Re: Forcing NetScape 4.7x to load URL to a new window
Re: Forcing NetScape 4.7x to load URL to a new window
- Subject: Re: Forcing NetScape 4.7x to load URL to a new window
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:08:05 +1200
on 12/6/02 5:53 PM +1200: email@hidden wrote:
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I'm working on a script that concatinates certain text strings to assemble an
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on-the-fly URL references and then passing this reference to NetScape 4.73
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(OS 9.2.1/AS 1.6). The load works just fine, but a problem crops up when I
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try to load multiple URL's in a loop -- the last URL request is the one that
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gets honored, because the others don't get time to load before the loop
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updates the request. While I could force it to wait for the load, I'd like to
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force the URL's to each load in a new window if possible, one that doesn't
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exist yet at the time of the script's running. I've tinkered with Netscape's
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internal window numbering scheme and such, and still haven't been able to
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force it to a new window.
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Shortened example (without a window parameter):
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Tell Application "Netscape Communicator"
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set OurStartSeg to "http://www.cyberpoet.net/somefolder/";
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set OurEndSeg to ".html"
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set TheCountStart to 50
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set NumOfPages to 5
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repeat with GenericLooper from TheCountStart to (TheCountStart + NumOfPages)
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set OurCount to GenericLooper as text
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set TheURLPointer to (OurStartSeg & OurCount & OurEndSeg) as text
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OpenURL TheURLPointer -- always opens in frontmost window
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end repeat
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end tell
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Result: original window will load the last page requested fully, in this
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case, 55.html. The other requests will be over-ridden by the newer request.
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Putting a counter in the loop and and open url to window counter should do
the trick.
_____________________________ Andy
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