.OCX Challenge

[Commadore4eva]

Hi there,

I have a BIG question to you guys.

I want to make a programma that will show in a label information that has been get from the internet.
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The thing is called METAR (thats just the name) and it provides a weather info from airports to a pilot.

I searched the net and i found that I need the msinet.ocx file with the relating code :

Let MyMETAR = Inet1.OpenURL("http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/" & UCase(station) & ".TXT")
Let lblMETAR.Caption = MyMETAR

This is where the info shall be get from :
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/obs...tions/XXXX.TXT
the XXXX at the end is the option that should be select in a combobox

ex.
Case is EBBR
then
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/obs...tions/EBBR.TXT

where 'station' is the airport code (selected in a combobox ) and Inet1 is the name of the inet object of the form...

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Now I have an experience with OOP but not that much and i'm using VB.net 2005

Does someone please can help me to show that info in a label when it has been selected in a combobox

[timeshifter]

Create an HTML reader to pull in the source code of that page, then drop the data into a label. Piece of cake.

[Atheist]

To download and show the information in a lable, you'd use the Net.WebClient class.

Using wc As New Net.WebClient
            Label1.Text = wc.DownloadString("http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/EBBR.TXT")
        End Using

[Commadore4eva]

wow,

thx both for replying that fast!

I now will check the info

thanks!

[Commadore4eva]

Oke it works but I have a lot of ICAO codes that can be selected in the combox. Thats why I tried this :

Dim strICAOcode As String

strICAOcode = cboMETAR.SelectedItem

Using wc As New Net.WebClient
lblMETAR.Text = wc.DownloadString("http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/" & strICAOcode & ".TXT")
End Using

Now that doesn't work,the URL is wrong, is there another way to do something like this or do i need to put al the diffirent cbo options in a case ?

greets