Re: Selecting links in Communicator
Re: Selecting links in Communicator
- Subject: Re: Selecting links in Communicator
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:55:29 +0200
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At 17:03 -0400 UTC, on 11/06/2001, email@hidden wrote:
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>>Is it possible to select a link in a Netscape Communicator window? [...]
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From: Joe Szedula:
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>Have you tried "OpenURL"? If the link is the same, wouldn't the URL be
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>the same?
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This won't work, because I'm first entering text (ie. a sign on or search
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screen) and then needing to "press" the link (thus, the URL will be
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different based on the entered criteria ).
Are you saying you are using a search engine? If so, you can first build the
URL in AppleScript and then feed that URL to your webbrowser. Something like:
set baseURL to "
http://www.google.com/search?q=";
set searchCriteria to text returned of (display dialog "Enter a search
string" default answer "")
set theURL to baseURL & searchCriteria
tell application "iCab" -- better to use a real webbrowser ;)
Activate
OpenURL theURL
end tell
This will only work if you enter 1 word! To enter several search terms you
will have to do some more work creating the right URL.
HTH
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I've tried KeyQuencer, but for some reason
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it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. Are there any more reliable
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programs or scripting additions for this kind of task?
A common misunderstanding among Newbies is that they look at AppleScript as a
method to have buttons clicked (or menus selected) automatically. This is
sometimes possible, and may sometimes even be the only way to achieve
something, but it is not a good starting point.
Instead, you should consider clicking a button as "giving an application a
command". To do the same thing in AppleScript, you would write code that
gives the command - not code that clicks the button.
Hope this makes it a bit more clear.
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