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[Caer12]

I can't for the life of me seem to figure out what the function is for having an invisible internet explorer page go to a certain url and retrieve the text and place it in a specific area of the program. I also need some help with having it refresh ever so many seconds. Any help on this or if someone could point me in the right direction or show me an example, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

[Björn Kaiser]

what about InetGet and using File.. and String... functions?

[Gif]

give use the site to help you

[ssubirias3]

I can't for the life of me seem to figure out what the function is for having an invisible internet explorer page go to a certain url and retrieve the text and place it in a specific area of the program. I also need some help with having it refresh ever so many seconds. Any help on this or if someone could point me in the right direction or show me an example, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

Like Björn Kaiser I like the INet.au3 functions over the IE.au3 functions, but there are some things that are easier to do with IE.au3. So to answer your specific question the function is _IECreate("http://www....... ", 0, 0, 1). For an example use the search feature, its great! Or you can read the following topic I just updated for LukeJrs.

stopping a loop

Good luck, hope this helped.

[PsaltyDS]

I can't for the life of me seem to figure out what the function is for having an invisible internet explorer page go to a certain url and retrieve the text and place it in a specific area of the program. I also need some help with having it refresh ever so many seconds. Any help on this or if someone could point me in the right direction or show me an example, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

Are you using the IE.au3 UDF? Look up _IECreate() in the help file, and check out the $f_visible parameter. Then go on to read up on _IEBodyReadText().

[Caer12]

Well, I haven't quite got it right. So far I just have this but it's not getting me what I need.

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js")
$sText = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)
MsgBox(0, "Body Text", $sText)

this is the site:

http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js

example:

document.write('128');

I would also like to know if it's possible to have it just read between the ' ', so basically just the 128 is shown.

Thank you!

[Gif]

Well, I haven't quite got it right. So far I just have this but it's not getting me what I need.

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js")
$sText = _IEBodyReadText ($oIE)
MsgBox(0, "Body Text", $sText)

this is the site:

http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js

example:

document.write('128');

I would also like to know if it's possible to have it just read between the ' ', so basically just the 128 is shown.

Thank you!

considering your first post i give you this:

#include <INet.au3>
$src = _INetGetSource('http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js')
$trm = StringTrimLeft($src, 17)
$trm2 = StringTrimRight($trm, 4)
MsgBox(0, "Text", $trm2)
Exit

you can also use _StringBetween() but that works perfect too

Edited August 6, 2007 by Gif

[Caer12]

Thank you, now if I were to compile that script, what would I use to keep the link?

[Gif]

Thank you, now if I were to compile that script, what would I use to keep the link?

what exacly do you mean?

[Caer12]

Well, I compiled the script and ran the exe but the message box popped up without a number. It does the same thing with picture files so I guess it did it to the url.

[Gif]

Well, I compiled the script and ran the exe but the message box popped up without a number. It does the same thing with picture files so I guess it did it to the url.

you are doing something wrong, i just compiled this:

#include <INet.au3>
$src = _INetGetSource('http://69.41.179.98:9980/online.js')
$trm = StringTrimLeft($src, 17)
$trm2 = StringTrimRight($trm, 4)
MsgBox(0, "Text", $trm2)
Exit

and it works

Edited August 7, 2007 by Gif

[Caer12]

I tried it, compiled that, I doubt I did anything different, I tried it a few times, I might be doing something wrong but is there anything different you're doing?

I opened up SciTe and pasted what you wrote and saved it and compiled it.