RSS2txt to ticker
  

  
  
  


  
  

  The Rss2Txt application allows you to manage news from an Rss feed in order to be displayed by MagicSoft CG.   RssToTxt program will download each news item in a .txt Unicode file so a project like a Ticker can display the content of the files.
  


  
  

The user interface has:
  
   1. an edit box that contains the address of the RSS
   2. a read only descriptor of the chosen RSS
   3. a location to save the .txt files
   4. a browse button to choose the location where .txt files are saved
   5. a list with the news from the RSS feed. Each news item has a check box that must be checked in order to display the corresponding news. If not checked the news item will be ignored
   6. two buttons to Check All / Uncheck All news from the list
   7. a "Find" feature works by inserting the string to be found in the edit box. By clicking on "Find Next"" or "Find Previous" it will select the list's row that contains the string. Find can be restricted to Case sensitive strings by checking the Case Sensitive checkbox.
  


  
  

  If you want to view or edit a news item just double-click it and a dialog will appear showing the title and content. In the settings dialog you can find several useful settings :
  - "News are already checked" if checked will automatically allow you to download news in the .txt file so will be displayed by a project like Ticker. If not you must click on every news that you want to be displayed.
  - Save as Unicode will make the .txt file Unicode. This if the default setting. If unchecked it will produce ANSI txt that may be difficult to work with.
  


  
  

  - Set Title case to upper/lower . After setting this you must click on "delete now all the files from directory" in order to refresh all the news.
  - Set text case to upper/lower . After setting this you must click on "delete now all the files from directory" in order to refresh all the news.
  


  
  

   - "At start delete files older than..." will delete all the files that contain news itmes older than the specified number of days in order to avoid displaying old news.
   - "Uncheck news older than..." will uncheck all news older than the specified number of days in order to avoid displaying old news.
  


  
  

  Beside that there is a replace feature that allows you to replace a certain string with another string. Click on "Add Pair" to insert a pair in the lists. To edit that, click on the corresponding row of the list and select it. Click on it again to edit. There is also an option for case sensitive replace.