Hi Klaus, Yes, that works well. Thank you. But it gives me the html source code. I can live with that, but lots of parsing to get the text You seem to suggest I can get the "text" or (?) or html "source" hh's script (below) does that but it is very unstable, crashing frequently
Jim Klaus wrote: > Hi Jim, > > not sure I understand the problem, but this should give you the TEXT/source > of that file: > ... > put url "file:/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail > Downloads/elec_web/precincts/241.htm" into tSource > ... put url "file:/Users/jimhurley/Library/Mail Downloads/elec_web/precincts/241.htm" into msg box On Jun 21, 2016, at 3:00 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Send use-livecode mailing list submissions to > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > use-livecode-ow...@lists.runrev.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of use-livecode digest..." > > > you can find the archives for this list at: > > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ > > and search them using this link: > > http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com > > > 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
