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....