Samurize Scripts

IceBus · 19 Apr 2003 at 00:31

Originally posted by Raymond Lin
Selekt0r - good work mate !!!

But I haven't installed it yet as it seem to be a bit tricky to config. I've got your old script running at the moment and it's fine, replacing it with the new one won't create any problems?

And what do you mean by

What is an Instance Name?

Hope that explains it

it used to be an old gaming thing for running name editors etc. (BTW That shorttcut is it running out of my Startup folder)

Raymond Lin · 19 Apr 2003 at 00:34

Thanks, do I have to change Client.exe to Client.exe "JHM" too?

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 00:36

Originally posted by IceBus
Making slow headway here... Last thing I want to ask for the minute... With the weather thing, how do you get it to auto update the name of tomorrow, i.e. in BigBadBenny's above it says Forecast for Saturday and Sunday.

How do you get it to automatically say the correct day name?

From the web site the data is trawled from. (FDAY# where # = 1,2, .. 5) Samurize automatically updates every 1 - 60 minutes

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:03

Originally posted by Raymond Lin
Thanks, do I have to change Client.exe to Client.exe "JHM" too?

Yes, make sure that what you enter as the instance name in the command line is the same as you enter in the .vbs file. If you get it wrong, say by having a rogue space, then you can spend hours wondering why it dont work

1337_KR3W · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:10

nearly done now

IceBus · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:17

Nearly done now myself:-

Last thing I need now is icons, but every time I do a text meter with meter linkage, it says "File Not Found". Any ideas?

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:29

Originally posted by IceBus
Last thing I need now is icons, but every time I do a text meter with meter linkage, it says "File Not Found". Any ideas?

What are you trying to link the text box to? URL, program?

IceBus · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:41

Proggie, IE to be exact. Copying the url from my desktop shortcut so I know it's correct...

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 01:56

For ie you can get away with

Code:

iexplore.exe

If you want to open a specific page then

Code:

iexplore.exe H:\My Documents\Personal Data\My Webs\new_page_1.htm

or

Code:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk

All three open ie on my machine

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 03:30

Click Image for Full Size

Mine, fully working. Got to make it look pretty now

Selekt0r · 19 Apr 2003 at 06:09

Originally posted by Raymond Lin
Selekt0r - good work mate !!!

But I haven't installed it yet as it seem to be a bit tricky to config. I've got your old script running at the moment and it's fine, replacing it with the new one won't create any problems?

And what do you mean by

What is an Instance Name?

Raymond - tricky to config....? Just follow the comprehensive readme m8

Seriously, if you do have trouble getting it working then feel free to drop me an email.

BTW - I see a few people with "JHM" (i.e. not "JMH" which is my initials and is in the script file) in their posts as the instance name. Whatever you choose as the instance name, make sure it's the same as in the script file, otherwise you'll get multiple client.exe's popping up.

Originally posted by Sleepy

From the web site the data is trawled from. (FDAY# where # = 1,2, .. 5) Samurize automatically updates every 1 - 60 minutes

Yep - the 5 day names for the forecast days use the parameters FDAY1: to FDAY5: (don't forget to include the colon).

Originally posted by Andy C
I wanted to grab the time current observations were taken so I could display something like:

Current temp. 22C, observed at 1500hrs

Thanks for the suggestion Andy. I've added OBSERVED: into the latest version here . I've also inserted a colon between the hours and minutes (i.e. 07:00 instead of 0700) to make sure it's treated as a string, otherwise the Samurize client insisted on dropping all leading zeros (i.e. just returning 0 for midnight)

Originally posted by Selekt0r
BTW - I'm not sure that the time_since_update function is working correctly as it always seems to return zero

D'oh - the function was working fine, however I'd set my writefile_weather meter to run every minute (contradicting my own advice in the readme about not hammering the BBC web site :eek:

)

1337_KR3W · 19 Apr 2003 at 11:33

i have everything sorted now apart from my news script - it doesnt like the line that says "dim html" in it, but i dont know if its right or not.

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 12:02

Code:

' BBC.co.uk News Script v0.3 

Function GetText_(ini,Fin,ofset)
	Dim html	
	enter_time = Timer
	leave_time = Timer
	While (enter_time + 10 > leave_time)
		leave_time = Timer
	Wend
	tmpfile = "bbc.tmp"
	set fs=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	if fs.fileexists(tmpfile) then
		set f=fs.OpenTextFile(tmpfile,1)
		data = f.readall
		f.close
	else
		error = "Unable to open bbc.tmp"
	end if
	set f=nothing
	set fs=nothing
	html = data
	html = start_(html,ini,ofset)
	html = endd_(html,fin,0)
	GetText_ = TrimHTML_(html)
End Function

This works for me

Andy C · 19 Apr 2003 at 12:39

Made a few changes since the last screenie.

- Changed the network info layout
- Changed to Selekt0rs weather script (gracias!) tweaked slightly to grab the observation time.
- Got a new script of samurize.com to split news onto two lines (is this yours, Finn?)
- Made some icons for the tv guide which personally I think look crap and ruin it.

- blatently stole the alien pic and got a theme to match.

Full size here. I think it's getting there slowly!

BigBadBenny · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:02

Nice wallpaper Andy

I'm such a nub

I worked out where I was going wrong, anyhoo...

Sleepy · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:03

Looking good Andy C though I think you're right about the TV icons - maybe if you square them off and reduce in size they might work?

Can you post the code that you added to the weather script and where did you find that alien?

Why do people have both an analogue and a digital clock? Tad redundant me thinks

Snow-Munki · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:10

oh how did u manage to putthe weather script saying what time the curent temp was recorded again ?

though i read it someone in this thread, but its like 12 pages long... :rolleyes:

looking very good though

Raymond Lin · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:24

So I change the short Thanks, do I have to change Client.exe to Client.exe "JHM" but do I change the clien.exe in c:/program files/samurize too?

BigBadBenny · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:28

I used the time_since_update function and added the last bit with normal text

Example: "Last updated"[time_since_update]"minutes ago"

If that makes sense...

BigBadBenny · 19 Apr 2003 at 13:30

Originally posted by Raymond Lin
So I change the short Thanks, do I have to change Client.exe to Client.exe "JHM" but do I change the clien.exe in c:/program files/samurize too?

Right click on the .exe and go to properties and add it to the...

Target: "C:\Program Files\Samurize\Client.exe" "JMH"

This should work adding it to a shortcut to the .exe aswell.