Watch List functionality change

A few weeks ago I received an email from someone (Sorry, I can’t remember who it was – Yeah, I’ve got a crappy memory) asking if I could modify the Watch List functionality. They asked specifically that I modify the functionality, so that it wouldn’t be necessary to click the Found Items tab to list newly found feed items.

Mainly because I know that the Wizz RSS code is a bit of a mess, I assumed that there was some obscure reason why I had done things the way I did.

Anyway, I had some time on my hands today, and, with nothing better to do, I decided to dig into the code. Surprisingly enough, this part of the code is pretty neat and nicely event driven, so the change ended up being pretty straight forward

Details of the change: -

If the Found Items tab is selected, and the Watch List finds new feed items, the new items will automatically be listed in the items pane without having to click the Found Items tab.

If the Found Items tab is NOT selected, and the Watch List finds new feed items, things will work pretty much as they always have. i.e. The Found Items tab will become bold (Along with various other things that happen), and clicking the tab will list the found items.

I have ONLY made the above-mentioned changes in Wizz RSS 3.2.0.0 for Firefox 3.6. I’m not going to maintain older versions of Wizz RSS for Firefox 3.5.

You can get the changed version of Wizz RSS 3.2.0.0 here or here.

If you have made a donation to get the “nag free” version, it has also been changed, and you can download it from the nag free download page.