News Spotter Bugs + Yep. There are quite a few. Some are JVM specific. Some are genuinely screwups on my part and some are a bit of both. The table below lists some of the nastier ones. If you identify a new bug, let me know here may be a workaround.

Description Platform JRE

ENHANCEMENT NEEDED: The initial default list of news feeds is lame. I'm open to suggestions - preferrably from a broad spectrum of political positions and ideologies. Exceptional blogs are welcome as well. Here's the current list: CBS News, Grep Law, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Christian Science Monitor, Gay Financial Network, CNN News, Cryptome, BBC Top Stories, BBC Sports, AP Sports, The Advocate, Alternet, The Agonist.
Doubtless, some people will fault with them. Fortunately, its really easy to add or remove feeds yourself, if you don't like what you see here. ALL ALL

BUG: There's a bug in the JRE 1.4.1 for Windows which I haven't found a workaround for yet. When a new story is detected, Newsspotter is supposed to pop to the top of the window stack and open up. On 1.4.1, it opens but it doesn't pop to the top of the window stack and take focus.
WORKAROUND: Use JRE 1.4.2 Beta. Windows 1.4.1

BUG: Drag and Drop only works on JRE 1.4.1 or greater. ALL 1.3.X, 1.4.0

BUG: Tooltips don't work at all on MacOS X. I have no idea why - yet. OS X ALL

BUG: Sometimes the tooltip for the headline displays the previous tooltip's content unformatted. This is due to a bug in the JVM. Swing recycles heavyweight tooltip components and munges things in the process.
WORKAROUND: Move your cursor off the headline and back over the headline a few times.
This appears to have been fixed in JRE 1.4.2 Beta. Windows 1.3.1, 1.4.1

BUG: Mouse-drag events on a JWindow are pretty much broken on Linux. This makes dragging Newsspotter rather difficult. I've no idea what to do about this. Experience has shown that it is really bad with a track-pad but only somewhat bad with a mouse. LINUX 1.3.1, 1.4.1

BUG: Don reports a problem on his PowerMac G-whiz where he is unable to drag Newsspotter to his second monitor. I'm not too surprised as there is no code to explicitly support multiple displays. OS X 1.4.1

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Description	Platform	JRE
ENHANCEMENT NEEDED: The initial default list of news feeds is lame. I'm open to suggestions - preferrably from a broad spectrum of political positions and ideologies. Exceptional blogs are welcome as well. Here's the current list: CBS News, Grep Law, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Christian Science Monitor, Gay Financial Network, CNN News, Cryptome, BBC Top Stories, BBC Sports, AP Sports, The Advocate, Alternet, The Agonist. Doubtless, some people will fault with them. Fortunately, its really easy to add or remove feeds yourself, if you don't like what you see here.	ALL	ALL
BUG: There's a bug in the JRE 1.4.1 for Windows which I haven't found a workaround for yet. When a new story is detected, Newsspotter is supposed to pop to the top of the window stack and open up. On 1.4.1, it opens but it doesn't pop to the top of the window stack and take focus. WORKAROUND: Use JRE 1.4.2 Beta.	Windows	1.4.1
BUG: Drag and Drop only works on JRE 1.4.1 or greater.	ALL	1.3.X, 1.4.0
BUG: Tooltips don't work at all on MacOS X. I have no idea why - yet.	OS X	ALL
BUG: Sometimes the tooltip for the headline displays the previous tooltip's content unformatted. This is due to a bug in the JVM. Swing recycles heavyweight tooltip components and munges things in the process. WORKAROUND: Move your cursor off the headline and back over the headline a few times. This appears to have been fixed in JRE 1.4.2 Beta.	Windows	1.3.1, 1.4.1
BUG: Mouse-drag events on a JWindow are pretty much broken on Linux. This makes dragging Newsspotter rather difficult. I've no idea what to do about this. Experience has shown that it is really bad with a track-pad but only somewhat bad with a mouse.	LINUX	1.3.1, 1.4.1
BUG: Don reports a problem on his PowerMac G-whiz where he is unable to drag Newsspotter to his second monitor. I'm not too surprised as there is no code to explicitly support multiple displays.	OS X	1.4.1