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AJHunter
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:09 am Post subject: orders of business |
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First order of business:
I would like to apologise for the rant in my previous topic, "I Has A Forum". I was mad and I had a keyboard. That's never a good combination. It was a slip in judgement for which I am embarrassed  . It will not happen again.
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Second order of business:
It's not so clear weather the HELP! section is for OHR-related stuff exclusively or not, so, to be on the safe side, I'm asking for some non-OHR help here...
I need to know how to, if it's possible, use C++ to get a picture from the Internet and display it in a window (not a DOS box or a console, but an actual program window) so I can get the latest xkcd without having to use a web browser and actually type in that long, tedious, gargantuan url. Also, I need to know how to make a install package for Ubuntu, so I can get the first-ever xkcd Ubuntu package on the Ubuntu software centre.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:51 am Post subject: |
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This works better
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Ohh, totally misread your post.
I thought you wanted to get into C++ to get (understand) the latest XKCD.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:18 am Post subject: Re: orders of business |
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| AJHunter wrote: |
I need to know how to, if it's possible, use C++ to get a picture from the Internet and display it in a window (not a DOS box or a console, but an actual program window) so I can get the latest xkcd without having to use a web browser and actually type in that long, tedious, gargantuan url. |
Yes, you can write a program that downloads a url and shows it in a window. I wouldn't do it in C++ personally. I would use python. Python's urllib library would make it easy to download the file. As for showing it in a window, you have a couple options. One would be to create a window with a windowing toolkit like pygtk or wxpython and show the image in it. Another method would be to just save the image to a file, and then use python's subprocess.Popen to spawn an external image viewer.
Although you might want to look into comic-reading utilities like buoh or dailycomics, since they probably already do what you want.
| AJHunter wrote: | | Also, I need to know how to make a install package for Ubuntu, so I can get the first-ever xkcd Ubuntu package on the Ubuntu software centre. |
I only have minimal experience with creating deb packages, but this thread in the ubuntu forums might get you started: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51003 |
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AJHunter
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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thanks! but I'm thinking more alomg the lines of not displaying the web page it's self, just the comic. Oh! There's gonna be a new one today! 
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