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Posted: December 01 2008 at 14:40 | IP Logged Quote Gadgets
I now have a Blackberry smartphone, and am more interested then before in getting the email control portion of PH working reliably. Last I remember things were being kicked around on finding a new small email client to use instead of outlook that doesn't lock up.
Has there been any improvments in this area, or should I just got ahead and take a stab at getting the none outlook script from Tony(?) running instead?

Brian

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Posted: December 01 2008 at 21:17 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Not that I'm aware of.
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Posted: December 01 2008 at 22:10 | IP Logged Quote Gadgets

I didn't think so, as I couldn't find anything new. Oh well, I'll give that script stuff a try.

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Posted: December 02 2008 at 14:34 | IP Logged Quote onhiatus
Depending on who your provider is my simple email fetching tools can at least get you away from outlook.

See http://www.myx10.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1558
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 10:45 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
You know - I haven't looked into much of this - but it seems to me that most of the heavy lifting could be extracted out of PH if there was some way to have PH read a file and act based on what it's read. For example, you could run something like Thunderbird, and (triggered off of Powerhome) periodically run a Perl script that parses your Thunderbird Email file looking for Powerhome messages, then (here's where the miracle occurs), this info can be put into a form where a PH macro could read it and act accordingly. Does anyone know how to fill in the missing step? Can PH read in local variables from a file?    If so, this feels like an evening of Perl hacking to get something rock solid...
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 13:44 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Jeff, you seem to be describing what Tony has already done.

Tony's Email Thread
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 13:58 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
Hi Tony - it looks like there's been a lot of work done here, but it may be easier for me to write my own for my specific paragidm than re-hack someone else's - the thing I was asking about apparently exists, but I think I would have to dig deep into people's code to find it -

Within a PH macro, how do I open a file, and parse a line (so for example - if line 1 of the file set "SET HEAT ON", I would need to capture each of those 3 words into LOCALs so I can compare them to expected values - Are there ph_<functions> for this?
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 14:38 | IP Logged Quote onhiatus
Basically my little app just dumps the content of an email to a file and adds a line to an index file. Using the powerhome file change plugin I watch the index file. Whenever there is a change I have a powerhome script that reads the index file to get the path of the mail file then reads that file and acts on it.

It's really pretty simple and puts takes most of the processing away from ph.
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 14:42 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
"I have a powerhome script that reads the index file to get the path of the mail file then reads that file and acts on it. "

this is the piece that interests me - where can I learn more about this (or how (commands, tools) to do it)

thanks!
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 20:10 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
The last post in the link contains the SQL for the macros.
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 20:30 | IP Logged Quote Gadgets
Hi Tony,

This is exactly the "script" I was referring to. I didn't have email capabilities on my old phone, but now I have a Blackberry for work and it has everything enabled. So email is of much more interest to me now. I just remembered how often Outlook puked. :-)
I'll let you know if (when) I have any trouble getting it going.

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Depending on who your provider is my simple email fetching tools can at least get you away from outlook.

See http://www.myx10.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1558


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Posted: December 04 2008 at 20:34 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
Guys - I've been through this thread (1558) and although I'm seeing a complicated app (and a lot of non-sequitor material), I'm not finding what I'm looking for -

functions in PH (if they exist) that let you open and read a file, parsing line tokens into LOCALs (or some other way of doing this). I don't see any SQL in the post.

I understand the RTFM philosophy here, but I'm about to give up on this, if you all know what I'm looking for, would one of you be kind enough to share?

Thanks!
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Posted: December 04 2008 at 22:56 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Jeff,

To read a file into PowerHome, use ph_readfile. You can use ph_getline to extract out lines of data. You can use ph_parseline to extract tab separated pieces from the line. Or, you can use any of the ph_regex??? functions for even greater control of extracting data from the file once it's in memory.

HTH,

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Posted: December 04 2008 at 22:58 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Maybe I don’t understand what you are looking for but I was able to take Tony’s (not TonyNo) app and copyfile and readfile and parse the contents of email from my pop3 and put the results into Locals and then act on it accordingly. If your email is free of spam type data it is real slick.

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Posted: December 05 2008 at 10:01 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
Thanks guys -exactly what I needed. Sorry I got shirty (been a rough week). I'll write/post some cool stuff soon
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Posted: December 06 2008 at 17:46 | IP Logged Quote Gadgets
ok peeps, I've only had a bit of time to work with Tony's pop3 app, but already I have absolutely NO idea how to write the macro to make it all come together. Can someone who has it working be real swell and send me theirs, or, give me some serious guidance in this area??   

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Posted: December 08 2008 at 13:29 | IP Logged Quote onhiatus
The last entry in the orginal thread (bottom of page 2 - http://www.myx10.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1558&PN=0&TPN =2) I attached the scripts I've been using.

These were the original scripts - I may have changed them since then, but I have a 4 month old at home which means my wife doesn't let me on the computer much, which means it will probably take me a long time to get you updated macros (it I've even updated them since then...)
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 12:59 | IP Logged Quote Gadgets
Oh crap, sorry about that, I didn't even see them there. Ok, I'll take a stab at it when I get home.

Thanks Tony!

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