How to script a forecast?

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Hi! I'm trying to find out if it's possible to create a direct link to a director file to show real time weather forecast. I found the information on displaying time and date which helps, but am still trying to learn the basics. Our instructor doesn't know much about the program, which is why I'm looking here for help.

We're trying to develop an interactive kiosk, with information on local weather. Is there a way to develop a script to access weather information from an internet site and display it like one can display the system time and date?

Thanks.



Referring URLs
[url]www.weather.com[/url]

[JB]

Big time applications would probably have server side code cooridinated
with director, perhaps with director getting an XML data set with
getNettext function.


One possible work-around kluge


After subscribing to [url]www.weather.com[/url] Magnet service, I assume you can
get formatted weather report from a specfic url.
( you could have director send a bowser to that address, that's another
story...)
Using getNetText you can get the source to that 'Magnet' page, then set
the html of a text member to the collected text, this action makes
director render a text only version of the web page using a primative
subset of html, that you can then parce with string functions to extract
number s from fixed locations within the page.

like I said it would be klugey...