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Programming => General Programming => Visual Basic Programming => Topic started by: Joe[x86] on August 02, 2005, 10:25 AM

Title: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe[x86] on August 02, 2005, 10:25 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: Grok on August 02, 2005, 03:19 PM
Quote from: Vote Joe! on August 02, 2005, 10:25 AM
Thanks to:
- The guys who wrote Ethereal
- Grok, for DebugOutput (used in the early stages of parser writing, no longer present)

Wow, a credit!  *grin*
Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Joe[x86] on August 03, 2005, 06:22 AM
Hehe, you're welcome.

By the way, for you Linux users, Newby has confirmed this to work just fine in wine.
Title: Re: [VB6] World of WarCraft News Viewer
Post by: Warrior on August 03, 2005, 08:08 AM
"The guy who wrote Ethereal"
haha