Re: FN-FORUM: desktop toy required

date posted 15th May 2006 15:43

Quoting Sue Wall [EMAIL REMOVED]

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> We've just been asked to develop a desktop application which links up to a
> website
>
>
> For example: desktop application which is displays football results which is
> fed from a website.
>
> Anyone on the have experience of coding these type or aps? Know anyone I can
> get in touch with?

That kind of thing isn't very complex. Your app makes an HTTP request
to the web site and parses the response it gets back.

Hopefully your programming language of choice will have an HTTP client
library and a library for parsing whatever format the data comes back
in (probably some XML dialect like RSS but it may be HTML).

Let me know if I can be any more help.

Dave...