Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
- Subject: Re: Stuck trying to use creatorid to control IE with OS 8.1
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:50:48 EST
Thanks for all the great bits of info on Applescript and Mac OS 8.1. I did
find some OSAX's which appear to permit me to LAUNCH a web-browser to an URL.
I'll be trying that out shortly.
I do have Internet Explorer 5.1 running on Mac OS 8.1, and occording to the
Microsoft web-site, it is permitted to run on 8.1. I'll also head over to
the lab soon (5 minutes from my house) and test out the:
tell application "Finder"
<<event GURLGURL>> "
http://www.apple.com";
end tell
technique and see if it works in OS 8.1 (I just tried it in OS 10.2, and it
automatically changed <<event GURLGURL>> to "open location". Although, I
had tried "open location" manually in OS 8.1 in a tell Finder block, and it
didn't know how to react to that command. Would the <<event GURLGURL>>
method work then? (I'll find out soon enough).
Even if it does work, I'll still have a second hurdle to overcome which is
that I need to tell Internet Explorer to pass back the html source of the
page that's displayed after the user navigates to a particular page on a
website. So at some point, I'm going to have to have a "tell myApp" type
call. You are correct - - - I would find it hard to believe that Internet
Explorer would ever have changed it's creator-type from MSIE. The big
question then is how can I get Applescript to talk to an app that it can't
find via creator-type or name. I had a thought - - - - if I can get IE to
launch to an URL via that <<event GURLGURL>> command, then perhaps there's a
way that Applescript can tell that "Internet Explorer" is already up and
running and just start permitting "tell" command to talk to it?
Does anyone on this list have Mac OS 8.1 handy? I'd like to verify with
someone that these Mac OS 8.1 problems aren't just the way my company has
it's OS 8.1 Test/QA Macs configured.
In a message dated 12/14/02 11:28:40 PM, email@hidden writes:
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v5.1 of Internet Explorer may not work in OS 8.1. It must have come with
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v4.0 at the latest, maybe even v3.x. Get an older version from somewhere.
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Even though Netscape was the default browser until 8.5 (I think, or was it
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8.0?) you'll still probably find a copy of it on the 8.0 or 8.1 CD (I think
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they had CDs by then - v7.x were all floppies). I'm sure the creator code
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must have been "MSIE" back then too - they don't change that. the app
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itself
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contained its version number as part of the name.
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