Hi Bruce, hope you had a nice day. OK, I'll try out the app this week.
But it sounds like you are creating your own custom browser as it were which is pretty cool for the targeted purpose you are aggregating. This is a similar approach to one I mentioned a few minutes ago where WE might be able to create an instance of Internet Explorer and use IE events, methods and propertiesin conjunction with scripting to display web pages instead of putting them in a text box. As I talk to more folks I am getting more interested in looking at doing something to make internet browsing more a pleasure instead of a strugglefor blind folks and especially WE users. I will continue to ask some, likely dumb, questions and do some homework on this subject and wait for, as Lloyd mentioned, the newer capabilities of the next release of WE and its scripting model. But since this something you are interested in I'll post on list from time to time if I have anything and take a look at your app to see if there is something there that may apply to such an animal. I don't suppose the code base for the GW IE Enhance is open source? One thing I have noticed is that clicking a link on some pages does not cause a refresh so it seems the link doesn't work. But if I refresh the screen and poke around I find the content added to the displayed page likely a result of javascript or making something in a frame or list visible or other technique of dynamically updating or injection. I think that some event handler would be aware of this - again not sure but if so that could be one fix of one problem I have encountered lately. In other words, if the handler is fired then refresh the screen and perhaps move focus to the active frame, list or whatever. Rick USA From: LBX [mailto:lab...@fltg.net] Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 8:49 AM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: Re: Bruce, RSS Feeds As Option Hi Rick, I had looked at the XML stuff but have not played with it yet. Most of the standard web page stuff is easy to get but don't use the .text of a tag to get it because I want to avoid being forced to use a browser; for limitation arise based on the browser being used. So, I know the standard HTML tags, HTML5 and XML are a little different but have standard structures to draw from. Most stuff displayed on the screen are sequential and left to right, so I get all that information, including the extracting link display text then place the link= after that text on the next line, where a number is placed after the equals sign, which points to a key inside a dictionary to fetch the link itself. I have a hotkey to display that link or save it in your clipboard if you want that link to transport or use. My browser, which Breaking Ness kind of is, so as to avoid the mechanics of a website where they either want to monitor you or spy on you, or track you. Granted that some stuff does not work, for some sites require a paid subscription and a login. So some don't work, but the majority do using my approach, avoiding being actually on the web site and having to use a browser that they look for using the object tags to capture your computer info. But as I had said, HTML5 has some interesting objects to use and will have to study that for my future project. To run apps and such from. My program/app gives you either a tree view of stored web pages or you can list the web page of interest in a list view and expand that list view or sort that list view alphabetically if you are interested in something and want to use a quick search to find it. All hotkeys are the same for either view technique. The third view is the downloaded webpage inside a text box. There I just expose the link as a link=# where # is the key inside a dictionary of links. You can even use the text box to go to your own link but of course have to know the structure of a link or source tag which is either href= or src= where the path to the link is inside quotes. Format: href="LinkPath" or src="LinkPath" These are standards but in HTML 5 you have much more you can use which allows objects to run stuff... As I had mentioned, avoiding browser usage keeps you from many web errors and I can extract all data in the order left to right, top to bottom; which is the usual norm but not always. Give my app a try and let me know what is a pain and what you like. As I had said, I do not allow running of scripts for it is downloaded as a text for a text box. Running the script means using the hotkey to take you to the link/page of interest. Which means loading it into your browser on your computer. So time to get moving outside to take advantage of the perfect weather today. Bruce Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 8:10 AM Subject: Bruce, RSS Feeds As Option Hi Bruce: One method I have used to pick up dynamic news was to use the RSS Feeds provided by some sites. You can access the page, use xml to process the feeds by displaying the standard feed subjects in a listbox and then either linking to the news item or downloading it, if necessary - usually the content is provided in the feed so you don't have to download anything but can display the content in a listbox as the user arrows up and down the news item titles in the listbox. It has been some time so I forget the exact technical requirements to do this but I have done it a few times and it is allot cleaner than scraping many pages and how news is usually provided to application programs and client Websites. Just a heads up for future research and expanding the possibilities and possibilities are usually good. Rick USA _____ <http://www.avast.com/> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com/> protection is active.
