Hans Posted August 28, 2023 Report Share Posted August 28, 2023 I have subscribed to Benzinga Breaking News via API from IB, and enabled IB as my news data source in MT. I can see news headlines in MTs Symbol News window with source "BZ" but cannot drill down into the messages. I guess the news source is providing a bit more than headlines - perhaps short articles. Is there a way to inspect what is being delivered by the source, and reveal more details in MT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted August 28, 2023 Report Share Posted August 28, 2023 We request the story when available. Can you try opening some of the headlines then send me the log? Go to FILE / HELP => Send Log/Settings to support menu (from Dashboard or Portfolio) And add this Post’s URL in the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2023 Logs sent. Below a screenshot of what I see - the ticker NVDA has lots of news today but none displaying a story. How are the stories supposed to display? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted August 30, 2023 Report Share Posted August 30, 2023 fixed. will be in next update. emailed you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 31, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2023 Thanks Jerry - I applied the update. The story is loading now and appears in a pane below the headlines. Is there a way to fix the appearance and align it with the rest of MT (font, fontsize, background)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted August 31, 2023 Report Share Posted August 31, 2023 We don't control that. We just get the HTML for the story and show it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 31, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2023 Hi Jerry I am grateful for your prompt fix of the story loading, but really, the way the stories are displayed now are sub-standard and I am not happy with it. Why not enforcing your standard font and the colors matching the set user preferences. If MT can do this for the headlines, there must be a way for the associated stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted August 31, 2023 Report Share Posted August 31, 2023 headlines are just text - we control the way it is displayed. Where the stories are displayed - that is an embedded browser window - we get HTML from the news source, IB in this case, and give it to the browser to display. We don't do anything with fonts, colors, etc. in fact there can be many on any given page just like any web page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted August 31, 2023 Report Share Posted August 31, 2023 it does seem that there are a couple dark mode settings for the browser. will try those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted September 1, 2023 Report Share Posted September 1, 2023 I tried a kludge. it works for IB and TD Ameritrade news (and others where the content of the story is returned to us), but not where we show a full blown webpage - there the webpage formatting takes over. For example: VS Will be in the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Medved Posted September 1, 2023 Report Share Posted September 1, 2023 emailed you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted September 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2023 Hi Jerry, I've installed the darkmode fix. It works OK with my IB datasource. I do hope the font can be fixed at some point, but it's certainly workable now. Thank you. Another observation - when selecting a headline, the row gets highlighted but it needs a double-click to update the story. I can select other headlines whilst the previous story remains displayed. Can this behavior be changed so that the story updates to whatever headline is selected and highlighted? this is to avoid confusion with unrelated headlines/stories. Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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