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[JustinReno]

That's cool.

[Achilles]

Updated to include Explosm comics also

Thanks Paulie!

[JustinReno]

I really like this, thank you Piano Man.

Edit: You should change the $DownloadLocation = "C:\" to @HomeDrive. @HomeDrive&"\"

Edited December 2, 2007 by JustinReno

[HeffeD]

Any hope of adding Achewood like I mentioned a while back?

[theguy0000]

http://www.xkcd.com/

Func _GetXkcdLink()
    $RSS = "http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml"
    $RSSSource = _INetGetSource($RSS)
    $Items = StringRegExp($RSSSource, "(?i)(?s)<item>.*?</item>", 3)
    $Count = UBound($Items)
    $Dummy = _StringBetween($Items[0], '&lt;img +src="', '"')
    $Link = $Dummy[0]
    Return $Link
EndFunc   ;==>_GetXkcdLink

untested but should work...

[Achilles]

I got an error about $Dummy[0] not being an array item which means something isn't going write...

[theguy0000]

right, sorry...

Func _GetXkcdLink()
    $RSS = "http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml"
    $RSSSource = _INetGetSource($RSS)
    $Items = StringRegExp($RSSSource, "(?i)(?s)<item>.*?</item>", 3)
    $Count = UBound($Items)
    $Dummy = _StringBetween($Items[0], '&lt;img src="', '"')
    $Link = $Dummy[0]
    Return $Link
EndFunc   ;==>_GetXkcdLink

[Achilles]

right, sorry...

Func _GetXkcdLink()
    $RSS = "http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml"
    $RSSSource = _INetGetSource($RSS)
    $Items = StringRegExp($RSSSource, "(?i)(?s)<item>.*?</item>", 3)
    $Count = UBound($Items)
    $Dummy = _StringBetween($Items[0], '&lt;img src="', '"')
    $Link = $Dummy[0]
    Return $Link
EndFunc   ;==>_GetXkcdLink

Sweet, that looks like it will work perfectly. As soon as I get my computer recustomized (I just reinstalled Windows) I'll update this.

[HeffeD]

To repost my earlier post in this thread: (edited to grab today's date...)

I'd love to see Achewood. (Note that Achewood is often very rude and crass. View at your own peril)

The URL for the daily comic is in this format. http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=11302007 But I'm not sure of the actual image URL format. The image is a .gif, but I don't know enough about PHP to know how to derive the actual image address.

Sometimes the comic is not updated daily. There are often two to three day gaps in comics.

If you would prefer not to add that one due to content, how about Penny Arcade?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20071129.jpg

[JustinReno]

Why not just add it yourself and post it?

[Achilles]

Updated

Includes xkcd

I really like this, thank you Piano Man. :)

Edit: You should change the $DownloadLocation = "C:\" to @HomeDrive. @HomeDrive&"\"

Your welcome and I changed it to @HomeDrive &'\' like you suggested.. thanks

Thanks again to theguy0000 for that link.

@HeffeD: I'll look into those two, probably tomorrow though, I should be studying for an AP Bio test I have tomorrow...

Edited December 3, 2007 by Piano_Man

[HeffeD]

Why not just add it yourself and post it?

Did you read my post? I said I didn't know how...

@Piano_man Thanks!

Edited December 3, 2007 by HeffeD

[JustinReno]

Your welcome, it looks nice.

@HefeD: Its not hard.

Edited December 3, 2007 by JustinReno

[BananaFredSoft]

All it shows is a tiny little box for me, with a button, that a click, and does nothing.

[HeffeD]

@HefeD: Its not hard.

Maybe not, but I still don't know how to do it...

[Achilles]

All it shows is a tiny little box for me, with a button, that a click, and does nothing.

Well, internet access is required, but since you're posting on a forum I'll assume you have that.

Does it go through the progressbar where it should download the 5 pictures? It should take a few seconds... While the little box, as you call it, is open, check your @Homedrive to see if there have been any comics downloaded there.

Let me know what happens...

[theguy0000]

Your welcome, and it's theguy0000 not theguy1000

[Achilles]

Your welcome, and it's theguy0000 not theguy1000

Don't know where I got the 1 from, but I changed it to 0000...

[BananaFredSoft]

The images aren't on my drive... I wonder what's wrong with it. Why is the GUI so tiny?

[Paulie]

The images aren't on my drive... I wonder what's wrong with it. Why is the GUI so tiny?

Version of Autoit?

Can you access all the links within the code?