I think he means after browsing to a page, get the url from that instance of the browser to RBase. Your example would work because the instance of Browser2 is spawned from Browser1 and a reverence to #2 can be held, but to get the url from a single instance will probably require some API....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Sosamon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Getting web addresses into an R:Base table > There should be a way to do it with some java script and a second browser > window. > > You should be able to write a java script that opens a second browser window > and names it so that the primary window controls the second window. In the > primary window, you would make a button that would capture the current url > of the second window and then could write it to the clipboard or to a file > where R:base could pick it up. > > Troy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair > Burr > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:43 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Getting web addresses into an R:Base table > > > Does anybody have any special way of getting a web address from the current > browser window into an R:Base table, preferably, via a form? > > Obviously highlighting then copying & pasting is one option but I have been > trying to think of a way to get R:Base to do the work via an EEP from a > button - so far without any success. > > I thought that it might also be possible by adding each address to a > particular favourites directory then creating a file from a listing of that > directory to a file and importing but I haven't been able to get the address > this way, only the name. > > I've also tried to find a way to obtain them from the registry but without > success. > > Anybody got any other ideas? > > Thanks in advance & regards, > Alastair. > > ---------------------------------- > A D B Burr, > St. Albans, UK. > ---------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- > >
