, if you go onto that tab it'll then it'll load the translations from there. There's no point doing the language files until the interface is done and we know what translations are required (otherwise it'll waste a lot of effort).

2. It's probably looking for the Channels.opml file from the RSSHub program. If you have it make sure the FeedDataStore is set to point to the ChannelData directory where that file is. It shouldn't throw an exception though, it should just ignore it.

3. You've probably run the Debug Test data option which fills the entries with example text values.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
@meltwater:

with the file from 25. august i have the folllowing items.

With menu -> open app -> select = list channels

The same error popup as the 4th from zard's posting.

Test data = is working

Read data = is working

Open settings page = is working

The only issue i have are the doubble \\ from the last tests.

I have to clean up the registry first now....

EDIT 1:

i have changed once again the RSSFeed.FeedDataStore key with

\\Storage Card\Program Files\RSS Hub\ChannelData\

to...

\Storage Card\Program Files\RSS Hub\ChannelData\

And then i have done READ DATA again, and now all is ok in the registry.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] zard:
Noted. Did what you suggested and it works alright now.

Are you referring to the 3 files in \Storage Card\Program Files\RSS Hub\ChannelData in the registry?

1. Ch160.xml (18-Aug-10)

2. Ch160-Logo.img (13-Jul-10)

3. Ch160-Logo2.img (13-Jul-10)

In my registry, it is correct:

RSSFeed.FeedDataStore=\Storage Card\Program Files\RSS Hub\ChannelData\

OR are you referring to a XXX.opml file? There isn't such a file in your packages. I even tried to search for *.opml file in \Windows which are for the RSSHub packages, and I found 3 of them, and copied them to the \Storage Card\Program Files\RSS Hub\ChannelData\. Still didn't help, and got the error message.

1. RSSHub_DefaultChannels.opml

2. RSSHub_RequiredChannels.opml

3. RSSHub_SampleChannels.opml

I'm using the "Facebook.ApiLang.dll" and "StedySoft.SenseSDK.dll" from the 26-Aug-10 WIP Bin\Debug folder.

I've also tried the "RSSUtil.exe" from 25-Aug and 26-Aug, still gave me same errors.

Correct, I did that since I got errors above. I did a HR and made sure this time that I don't run the Debug Test data and when I ran Debug List Channels, I faced error as mentioned above.

Something is still not right, but I still can't figure it out. Any files that I have missed, like a Channels.opml that you mentioned?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
In the short...

Update bar color update for the RSS and FB tab for better and nicer view...

Please see the screenshots...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Nice. I've done nothing to the FbTab for a while, but then not seen anything new from the sense sdk stuff so a little stuck with it at the moment. Plus no time. :(