Thank you so much. Sooooo useful! Understatement of the year: "Using above "text" instead of "source" may save you some work."
It saves a mountain of parsing. Shouldn't this be a part of LiveCode? Jim Hurley > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:06:41 -0700 (PDT) > From: "[-hh]" <h...@hh.on-rev.com> > To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: Get url "file:///..." > Message-ID: <1466485601879-4706007.p...@n4.nabble.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Assuming you are on a Mac: > The following should work from 10.4 to 10.12 with LC 5/6/7/8. > > on mouseUp > put "/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail%20Downloads/elec_web/precincts/241.htm" > into f > put "source" into sOrT --> one of "source", "text", "URL" > do iScript(f, sOrT) as applescript > put the result into fld 1 > end mouseUp > > Using above "text" instead of "source" may save you some work. > (The LC interpretation as htmltext does the same but somehow 'uncomplete'). > > function iScript f,x > put numToChar(34) into q > return "tell application " & q&"Safari"&q &cr& \ > " open POSIX file " & q&URLdecode(f)&q &cr& \ > " set rslt to " & x & " of document 1" &cr& \ > "end tell" > end iScript > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Get-url-file-tp4705988p4706007.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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