I've been working on this in my spare time and have gotten it to a level where it works consistently under my test conditions. This program reads through a specified directory, finding info files in every sub of that directory and parsing them for output. My output can be seen here:
http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~mbd286/info/infoband.html <-- click around.
Anyway, to use it, unzip into a folder and run the exe from the command line:
Start > Run
type cmd
navigate to where you unzipped the folder
at the prompt, type:
infogen "your home concerts directory"This will create a folder called "info" in that directory that is ready to host on a webpage. It will create four html files.
There are a few assumptions that this program makes:
1. You followed etree naming standards for your files.
2. Your info files start with the following four lines:
a. band name
b. date (i.e. January 2, 2006)
c. venue
d. city, state
They can be in a different order, but for now that will mean your html files are named incorrectly.
3. There is no folder named "info" in your specified directory.
As of right now, I only have a windows build for this. For the Mac, I was just going to have it run as a python script, but it will only run on python 2.4 or greater (2.3.5 ships with OSX), so I need to figure out how to build it as an app or bundle the missing function calls.
Let me know what you think, if you have any trouble, or can make any suggestions. I will provide the source upon request if you think you can contribute to cleaning this up, if there's any demand. Here's the link to the zip download:
infogen.zipThanks,
Matt
Topic: a program I've been working on (concert list generator) (Read 1449 times)