This application, as supplied, uses 'wget' to download the French Meteo
IR satellite picture (only useful to those living South of Blackpool) and
use it as a centred backdrop. This is a JPEG image
This particular image is updated every six hours.
The program uses ChangeFSI to convert the image to a sprite so that it can
be used on earlier versions of the OS without redraw speed penalties.
The program itself is written as a TaskObey file, and should be easy to
adapt to a different image, or to remove the conversion to sprite if not
required.
Some editing of the TaskObey file will almost undoubtedly be required.
You could use the program to monitor a webcam output by calling it from Alarm or
Organiser at the camera refresh frequency.
You could even store the sprites (or JPEGs) by studying how the CountFetch
application stores the GIF images.
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