Seems like your feed content is getting cached. I assume you are using the
RSS sample gadget as the base.

See if CONFIG_CACHE_BUSTER is set to true. It is a couple of lines ahead of
CONFIG_FEED_URL setting in the config_constants.js file.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, VX3.Proteus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> like title say, just started on this today, and i skimmed over all the
> faq and general info documents (except the ones in the group here
> which didnt seem like they'd be much help)
>
> what i am trying to do is create a widget that can help me and my
> staff keep up with a forum at 'http://www.mewcon.com/forum/
> index.php <http://www.mewcon.com/forum/index.php>' (its a small sci-fi
> convention). so what ive done is found
> our rss feed address 'http://www.mewcon.com/forum/index.php?
> type=rss;action=.xml<http://www.mewcon.com/forum/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml>'
> and applied it to one of the more common designs
> for a news feeder. you can see an example of one here 'http://
> desktop.google.com/plugins/i/blogaboutthewebnews.html?hl=en'.
>
> all i've done is taken out their address and put in mine, and edited
> some of the loding text and tittle and image colors. the easy stuff.
> 15 mins later i realize a problem. it doesnt update itself! i found a
> area that seemed associated with the timed updates, here:
>
> 'var CONFIG_REFRESH_FEED_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;'
>
> in attempt to make it update more regularly i changed it to:
>
> 'var CONFIG_REFRESH_FEED_MS = 1 * 60 * 1000;'
>
> ....which i read was supposed to make it update every minute... but
> then i realized not only is it not updating (it actualy updated once,
> but that was it) when we've had multiple posts that hour, but when it
> did update, it only showed one new post! so i went and checked the rss
> feed page to see if the error was there also, but the rss page showed
> correctly all of our new posts. so im baffled as to why this widget
> isn't keeping up.
>
>
> >
>


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Thanks and Regards,
Bijoy Thangaraj
http://www.gdgadgets.com/

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