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#99569 - 2003-03-14 07:22 PM Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	Hey guys, I had a crazy idea of showing a graphic of a Sun (sunny), a sun and clouds (partly cloudy) and a picture of rain (duh) as a side form predicting the weather as the user logs into the network.. I wonder if there is some automated weather service that I can pass the variables from.. Anyone ever try anything like this before? Also, What's the best way to trap the time of day (morning, noon, night) into a variable.. I did it, but it's pretty messy with way too many if statements.
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#99570 - 2003-03-14 07:33 PM Re: Weather Report
Jochen Jochen KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-03-17 Posts: 6380 Loc: Stuttgart, Germany	Maybe you should let Merlin or Genie do the weather forecast There are some sample code fragments and/or complete scripts in Scripts and COM to search for _________________________
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#99571 - 2003-03-14 07:50 PM Re: Weather Report
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	something like this: http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=33569 change the numbers at the end to your zip code _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#99572 - 2003-03-14 09:21 PM Re: Weather Report
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Maybe you could even embed this into a KiXForms object? _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#99573 - 2003-03-14 09:48 PM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	That picture is perfect.. That was exactly what I was looking for - Thanks Ramius! Now, how would I fire up a small kixforms window with that information in it when the user logs in? Should I fire up IE as a com object and navigate to that site? I'm getting geeked about this now since we are a shipping copnay and I want to have the weather for all of our ports listed during login in small boxes.. Very cool.
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#99574 - 2003-03-14 10:07 PM Re: Weather Report
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	I'd go with a kixform with a combobox / option button that would provide the weather for the selected area _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#99575 - 2003-03-14 10:26 PM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	This is going to sound really stupid, but I am just getting a novice handle with scripting with forms and objects. I am trying to figure out how to get a box - the size of the weather channel page that you listed above into a box without it looking like a browser window and withoud dead space.. When I create an IE application object and use the navigate command, does that object become whatever the web page is that I specify as the URL?? Is that something I can embed into a KIX form? How could I get a web page to be an object that I can place in a form? Am I even on the right path?? I'm so damn confused..
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#99576 - 2003-03-15 12:13 AM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	* Bump *
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#99577 - 2003-03-15 02:37 AM Re: Weather Report
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Any reason for the bump? You might want to pull a webpage into a string, then parse the string for e.g. the graphic file that's being displayed. Then pull the graphic file to a local directory and display it in KiXForms. Definitley doable. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#99578 - 2003-03-16 05:48 PM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	I just need a little help because I never did that before.. IS there a step by step help file that covers that or an example someone can post to get me started? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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#99579 - 2003-03-17 12:48 AM Re: Weather Report
Radimus Radimus Moderator Registered: 2000-01-06 Posts: 5187 Loc: Tampa, FL	the gurus chatted about this last night. there is no easy way for this to work yet, but Shawn mentioned the the best way for this to work is to build into kforms access to the IE activex control (or something to that effect) so right now, you may need to kludge something (perhaps some IE wizard to pull the magnet jpgs on a daily basis) _________________________ How to ask questions the smart way <-----------> Before you ask
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#99580 - 2003-03-17 05:35 AM Re: Weather Report
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	IE's xmlhttp-object and kixforms mixed would get to the goal but that is far from simple. that also requires power user rights for each user to make sure it works (may need to register kixforms.dll) _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#99581 - 2003-03-17 05:52 PM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	I have registered the Kixforms.dll on every station as a preperation of what I am attempting to accomplish. How would I trap the webpage into a string? $IE.Navigate("http://blahblah.com") or something simmilar?
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#99582 - 2003-03-17 05:57 PM Re: Weather Report
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Here is something Jooel put together for me. If you leave out the nested Split() functions, it would pull the body. code: break on $http=createobject("microsoft.xmlhttp") $http.open("GET","http://chart.canada-stockwatch.com/sw/chart.dbm?symbol=A",not 1) $http.send $value=split(split(split($http.responsebody,"</th></tr>")[1],"<td align=right><b>")[1],"</b>")[0] $value get $_ Exit 0 _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#99583 - 2003-03-17 06:12 PM Re: Weather Report
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Les: I think we'd make a good team. I explained the basics of how to do it, you supply the example code. _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#99584 - 2003-03-17 06:26 PM Re: Weather Report
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Well, this team member would let you down. Jooel would have to be the designated hitter. I tested the above code with the URL to oap.weather.com that Rad supplied and it doesn't work. Time to call in the DH. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#99585 - 2003-03-17 06:33 PM Re: Weather Report
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	lol sure, if you see the whole page is nothing more but an image! _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#99586 - 2003-03-17 06:38 PM

Re: Weather Report

Lonkero Offline

KiX Master Guru

Registered: 2001-06-05
Posts: 22346
Loc: OK

you could try weather.com:

code:

$http=createobject("microsoft.xmlhttp")
$http.open("GET","http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/FIXX0025?lswe=jyväskylä&lswa=WeatherLocalUndeclared",not 1)
$http.send
$value=split(split($http.responsebody,"<B CLASS=obsTextA>")[1],"</B>")[0]

$value
get $

pretty simple code is sufficient [Big Grin]

_________________________
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#99587 - 2003-03-17 07:08 PM Re: Weather Report
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	k, talked to les and... if you want to get that exact image (not text), it would be simple. just get FTPget() UDF and then the code you need to make is just: code: ftpget("http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=33569","%temp%\newimage.jpg") _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#99588 - 2003-03-17 07:24 PM Re: Weather Report
Incognito Incognito Getting the hang of it Registered: 2001-07-09 Posts: 66	Mna, you guys are amazing.. This project has been a great lesson for me. Thanks for all of your assistance - I will let you know how it works out.
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