[TYPO3-ttnews] some tt_news news from typo3xdev

[Antonio Willybiro]

Sounds good o me. I'll check it out on a test server.

Cheers,
Antonio

"Rupert Germann" <rupi at gmx.li> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1165686923.27678.typo3-project-tt-news at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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
>