Greetings LocutusofBorg,
Thanks for your suggestion. We tried that and guessed at the numbers of the lines to pull in which appears to be required with the /loadbuf command. What we found was the information wouldn't word wrap into the @news Window. Instead it would only show about 1/2 of the text regardless of the window size. I guess if we jumped our screen resolution to 1028 or so we could view the headline news window in its entirety.The /loadbuf command is very quick and elequent, the problem with guessing the lines in the file size, and the lack of word wrap thou minimize this command greatly in this application.
What we are attemptng now is a brute force approach, useing dde servers to relay that information into the @news Window just after the same data is written to a centralized text file. Initial test runs indicate information spooled in that manner does indeed perform the needed word wrap which adjusts to any @news Window size.
if (%newsW == 1) { .timer.newswindow9 1 1 /dde plg command "" /newswindow %NewFeedA %newsfeed }
We set the %newsW variable to once a day at 8am, meaning althought we pull up the headlines every 6 hours, only once do we pull those up and dde server those to the @news Window locally.
On the PLG dde Server we have the following alias to catch the resulting DDE server Spool of that data:
alias newswindow {
window @news
set %newscast $1 $2-
echo @news %newscast
set %newscast $null
}
The resulting output in the @news Window is:
Health News.. Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
Thanks again for your time and consideration,
Regards,
MDA
