Rainmeter server list

[Dropbear]

Hey, I'm new to the forums but I've been playing AoS for a few patches now, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a rainmeter server list, dont know what rainmeter is? Google it, I think it would be a good substitute to going onto the main site then to play or opening your browser every time you want to play a game or two of AoS, I searched but if this has already been suggested then please redirect me to the original thread.

Thanks, Dropbear.

Also, on a side note, not sure if this is the right forum I assume it would be because this is the suggestions thread but it could technically be for the off topic board.

[Gorman]

Yup, very possible. After all, all it has to do is read a webpage and display one part of it, that's pretty ez.
You could use one of the webpage scripts and just scroll it to the part you want, or you can use more complex regex to cut out all except the table:
/<table class="sortable" style="table-layout:fixed;">(.*)</table>/s
Assuming multi-line matching mode.

[Dropbear]

Thanks for the fast response, tomorrow I will look into it, for now I'm too tired.

EDIT; If anyone wants to do this I won't stop you it saves me learning HTML and C++/C#

[Gorman]

Don't worry about learning any of that, you just need to follow this tutorial:
http://rainmeter.net/cms/Tips-WebParserPrimer

I'll help you out by saying this:

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[MeasureServerList]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
UpdateRate=1800
Url=http://www.ace-spades.com/play/
RegExp="(?siU)<table class="sortable" style="table-layout:fixed;">(.*)</table>"

With that you have almost everything you need, read the tutorial to find the lasts little bit (it's best to read the tutorial anyway so you can understand what this code does)

[Dropbear]

You are my 15th best friend, I will be back with a small server list for Rainmeter, then I will sign up to the rainmeter forums and post it there too.

[Gorman]

Some day I'll make it into the top 10! :D

Good luck.

[Dropbear]

quick update; I have to use LUA code to return a table of values which I will get with string.gmatch (I have some experience with LUA) but for now i have assignments, don't expect anything even remotely done until the weekend.

[LASTofS]

Good luck! I'm looking forward to this.

[Gorman]

I think you are significantly over-complicating things :P

Whatever you are trying to do can probably be done with regex ;)

[Zakski]

See the first reply on this Stack Overflow post to know why parsing html with regex is bad http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

[Dropbear]

I have about 2 years experience with LUA where as I have about 1 week with Rainmeter and I'm reading HTML as if it was XML, LUA is simple and easy for me to use, thanks for the input though. On a side note, block exams in 2 weeks lots of assignments, when I finally do get this out dont expect updates or revisions for a few weeks.
EDIT: Nice Cirno display picture.

[Gorman]

See the first reply on this Stack Overflow post to know why parsing html with regex is bad http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

If you read my solution, you will see that my solution is fine - we are not looking to build a parse, we are just pattern matching, so this usage is fine.

[Dropbear]

The current problem I'm having now is actually creating buttons, I can create text get all the data and tabulate it, I just can't make a list of buttons or text objects that matches the exact amount of servers I have, I could do it if there was a LUA function like say, SKIN:CreateMeasure("MeasureType","X","Y","W","H","VALUE(/S)"), but alas, there is not.

EDIT: Grammar error and posting my script, I hardly feel it is over complicating it;

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function Update()
   L=SKIN:GetMeasure("MeasureServerList"):GetStringValue()
   for M in string.gmatch(L,[[<td style="border:1px dotted grey;"><a href="(.-)</td>]]) do
      for S in string.gmatch(M,[[(.-)">]]) do print(S) end
      for N in string.gmatch(M,[[">(.-)</a>]]) do print(N) end
   end
end


That spams the Rainmeter log with:
SERVER NAME
aos://XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[Gorman]

Sorry, don't know how to do that, try the official rainmeter forums, they will probably be able to help you a lot.

[Dropbear]

Yeah the current Rainmeter API only allows me to change values stored in measures and variables, I cant create meters, maybe with a plugin I can do it, either way I have lots of exams so ill be like atleast a few more days, thanks for all your help.

EDIT: I guess I could just make a large list of like say 50 buttons and make it display a max of 50 servers but that would be limited, its how they do RSS feeds. :|