2012/1/19 Jonathan Schuster <[email protected]>: > [...] > Does anyone know if there's some sort of browser module in Racket that would > fulfill my needs? Specifically, it should send some sort of signal/event to > my program every time it navigates to a new page, and should provide the URL > on each navigation. > [...]
Hello, since I experimented a little with browser widgets combined with Racket code I can think of two solutions going in that direction. You could embed a WebKit browser in a Racket GUI [1]. However, the binding code mentioned here will only work on platforms where the Racket GUI uses Gtk+ as its backend. Or you could use an alternative GUI library that offers a portable web browser widget. For example IUP [2,3] could do the job. Another possible way would be to use some browser testing or remote control framework to handle this. Selenium [4], for example, can be controlled using an HTTP API so it should be possible to wrap a Racket module around that. Other libraries with a similar scope exist. For example Berkelium [5] could in principle be wrapped using an FFI layer. Perhaps some of this is helpful to you :-) Ciao, Thomas -- [1] http://bitbucket.org/chust/racket-webkit [2] http://www.chust.org/fossils/iup [3] http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=iup.plt&owner=murphy [4] http://seleniumhq.org/ [5] http://berkelium.org/ -- When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
