Pass A URL w/Javascript

[Mark Brownell]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 03:43  PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, "Mark Brownell"  wrote:
>
>> test this if you know how:
>>
>> <a href="#"
>> onclick="window.open('http://
>> www.ibm.com','Windowname','menubar,status,scrollbars,resizable,toolbar 
>> ,l
>> ocation,width=600,height=800');"> Click IBM for new window</a>
>>
>> That is if you can figure out how to pass all this in a go URL  
>> handler.
>> I've been all over the cookbook and docs looking for a way to pick up
>> the link inside the <a href="http://www.ibm.com">thisLink</a> and pass
>> it from a mouse click in a text field.
>
> One way to accomplish the above is to write an HTML file to the drive  
> and
> launch the file.  This is a technique I use as a backup for launching  
> a URL
> in a non-common browser (such as Earthlink's modified version of IE)  
> and is
> roughly equivalent to double-clicking an HTML document on the desktop.  
>  It's
> not elegant, but it works.
>
> The following is a combination of scripts I use on Mac and Win  
> platforms.
> You could add any HTML/Javascript code to the createHTML function to
> accomplish whatever result is desired.
>
> [ in a button script ]

<mtmlScript snip="I chopped your source code out"> HERE </mtmlScript>

> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi

Scott,

Aren't you clever. I wouldn't have thought of that one. In Director I  
wrote my own HTML parser that handled <a></a> links by creating arrays  
of numerical char locations for all hyperlinks in a rendered text  
field. I parsed out all the "http://..." codes and stored them in  
arrays to be used if a hyperlink was clicked. I'm still hoping I won't  
have to do this in Rev. <a link="http://www.someplace.com"> some text  
</a> makes "some text" render as a hyperlink. I'm still learning how to  
pick that link="http://www.someplace.com" up and use any stored  
information that relates to each "some text" link clicked. I may be  
wrong at this point but it looks like you need to make the hyperlink  
the full URL, "http...," literally.

Mark