Re: Suggestions?
Re: Suggestions?
- Subject: Re: Suggestions?
- From: "Clark S. Cox III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:30:18 -0400
on 08/01/2001 06:11, Andreas Monitzer at email@hidden wrote:
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On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 07:12 , Michael Sitarzewski wrote:
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> I do have to say that I am brand new to Cocoa and have chosen to learn
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> Java in the process, so be easy on me.
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> I want create an app that accepts URLs, via drag and drop from a browser
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> or from the finder. The app will then search for URLs on the target page
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> and then display the results in a list. It won't show anything but the
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> URLs, so I don't necessarily need an HTML rendering library.
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> It isn't terribly complex, but I haven't a clue where to begin with
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> reading a page from the web.
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> NSURL looks nice, but is it right for this?
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Always on my desktop (as a clipping):
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From: List Mail <email@hidden>
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Date: Wed Apr 04, 2001 11:43:31 Europe/Vienna
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To: "J. Anderson Thompson" <email@hidden>
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Stock Download Example
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In-Reply-To: <20010404211610.SSVZ1403.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost>
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On Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at 03:15 PM, J. Anderson Thompson wrote:
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> I just started using cocoa and was wondering if there was an example that
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> downloads stock information from yahoo or something using owf. Thanks
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I don't know anything about owf (OmniFrameworks?), but it's a piece of
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cake to get data from a URL:
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NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL&d=v1";
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NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url];
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Cocoa rocks! You could write some handy parsing code and probably suck
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the relevant financial data right out of the page. If writing a parser in
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objective-c doesn't sound fun, you could probably even write a small
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parser in perl and call the perl script from your app to parse the page
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for you.
Or, write it in Flex/Yacc.
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Clark S. Cox III
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