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Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2004[Newsreader develop] Questions
Hi group, This is the first time of me in this group. My name is Daniele and i'm a small indipendent programmer. At this time I'm a student of Computer Science in Rome (La Sapienza). I would to make a new cocoa-based newsgroups reader for our platform. I have published some version of my software (you can found it on versiontracker under the name NewsCarrier). Unfortunatly I don't like it very much. It seems to be too complicate and without a mac-like interface. So I have rewritten the engine and now I need to think about a good GUI. If you need of a new newsreader for your Mac and there is not any program today with your favourite GUI/Features this is the moment for you. Write to me and explain your ideas. I could to implement it. Also I need of some beta testers. My email is malcom . mac @ gmail . com. Have a nice day. Daniele  Signaturemalcom.mac[at]gmail.com http://www.criticalkernel.com/blog aim: malcombsd My advice would be to start with having a look at the available Cocoa based newsreaders such as Unison, Halime and Newsflash. The first is under active development and is a commercial product; the second is defunct but the code may in fact be available, and the third is under sporadic development. That'll give you some interface ideas. A look at the Carbon newsreaders would give you other interface ideas, since those are not constrained by the Cocoa notions of a good interface- MT-NewsWatcher, HogWasher, etc. > My advice would be to start with having a look at the available Cocoa > based newsreaders such as Unison, Halime and Newsflash. The first is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > those are not constrained by the Cocoa notions of a good interface- > MT-NewsWatcher, HogWasher, etc. I say go the opposite direction and say screw the interface in favor of a usable Cocoa NNTP.framework. I'm tired of seeing 20 half-assed attempts at full Usenet clients, but not one developer with the clue to factor out a framework than *other* developers can stick a better interface on. It's downright trivial to throw an article list into any variety of table views. The interesting part is the client/server relationship. > Write to me and > explain your ideas. I could to implement it. You could look att MacSOUP. I particularly like the active (clickable and keyboardnavigatable etc) thread tree and its many, many and versatile and easily accessible filter functions. You'd have to work hard though to match Stefan Hallers program... MacSOUP is still going strong even though it is an offline reader. The offline abillity isn't partilularly important now with broadband connections, but the above features makes online/offline a tiny litttle unimportant implementation detail by comparison (and can in fact be put to god use with the filter functions on busy groups). Lars Signaturelars farm // http://www.farm.se |
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