Dilbert.com daily comic

Actually, the code above only works on Sundays, because the images are Gifs every other day of the week.
Just make it open up the windows picture viewer (or just call execfile and hope for the best, like I did) with the path for the temporary image. Unless you feel like putting in a Gif loader :)

AppTitle "Dilbert.com daily comic By Dylan McCall"

Graphics 800,600,0,2
Const BGr=200,BGg=200,BGb=200
ClsColor BGr,BGg,BGb 
Color 0,0,0

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Load an image from the web, straight into our game!
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cls
Text 20, 20, "Downloading file - Please wait..."
Flip
comic = LoadWebImage (DilbertImagePath())

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Check for failure
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If Not comic
	RuntimeError "Failed to load web image!" : End	
EndIf

MaskImage comic,BGr,BGg,BGb ;Am I forced to mask the image?!
Cls
DrawImage comic,10,10

WaitKey
End

Function DilbertImagePath$()
	If BlitzGet("http://www.dilbert.com/index.html",CurrentDir(),"temp_web_page.txt")
		page = OpenFile("temp_web_page.txt")
		Repeat
			inLine$=Lower(ReadLine(page))
			tag$ = "<img src="+Chr(34)
			check = Instr(inLine$,tag$+"/comics/dilbert/archive/images/")
			If check
				PathStart=check+Len(tag$)
				PathEnd=Instr(inLine$,Chr(34),PathStart)
				Path$ = Mid(inLine$,PathStart,PathEnd-PathStart)
				CloseFile page
				DeleteFile "temp_web_page.txt"
				Return "http://www.dilbert.com"+Path$
			EndIf
		Until Eof(page)
		DeleteFile "temp_web_page.txt"
	EndIf	
End Function

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; LoadWebImage -- uses BlitzGet Deluxe, based on Mark Sibly's HTTPGet
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; james@...
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Function LoadWebImage (webFile$)
	If BlitzGet (webFile$, CurrentDir(), "temp_web_image.bmp")		
		Repeat
			If FileType("temp_web_image.bmp")=1
				;Img = LoadImage ("temp_web_image.bmp")
				ExecFile "temp_web_image.bmp"
				End
				;Return Img
			EndIf		
		Forever
	EndIf
End Function

Function BlitzGet (webFile$, saveDir$, saveFile$,DEBUG=False)

	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	; Strip "http://" if provided
	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	If Left (webFile$, 7) = "http://" Then webFile$ = Right (webFile$, Len (webFile$) - 7)

	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	; Split into hostname and path/filename to download
	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	slash = Instr (webFile$, "/")
	If slash
		webHost$ = Left (webFile$, slash - 1)
		webFile$ = Right (webFile$, Len (webFile$) - slash + 1)
	Else
		webHost$ = webFile$
		webFile$ = "/"
	EndIf
		
	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	; Add trailing slash to download dir if not given
	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	If Right (saveDir$, 1) <> "" Then saveDir$ = saveDir$ + ""

	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	; Save filename -- get from webFile$ if not provided
	; -------------------------------------------------------------------------
	If saveFile$ = ""
		If webFile = "/"
			saveFile$ = "Unknown file.txt"
		Else
			For findSlash = Len (webFile$) To 1 Step - 1
				testForSlash$ = Mid (webFile$, findSlash, 1)
				If testForSlash$ = "/"
					saveFile$ = Right (webFile$, Len (webFile$) - findSlash)
					Exit
				EndIf
			Next
			If saveFile$ = "" Then saveFile$ = "Unknown file.txt"
		EndIf
	EndIf

	; DEBUG
	If DEBUG Then RuntimeError "Web host: " + webHost$ + Chr (10) + "Web file: " + webFile$ + Chr (10) + "Save dir: " + saveDir$ + Chr (10) + "Save file: " + saveFile$

	www = OpenTCPStream (webHost$, 80)
	If www
	
		WriteLine www, "GET " + webFile$ + " HTTP/1.1" ; GET / gets default page...
		WriteLine www, "Host: " + webHost$
		WriteLine www, "User-Agent: BlitzGet Deluxe"
		WriteLine www, "Accept: */*"
		WriteLine www, ""
		
		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
		; Find blank line after header data, where the action begins...
		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
				
		Repeat
			header$ = ReadLine (www)
			If Left (header$, 16) = "Content-Length: "	; Number of bytes to read
				bytesToRead = Right (header$, Len (header$) - 16)
			EndIf
		Until header$ = "" Or (Eof (www))
		
		If bytesToRead = 0 Then Goto skipDownLoad
		
		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
		; Create new file to write downloaded bytes into
		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
		save = WriteFile (saveDir$ + saveFile$)
		If Not save Then Goto skipDownload

		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
		; Incredibly complex download-to-file routine...
		; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
				
		For readWebFile = 1 To bytesToRead
		
			If Not Eof (www) Then WriteByte save, ReadByte (www)
			
			; Call BytesReceived with position and size every 100 bytes (slows down a LOT with smaller updates)
			
			;tReadWebFile = readWebFile			
			;If tReadWebFile Mod 1000 = 0 Then BytesReceived (readWebFile, bytesToRead)

		Next

		CloseFile save
		
		; Fully downloaded?
		If (readWebFile - 1) = bytesToRead
			success = 1
		EndIf
		
		; Final update (so it's not rounded to nearest 100 bytes!)
		;BytesReceived (bytesToRead, bytesToRead)

		.skipDownload
		CloseTCPStream www
		
	Else
	
		RuntimeError "Failed to connect"
		
	EndIf
	
	Return success
	
End Function

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; User-defined update function, called every 100 bytes of download -- alter to suit!
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; TIP: Pass a user-defined type instead, with all data (this stuff plus URL, local filename, etc)
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Function BytesReceived (posByte, totalBytes)
	; Example update code...
	Cls
	Text 20, 20, "Downloading file -- please wait..."
	Text 20, 40, "Received: " + posByte + "/" + totalBytes + " bytes (" + Percent (posByte, totalBytes) + "%)"
	Flip
End Function

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Handy percentage function
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Function Percent (part#, total#)
	Return Int (100 * (part / total))
End Function