Mike Meyer Wrote: 
> 
> Yes, your code was nice and easy to follow.  The only hiccup I had was
> when the XML strings on the college hoops page didn't match your
> original NBA strings.  But I got it working.  Now I'm using yours
> though.  :)
> 
Yeah, you have to tweak the HTML parsing for each sport.  Sometimes
it's pretty easy, othertimes (MLB) it can be quite tedious.
> 
> I do have a question for you.  There might be one or two more things I
> would like to have added to your screen saver that might only interest
> me.  Would there be a way to have your plugin execute another .pm
> script (if it exists) after it goes through the scores and the weather
> and then pass control back to your script when finished?  That way
> people could 'add' to your screen saver without actually changing your
> code.  Otherwise if I changed your code locally I would have to make
> those changes locally everytime you released a new version.
> 
> Did any of that make sense?  And I do understand that the ability to do
> it and you wanting to do it are completely different things.  :)
Yeah, I've thought about this in the past.  Basically having a plug-in
for a plug-in.  I'm not sure how easy this would be, as I'm not a Perl
expert.  I'd probably also have to create some way for you to push your
own items into the display arrays...

I've also thought about having the plug-in automatically update itself
with new versions or parsing tweaks.  But so far I've decided against
going this route as I'm not sure people would like having a plug-in
running unknown code...

What are your suggestions?  I personally would like having it display
Chicago traffic travel times while I'm getting ready for work.  I doubt
many people would find this useful so I haven't bothered...

-Greg


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