messmerizer

well i had 3.1.4 until today.. i finally got sick of the new version available note so i installed 3.3.1
i was reading the version history and saw that you can now make a file with your own rss links. i never really messed around with rss stuff so i didn't have any links to use so i just went and found a couple to test out. i did everything it said to do but they aren't showing up..? anyone else try this yet?





also anyone know any cool rss links? just in case i get it to work ;)

messmerizer

ummm doesn't any one else have journal bar??

No1Spec

hello, yeah I"ve got JB. But I think in order to use the custom RSS feature you have to have the expansion pack installed. then all you do is like add the feeds you want to the little text file named "anything.jb_rss" and toss that in your windows directory. Theres more instructions here at this link.
http://www.omegaone.com/journalbar/JBHelp.html#j3

How do I add custom RSS news feeds?
Custom RSS feeds can only be added with the Journal Bar Expansion Pack installed and detected. See Why isn't the Expansion Pack being detected? if the Expansion Pack isn't shown as detected in the Journal Bar options page (the "General" tab).

Create a text file on your PC and rename it as a ".jb_rss" file (e.g. "news.jb_rss"). Each RSS news feed will have three parameters associated with it:

<title>Washington Post Top News</title>
<icid>5</icid>
<url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/topnews/rssheadlines.xml</url>

The <title> tags specify the readable name for this RSS news feed.
The <icid> tags specify the small icon (which appears in the top left hand corner of the Journal Bar page). Examples to set this to: 5 is the US flag. 8 is a globe icon, 10 is a home icon.
The <url> tag will contain the URL the RSS news feed is located at.

Up to 100 RSS news feeds can be added to the same .jb_rss file.

For a sample file containing some sample RSS feeds, download it here.

The file should be copied to your Pocket PC's \windows folder. Once this has been done, dock the Pocket PC then go into the Journal Bar Options screen and tap the "Update Format" button. Tap OK to cancel the Options page and go back to the today screen. Wait for Journal Bar to update the first weather section, then go back into the Journal Bar Options page and the new RSS news feeds should appear as available news feeds on the "News" tab.

messmerizer

yeah i have the expansion pack and it is being detected by journal bar and did exactly as the instructions said, i even left some rss feeds that were in the example in there just to be sure.... still not working though

No1Spec

Hey, I"m sorry for you. I had to try this like twice cos I messed up one step. Have you tried again to get that too work?

Also I"ll teell you something else, I have problems with like Yahoo News feeds. They dont seem to come trough correctly.

messmerizer

i'm going to try to make a new file tonight. we'll see if it works this time.

kilthro

Have any of you had journal bar not display the weather portion of it? It has worked in the past. I got a new axim and it updates the news and everything else but the weather will not update or dispaly. I have my zip code typed in and I even tried another zip and it did not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

messmerizer

did you get it working? when i first got the program it took a couple days to get the weather on there... dunno why..

kilthro

I did get it working. It was and older version and I guess the built in links for it to update the weather were not current. I got the latest and it worked like a charm. I just had to do the renaming of the vga files so that the resolution of journal bar wasn't huge and the buttons were overlapping. Some reason in true vga it was not auto adjusting the icon sizes.