Opening up in RichTextBox2 ?
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From: Captain Jack on 20 Jan 2010 15:03 "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harris9(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:fa3fe4ea-de63-4c94-a69f-f277d5a10fcd(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... On Jan 20, 7:43 pm, "Captain Jack" <CaptainJack1...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harr...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message The updated code is here: > > http://www.CaptainJack3s.com/Code/ogprog4.txt > > That link doesn't appear to work Jack. Sorry, I'm typing with one eye closed (cataract surgery for me in a couple of weeks, and I'll be as right as rain). That should have been 3d, not 3s, as in: http://www.CaptainJack3d.com/Code/ogprog4.txt Man, my whole day has been like that, one little thing after another. Probably should have stayed in bed... :-D -- Jack
From: Keith (Southend)G on 20 Jan 2010 15:18 On Jan 20, 8:03 pm, "Captain Jack" <CaptainJack1...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harr...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:fa3fe4ea-de63-4c94-a69f-f277d5a10fcd(a)o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > On Jan 20, 7:43 pm, "Captain Jack" <CaptainJack1...(a)comcast.net> > wrote:> "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harr...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > The updated code is here: > > > > >http://www.CaptainJack3s.com/Code/ogprog4.txt > > > That link doesn't appear to work Jack. > > Sorry, I'm typing with one eye closed (cataract surgery for me in a couple > of weeks, and I'll be as right as rain). That should have been 3d, not 3s, > as in: > > http://www.CaptainJack3d.com/Code/ogprog4.txt > > Man, my whole day has been like that, one little thing after another. > Probably should have stayed in bed... :-D > > -- > Jack No problem :-) Glad to hear you enjoy this stuff. Running the new version now, the text appears straight away when I click the first button and the hour glass is showing with the both buttons grayed out. Still 5 minutes+, the 2nd bit is almost instant. Out of interest how much RAM do you have on the computer you're using? Animation is very a very rewarding pastime, you must have lots of patience. For many years I was on the committee of out local Video Club, before that it was Cine (Super 8), I was one for making holiday films (good for people who can't sleep!), but we had one member George Daniels, who's been dead for some years, that made super animations. I imagine it's all computer based now? Keith (Southend)
From: Captain Jack on 25 Jan 2010 10:16 "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harris9(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4227f518-ad62-4993-8710-faf4a187618f(a)n7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > > Not sure if there's anything here that means more to you with regards > to the time it takes to append the ogimet.txt to RichTextBox1. I tried > an even larger file (18 hours worth), which took 11 minutes. The 2nd > bit again was almost instant to run. Even so, I can just go and make > myself a cup of tea and relax for a few minutes. I don't think that would help with the problem we're having. That code sample is for a quick way to build a really big string from other string variables (and the StringBuilder is definitely the way to go for that). I'm pretty sure the delay we're getting is happening somwhere when the StreamReader is being created, which is a kettle of fish of a different color. > > ps: I hope the Indianapolis Colts play well against the N Y Jets > tomorrow (Sunday). They did indeed do well, although they got off to a rocky start. They won the game, which sends them to the Big Game in two weeks. There was much cheering (and too much consumption of potato chips, I regret to say) in my household. :-) I set up a WebBrowser control to point to the data site on Saturday afternoon, and I was able to load the page in a program. I need to do some more work on it... I want to build the program so you can set up a list of locations to pull data from, have it record the last date and time each location was run for, and automatically download the data for each batch in turn. The idea would be an application that would automatically get all of the data you want since the last time you ran it, filter and sort the data automatically, save its state, then shut down. My hope is that we'll have a progam that you can run once a day (or as often as you like) and not have to pay any attention to. From there, we could even set the program to go to sleep every 24 hours, wake up and run, then go back to sleep until the next day. If you start it when your computer boots up, you'd never have to mess with collecting data again. At least, until they change the web site, which some places have an annoying habit of doing. I'll try to work on the project over the coming week and see what I can do. If I get a chance, I'll try to isolate that start up issue with the inbound file. If it is in the opening of the file, I'll see if there's another reading option. If it's just slow on the reading because it's not buffering, I can change to read in large blocks, and peel the lines off in memory (I've done that with a lot of other unbuffered systems and it works well). What version of VB are you using? I've got both 2005 and 2008 here. I'll probably have more than one form before we're done, and it'll be easier if I send you an entire solution zipped up, rather than just some code in text. -- Jack
From: Captain Jack on 25 Jan 2010 11:48 "Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harris9(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:31c61827-d119-43f4-81ff-55a9dc235f47(a)a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... > > Sounds like you've given a lot of thought to the WebBrowser control > for downloading that data. I'm quietly confident that the website I > get the data from is unlikely to change it's address as I have had > emails with the author in the past. In fact the address with > "www1.ogimet...." he gave me as this presides on the University of > Granada (Spain) website, the version without the '1' is on his home > computer and regularily gets overloaded. So there are two variants of > the same website: > http://www1.ogimet.com/synopsc.phtml.en (best one to use) > http://www.ogimet.com/synopsc.phtml.en > I like the automatic running idea, certainly useful if I have to work > away or go on holiday, always a nightmare catching up, I must admit I > grab and use the data at different times of the day, although > generally evenings. What if my internet went down, as it's on 24/7, > would it just pick up from where it left? As long as I can set dates/ > times manually if I want to I don't see a problem. A 24 hour download > file would be about 3.5Meg. > > I have installed 'Visual Basic 2008 Express', it came with a book I > bought "Build a Program Now." > http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/book.aspx?ID=12282&locale=en-us > Ironically, the main exercise is for a weather reporting programme :-) What I was thinking of would be a table that would be kept in a text file on your computer that would list each of the locations that get looked up, and what the last date and time was for each one. When the program runs, it will grab anthing after that date and time for each location up to the current date and time, so that it would always be getting whatever hadn't been retrieved before, regardless of how long it had been run. That would also allow for adding new locations, or catching up if data was not available for a certain location or if the download gets interrupted somehow. There'll probably be a need to set up a couple of folders for working space on the system, too, so the program has a safe place to store temporary files, and a permanent place to store its logs. I'm thinking of making a little window that will allow doing that kind of set up, although it would be pretty easy to just put it into a text file and edit it by hand, too. I think we could build in some monitoring for the WebBrowser that would check the preferred web site, and only try the alternate site if the primary site times out more than a specified number of times. Come to think of it, we'll probably need a screen that shows the log of recent activity, so that we'll know if no data is being grabbed. -- Jack
From: Captain Jack on 26 Jan 2010 09:20
"Keith (Southend)G" <keith_harris9(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f23b31c8-744d-46a7-9328-86c25795ab19(a)y12g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > > One thing worth mentioning, the way the data on that site updates > means that the full complement of data is normally 6 hours behind. > eg, data up to say 14:00, won't all be in until 20:00, so I grab the > data up to 14:00 and pick the rest the next day and so on. It updates > every 6 hours as a rule, but you will find data there, but not all > prior to this time, so I never actually go as far as the current time. > That's probably as clear as mud :) > It just dawned on me as I was thinking about the automation of the > programme. That shouldn't be a problem, we can just add an offset to the automation that can be specified in the set up. To calculate the target time, the program would just have to subtract the offset from the current time before requesting the data. Come to think of it, we might want a maximum time to download data, too. If for some reason the program doesn't get run for a week, it might be better to restrict a given download to a manageable size, like 24 or 48 hours. That would keep the program from downloading too much data at one time, but still let it catch up. -- Jack |