Hi. I really like your Weather Watcher application. It is a great little application. I was frustrated by some of the other weather apps (who will remain unnamed) having spyware and/or adware.
Anyway, I have a suggestion. Would it be possible to have the program scheduled at some time each date (e.g. 5:30AM, or whatever) to print all the relevant data (current conditions, detailed forecast, weather map) to a printer of the user’s choice?
It would be neat to have the app print this out on one of the color printers in the morning so that I can review it while drinking my morning tea. The area where we live is very dependent on the weather. My spouse and I need to know what we’re going into.
It looks like this is a VB6 app and it shouldn’t be too hard to add. On the other hand, I might be the only one who likes this idea.
Either way, keep up the great work. I really appreciate that you have offered this app. God bless.
I know it’s not good form to reply to your own post, but had an idea. Could what I’m after be accomplished by creative use of the WindowsXP scheduler? Is there a macro or scripting feature in XP that I could use?
Anyway, just an idea. Any thoughts would be great. Thanks.
You could create a script (VB Script would work) and schedule it through Windows. The script would just have to print the .HTML files in C:\Program Files\Weather Watcher\Skins\Forecasts\Classic.
I’m not sure printing raw HTML code is going to be that useful. I think you will need to display each of the files in a browser and have it perform the print function.
Very true. I’ve been working on a little VB6 app and, as a different approach, a batch file to see if I could get it to work. So far I haven’t been able to successfully pass a ENTER key to the printer dialog.
There also doesn’t seem to be a method to silently print with the ShellExecute method. Oh well, I will fuss around with it when I get a minute.
