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WebKit and saving position through a reload
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WebKit and saving position through a reload


  • Subject: WebKit and saving position through a reload
  • From: Lawrence Cabusora <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:16:24 -0400

Hi,

Inspired by the live-updating HTML display that SubEthaEdit offers, I was trying to throw a similar feature into my home-grown blogging program. Basically, I have a regular old NSTextView in which one edits the plaintext of a blog entry; by listening for the notification "NSTextDidChangeNotification", my plaintext->HTML parser converts the blog entry into a valid HTML webpage held in an NSString; let's call it "theHTMLString". (I know this is a little inefficient, as it re-parses the entire blog entry for every single keypress, but it is more than fast enough for my purposes, what with the small amounts of text I'm dealing with. Anyway, that is another issue entirely.)

To get the live WebKit display, I added a WebView to my window, then had my program make something like the following call every time the blog plaintext changes:

[[myWebView mainFrame] loadHTMLString:theHTMLString baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@""]];

This works just fine; the WebView updates real-time along with my changes to the blog plaintext.

My problem is this: Because the WebView/WebFrame/whatever loads a new string every time there is a change, the view defaults to the top of the page with every keypress. This is not the same behavior as, say, hitting the "Reload" button in Safari; there, Safari appears to (usually) try to retain the same approximate view position in the webpage, instead of going back to the top. This behavior is what I would like to emulate, but I am not well-versed in the vagaries of WebKit, and I really have no idea how I would go about doing that.

Ideas? Any would be appreciated, thanks in advance.


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