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klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

go to extra dotpups to download bbcticker.pup

Walt H · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 00:45 Post_subject:

There is a slightly newer version available at http://www.sh.rim.or.jp/~ssato/dockapp/index.shtml (0.6.0pre1). Here is the description from the website, if it helps anyone figure out how to configure this application:

Lobster · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 01:47 Post_subject:

This might be the easiest way to do an RSS feed . . .

http://www.google.com/ig

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

i looked (briefly) at the gkgrellm ticker ... it needs curl (a file download program, like wget) to work

Walt H · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 02:05 Post_subject:

Rich · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Middlesbrough - UK

Looking at the install files for the Ticker ( the one in the first post ), you need a C compiler installed for it. ( so that rules me out straight away ).

Also it won't run on older X versions ( X11R5 or less ), so the version of Puppy that you are running could also be causing the problem.

That's about as far as I can really go with this one. Confused

Rich · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Middlesbrough - UK

However, it would be a damn fine project to write using tcl though.

A quick google came up with this

http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/ticker.html

It's certainly somewhere to start.
I don't pretend to know exactly what a news ticker is supposed to actually do - apart from talk away in the corner of the screen though. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to what's actually required from one.

Rich

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

That is awesome rich, but how can we make it tick news???
maybe insert a web address into it that does ticking such as government controlled cnn??? I don't know but will see!!!

Guest · Guest

The real problem with a news ticker is not writing one, it's where to get the info for it to put up on your screen. Find a free news feed and there will be more tickers than you can shake a stick at.

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

Just one more thought!

ok, take for instance Guest Too's Radio.pup
instead of playing music could we make it tick news???
would it be hard to tweak your script Guest Too??
I mean instead of streaming radio, it could put up a box with news feeds.
Instead of having options to what kinda music one wants to listen to
they would have an option of what kinda news they want to see
ticking.
Or one can already change the radio so that it listen to what they want,
so instead of news feed they can have radio news!!

I would like a news feeder though, radio is good but it does get annoying
they talk about some of the dumbest things, makes me wonder if people know they have been programmed to do what the the mind control machine
wants them to, am I programmed to write this???
Makes one wonder,

Walt H · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 13:40 Post_subject:

If I'm not mistaken, there are plenty of free news feeds out there, or KDE's news ticker would not exist (including BBC News). When I used KDE, I was able to add feeds as I recall. Wouldn't RSS feeds work with such an application?

edoc · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 18:08 Post_subject:

Flash · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 18:41 Post_subject: Re: well

edoc · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 21:35 Post_subject: Re: well

Walt H · Posted: Thu 18 Aug 2005, 02:33 Post_subject:

My search efforts for a news ticker application (now several hours and counting) have turned up nothing suitable for Puppy as yet. However, there are a few news/RSS feed aggregators that may be a decent fit or could be made to fit. Three are text/console-based; Three are GUI-based. They are ranked in order of what appears to be ease of installation for Puppy users.

1) Snownews - http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ Offers a binary package for download that supposedly has no additional dependencies. Source code is also available. Binary is 735K download, source is 158K. [console-based]

2) gfeed - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gfeed Requires libxml 2.6 or greater (I believe Puppy has 2.5). Application appears to be GUI-based with a look reminiscient of a console-based app. The application itself is a 176K download and must be compiled as far as I can tell.

3) TT-news - http://www.ipd.bth.se/ska/sim_home/ttnews.html Text-based (I think) application that uses lynx by default but can use other methods according to the website. TT-news is skinnable to give it a more polished look. Application requires QT, and the website has special instructions for compiling it to work under QT3. The last version of this application came out several years ago.

4) Olive - http://mdxi.collapsar.net/hacks/olive/ Console mode RSS aggregator/news reader. Application seems to have fairly detail documentation, a real plus compared to numbers 2 and 3. The application also includes a script for downloading any missing dependencies that appear when running 'make'. However, this may be a bit much for Puppy users; among other things, it apparently requires SQLite.

5) NewsFeed - http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/newsfeed/ Written in Python/Tk. This is a GUI-based aggregator/news reader. The main page states that the only dependency is Tk. However, elsewhere in the documentation, it is stated that Python 2.3 and Tkinter are also required. The application itself is only an 88K download.

6) Raggle - http://www.raggle.org/ Raggle is console-based but has more of a traditional newsreader feel to it. It also has a number of dependencies: Ruby, version 1.6.8 (or newer); REXML, version 2.4.0 (included in Ruby 1.8); NCurses-Ruby, version 0.7.1 (or newer); YAML support (included in Ruby 1.8); YAML-Ruby, version 0.49.1 (or newer); and Syck, version 0.35 (included in Ruby 1.8). Documentation for this application was extremely hard to find and required a separate Google search in order to find it.

In addition, it appears there was at one time, an unofficial effort to port the BBC News Ticker to Linux, but that appears to have been abandoned. There was also a newsticker project called Tknews that never appears to have gotten off the ground. But it does make me wonder whether something like stockwatch http://wiki.tcl.tk/11000 (includes script code), TclTicker http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Tclticker, or TclStock http://mini.net/tcl/3517, written to track stock quotes, or TkWeatherhttp://oplnk.net/~ajackson/software/ (self-explanatory, I think) could be changed a bit by someone with TCL/Tk experience to become a small-footprint news ticker application. Just a thought (or two).

UPDATE: I tried the SnowNews binary and had no success. NewsFeed also did not work (didn't really expect it to). It appears any of these would have to be turned into a dotpup in order to work in Puppy. The first three applications listed might seem to be the most likely candidates. Anyone up to it?