Maggot,

It should just keep on running for you - unless you close it down, but it will then log you straight in when you go back to progams and start it again.

is there an easy way to populate all AIM stocks into this without finding them all and putting them all in individually?

Treble,

There is no direct link to be able to do this on the the news alert at the moment, you could use the stock screener to get the list and paste and copy it into there, but It would be a rather long list - around 1084 different stocks.

ok no probs

Treblewide,

It is likely that Desktop NewsAlert will have similar restrictions to stockwatch, when it's released from beta (so a 250 stock limit)

However that won't be decided until we've seen the kind of load that it causes :)

J.

The program doesn't delete its temporary file if it is closed automatically on Windows shutdown. It does delete it if closed manually.

There should be another release of this software by the end of the week that fixes a few of the outstanding bugs.

it should alert you when there's an update.

J.

Kayak,

What temporary file are you talking about? The program doesn't create any...

J.

Yes it does... in /WINDOWS or /WINNT/TEMP. I know it belongs to it because when I close it normally it disappears.

What's it called?

~DFxxxx.tmp where xxxx is a hex number. The UD agent for the Cancer thingy also creates one.

Kayak,

That sounds like it's something the .Net framework creates, and unfortunately we have no control over that.

J.

I don't think it's .Net because when you download UD agent it doesn't install .Net nor do you have to do it manually. Also, UD closes the temp file on Windows shutdown whereas Bullie doesn't.

I think it may be more to do with listening to the Windows Shutdown message and tidying up properly as you would on normal exit. After all it does remove the file on normal exit so that path must be doing something different.

It's not a huge problem but it does fill up the temp files folder with dozens of files over time.

Hello,

The latest release of Desktop NewsAlert (Code name: Desktop Latex-Bullie) is available from the link above.

This fixes a number of issues with the previous versions including:
No longer limited to loading 5 stories at a time
Added an option to automatically start at boot
You can right click on the icon and be taken to the 'edit watchlist' page.

Please download and try this release.

J.

Hello,

There's a newer release of Desktop NewsAlert (Code-name: Desktop Bullie-Bondage) for you to try.

Please go to the news alert page to download the latest version.

This one fixes the bug whereby if you refresh the stocklist, you re-retreive all the day's news.

If you have any problems with it, please post below.

J.

what about option of opening a fresh window on clicking the news?

Yes, that is essential. When you have 12 windows open you don't want to guess which one has been used. Much less to find that a streaming window has been wrecked.

Also, implementing posts 17 and 20 would really set you apart from the competition :-) At the momemt I have to have a whole streaming news window from the other place open because it's filtering just RNS, now that can't be right :-)

faole,

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be possible with the .Net framework (we've been looking at that since you last requested it)

Do you have an example of a .Net application that has that? If so, we may be able to reverse engineer it to find out how it was done.

Thanks,
J.

Kayak,

I've been looking at posts 17-20, they infact compliment other ideas that I've received and as soon as the new bulletinboards are ready, I'll be seeing if that feature can be added.

J.