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: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:21:00 -0800
On 12/15/02 1:05 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Have you tried Andy's suggestion of getting the Finder to open it?
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> tell application "Finder"
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> set explorerPath to (application file id "MSIE") as string
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> open alias explorerPath -- launches IE
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> end tell
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> tell application explorerPath
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> <<event MSIESORC>>
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> end tell
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> Does that not work either? Once it's running, the script will always find
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> it, I'm pretty sure.
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So far, this seems to be working. I am VERY appreciative of the advice you
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guys have been giving me. My only wish with the below script is that IE
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launch and tries to go to it's own homepage, and spins a couple of cycles
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before going to the URL that I've put forth. It's not a big deal if there
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isn't a way around this problem. There's no way to do the "open alias" and
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pass the URL as a parameter at the same time is there?
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tell application "Finder"
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set explorerPath to (application file id "MSIE") as string
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open alias explorerPath -- launches IE
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end tell
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tell application explorerPath
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+event WWW!OURL; "http://www.apple.com";
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set htmlsource to +event MSIESORC;
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return htmlsource
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end tell
No, that's the limitation you'll have to put up with if you can't get
<<event GURLGURL>> to work in OS 8.1. But maybe you can get hold of an older
'open location' pre-Standard Additions osax and ship it with your script.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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