check if connection is alive

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2d5cba3..34e04d3 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+xkcdha (0.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * check if connection is alive
+
+ -- Ed Bartosh <bartosh@gmail.com>  Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:12:26 +0000
+

 xkcdha (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * aligned controls properly
 xkcdha (0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * aligned controls properly

diff --git a/img/connection_required.png b/img/connection_required.png
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..de56cb1
Binary files /dev/null and b/img/connection_required.png differ

diff --git a/xkcdha.py b/xkcdha.py
index a6891f3..4999dda 100755 (executable)
--- a/xkcdha.py
+++ b/xkcdha.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class XKCDha(hildondesktop.HomeItem):
        
     image_dir = "/home/user/MyDocs/.images/xkcdha/"
     icons_dir = "/usr/share/xkcdha/icons/"
        
     image_dir = "/home/user/MyDocs/.images/xkcdha/"
     icons_dir = "/usr/share/xkcdha/icons/"

+    connection_required_img = "/usr/share/xkcdha/img/connection_required.png"

 
     def __init__(self, max_height, max_width):
         def controls():
 
     def __init__(self, max_height, max_width):
         def controls():

@@ -74,8 +75,16 @@ class XKCDha(hildondesktop.HomeItem):
                 url = "http://xkcd.com/%s/" % number
             
             print 'url:', url
                 url = "http://xkcd.com/%s/" % number
             
             print 'url:', url

+            
+            try:
+                content = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
+            except IOError:
+                filename = os.path.join(self.image_dir, self.number + '.png')
+                if os.path.exists(filename):
+                    return filename
+                else:
+                    return self.connection_required_img

 
 

-            content = urllib.urlopen(url).read()

             img_url = re.search('(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^"]+)" title="[^"]+"', 
                     content).group(1)
             next = re.search('<a href="([^"]+)" accesskey="n">Next', content).group(1)
             img_url = re.search('(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^"]+)" title="[^"]+"', 
                     content).group(1)
             next = re.search('<a href="([^"]+)" accesskey="n">Next', content).group(1)