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General => General Discussion => Computer Talk => Topic started by: Andyroososoft on August 25, 2006, 02:40:46 PM
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Hey, i just got a wicked idea earlier for a program.
I know for a fact we have some great programmers here, and hopefully this is do-able.
It's not GTAS related, but when you think about it, it could be pretty cool if done.
My idea is to import webcam feeds (such as http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch (http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch) ) into being Desktop backgrounds. I know that animated desktop backgrounds are fully possible, ive seen them but never really bothered with them until now. That link right there is to view a feed which is a view of downtown of where i live. To have that as a background on my desktop would be wicked - i could be talkin to my buddy on his cell phone and I could be like "Hey, i see you're standing outside city hall.... now you've turned around.... now you're scratching your nose... etc." Would definately be wicked, and I know a ton of people who would love something like this.
The program would function by importing a new image as the background every 3 seconds (as it does at http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch (http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch) ) . Might take up a bit of memory, and would require a constant connection to the net, however would be totally wicked. If the internet is disconnected in any way, it could just freeze it at the current frame until the connection's back up.
Anyway, anybody's who's capable of this, have a look at it. Would be pretty freakin cool, guys
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tis a great idea, but only for certain privelaged people. the code shouldnt be too hard though. and no, i cant do it
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Should be easy... I will try it now
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Cool Idea dude...that would be awsome ...the webcams in my city are updated like once/minute...that made me think of soomething that shoulg make the program even more awsome...a changable update time, longer time should use less memory (?...i dont know) and that would give more people a chans to try and use it.
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Found this.
http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spow.asp?ID=246 (http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spow.asp?ID=246)
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thats very close to what i want, except that particular program only offers the live feed for screensavers, not for desktop backgrounds
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Oh, I'll see if I can find a desktop background one.
Edit: If you right click on desktop and go to Properties>'Desktop' tab>Customize Desktop>'Web' tab>New, then put the address for the webcam in, then click OK till your back on your desktop and it should be there.
Its kinda of a small size but I'll keep looking see if I find anything.
Edit 2: I just found out you can resize and move it around but its like still embedded on your desktop. to move it put your cursor at the top and click and drag, and to resize just put your cursor at the bottom right corner, click and drag.
Do I get a cookie?
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What would be the exact address I would put in?
i tried putting in: http://205.174.168.6/record/current.jpg (http://205.174.168.6/record/current.jpg)? and it keeps a constant image - it doesnt change
EDIT: I just tried putting in http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch (http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/?cam=ch) and it works, but it still remains that it still has a stupid frame that goes nuts whenever my mouse hovers over it.
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I just put my mouse over the top part then click the little maximise box thing and it made it the whole background without the frame thing.
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I actually got it working the way i want it! some old knowledge of HTML really helps!!
What i did was i made a new html document. Here's the code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- 1156558343 !-->
<title>Fred-eZone - Free WiFi for Fredericton - WebCams</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/e1-styles.css" type="text/css">
<script src="http://www.fred-ezone.ca/webcams/includes/camcontrol.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body onload="preloadImages();" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
<center>
<img name="CamImg" src="http://205.174.168.6/record/current.jpg?1156558343" onLoad="TimerID=setTimeout('loadcamera(\'http://205.174.168.6/record/current.jpg?\')', 2000);" onError="TimerID=setTimeout('loadcamera(\'http://205.174.168.6/record/current.jpg?\')', 2000);" width="500" height="380">
</body>
</html>
I saved that as an html file on my computer. I then got the Customize Desktop thing to synchronize with that. Then i just adjusted the size of the window so that when i stopped hovering over it, there were no borders at all (notice in the html i deleted all of the margins in the body).
Attached is what my desktop looks like now, i love it!
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Glad ya got it working dude!
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cookie's in the mail, bud
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[offtopic] where did you get that on screen checklist/reminder/calendar thingy? [/offtopic][/b][/size]
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Very possible, problem is.. once fox seen this, i am already to late, thats why i never post programs here.
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why do you happen to have 'ganja.png' there?
and nice job
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Fucking nice ! will try to find a webcam in my town
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Well i was starting on the html code for custom designs when packing ma stuff for the lan - looks like andy was faster
However - first alpha of my tool. dont expect to much. Only took me a few mins
When it asks for ocx or dll simply google. Tool works fine here - but remeber its still alpha so i cant make sure it works for every1. Background still flashing due bad way of system calls
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woot lol, im watching a street Corner
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Read the first post..
My tool is downloading that image and then it adds it as desktop image. Well - wont work on all servers now
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EDIT.
Wrong topic for some reason. Im sry
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Well i founded the missing file and i started the program.
It runed in 5 seconds and so :
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uh?
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uh?
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com)
Or dl attachment
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Well i founded the missing file and i started the program.
It runed in 5 seconds and so :
Receiving error - Caused by crapy coding
Well its been only a test - so... dont expect bugfixes or anything right now. Maybe there will be a new version - maybe not
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uh?
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com)
Or dl attachment
it was a homemade program made in like 15 minutes, fuck I hate stupid people...
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I love that site