On 22/3/02 9:41 am, Ben Rubinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given this, I am unclear whether you want to invoke the browser's Find > facility, or do your own in Rev? > > In any case it will depend on the browser and platform. On MacOS, most > browsers, you can use AppleScript to get either the contents of the front > most browser window, or at least the URL. So given that in Rev you can > fetch a URL anyway, either way your Rev app should be able to figure out > what the browser is displaying, and do a find in it. It's also trivial to > focus on the active internet window, if by that you mean bring the browser > window to the front. > > Scripting the browser to use it's own Find mechanism, however, is less > likely to be possible - I've certainly not spotted this when scripting IE or > iCab. There might be some browsers that support this. > > On Windows you might be able to do something exotic with COM - or not. > Failing all this, you might be able to use hacks like QuickKeys or WinBatch > to get Rev to operate the browser's user interface. > > Whatever you do, I very much doubt if it will be possible to make a general > solution - at best you can expect to get something that works for a > particular browser on a particular platform.
One other solution to this - and its one we use here - is to download the web page in Revolution then search the content. That�s very easy - just use the URL commands to load the page into a variable, then search the variable. Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! Tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
