@tjk031 edit the package.json and change the electron version from ^3.0.13 to ^2.0.4

then erase node_modules

rm -rf node_modules

and then

npm install 

again

@schlittrix the text align has to be inside the bracesof the newsfeed class

@hango ok, maybe YOU know what your getting yourself into… most users don’t…

follow the rules, talk about how you are SUPPOSED to do things… teach them the RIGHT way.

i’m here because I want to be, help users, we have enough problems with old docs written and not maintained, old code written and not maintained, we don’t need special instructions that are fragile.

@bhepler there is an ongoing problem w custom.css being overwritten.

My new upgrade script saves and restores

@schlittrix yes

u can specify lots of style elements in a single class like that

for readability you should put the contents on separate lines inside the braces
like this

newsfeed-desc { 
     width: 700px; 
     text-align: center; 
}

@innovation the ‘string’ is the value used in the getDom() function to create the html content

somestring:“this is just a test string”,
counter: 0,

getDom(){
   var wrapper=createElement("div")
   wrapper.innerText=this.somestring
   return wrapper;
}

there is no stopping the module, it MUST always be running… so, if u want to change the string,
you can start a timer, and when the timer expires, call a routine that does the work.

timerRoutine: function(){
     this.somestring="some other string"
}

but how does MM know u changed the value?
u tell MM there is new content…

timerRoutine: function(){
     this.somestring="some other string "+ this.counter++;
     this.updateDom(time_to_delay_in_ms, 0 = immediately)
}

now we need to start a timer… lets say, 15 seconds after we do it in getDom, lets change the text

getDom(){
   var wrapper=createElement("div')
   wrapper.innerText=this.somestring  // use the value of the somestring variable to display
  setTimeout(this.timerRoutine, 15000)   // call the timerRoutine in 15000 milliseconds
   return wrapper;
   // after here , MM will put the html tree defined in wrapper,
   // in the 'position' the module  defined in config.js
}

another way is to use the repeating timer, instead of the single event version

start: {
    // now the timerRoutine will be called every 15 seconds, forever
    // it will change the string, and then inform MM to call to get new content
    setInterval(this.timerRoutine,15000) //  start a repeating timer  every 15 seconds
},

getDom(){
   var wrapper=createElement("div')
   wrapper.innerText=this.somestring  // use the value of the somestring variable to display
   return wrapper;
}

you can do this same updateDom() call after receiving a message back from your node helper with new content.
(my sample module does this)

@MMush that needs to be in the config block

{
module:
position:
  config:{
      showMessage: false
  }
},

@scumbelly right…

general config.js rules

thing to the left of colon (:) does not need quotes

if the thing to the right of colon is a number or true/false,
should NOT have quotes,
otherwise the thing to the right needs quotes.
single or double doesn’t matter, as long as both ends are the same

@bkeyport no thanks,… don’t need a badge… i like doing what I do… thats enough

@stalker401 for the future, all u need to do is add

disabled: true,

To the module definition