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.
Neat. Runs fine under wine.
Backwards addchatting (Is it just me or is time running backwards in linux?) is resolved?
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.
Its a lot easier than that, I just wanted it to look pretty.
www.worldofwarcraft.com/alert
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/alert no longer exists.
Because theres no news.
It no longer works, even if there is news. :\
bah, I'll figure it out some day.
EDIT -
Er, next time theres news I'll investigate.