Getting the latest posted message

In 2.x you can use the tribune_get_last_posts($node, $nb) function to retrieve the $nb latest posts from the tribune $node. It is get_last_posts($nb) in the 1.x version of the tribune module.

So your block's code could be something like

$tribune = node_load(42); // or whatever your tribune's nid is
list($post) = tribune_get_last_posts($tribune, 1);

print theme("tribune_post", $post, $tribune);
 // or print yourself each member of $post (which is an associative array) that you want to display
 // like « print $post['login'].': '.$post['message'] », whatever

I mark this as fixed, but tell me if you have any issue with that

I have added a "readonly" checkbox to the blocks settings, so now you could add a block and choose the tribune node you want to display, "1" for how many posts to show, and check readonly to avoid showing the form for posting messages. The CSS and JS will still be included as they may be necessary depending on the filters you have enabled.

Is it the kind of feature you wanted ?

Okay, I have also added a "reload delay" setting, so you can set it to 0 and it won't reload anymore.

Anything else ? :)