Re: Re: getting a URL from IE
Re: Re: getting a URL from IE
- Subject: Re: Re: getting a URL from IE
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:44:56 EDT
Erik Ness asked:
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>> it's so easy in iCab. It must be possible in IE, but I can't see it.
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>> Can somebody give me a hand?
And Steve Goodman lent a hand thusly:
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> -- Preprocessed by Convert Script 1.0d4
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> -- ---------------------------------------------------------
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> tell application "Internet Explorer"
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> set myurl to item 1 of (GetWindowInfo 1)
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> end tell
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> -- ---------------------------------------------------------
To which Scott Earleywine queried:
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Why would someone need a script to do this?
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I'm new to AppleScript and I was wondering if someone could explain it to
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me.
This would be useful as part of a larger script. As an example, I wrote a
script which would get the URL from the frontmost browser window and point a
browser on another Mac to it (high tech "Honey, look at this!").
http://www.linkedresources.com/tools/lanbuddy.html
There's other stuff in there and the code is aging. Let me know if it still
works with MacOS 9.x.
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com