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Garrett · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject:

There's more to it than just the info you've shown for the .url file. I'll have
to find the example I have here and post it.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I'm sure there is, but I was just explaining the basic structure. I just dragged
one of my favorites links into Notepad and pasted the contents here. Smile

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ok ya all follow what i mean tho right?

hard to explain i'am not that good at explaining ( as you can tell)

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i have been looking at how I.E saves that.....but how would i make vds display it like I.E does? and how would i have vds SAVE a web site url like i.e does? ( like in I.E favorites) its like a Internet Shortcut.

thanks

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

any tips on this any one? i can make it save the url name BUT i haven't figure out how to have it save the page name and have the url go with that name Sad

thanks

CodeScript · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:44 am Post subject:

Hi tim6389

I think I can split up your problem into discrete parts:

1. Saving the link in a .URL format
I think that should be easy uisng list commands. LIST SAVEFILE
But the basic question is where from are you trying to save the Favorite ?
From your default browser ? or from a custom browser element on your VDS dialog ? or neither ?
If a custom extension is being used and it has options to return both the title and URL of the site you are viewing.
If from IE then you can use @WINTEXT function Get the title and you can go through the child windows and get the url from the IE address bar Edit.
I think there are several threads discussing that on the forum.

2.URL Groups:
You can save the URL to different folders as IE does - may be under deafault Favorites folder or your custom folder.

3.Displaying the Favorites to the user:
I think a treeview is the best way to go. You can place it on another dialog that canbe shown amd hidden at will.
Other options include a FILELIST element from VDSOBJ DLL . Submenu system (VDSPOPUP DLL ) or Mac's VDSUG DLL (don't know if it has submenus)
When the user clicks at a given file link (be it any of the above) load the file using LIST LOADFILE and parse the contents of the .url file to get the real url and display it where/how ever you want.

Hope this helps some.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

well I have been playing with a few ideas....not going so good Sad

have it save the web link is easy BUT having it save the page name and the link that goes with that page is a problem.... Sad

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

anyone know how to save the url AND page name?

thanks

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i guess no one knows Sad

CodeScript · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:08 am Post subject:

I guess shouldn't be difficult Confused

From where are U obtaining those URL and Title ?
I think U R not clear enough in Ur question bout that
Do U get both of them together ?

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

that is the problem how to get that info from a web page?

i mean how to have vds get that info....like if i was to bookmark this page how do i have vds READ the page name in this case " forum.vdsworld.com::post a reply" AND the url whick is "http://forum.vdsworld.com/posting.php?mode=reply&t=2531"

i have made a simple web browser in vds BUT would like to added a favorites fuction to it Smile

CodeScript · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:34 am Post subject:

In VDS U need a extension to place a browser element on the dialog (I guess U R using Pre VDS 5 version) .
If you are using an extension then U need to specify that so people can help more in the particular direction.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ahhh kk what dll do i need to make this work? or what vds 5 code would work with this?

yea i just made a layout of a web broswer it don't work yet thought i would see if i could get the favorites to work before i get to far with it....

thanks

CodeScript · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:36 am Post subject:

If you want the Webpage to be displayed on your app's dialog you need a dll - VDS 5 comes with vdsbrw50.dll and in older VDS versions you can go for Marty's vdssurfx.dll. If you are using any of those then my code below won't help. The dlls have built in functions to retrieve the current Title/URL.

This solution is assuming that you are planning viewing the webpage in Internet Explorer to get the URL from and running your app in the "tray" as a TASKICON. You can use Hotkeys (using a dll) to get the Webapge being viewed bookmarked but for now I have added a "Wait 3" for you to click on the IE window soon after starting your script.

Please read the comments carefully - especially about characters forbidden for a file name.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

ok cool thanks for the help will play with that dll to

thanks again