Re: how to get data from widget browser

2016-05-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Hmm. I'll have to do some experimenting. (as far as the threading goes) if I can feed positional and vector data to a browser widget (or 2 or 3) that has a javascript library for flocking/seeking/avoidance/ behaviors (like boids) I a) won't have to convert a library I don't truly understand to l

Re: how to get data from widget browser

2016-05-25 Thread Jacques Hausser
Refering to your last post (browser widget and threading): your solution doesn’t work in the browser widget, indeed, although ‘do “anyFunction” in widget “myBrowser” works perfectly, as long as anyFunction is not meant to return anything). > Le 25 mai 2016 à 19:20, Mike Bonner a écrit : > >

Re: how to get data from widget browser

2016-05-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Actually not that complicated (I think). My javascript understanding is pretty limited but.. As long as you have a defined handler in livecode, you can do interesting things. If there is a function in your page that returns dataA and another that returns dataB, you would just have to build up yo

Re: how to get data from widget browser

2016-05-25 Thread Jacques Hausser
mmm… yes, I’ll try something in that direction (except that in the real case it will be a bit more complicated). A pity this beautiful widget has nothing more straightforward to pick data from webpages (but perhaps it has, well hidden). Thank you anyway, Mike ! Jacques > Le 25 mai 2016 à 16:03,

Re: how to get data from widget browser

2016-05-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Just experimented with things and found a way that works. There is probably a more direct way using do "script" in browser directly, but I haven't figured that out yet. In the interim.. I put this into the htmltext of a widget Hi! function testit () { liveCode.myJSHandler("myMessage",12345)