Re: How about some feedback about New Yanoff?

"Donald E. Stidwell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Gregg, maybe the silence is a sign of contentment! I waited and waited for
you
> to release 3.0, refusing to buy version 2.x for lack of wide screen
support.
> I tried 3.0 and bought it the same day!

Yes, I remember that!

> On the poll, we were only allowed to choose the most desired feature, so I
> selected VFS support. BUT colour would be nice and the ability to click a
> link in an article and pull up the page in one's web browser would be
> wonderful.

I think Browser launch is going to be relatively easy so it'll probably
happen regardless.
VFS is by far the most difficult and I am laothing tackling that one.  The
NVFS of the T5 has made VFS a disaster.
In other words, the poll results will *influence* but not dictate what will
be in 4.0.

> I am that rare bird that reads newsgroups exclusively on my PDA.

As am I!

> Up until you released v3, I read my newsgroups on
> my Pocket PC with Qusnetsoft NewsReader.
> Now that I have New Yanoff V3, I do my news reading on my T3.

I've never used any PPC reader but I am sure your use of Qusnetsoft's reader
can provide valuable insights for New Yanoff.  Please do elaborate about
what was good about how they do it...

> I love that it works with Fonts4OS5 and FontSmoother. I use Tahmoa 13 AA
for
> Yanoff and it works perfectly and looks gorgeous in widescreen landscape
> mode.

I've never even heard of FontSmoother but I'll add that to the promo
material (thanks)!

> I don't recall having had a single crash with it. Even when I owned my
Zodiac
> (which I sold to return to a T3) I don't remember any crashes.

2.* had *plenty* of crashes but the beta team, regular users and I worked
tirelessly to isolate and resolve them.  I can't remember the last time I
suffered a crash, either but it was a LONG time ago.

> I've only found a couple of flaws in the program and they're minor. When
going
> from one article to another, the article title doesn't seem to always
clean
> up after itself, so if you have an article with a long name and the next
> article has a short name, part of the long name still remains when you
pull
> the short article.

Does it always do this?  I have seen this occasionally on the simulator
(don't have a real landscape device) but attributed it to the "debug"
behaviours of simulating low-memory by skipping normal redraws/refreshes.
This should be simple to fix...

> Also when scrolling in an article, often one of lines will get highlighted
> which is kind of ugly, but otherwise no big deal.

This is NOT A BUG; it is a VERY COOL feature.  Check out the help text for
the "Scroll Cue" option on "Misc Prefs".  Let me know what you think about
it...

> It would also be nice if when reading newsgroups with crossposts if when
> reading the program would automatically skip over articles already marked
as
> read because of crossposting. (If there's a setting for this, I can't find
> it).

There are actually TWO ways to handle this (see, isn't it great when users
comment and we have a conversation)!
First, you could use a ButtonAction for "next unread" instead of "next
article".
Or, you could uncheck the "Multi-Index" option on "Poll Prefs" (read help
text for more info).
I do the latter (I also have a BA setup for "next unread", too, but for
other reasons).

> Quite frankly, the program works as advertised and I'm pleased. I am glad
I
> bought it and have no regrets. And that could be why you don't see much
> traffic here - it does what you says it does and it does it well!

Nah.  If that were true, I would be selling a LOT more keys!!!

In any case, make these adjustments and then let me know how it works out.

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