Known Limitations

Sadly, at this point Pineapple News is not finished. Not even close. Therefore the answer to many questions has to be "sorry, that's not yet implemented." So this is a list of known program limitations that will eventaully be worked out.

Some characters displayed incorrectly   You can change the character set used to display any message, change the default global character set, or change the default for a particular newsgroup. Read more about this subject in the help topic Character Sets.

Can't access attachments   The program does not yet have any support for attachments.

Can't print message files   The program itself can't yet print messages but there is a workaround. Pineapple Message Format files created by the program are really just simple text files. You can drag them out of the program and into the Tracker, for instance. From there you can double-click on one to launch it in StyledEdit. If you prefer another text editor you can edit the Pineapple Message file type in the FileTypes preferences app to associate them with a different editor. Therefore you can use the print function of some other program to get what you want.

Can't change those weird-looking colors   Actually, this issue has some good news. You can change the colors if you're willing to dig around in PineappleNews.ini and have some program that can help you pick RGB color values. See PineappleNews.ini Reference for details.

Text fonts are too small   Due to the urging of the early beta testers I added a band-aid sort of fix to allow you to make the fonts bigger in the post edit window and the message view. Look for TextFontSize in the help topic PineappleNews.ini Reference.

I've fallen and I can't get up   Believe me buddy, I know the feeling.


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