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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:07:32 -0800
On 12/14/02 9:50 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I do have Internet Explorer 5.1 running on Mac OS 8.1, and occording to the
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Microsoft web-site, it is permitted to run on 8.1. I'll also head over to
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the lab soon (5 minutes from my house) and test out the:
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tell application "Finder"
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<<event GURLGURL>> "http://www.apple.com";
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end tell
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technique and see if it works in OS 8.1 (I just tried it in OS 10.2, and it
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automatically changed <<event GURLGURL>> to "open location". Although, I
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had tried "open location" manually in OS 8.1 in a tell Finder block, and it
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didn't know how to react to that command. Would the <<event GURLGURL>>
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method work then? (I'll find out soon enough).
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Even if it does work, I'll still have a second hurdle to overcome which is
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that I need to tell Internet Explorer to pass back the html source of the
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page that's displayed after the user navigates to a particular page on a
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website. So at some point, I'm going to have to have a "tell myApp" type
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call. You are correct - - - I would find it hard to believe that Internet
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Explorer would ever have changed it's creator-type from MSIE. The big
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question then is how can I get Applescript to talk to an app that it can't
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find via creator-type or name. I had a thought - - - - if I can get IE to
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launch to an URL via that <<event GURLGURL>> command, then perhaps there's a
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way that Applescript can tell that "Internet Explorer" is already up and
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running and just start permitting "tell" command to talk to it?
Take Andy's suggestion of using IE's OpenURL. That should work. And you can
use the Finder to open it, as he suggests. Then any valid commands you send
to it should work.
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Paul Berkowitz
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