RE: xAP Weather and xAP News Beta released

[Kevin Hawkins]

Sounds really good James - congratulations - I'll have a download and see
how they go, may not be able to report my findings for a short while
though.

- I have been doing quite a bit of work converting an older project from a
framework construction to using Patricks OCX and I am thoroughly encouraged
by the results - and the fact that 2000 lines of code have now become 500 !
What did you write these applications in ??

Armed with this new friend (Patricks OCX) I hope to have a number of new
projects appearing sooner rather than later - including a resurrection of
the Outlook CID app - (yes Martin at last !!! - my only known user ;-))

Kevin


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> Subject: [xap_automation] xAP Weather and xAP News Beta released
>
> I have released two xAP programs on my website www.mi4.biz, schema
> for them both is there aswell. They are both beta (windows 95+) but
> have been running at home for a while without problems so....
>
> The first is xAP Weather. It downloads METAR weather data from a
> selected weather station and broadcasts the data it gets over xAP. It
> also gives a nice little picture of the current weather type. Think
> of it as a kweather for Windows given the xAP treatment. The weather
> statoin is selected by a command line addon so you can run many copies
> if required.
>
> xAP News is a similar idea, but , yes , for news. It collects RSS/RDF
> data and re broadcasts it as xAP. It currently xAPs the first 5
> stories with full title/link/description info (if available). It also
> generates a different xAP message when the headline changes, which is
> useful for slimp3/osd/etc type displays :) xAP is configurable from a
> text file which like the command line config of weather lets you run
> many copies each tuned in to a different feed.
>
> They are both part of my Palm remote project, which should be finished
> soon. I am converting the Palm server to use xAP which is already
> opening up some nice possibilities. I already have a networked palm
> controlling lights/slimp3/heating displaying news alerts, current
> weather info and CID info and all for that low low cost of around
> £100 per unit including the Palm of ebay, kinda a cheap for a TCP
> networked touchscreen....</end plug mode>
>
> The apps both need to connect to the internet every 20 minutes
> so these really are for broadband type connections only, unless you
> want a big phone bill that is! They are v1.2 compliant, news uses rdf
> or rss .091,1.0,2.0 formats, weather uses METAR data, in both cases
> the xAP message is fully decoded. Please remember they are both beta,
> if you find any bugs, have suggestions or have any questions please
> ask them in the forum on the site.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
> www.mi4.biz
>
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