This article contains the release notes for the Twitter Reader product
Version 3.0.0.25
Change History
3.0.0.25
- put tweets through an htmldecode to get rid of http codes
3.0.0.24
- support for ReaderUtils to show heartbeat
- show the twitter user in the pool used for each search
- remove the loading panel from each instance of FormMain since FormMDI has one for all
- use the Updater credentials for MySQL
- change defaults to not use bad words check by default
- change defaults to store images by default
- put everything into a transaction for greater performance
3.0.0.23
- have the agent status show the product as Super Ticker
3.0.0.22
- clear old logs daily
3.0.0.21
- now that we're inserting tweets with parameter based mysql commands, remove the single quote protection where i replaced ' with ''
3.0.0.20
- fixed a bug with mysql parameters
3.0.0.19
- mixed cases for mysql parameter tweetID/tweetid causing problems with MySQL instance that are case sensitive
3.0.0.18
- check whether the db supports utf8m4. if not, use utf8
3.0.0.17
- on launch, have the 1st tabbed window be active instead of the last
- support for utf8mb4 in mysql instead of utf8
- if can't connect to the internet (or can't read the user pool), show message box error and exit the app
- use mysql parameters when adding tweets to the db
3.0.0.16
- flush old logs
3.0.0.15
- remove filtering of newlines and carriage returns from tweets
3.0.0.14
- removed all ftp requirement. user pool is now retrieved using http
- much, much faster launch times due to no longer downloading the user pool xml files
3.0.0.13
- change to twitter icon
- on launch, only show a check for updates message if the app isn't up-to-date
- protect against null release notes
3.0.0.12
- use new db-based check for updates
- menu item Release notes
3.0.0.11
- support for CheckForUpdates
- serialize instances to xml file as required instead of just on exit
- use new XmlHelper from blsoft.dll
3.0.0.10
- remove Use User Pool setting. instead we use a user in the db if it exists. if not, we use the user pool.
- refactoring to reduce redundant MySQL queries
- clear topics if going from a db connection to no db connection
3.0.0.9
- support for twitter_feed.enabled field
- support for twitter_feed.includeLinks field
3.0.0.8
- new instances now use the user pool and blacklist
3.0.0.7
- removed omit replies global setting. that will now be done search by search like retweets
3.0.0.6
- filtering out replies was filtering out every tweet - fixed
3.0.0.5
- allow filtering out replies
3.0.0.4
- "About Twitter Reader..." said "About RSS Reader..."
- Delete Instance menu item
3.0.0.3
- protection against closing instances
- by default, new instances are now enabled
3.0.0.2
- Twitter Reader was titled RSS Reader
3.0.0.1
- shortcut key for new instance wasn't working - fixed
- UI changes
3.0.0.0
- multi-instance version
2.2.0.4
- support for twitter pictures
2.2.0.3
- mysql connection string now explicitly specifies CharSet=utf8 so we don't lose any foreign chars
2.2.0.2
- support black list search types
- fixed bug with reading user from database (as opposed to the pool)
- 2 status bars: one for app status and one for db/schema
2.2.0.1
- catch errors from bad searches
2.2.0.0
- support for single user credentials coming from the db (user pool checkbox in prefs)
- UI change
- optionally filter on black list words - previously, we always filtered
- ignore media posts checkbox - we haven't implemented storing media or their urls yet but this will control whether we save them or not
2.1.0.6
- menu item Help->View Help... that points to our docs website
- menu item Help->Open a Support Ticket... that points to our support ticket system
2.1.0.5
- rename TweetOut Reader to Twitter Reader
2.1.0.4
- keep checking for authorized users on each read until we get them
2.1.0.3
- remove my stripping of unicode chars
2.1.0.2
- may have introduced some conditions where i didn't disconnect from the db
2.1.0.1
- support for utility_status table
2.1.0.0.
- support for twitter api 1.1.
1.2.0.13
- forgot to change the version # in 1.2.0.12
1.2.0.12
- when couldn't connect to the database on a read, getting the timer going again for the next read wasn't quite right
1.2.0.11
- support for bad words
1.2.0.10
- a build of Reader that moves us back to twitter 1.0 api but with all the other fixes made since 2.0 including filtering out unicode characters
2.0.0.4
- groupbox for rate limit has new wording (15 minutes) changed to (per 15 min.)
2.0.0.3
- fixed another place where i build the topic grid and i didn't check for no topics
2.0.0.2
- when no topics, i crashed when populating the grid
2.0.0.1
- replace XCeed grid with DataViewGrid
- save preferences on OK of prefs dialog
2.0.0.0
- supports twitter 1.1 api
- write avatar urls even if we don't save the blobs
- remove unicode chars (previously we'd ignore all tweets with any unicode)
1.2.0.9
- not sure what changed - forgot to record the change
1.2.0.8
- new blsoft.dll which writes logs based on process id
- writes logs into "bannister lake" instead of "blsoft"
1.2.0.7
- show server in status bar
1.2.0.5
- support for oAuth connection to twitter
- support for changing the timer interval for reading feeds in the preferences dialog - previously was hard coded to 120 seconds but now supports a range between 60-1200 seconds
1.2.0.4
- support for > 100 maxtweets using paging
1.2.0.3
- supports big avatars
1.2.0.2
- when clock counts down for the next read, I never went to 0:00 but instead stopped at 0:01
- on launch, show the topics instead of waiting for the first read
1.2.0.1
- list of topics
1.2.0.0
- display rate limit
- display a countdown for the next read
- button to read right away
- display the number of tweets added on last read
1.1.0.16
- test connection return messages in preferences dialog had some bad spelling
- after preferences dialog returns on app launch caused 2 attempts at getting tweets
1.1.0.15
- remove Start/Stop button - we're always running
- preferences menu item
- preferences dialog now has Remove Links option
- preferences dialog can now be run at any time allowing changing of database
- preferences dialog does not display on launch if a successful db connection is made
1.1.0.14
- removal of data integrity code - that should be handled by triggers
1.1.0.13
- needed to change my query to grab feeds to also look for locationID = 0 instead of just locationID is null
1.1.0.12
- support for location searches
1.1.0.11
- not documented
1.1.0.10
- new skin and bannisterlake.com friendly
1.1.0.9
- tweets had an extra space at the beginning
1.1.0.8
- support for new tweet table's id and tweetID
1.1.0.7
- filter out newlines and other crappy characters
1.1.0.6
- support for twitter_topic.enabled
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