Well, I am waiting until I see you either on the blind geeks e-list or the
blind programming e-list, I can send you the urls whenever you are ready.
There you can learn either vb.net or any of the other languages you have
heard about, python, php, database stuff visual studio and anything.
I think you are ready to graduate from scripting and get allot of gray hair
like this old fat blind guy.
In allot of ways scripting is harder to create a project like you are
working on, much harder.
That said, learning programming, especially in visual studio will tax
whatever little patients you may have left but you will be able to knock off
programs like your news program easier, faster and more professionally in a
real programming language.
Get this puppy up and hunting so you can get outdoors, they tell me that big
yellow ball in the sky is called the sun, nice, havent seen it without a
hat, coat gloves and scarmf and facemask in some time - almost forgot it was
up there.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "LB" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Breaking News and Heaven
Hi Rick,
Thanks for the encouragement. I once was a programmer at NCR and was the
expert there when everyone was still in the mechanical, dinosaur days. I had
taught myself Basic programming because the company hired out to a Cornell
guy and did a lousy job, so I got the books out and taught myself.
then took one course in Assembly language, MASM, and wrote my own screen
reader for DOS, until I purchased Windoweyes when it came out the same time
Windows XP did.
I had also gotten some CD's on HTML and lea need all the tags used and
such, so this program is my long sought for way to serf the web and needed
an excuse to get started. So Dennis is the blame for that one, kicking my
butt to get moving on it. Soon I will be on outdoor projects, so striving to
get this done the way it was originally suppose to be, for "Breaking News"
In my release this afternoon there probably will be no buttons at the
bottom in any of the dialogs, just will use hotkeys. A display maybe to
indicate function only.
This program in the end will be doing a lot more if I have time, for
tables, lists and such if placed in the head section I will attempt to
extract out, but first must get the original program done.
So, took a break, went to the big city, Ithaca, and now back to get
something done before choir practice tonight.
Thanks, will release it soon as I make the changes.
Bruce
Subject: Re: Breaking News and Heaven
Hay Bruce: You are sure learning allot with this app - good job!
You will be a programmer if you want to ever do anything like that again
with some good analysis experience.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "LB" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Breaking News and Heaven
Hi!
this afternoon i will have to make an upgrade, for when open the
Windoweyes control panel and activating my Breaking News app it gets into an
infinite loop because the tree view when set to expand, gets all tree views
messed up.
I just have to not expand it.
Bruce
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Breaking News and Heaven
Hi Mike,
You can go to the App web site and download the app. It has with it 2
hotkey files which give an explanation of the app.
The app works most of the time, but has it's limitations based on what
the web site users do, like having lists hidden in scripts; which I strip
out for ad/virus protection.
What this app does is first goes to a control panel where 4 defaults are
listed.
You can add to that list by hitting the enter key. Once hitting the
enter key you have to hit the end key and get to that new addition to the
list.
Since you are in a tree view you then hit the right arrow key and expand
that entry.
Once expanded the first one on the list is the name of the alert you want to
add, so hit the tab key and go into the edit field to enter that name.
Once any changes have been made hitting the enter key saves them and returns
you to that entry on the tree.
Then move down to the next tree entry, I called them properties.
The second entry is the link, URL, or web site to monitor or go to.
This entry requires the format to include http:// and if not there it must
be entered.
You can paste your URL in or enter it by hand.
Once again hit the enter key and will be returned to it's listing.
Now cursor down again and hit the tab key, you are in the entry field for a
search term.
This entry is for searching a phrase on the web page you most often go to on
that page. As in news, the phrase is usually Breaking News. but can be
anything of your choosing.
Once entered the search phrase, hit the enter key again, returning you to
the entry list.
Now the next one down is the alert time interval, and it is not set up yet,
so ignore that entry.
The last property on the list is the heading one feature. This is usually
what highlights top stories on a web page, or breaking news.
So this is a check box and you just hit the space bar to check or uncheck
it. It places a True or False in the edit field for you so you need not
enter the word.
Once the entries are all made you have to use the file menu save feature to
save the new web page in your .ini file for future listing. If not done you
will loose it and it will not be displayed the next time you run the app.
This program can be complicated based on what web sites display
automatically or when you are on part of the screen or window for that web
site. Since i do not have you go to the page some links and text are never
seen. Most are and the rest is based on experience when running and using
the app.
Features of the app:
You can look at text on the page and have links to go to if so desire. this
is done by just hitting the Alt-End key combo hotkey. This will load a
textbox with the text from the page displayed. No link name is given, that
is the text, but I place on the page a text which means there is a link and
the format of that is: Link=#
Link=# where # is any number that is shown. That number is only a reference
to a dictionary that holds the URL of the text displayed above it explains.
So using this hotkey you can normally get most of the information of the web
page shown, but not always, for some web pages are scripts running a list,
or virus, or ad which I stop them from doing.
The next hotkey you may want is the Alt-PageUp hotkey.
The Alt-PageUp hotkey gives you the name of the link and stores it in your
clipboard.
Having it in your clipboard you can store that link any place you so
desire to do, like an email or something.
The last feature, the most complicated but comes in handy is the ability to
list all links in a list and you can navigate around to the desired one you
want to view or go to.
the next hotkey is the Alt-PageDown hotkey that does this.
The Alt-PageDown will load, or download, the web page and store it in a
list, or list view.
There you have all the links on the web page and you can look around and see
which one is of interest to you. you can also list the links in alphabetical
order, when run the first time there in the order they reside on the web
page and not sorted.
After the first run you can set the sort to unsorted, alpha sort, or
reverse alpha sort. If you then save the settings from the files menu while
in the list view, those settings will be saved until you change them.
Now the same hotkeys are there as was in the control panel.
The Alt-PageUp, Alt-PageDown, Alt-End, and Control-PageDown hotkeys are all
the same, if in the control panel, list view, or editbox.
I noticed the alt-Pagedown seems not to work in list view, so I have to
change it, but that feature is also done by just hitting the enter key when
on a link.
That enter key has 2 options which are toggled in the view menu B key.
The button at the bottom of the page can represent Read or load web page.
When reading the web page you load the web page into an editbox and read it.
When load is present it means you download the page and read the links in
the List View.
Now the last feature is the editbox or reading the web page in text
form. As I had mentioned above, the editbox gives the text of the page and
the label or name of the link. under that name or label is the word Link=#
where the # sign just means an actual number is there and there numbered
sequentially as seen on the web page; for use in a dictionary reference.
So when the cursor is on that Link=# you can use the very same hotkeys
as I had mentioned above.
Attend: download a web page into the editbox.
Alt-PageUp: Look at the link URL and store it in your clipboard.
Alt-PageDown: Download the web page and store it in a list, or list view.
Control-PageDown: Go to the web page using your standard browser, thus you
are now away from your computer and on the Internet.
I hope this helps and explains what you can do with this app.
sincerely
Bruce and Bronx
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Breaking News and Heaven
Bruce
Haven't seriously looked at your script to this point; but have read with
interest over the last several months as it has evolved.
Is there somewhere an overview of what it can and cannot do; and how one
is best testing its power and giving it a fair evaluation.
I well realize that often people find short comings with scripts and
programs because not of the program itself but they cannot figure out how
to use it to its maximum intent as created by the author.
We are ready to leap forward in our Christian walk when we embrace
the unshakable reality that the universe revolves around God, not us.
Ray pritchard, Keep Believing Ministries
http://www.keepbelieving.com/
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