Webdialog: set_url and write html in a file? how?

bomastudio

Hi all, I', not able to write the html loaded in a webdialog after I set its url:
dlg = UI::WebDialog.new("mionome", false, "altro")
url = "http://www.miosito.com"
dlg.set_url(url)

now I want to copy the html of the dlg in a file.txt without show the dialog??

any help??

Thanx!!

thomthom

WebDialog doesn't give you access to the HTML content.

And in addition I think there might be platform issues. Under OSX the website is loaded when you set_url, set_file, or set_html - before the dialog is displayed. (if I remember correctly.)
Under Windows it doesn't happen until you display the webdialog.

From what I gather - what you really want to do, is not display a webdialog, but get the content of a webpage?

bomastudio

any ideas?
maybe javascript can help me?

bomastudio

(Re)looking in the documentation of SU API I found theget_element_value method, used to get a value, with a given element_id, from the web dialog's DOM. So I think I can access to the html of the page......

thomthom

@bomastudio said:

(Re)looking in the documentation of SU API I found theget_element_value method, used to get a value, with a given element_id, from the web dialog's DOM. So I think I can access to the html of the page......

Only works when the dialog is visible.

Brett McAllister

Add this piece of javascript to your html
Should trigger when the dialog is fully loaded

window.onload = function() { 
window.location.href ='skp;start@';
}

thomthom

@brett mcallister said:

Add this piece of javascript to your html
Should trigger when the dialog is fully loaded

window.onload = function() { 
> window.location.href ='skp;start@';
> }

But that triggers when all external CSS and images are loaded. I find it better to use the DOM event that triggers when the DOM tree is ready.

Jim

@thomthom said:

But that triggers when all external CSS and images are loaded. I find it better to use the DOM event that triggers when the DOM tree is ready.

Which is..?

bomastudio

@brett mcallister said:

Add this piece of javascript to your html
Should trigger when the dialog is fully loaded

window.onload = function() { 
> window.location.href ='skp;start@';
> }

Please excuse me as I'm not precise in my posts..... I have to use a web service: I must use a URL and the server send me a xml file (I used my btrrowser so I don't recognize that the web page was, in reality, a XML code..... forgive me.....

So now the question is: do you think is better to download that file in anyway or to process it in a webdialog (like I was trying....)?

thomthom

@jim said:

@thomthom said:

But that triggers when all external CSS and images are loaded. I find it better to use the DOM event that triggers when the DOM tree is ready.

Which is..?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/DOM_event_reference/DOMContentLoaded

Though I just use jQuery these days - makes everything so much easier.

bomastudio

I've just used the wget.exe tool. And it works!! But I had some trouble with the system command....