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[VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« on: August 02, 2005, 09:20:31 am »
I've written an open source program to read the World of WarCraft news, that apears on the left side of the login screen.

Requires:
- VB6 Runtimes
- RichTextBox
- Winsock
- VB6 to Compile

This also shows:
- How to write a halfass stringbuffer
- How to request a page of HTML

Thanks to:
- The guys who wrote Ethereal
- Grok, for DebugOutput (used in the early stages of parser writing, no longer present)

EXE and Source Code Included
http://www.javaop.com/uploads/guest/WoWNews.zip

EDIT -
You should note that this was tested when news was there to be read. If none is present on the server, you will be likely to recieve a subscript out of error RTE, where I'm working with my splits in the parsing procedure.
« Last Edit: August 02, 2005, 11:17:35 am by Joe[x86] »
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2005, 01:47:05 pm »
Neat. Runs fine under wine.
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[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2005, 01:53:50 pm »
Backwards addchatting (Is it just me or is time running backwards in linux?) is resolved?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2005, 12:39:10 am »
I think I'm going to try to implement this into my website using PHP. Would be kind of nice to view the "news" from anywhere that has internet without downloading a program.

Thanks, Joe.

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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2005, 08:10:00 am »
Its a lot easier than that, I just wanted it to look pretty.

www.worldofwarcraft.com/alert
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2005, 10:43:19 am »
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2005, 02:56:06 pm »
Because theres no news.
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You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2005, 07:21:12 pm »
It no longer works, even if there is news. :\

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Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2005, 12:28:23 am »
bah, I'll figure it out some day.

EDIT -
Er, next time theres news I'll investigate.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.