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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => General Programming => Topic started by: Joe on August 02, 2005, 09:20:31 am

Title: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe 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.

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Newby on August 02, 2005, 01:47:05 pm

Neat. Runs fine under wine.

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe on August 02, 2005, 01:53:50 pm

Backwards addchatting (Is it just me or is time running backwards in linux?) is resolved?

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Sidoh 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.

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe 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

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Blaze on August 10, 2005, 10:43:19 am

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/alert no longer exists.

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe on August 10, 2005, 02:56:06 pm

Because theres no news.

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Sidoh on August 10, 2005, 07:21:12 pm

It no longer works, even if there is news. :\

Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe 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.