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Re: Open webpage


  • Subject: Re: Open webpage
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:09:28 -0700

'Open' is the standard AppleEvent for opening a document, but you didn't
provide a document name.

Instead, what I think you want to do is bring the application frontmost, in
which case you want the 'activate' command, not 'open'.

Andrew
:)

On 7/1/03 10:21 AM, "Simon Manning" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to write an extremely simple script but I get the error:
> "Internet Explorer got an error: Can't make some data into the
> expected type."
>
> The script is:
>
> Tell application "Internet Explorer"
> Open
> GetURL "http://monitor.cup.cam.ac.uk/mantis/main_page.php";
> End tell
>
> The page is a monitoring system we use at work to log bugs etc. and so
> I was trying to automate the opening of it at machine startup.
> As you can guess I am not too knowledgeable when it comes to AS.
>
> Any help welcome and TIA.
>
> Simon Manning
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