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namespace DRR.TickerCon
{
  using System;
  using System.Drawing;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Net;
  using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
  using System.Windows.Forms;

  /// <summary>The only class.</summary>
  /// <revision date="2011-04-16" author="DRR">Initial version.</revision>
  internal static class Program
  {
    #region Configuration

    /// <summary>The HTML page to scrape to determine the current status.</summary>
    private readonly static Uri _page =
      new Uri("http" + "://tickerforum.org/akcs-www");

    /// <summary>The format of TickerCon on-image URLs.</summary>
    private readonly static Regex _imageUriFormat =
      new Regex("http" + "://tickerforum.org/Defcon/($$d)-(on|bang).png");

    /// <summary>Refresh hourly.</summary>
    private const int _refreshIntervalInMilliseconds = 60 * 60 * 1000;

    #endregion
    #region State

    /// <summary>The tray icon refresh timer.</summary>
    private readonly static Timer _refreshTimer =
      new Timer() { Interval = _refreshIntervalInMilliseconds };

    /// <summary>The tray icon.</summary>
    private readonly static NotifyIcon _trayIcon = new NotifyIcon
      { ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(new[] { new MenuItem("Exit", Exit_Click) }) };

    #endregion
    #region Logic

    /// <summary>The program entry point.</summary>
    [STAThread]
    private static void Main()
    {
      //  Use a Windows message timer to periodically update the tray icon.
      _refreshTimer.Tick += (sender, e) => { UpdateTrayIcon(); };
      _refreshTimer.Start();

      //  Initialize the icon.
      UpdateTrayIcon();

      //  Start the message pump.
      Application.Run();
    }

    /// <summary>Updates the TickerCon tray icon.</summary>
    private static void UpdateTrayIcon()
    {
      _trayIcon.Icon = DownloadIcon(FindCurrentTickerConUri());
      _trayIcon.Visible = true;
    }

    /// <summary>Scrapes an HTML page to find the current on-image.</summary>
    /// <returns>An image URL.</returns>
    private static Uri FindCurrentTickerConUri()
    {
      using (var request = new WebClient())
      {
        var match = _imageUriFormat.Match(request.DownloadString(_page));
        if (!match.Success)
          throw new InvalidOperationException
            ("No TickerCon icon was found at the specified URL.");
        return new Uri(match.Value);
      }
    }

    /// <summary>Downloads an image and converts it to an icon.</summary>
    /// <param name="uri">The image to download.</param>
    /// <returns>An icon.</returns>
    private static Icon DownloadIcon(Uri uri)
    {
      if (uri == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("uri");

      /* TODO: Is there a more direct way to download an image
       * and convert it to an icon?
       */
      using (var request = new WebClient())
        using (var buffer = new MemoryStream(request.DownloadData(uri)))
          using (var image = Image.FromStream(buffer))
            using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(image))
              return Icon.FromHandle(bitmap.GetHicon());
    }

    /// <summary>Handles the Exit menu item to terminate the program.</summary>
    /// <param name="sender">Ignored.</param>
    /// <param name="e">Ignored.</param>
    private static void Exit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      Application.Exit();
    }

    #endregion
  }
}

Last modified: 2011-04-16 18:04:43 by drr
Reason: Backslashes were removed and URLs were truncated.