Mark, Tom, Jim, Terry, Xavier,
Thanks for all your suggestions. I thought there was going to be a
simple answer when I ask it. The good news is that it appears to be
in the realms of doablity. The bad news is that I have avoided
learning Applescript and Javascript until now. Yet I am willing to
at least put my big toe in the water if that is what it takes.
I am looking at the source HTML with some Javascript for the page in
question right now. I can see that the page source is created just
for me, because it has URL's and passwords for me embedded into text
constants. It seems to have some interesting definitions in it that
leads me to believe that the field I want to input to is accessible
through the page source. Since the page is full of URLs as to where
to find things on the server, I figure it would break soon if I just
took the script and changed the parts I want to. I have hacked it to
remove all the extraneous stuff like Ads, etc. to get the source down
to readable size --a couple of pages --it even still sort of works.
I think if I could change the values of the following params that are
in the Javascript, it might work:
<param name="SYMBOL" value="NASDAQ:QQQQ" />
<param name="SymbolChange" value="1" />
I would just grab the HTML into a file and edit it on the fly, but
reloading the page causes the script to take a long time to start up,
and it does not save the chart settings --they all revert to startup
defaults. So my best bet is changing these parameters while it is
running.
Am I on the right track here?
I could email the HTML source to someone if you would not mind taking
a quick look at it to see if this approach is likely to work. (I
changed the password, but it still runs --just won't connect for the
real quote data).
Dennis
On Dec 14, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
A useful thing can also be to store your applescripts in custom
properties, with place-holders for values and then:
put the myApplescript of me into tScript
replace <placeholder> with <value> in tScript
do tScript as applescript
an example (including a bit of javaScript):
a custom property called jsSetAndGetAS contains:
set tScr to "
document.ResultSel.Day.selectedIndex = dd;
document.ResultSel.Month.selectedIndex = mm;
document.ResultSel.Year.selectedIndex = yy;
ResultsSubmit()"
tell application "Safari"
do JavaScript tScr in document 1
end tell
and then in my app I have
put the jsSetAndGetAS of me into tScript
replace "dd" with dayOfMonth() in tScript
replace "mm" with MonthNum() in tScript
replace "yy" with getYear() in tScript
do tScript as applescript
building applescripts in a rev script can get hard to read.
Cheers,
Mark
On 14 Dec 2005, at 23:25, Jim Ault wrote:
Dennis, you said
I thought Safari would have been more scriptable.
There is a difference between 'recordable' and "scriptable' where
Safari is
amazingly scriptable. The key to your solution may be the following:
You might want to check the Applescript dictionary for Safari for
Do Javascript command
this will send a JavaScript command to the active browser window
and active
tab in that window. This could be a 'one-liner'.
A more complictated way is to use UI Elements (User Interface
Elements)
which are quite resplendent in Safari. You can even get the text
string
that is in a static text piece in a java applet!
I have not done this myself, but this should be the framework plus
a few
details......
Try along these lines:
Transcript code
open Safari, go url 'stock page', store the name of the window(or
window ID)
----build the javascript command
put "beginning chars "& \
quote & "quotedStr" & quote & \
" end chars" into javaStrMadeInRev
---------- done building the javascript command
put "tell app ""e&"Safari""e into cmd
--optional could be "activate window id "& theStockTickerID
--optional could be "activate window "& theStockTickerName
put cr & "do javascript "& quote & javaStrMadeInRev & quote after cmd
put cr & "end tell" after cmd
do cmd as applescript
put the result into answerFromSafariWhichShouldBeThePriceILike
HTH
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 12/14/05 10:35 AM, "Dennis Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom,
I was surprised that it did not, but the docs says that it will not
do that. If I clicked in the Finder areas, it only recorded that I
selcted the Finder. It did not record anything when I clicked on
other applications. I thought Safari would have been more
scriptable.
Dennis
On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Dennis,
The recording function -- Are you able to at least record a click
at the button location?
Tom
On Dec 14, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:
I also tried Automator and tried the recording function in
Applescript Studio, but no good.
Thomas J McGrath III
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