Update twitter status

[Mike Stefanik]

http://twitter.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

You should be able to figure things out from there; basically it's a microblog where people can post updates about various things (some serious, some completely inane).

[Walt Decker]

Old Fashioned

I'm old fashioned. What is "twitter?"

[Michael Mattias]

> but can't compile. Get an Error 161 with the following function...

I don't see a compile time error 161. Matter of fact, '161' is out of range for a compile time error - it's in the runtime error range.

Maybe you could cut and paste the log? (you can do that right from the IDE, just right-click on the output panel).

However.... (stab in the dark)...

Dim ptrHost As hostentStru Ptr

Check the definition of this structure as defined in whatever you are using. A bunch of those structures with "PTR" members have been changed over the years.

[Steve Bouffe]

I've changed all of the PTR with BYVAL but can't compile. Get an Error 161 with the following function

'  Returns the ip address of the given host in big endian form
'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
function ipGetAddress alias "ipGetAddress" _
      ( ByVal sHostName as String ) export as Long

   Dim ptrHost As hostentStru Ptr

   if ipIsDotted(sHostName) then
      function = dottedToIP(sHostName)
   else
      ptrHost = gethostbyname(sHostName + $nul)
      If ptrHost Then
         Function = @[email protected]@h_list
      Else
         Function = 0
      End If
   end if

End Function

[Don Dickinson]

oh, i should mention that the code compiles with pbcc 3.x. maybe it will compile with newer versions, maybe not. i may have some non-byval pointers in the library files - just add byval in front of them and it will probably work. i haven't upgraded to pbcc5, but i think i'm going to order it now

sample usage:

cmdtwit.exe /account="my account" /password="my password" /status="this is my status" /save

the "save" parameter tells the system to encrypt the password and save it in the cmdtwit.ini file. it also saves the last account you used, so you can do this next time:

cmdtwit.exe /status="This is my status"

and it will recall the account and password from the cmdtwit.ini file

of course, since i've given away the source and the password algorithm is two-way, the encryption is meaningless unless you recompile with a new encryption key (see the $ENC_PASSWORD constant in cmdtwit.bas)

-don

[Don Dickinson]

i wrote pb code to update twitter status. the code can be downloaded from http://www.greatwebdivide.com in the "code" area.

the source has a bunch of files in it because i reuse common libraries. all of my common libraries have been included so you can compile it. the cmdtwit.bas file is the main one. its a relatively short and simple program. i haven't tested it extensively, but it seems to work ok on my twitter account.

best regards,
don