[TYPO3-ttnews] some tt_news news from typo3xdev

[Rupert Germann]

hi,

after quite a while I found the time to upload the stuff to SVN that I
changed in tt_news in the last months.

Changelog:
* new feature: if the extension xajax is installed, the category tree in
BackEnd forms can now be expanded and collapsed. If you have a huge
category tree this will speed up the rendering of the tree significantly.
This feature still needs some work because it collides with the check for
recursive categories which is currently disabled.
        
* improvement: if a subcategory of a category is selected the tree shows the
titles of the parents of this category with underlined text.

* new feature: "Exclude already displayed news". The new TS
option "excludeAlreadyDisplayedNews" allows you to place multiple news
plugins on one page where the plugin itself takes care that no newsarticle
is displayed twice. This feature makes the options "excludeLatestFromList"
and "listStartId" obsolete. If "excludeAlreadyDisplayedNews" is
enabled "excludeLatestFromList" and "listStartId" will be ignored.

* fix for bug 3844: CategoryMode 2 (AND) didn't work correctly. Thanks to
Krystian Szymukowicz who wrote the patch.

* fix for bug 3883: added missing german translations.

* improvement: added a stdWrap to the TS properties limit and latestLimit

* new feature: added the category tree to be_users and be_groups records.
Now it is possible to select the allowed and visible categories for a
certain be_user/group with the category tree. If categories are selected in
the be_user/group records the TSconfig
settings 'options.useListOfAllowedItems', 'tt_newsPerms.tt_news_cat.includeList'
and 'tt_newsPerms.tt_news_cat.allowedItems' have no effect anymore. (thanks
to netcreators.nl for sponsoring this feature)

* new file: added a new php class 'class.tx_ttnews_div.php' which contains
some helper functions for the BE classes.

* improvement: the selected categories in the category trees in BE are
highlighted with bold font.

* improvement: added the uid of the categories to the title attribute in
category trees in the BE.

Some words about PHP 5.2.0: I spent several hours to find a way to make
tt_news work under PHP 5.2.0 and failed. As described in the dev-list or
english-list PHP 5.2.0 seems to have some bugs which make it impossible to
run TYPO3 under this PHP version f.e. the extensionmanager will not work
properly. 
see:
http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-english/2006-November/033111.html
If you have the possibility to choose the PHP version on your server, stay
with 5.1.6.
If your provider has already updated to 5.2.0 - bad luck.

Hint: since a couple days the typo3xdev project on sourceforge.net provides
t3x files from all extensions which are developed on this platform. If you
don't want to check out tt_news from svn you can download it as a t3x file
from there tomorrow.

http://typo3xdev.sourceforge.net/

greets
rupert