LC for Android: Retrieve center lat n lng from LC browser using google maps?

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

On Apr 23, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Barry G. Sumpter wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using the LC for Android browser.
> I've got a web page .html that will allow me to pin point a specific
> location on a Google map.
> The HTML will display the lat n lng of that address and the closest matching
> address.
> I would like to be able to access that info.
> And perhaps save to a db or send an email or sms with it etc.
> 
> I'm trying to screen scrape that info off the page.
> 
> I see that LC HTMLText property is available for the desktop browser
> versions but not for the Android browser.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to screen scrape or to retrieve that HTML data
> for use in LiveCode for Android?
> 
> Or perhaps suggest another method?

Maybe there's something I don't know about the Android platform, but I think that
   put url "http://maps.google.com/whatever.html" into pageHTML
will just put the HTML into the variable, no matter what the platform.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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