This kind of interests me. I've been thinking for some time how to go about getting the contents of a web page into Livecode in such a way so as to discern the values of web controls like popup buttons and such. The idea would be to take a page of copier settings and with a click record what all those settings were.
I guess I can play around with a browser object, but I'm pretty sure I will not be able to get the specific objects from a web page. I might be able to parse the actual html, but that would not give me values, only objects. Bob S > On Nov 12, 2015, at 08:01 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > Terry Vogelaar wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is an easy way to convert HTML to Jade from > > within a LiveCode script? > > > > I want to distill information from a website for personal use. But > > HTML tags sometimes do and sometimes don’t have an end tag, and if > > they do, they don’t have to be nested properly. So it can be very > > tedious to get to the right content. Since this is much easier to > > use Jade, I often find myself copying the HTML to the left field on > > http://html2jade.aaron-powell.com <http://http//html2jade.aaron-powell.com> > > and manually convert it to Jade to copy the result back to > > my LiveCode stack. > > > > I suspect there is a better, more automated solution I am not aware > > of. > > If this is for content scraping there are likely easier ways than translating > HTML to Jade only to translate Jade into something usable in LiveCode. > > For example, for many uses HTML content can strip tags as simply as: > > set the htmlText of the template field to tSomeHtml > put the text of the templateField into tSomeText > > > Can you tell us more about the goal you're looking to achieve? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
