Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-28 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Tom, I found htmltext gave me html not just text. I tried the following, and it yielded a lot of formatting junk, plus some useable text. set the HTMLText of field “MyTestTextField" to the HTMLtext of widget “MyWebBrowser" Bob is correct about javascript variable contents not coming acro

Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
It seems to me that in order for the browser widget to DISPLAY all the text, even in Javascript objects, it must KNOW what the text is. If it KNOWS, maybe there is a way to update the widget to make that information available in a property? Bob S > On Mar 28, 2022, at 13:50 , Bob Sneidar via

Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I get the web page text, but not any of the values in the fields, nor even any of the body text. I think that is because the page I am looking at is Java based. I'd LOVE to figure out a way to get THAT text as it would make my job of backing up copier data during installs MUCH quicker. Bob S

Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-28 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Rick, try the htmltext property instead of text. I just tested it, it works and text does not. On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 5:53 PM Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Yes, I have tried that several times and ways. It doesn’t seem to work. > One wo

Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-27 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Keith, Yes, I have tried that several times and ways. It doesn’t seem to work. One would think that would work fine. Other ideas? Thanks, Rick > On Mar 27, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Rick, > Maybe try 'put the text of widget "youtBrowserName" into fi

Re: Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-27 Thread Keith Clarke via use-livecode
Hi Rick, Maybe try 'put the text of widget "youtBrowserName" into field "yourFieldName" ' to get the plain text? If you need the html source, try '...the htmlText' of widget... Best, Keith > On 27 Mar 2022, at 19:01, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > wrote: > > I have been playing around with

Getting Webpage Information

2022-03-27 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
I have been playing around with the WebBrowser widget, and I can’t seem to grab the content results of what the page returns. Example: If I use the Browser to navigate to google, I can program a way to search for “Bird”. When the results are returned in the browser, I can manually perform a selec