DesktopX Freezing
Monday, August 7, 2006 by cbhaysom | Discussion: DesktopX
Hey everyone.
I'm trying to make a widget which will display Warcraft III statistics for a friends account on the desktop, however I cannot seem to get the information from the website. I tried to just display the HTML code on the desktop to see if that would work and the object freezes and doesn't allow me to select it.
Any ideas on why it would do this? The website is:
http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/w3xp-player-profile.aspx?Gateway=Azeroth&PlayerName=WildDragon
Thanks for your help.
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #2 Monday, August 7, 2006 9:06 PM
Reply #2 Monday, August 7, 2006 9:06 PM
Um maybe. I don't know alot about these things but maybe try this. In your WEB browser go to the WEB site and navigate to the page that displays just your friends stats. Copy that address into the clipboard and use that address in your object. To get it to display properly you might also have to do some scripting. There are examples of others who have done this. RomanDA has a widget for GC II that shows the leader board. There are other widgets and objects that interact with WEB sites download and study those.
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:12 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:12 PM
I've thought about this a litle more and finally took a look at your link doh! The only other things I can think of is I think what you want to do would be awhole lot easier if they had an RSS feed. The other idea is there are ActiveX objects available in DesktopX and you need to consider using an ActiveX Browser object to display the whole page.
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Reply #1 Monday, August 7, 2006 1:45 PM