altBrowser Question

[Edwin Gore]

Chipp and Gary,

Basically, what I want to be able to do is pop up a browser window, and then
let the user navigate around through a 3rd party site - Amazon.com - then,
when they get to a page that has a product of interest to them, press  a Rev
button and grab the URL and parse through it for some info that I need to
make XML calls to Amazon Web Services and get some data back that I pop into
a database stack.

So all I really care about is whether or not Rev can find out the URL that
is currently being displayed in the browser window.

Currently, I am only interested in doing this on Windows, though who
knows...I might to a Mac version someday, though I figure that there is
probably someway to do what I need already there with AppleScript.

Edwin Gore

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Rathbone" <gary.rathbone at btclick.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: altBrowser Question


> > Where are you/they clicking the button? On a Rev app? On a website? On
> > your website? This is important, you can deal with it !
> >
> > Although I appreciatate the benefits of "LEO" I'm more into the
> > integration of application environments into the user defined system.
> >
> > Why reinvent the wheel? We've all got a web browser, so why fight to
force
> > user requirements into a single development environment? Eg. No matter
how
> > you manipulate "tables" in Rev it will never beat Excel.
> >
> > Chipp and Tuviah, I take my hat/cap off to you for providing a fantastic
> > DLL which does a great job for certain requirements. As I know you're
> > aware, it will never beat full browser capabilitiles.
> >
> > There's a great mix of opportunities out there to achieve true cross
> > platform and cross product integration...
> >
> > As I've said before, just think sidewards...
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gary Rathbone BSc MBCS
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> > > admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Edwin Gore
> > > Sent: 14 June 2003 19:42
> > > To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> > > Subject: altBrowser Question
> > >
> > > Chipp,
> > >
> > > Figured the answer to this might be valuable to others, so I decded to
> > put
> > > it on the list.
> > >
> > > When using the altBrowser plug-in, is it possible to access the data
in
> > > the
> > > browser? I'm wondering because for something I am woking on it would
be
> > > really neat to let users browse through a particular website and then,
> > if
> > > they see something they like, click a button which would cause my app
to
> > > grab some data off the site and do stuff with it.
> > >
> > > altBrowser gets fed the URL to go to by RunRev, is that correct? If so
I
> > > suppose that even if I can't directly pull the data out of the browser
> > > plug-in, I could still grab and parse the url....
> > >
> > > Anyway, look forward to hearing the answers on this.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Edwin Gore
> > >
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