App for sporting venue

[aloof]

Hi guys, my first thread here.

I'm helping out a small basketball venue, developing a app... to display game times for each team

they release a .doc (fb) which shows who is playing who on what date/time for about 18 weeks and a pdf with a ladder

i'm looking into the best way to display this, if you guys have any better ideas

i can display the info in a webview which doesn't look great, but if the file was named the same every time it wouldn't need manual updating.

or every 18 weeks manually display it all with buttons (team info maybe), labels an what not
it would look a lot better... any better ideas?

thanks

 

[warwound]

Hi.

Can you ask them to supply the same data in a more 'processable' format?

Could they give you the date/time etc stuff as comma separated value (CSV) text for example?
That would be much easier for your B4A code to parse and display.

What's in the PDF - a ladder you say, you mean a tree type diagram showing who is playing who perhaps?
Could you build a similar graphical structure from the CSV data?

Basically it's not an easy task to parse .doc and .pdf documents - getting the raw data from which to populate the Views in your B4A app.

Martin.

 

[aloof]

thanks ill have to find out what format they can give to me or upload