Can i get the URL in the address bar?

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#1

How can i get the URl in th eaddress bar in IE?

Cheers. I havent got a clue how to do this and i need to know really badly, as my internship finishes 2moro and i have a problem

#2

This might work on the frontmost window.

tell application "Internet Explorer" to ¬
	set URL_ to item 1 of (GetWindowInfo -1)

– Rob

#3 
tell application "Internet Explorer"
	GetWindowInfo 1
end tell
#4

cheer.

I thought as much but it wasnt working.
Cheers, i know its a different problem now.

I dont know if you guys can help. I had the same problem before but it never got fixed.

basically i would like to insert some text into a textarea form.

I know the JS.
do script “window.document.forms[0].elements[5].value='”&hello&“'”

But hello is in fact a caption that is from fileinfo of an image.

basically if i do the above with the following caption then it wont insert it. Is it because of the way that the caption is worded, like a paragraph? or what could it be. is there anything that i can use to get round this really major issue.


Defiant, one of the Bill Koch's several IACC yachts, leads the Dennis Conner Stars & Stripes during the 1992 Defender Series off Sand Diego. Both boats are powering under gennaker on the reaching leg of the race, now disappeared from the race format.

© Photo Christian Fevrier / Bluegreen Pictures

Could it be the ©, as i know in the other fields of the form if i just simply use normal trext then it works. But this doesn’t.

Argh!!!

#5

I can’t offer anything on the form stuff.

– Rob

#6

I see two unsafe strings: ’ and return, which you must escape as ’ and r
Also, you won’t conserve the © symbol. For speed’s sake, just replace coincidences of ’ & return with ’ and r
For an exact copy of the string, try this:

set x to "Defiant, one of the Bill Koch's several IACC yachts, leads the Dennis Conner Stars & Stripes during the 1992 Defender Series off Sand Diego. Both boats are powering under gennaker on the reaching leg of the race, now disappeared from the race format.

© Photo Christian Fevrier / Bluegreen Pictures"

--> hex-encode string
set x to stringtoHex(x)
set y to {}
repeat with i from 1 to x's length by 2
	set y's end to "%" & text i thru (i + 1) of x
end repeat

tell application "Internet Explorer"
	do script "window.document.forms[0].elements[5].value=unescape('" & (y as string) & "')"
end tell

on stringtoHex(this_string)
	this_string as C string
	try
		result * 5
	on error msg
		return text from character 22 of msg to character -19 of msg
	end try
end stringtoHex
#7

so far it works, havenmt test ed it properly.

What does the text from character 22 do? will that cause problesm if the text i enter is alot larger or smaller???

As the text is always diferent. Has that got enough scope to account for it???

Thanks so far though!!! :slight_smile:

#8

I don’t know the limits, but works fine with 20000 bytes…