altBrowser Question

[Gary Rathbone]

Sounds interesting... 
And sounds like you've got a reasonable amount of control...
Without any further info, I'd approach it as follows...

It sounds like the user will already have your Rev app? In which case you
could launch a split frame browser. The frame 'A' as normal on port 80 and
frame 'B' from your Rev app. This means the user can surf the web in frame
'A'. When a button in frame 'B' is pressed this can be passed to your Rev
app on a local port. With a bit of Javascript/VBScript you've got total
control of the web content which can be passed to Rev for parsing,
processing and if necessary results returned to the browser, or your Rev
app.

I've got a mish mash of routines that I really should put together in a
stack or few to demonstrate this stuff...

Its at least worth a chapter in a book ;-)

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: 15 June 2003 00:18
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: altBrowser Question
> 
> 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.