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One quick question, is it possible to write a basic C++ program that can open a web browser and go to a site when the file is closed? or perhaps load the html text?
I am looking for something basic that will not require a GUI, Just a basic app. I am sophomore Com Sci student so I am just now starting to scratch the surface with OOP, also the only complier I own is DevC++. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it
I'm not quite sure what you mean. It sounds like you want to use a web browser to retrieve information from a web site without actually opening the browser itself. Well you could just write a program that gets the information straight from the website the same way a browser does - Google for "Beej's Guide to Network Programming". And you can display just the text from the website - there's a browser on Linux called Lynx - that converts web pages to a text only format. All you need to do is parse the HTML file that comes back from the website.Quote:
One quick question, is it possible to write a basic C++ program that can open a web browser and go to a site when the file is closed? or perhaps load the html text?
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> is it possible to write a basic C++ program that can open a web browser
Getting one program to run another is covered in the FAQ
or call wget ( *x not windows )
lynx has a windows port.
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm
and, parsing html to display the markup is not converting a page to text. the content should already be text. the markup controlls formatting, like bold and colours. :)