Why bother with revBrowser at all? Just do this in the message box: put URL(http://website.com/page.html)
and this will put the website html into the message box output. Obviously you could do this with fields. Check out Jerry's videos on Screen Scraping: http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-1 http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-0 On 21 September 2010 22:16, Sumner, Walt <wsum...@dom.wustl.edu> wrote: > I am trying to recover text from this web page and all of its siblings: > > > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available/#sigs/691732733/user/1 > > The interesting part of the page is the comments, which do not appear in > the HTML, but which can be copied manually. I can open this page in a > browser in LiveCode. With manual mouse motions, I can double click a block > of text, choose "Select All" from the "Edit" menu, choose "Copy" from the > "Edit" menu, and then paste into a field where the comments all appear and > are easy to disassemble. > > Unfortunately, the revbrowser set command and get function do not do > anything comparable AFAICT. The "Select All" choice is not implemented in > the DoMenu command. I think that printing a pdf is also out. So, any > thoughts on how to automate this part of a petition review? For instance, > maybe there is a simple way to save the text to a file with the > revBrowserExecuteScript function (using JavaScript for Safari)? > > BTW, the browser is fully capable of crashing LiveCode on at least some OSX > machines. Please don't lose any work for me. > > Thanks, > > Walt_______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution