newsgroups

[Rodrigo]

Hi,

Has anyone written an application to read newsgroups? I want to write
one in access, the write one for lotus notes (i am better at writing apps in
access, than in notes so I rather start with access).

I keep looking around the web for some samples or guidance but can't really
find anything useful. Do any of you have ideas as to what i should be using?
I really don't know where/how to begin, I don't want a whole application,
just some ideas.

thanks,

Rodrigo.

 

[Rick B]

Why would you write one? What do you hope to gain? Won't Outlook Express
do what you need?

Rick B

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

It is actually quite easy to write a newsgroup reader. I spent the good part
of one day doing so. Of course, I only got as far as posting and reading
messages. You will need to use the windSock control..and simply learn the
basic command set of a NNTP server.

This whole process is actually not that hard..but as the other poster
said....why?

On the other hand, I did delete the code I had, and did not want to post it
on my web site The example had the ability to send a "cancel" message to
messages OTHER then your own. In other words, you could cancel other peoples
posts..and that is not nice. In fact,a good portion of newsgroup servers
now ignore cancel posts.

I don't have anymore of that application...except these screen shots.....

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/test/winsock.htm


I now wish I kind of kept the application as I had made some nice "command"
code stuff..and that would have been useful for grabbing data from web
sites....

Oh well...it as mentioned..it was only the better part of a days work...

 

[cvegas]

I would like to pull data from a website from access. It sounds as if you
might have come close to this in your newreader application.

Is it possible to grab a vaule in one of my fields [FlightNumber] and then
drop that into a specified web site? Right now I cut the data, go to the
applicable website, paste the data into their predeifined field and hit
submit.

What I would really like to do is to dblClick on my field and have the
search results pull up over my access application.

???

Thanks

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

I would like to pull data from a website from access. It sounds as if you
might have come close to this in your newreader application.

Well, I was using NNTP...but Winsock also works well with HTTP also...

Is it possible to grab a vaule in one of my fields [FlightNumber] and then
drop that into a specified web site? Right now I cut the data, go to the
applicable website, paste the data into their predeifined field and hit
submit.

It is not clear if this is your web site..or someone else's. If it was my
own, then I would set this up as a web service.

If it is someone else's, then you might look at the command line that gets
created when you hit submit.

For example, to launch the move database (IMDB) , and look for star wars,
you can go:

http://www.imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=starwars

So, your code could go:

strMovie = inputbox("What move to serach for")
strURL = "http://www.imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=" & strMovie
application.FollowHyperlink strURL

I would also check the terms of use of that web site....

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I would like to pull data from a website from access. It sounds as
if you might have come close to this in your newreader application.

Is it possible to grab a vaule in one of my fields [FlightNumber] and
then drop that into a specified web site? Right now I cut the data,
go to the applicable website, paste the data into their predeifined
field and hit submit.

What I would really like to do is to dblClick on my field and have the
search results pull up over my access application.

Have a look at the Internet Transfer Library posted at

http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0037.htm

It has a lot of the functionality you're looking for.