Headline Java Application

This application get the newest article headers of a newsgroup from a NNTP news server periodically. It then displays those articles' subjects as scrolling text. When an article's subject is displaying, click on it will get you the whole text of this article.

Instruction:

1. Download this application Headline.zip and unzip it (must use the unzip utility that preserve long file name);
2. Use command java Headline to start the application(it runs on JDK1.1);
3. On the option panel, click setup to open setup dialog;
4. Type in news server's name (must be the one you can access to), time interval between fetching newest news, newsgroup and number of articles you want to be shown, then click set(a file headline.ini will be created to save your setting);
5. Click connect to get connecting;
6. When the articles' headers are showing, click left button will get you whole text of that article, click right button will put you back into option panel(you can change setting from here if you want, e.g, you can change newsgroup).

(Webmaster, if you have access to news server from your website, this application can easily be converted to an applet and put at your web page, allows visitor to read newsgroup news from your web page).

Here is the source code

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