Author Topic: Cool Program Idea (Read 3653 times)

Andyroososoft · « **on:** August 25, 2006, 02:40:46 PM »

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 ) 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 ) . 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

- - - Roo

Jason · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2006, 02:56:09 PM »

tis a great idea, but only for certain privelaged people. the code shouldnt be too hard though. and no, i cant do it

JayFoxRox · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2006, 03:08:08 PM »

Should be easy... I will try it now

Qouad · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2006, 03:10:54 PM »

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.

RevV · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2006, 03:20:00 PM »

Found this.

http://www.wugnet.com/shareware/spow.asp?ID=246

Andyroososoft · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2006, 05:44:52 PM »

thats very close to what i want, except that particular program only offers the live feed for screensavers, not for desktop backgrounds

RevV · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2006, 05:50:22 PM »

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?

Andyroososoft · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2006, 06:14:05 PM »

What would be the exact address I would put in?

i tried putting in: 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 and it works, but it still remains that it still has a stupid frame that goes nuts whenever my mouse hovers over it.

RevV · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2006, 06:35:59 PM »

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.

Andyroososoft · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2006, 06:50:25 PM »

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:

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<!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!

RevV · « **Reply #10 on:** August 25, 2006, 06:52:14 PM »

Glad ya got it working dude!

Andyroososoft · « **Reply #11 on:** August 25, 2006, 09:58:29 PM »

cookie's in the mail, bud

Psycho · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2006, 11:28:43 PM »

[offtopic] where did you get that on screen checklist/reminder/calendar thingy? [/offtopic][/b][/size]

gunner · « **Reply #13 on:** August 26, 2006, 02:17:12 AM »

Very possible, problem is.. once fox seen this, i am already to late, thats why i never post programs here.

ImPaKt · « **Reply #14 on:** August 26, 2006, 07:54:14 AM »

why do you happen to have 'ganja.png' there?

and nice job

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