star-command to fetch a web page
does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) e.g. *heyfetch i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a selected bit in a textfile. *wget is on the right line but of course fetches the stuff only as text in a taskwindow. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
On 4 Jul 2010 Jim Nagel wrote: > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? > (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) > e.g. *heyfetch > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a selected bit in a > textfile. *wget is on the right line but of course fetches the stuff > only as text in a taskwindow. Not sure if this is what you want, but ... Open the page, menu over it, Page > Save Location > Acorn URI and save this file to a suitable location. Double-clicking on this (or making Keystroke pretend to do this) will open the page in NetSurf, as long as NS is running or has been seen by the filer. HTH, With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter, \ / zfc Yb \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne\/ ____\ England. and / / \ | | |\ | / _\ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk family / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
On 4 Jul, Jim Nagel wrote in message : > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? (and > launch the browser if it's not already running?) > > e.g. *heyfetch > > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a selected bit in a > textfile. *wget is on the right line but of course fetches the stuff only > as text in a taskwindow. *URIDispatch Note that this needs the *full* URI to work, so that the system knows which application to pass the address to. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > does there exist a command i can put in an obeyfile or type in a > taskwindow that would tell the browser to fetch a certain web page? > (and launch the browser if it's not already running?) > e.g. *heyfetch > i'm trying to set up a Keystroke to do this from a selected bit in a > textfile. *wget is on the right line but of course fetches the stuff > only as text in a taskwindow. URIdispatch http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ works in Organizer as a task alarm or in an obey file. I guess that's what you're after. :-) -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
Steve Fryatt wrote on 4 Jul: > *URIDispatch ah, thanks, Steve. my next problem: is there a system variable (or could i set one up) that stores the contents of the clipboard? (which in this exercise would contain a selection of text from another application). maybe i should be asking this part on c.s.a.apps, because it has to do with !Keystroke. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
I can not make sense of this.
When I receive an email with an attachment which tells me to click on a subject it doesn't always down load as it used to and says OK(0.4s) 3/3 stylesheets 0/0 objects. Please remember that I am visually impaired and not computer wise. Hope someone can advise. See you at Kenilworth, Alan --
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
Jim Nagel wrote on 4 Jul: > my next problem: is there a system variable (or could i set one up) > that stores the contents of the clipboard? (which in this exercise > would contain a selection of text from another application). found it! i copied an unusual word in my Impression document to the clipboard, then in a taskwindow did *show * to get a list of all system variables. hundreds of 'em! then i did Suspend on the taskwindow, moved to top, and searched for this word. behold, there it is, held by the system variable Impulse$Selection so now i can select a URL in my Impression doc, Sh-Ctrl-M makes Keystroke issue *uridispatch http:// and Netsurf launches it. (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm curious now to know what else it can do.) (i'm amazed at how many system variables there are! makes me think i should do a purge sometime of all the stuff that gets loaded or looked at at boot that i never use.) -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
Re: star-command to fetch a web page
In article <5c25af3151@nails.ukonline.co.uk>, Jim Nagel wrote: [Snip] > (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes > protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm curious > now to know what else it can do.) I'm sure others will answer that but I was under the impression (hah!) that Impulse started out as CC's replacement for the Arthur OS which they decided was unable to run decent software on the Archimedes. RISC OS hit the streets first but Impulse was retained to provide their proprietary means of clipboard handling, for example. -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
