Opening a specified URL in a specified browser
Opening a specified URL in a specified browser
- Subject: Opening a specified URL in a specified browser
- From: Craig Hoyt <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:54:29 -0800
Happy Holidays All,
I'm currently going backwards on my project now... I had the 'open
location my_url' working and now I can't seem to even make this work
anymore.
I have a small background application (not AS) that calls AS
routines. One such call is:
tell application "Safari" to activate
open location "http://www.google.com/";
end tell
Yes I know the browser is hard coded into the script and so is the
URL but all I get is Safari opening to it's home page. I had this
working with the undesired effect of it opening a second window the
the requested url. Now I can't even get the second page to show at
all. I started tinkering trying to get this to load the url into the
same window as the home page and since then I can't seem to get this
to work. The browser will most likely not be running prior to running
the script so it must opened. I've tried many variations of tell
application "Safari" to open location "http://www.google.com/"; but
without success, I would like it to open without opening a new window
if possible but right now I'll take what I can get. The only thing
that has change on my test machine is my code and I did do a system
update. What I get now is just the browser opening and the url used
in the open location is not shown either in the existing window of a
running browser or a new window.
A second issue... I have another script that allows one to launch
(activate) an application from a user input. If the name selected is
misspelled or does not exist a dialog appears requesting the user
find the file. I would like to have this fail without displaying any
dialog. Is this what the try is used for or is there some other way I
can stop a dialog from appearing.
Thanks,
Craig
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