XB-News v1.0 build 0276 - Released 11/10/2003

Homepage: http://xb-news.co.uk

What is XB-News?
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XB-News is an RSS newsfeed reader dedicated to specific
Xbox sites and the news lists they produce. Each list is
handled individually according to the information offered,
for example Xbins includes article release dates which is
specially catered for when viewing an Xbins news item.

The main aim of XB-News is to collect the latest news from
various sites and display it an organised list.

Features:
    Fully automated collection of news items
    Easy to view list of news item titles
    New items highlighted, no looking for the new news
    Uses internal XML parsing code. This avoids the 
     Microsoft "illegal character" errors


Requirements
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XB-News is written using Visual Basic 6. If it will not
run on your system you will most likely need to install
the Microsoft VB6 Runtimes. You can find them on Microsoft's
website or download a copy here. 
http://www.xb-news.co.uk/download/vbrun60sp5.exe (Approx 1mb)


=== Release history =========================================

~ v1.0 build 0276 (11/10/03) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 BUG: If an error occured whilst downloading a news feed an
  alert box would be shown and would halt XB-News running
  until you clicked "ok". This is now fixed and the error is
  without halting XB-News

 BUG: My mistake, I accidently uploaded a version which had
  the popup alerts staying up until they were clicked, this
  was for my own debug purposes. I quickly took this one down
  but some of you may have already downloaded it. Now fixed.

 NEW: The RSS downloading is now done by a queue system.
  Before all feeds were downloaded simultaneously which could
  have cause problems if a feed site was down.

 CHANGE: I removed the news feed for the XB-News site. This
  is mainly becuase once a release is out you will get the
  news directly from any of the other sites.

 NEW: When a new version of XB-News is available you will get
  a popup alert notifying you. This will stay visible until
  you click on it. The latest version can then be downloaded
  from any of the Xbox distribution sites or from the XB-News
  website.

 NEW: Added a Multi user option. If XB-News runs on a system
  with different user accounts select this option. Each user
  will then have there own settings saved when they login.

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~ v1.0 build 0257 (09/10/03) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 NEW: Added support for http://www.mediaxbox.com. A French
  language Xbox site. (Requested by Francky87)

 NEW: Since the Media Xbox site has been added I have made
  it possible to turn on/off sites. This is due to the sites
  now being in different languages. Some French guys may not
  be able to read the English sites and would like to turn
  them off, and vice versa. I know I cannot read French!

 FIXED: If there were no <item> tags in the xml code XB-News
  would crash. This is now checked for.

 NEW: The time of last update is now displayed in the
  windows caption bar.

 CHANGE: Settings layout has completely changed ready to
  support more sites without making the dialog any larger.

 NEW: Changes made to settings will only be saved if the
  "Apply" button is selected. You also have the option
  to cancel changes made. (Requested by Xlogik)

 NEW: User configurable option to close to system tray
  instead of closing XB-News. When new items are downloaded
  the tray icon will flash. (Iriez @ Xbins.com)

 NEW: User option to display popup alerts similar to the 
  "you have new mail" popup's in MSN Messenger when new
  mail arrives. This only happens if XB-News is running
  in the system tray.

 FIXED: All news titles were being converted to lower case
  in the lists. This is now fixed and the newfeeds original
  formatting is reserved. This has the side effect of marking
  all items as unread the first time you update the
  existing news.

 NEW: Added user configurable option to run XB-News when
  windows starts

 NEW: User option to start XB-News minimised. If the 
  "Close to system tray" option is selected XB-News will 
  close to a tray icon, otherwise it will just minimise to
  the windows task bar.

 NEW: Right clicking on a site will allow you to mark ALL
  items on the site list as read/unread from the popup menu

 NEW: The background colour of a site will change depending
  on the content. If there are any new items it will be a
  light green, if there are unread items it will be light
  yellow and if all items are read it will be clear.

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~ v1.0 build 0229 (First release - 06/10/03) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Nothing listed here as every option is new since its the
  first release! Check out the help in XB-News to see how
  to use the program.
