Adam Clark writes:
> How customizable is HyperNews?
There are a few customizations suppoted by the hnrc file, but not what
you want. The rest would have to be done by changes to the code.
> I need new icons (possibly of different sizes)
You can change the icons in the Icons directory easily enough. But the
sizes are hard coded in the source, mostly in hnview.pl. The sizes
need to be there to allow the JavaScript code to work without crashing
buggy Netscape 2.x.
> and also things like emailing a message to someone,
Not sure what you are thinking here.
> laying out the page in various tables, etc.
This might be tedious, but not too difficult, depending on what you
want to do. The display code is distributed throughout the file, so
finding all the places to change will take some time.
> Are these kinds of extensions supported or how modifiable is the
> source?
The trouble with changing the code is upgrading to a new version -
your changes would be lost. But 1.9.2 may be the last version
in this series - depends on whether more serious bugs are found.
In the redesign for version 2, we are doing things very differently,
using templates wherever possible. So most of the page layout will be
localized and easier to change, hopefully. We'll see how well that
works.
dan
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Customizing HyperNews
(Adam Clark)
