Grab picture of the day with Spry?

Hi,
I want to grab the picture of the day from:
nasa APOD site
and make that picture spry-fade in on my web page. Since I
don't know how big the picture will be I need the frame to auto
size or use spry shrink/grow to set pixel size??
Not sure how to proceed.

You can only request AJAX data from the same domain as your
Spry page.
Therefore, you will need to use a server side component to
get the APOD image and then use that for your data source.
You can use their RSS feed to get the URL, but they don't
provide the image height and width, so you will have to make it a
standard size, or let your CSS layout autosize for it.

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The Automator, as plug in, and iCal works perfectly at the alotted time. The only snag is that I have to be internet connected at the time the program is sheduled to run. I am wireless, & opt to manually "click in" to the internet at each start up. So, if I start up the computer
ii after the scheduled workflow start
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b) add xfce4 compatibility
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#!/bin/bash
#Filename: apodwallpaper
#Location: ${HOME}/.bin
#Purposes: Downloads NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and displays it as the
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#Author(s): acvwJosh of Ubuntu Forums, modified by Colin Dean <http://cad.cx>
## Modified by deicist of ARCH linux forums: added xfce4 support, added .gif support, added random support
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#######uncomment next 3 lines for gnome
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######uncomment next line for xfce4 -primary display
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Last edited by deicist (2009-03-26 22:29:14)

If you'd like to add it, the following works with feh:
# Uncomment ONE of the following for use with feh:
#feh --bg-tile "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-center "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-scale "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
#feh --bg-seamless "${APODWALLPAPER}/${FILENAME}.jpg"
Also, line 26 should read rm -rf ${APODWALLPAPER} as ${APODWALLPAPER} is a dir, and most users would (probably) want to avoid confirming the removal of it every time.
I also get this error, even though everything seems to work:
./apodwallpaper.sh: line 15: jot: command not found
./apodwallpaper.sh: line 16: jot: command not found
./apodwallpaper.sh: line 17: jot: command not found
Jot isn't in the repos or AUR, is there an alternative?
Last edited by SkonesMickLoud (2009-03-26 17:39:51)

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