Tutorial - MacAddict Forum Reader on RevJournal Website - Webpage Won't Open

Mark Srebnik msrebnik at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 30 18:56:46 EDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Mark Srebnik <msrebnik at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Just got Rev3 about 2 weeks ago...so just getting started....
>
> Found Sarah's tutorial - "MacAddict Forum Reader" on RevJournal website.
>
> Tried tutorial, but so far not getting web page to open...
>
> on mouseUp
>  show image "Busy"
>  put field "Address" into tAddress
>  load URL tAddress with message processWebPage
> end mouseUp
>
>
> I notice that it uses command "load URL", while in RunRev's beginning
> tutorial video, they use 'revGoURL'... although checked Dictionary and it
> says 'revGoURL' is now deprecated..  ;-)
>
> Have tried both but neither are opening up a browser window after clicking
> the "Load" button...

On Tue, Sep 30 16:00:03 CDT 2008, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at
gmail.com> wrote:

>>The real problem is that MacAddict is no more. It has morphed into
>>Mac|Life, lost all it's enthusiasm and become boring as well as filled
>>with ads for Sony & Vista. Having been a MacAddict subscriber since
>>issue 1, this was very sad to see and I did not renew my subscription.

>>Anyway, I will need to re-write the scripts to use the Mac|Life forums
>>instead of the MacAddict ones. The base address has changed but so has
>>the structure of the page. One I have done that, I will send it to
>>Richard for the revJournal site and notify people on the list.

>>One other issue is that the "load" command does not go to your browser
>>the way revGoURL or launch does. It just loads the HTML source into
>>memory, and when it is finished, it goes to the specified callback
>>handler, if one has been specified. If this was all working, you would
>>just see a list of forum names appear on the left. Then you would be
>>able to click on one of them to see a list of sub-forums names.

>>Cheers,
>>Sarah

Thanks so much for your help with this and your tutorial, Sarah!

Meanwhile, didn't realize that tutorial is only written for MacAddict forum.
I was trying to use another forum's web address that I visit often.

So, would be great as long as you're updating tutorial to add some comments
regarding getting this to work with other forums if that's not too much
trouble.

Thanks,

Mark







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