XTCrefugee
12th December 2007, 04:31 PM
I want to do the same as the person who started this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=348883), which may require developing a number of things. I've programmed in Java and Perl before but have no experience of writing software for mobile devices.
The information required is on a web page, so I need a program to retrieve the page text, parse it for the relevent data, and store that data somewhere (e.g. a file or registry key). It needs to do this either on a schedule, or after every call. There are actually two pages used by the provider, one is accessed by regular http and the other by https, so support for retrieving secure pages would be a bonus. After this, I need to display that data on the Today screen, so I'll need a Today plugin that displays text from a file or registry entry.
Obviously I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so need to know if any of these already exist:
- A screen scraping program/tool/library for PocketPCs. I know SPB weather does this, but I'm guessing they don't give away their code!
- A way to schedule programs, without them having to run all the time in memory.
- A Today screen plugin to display text from a file and/or registry entry.
Thanks!
The information required is on a web page, so I need a program to retrieve the page text, parse it for the relevent data, and store that data somewhere (e.g. a file or registry key). It needs to do this either on a schedule, or after every call. There are actually two pages used by the provider, one is accessed by regular http and the other by https, so support for retrieving secure pages would be a bonus. After this, I need to display that data on the Today screen, so I'll need a Today plugin that displays text from a file or registry entry.
Obviously I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so need to know if any of these already exist:
- A screen scraping program/tool/library for PocketPCs. I know SPB weather does this, but I'm guessing they don't give away their code!
- A way to schedule programs, without them having to run all the time in memory.
- A Today screen plugin to display text from a file and/or registry entry.
Thanks!