[iOliverC]

Hi guys,

Something went wrong with the post, but anyway, what I want to do is get the current url of a webview and put that in a text field, I've looked through the WebView docs and cant see a way to get the url. Although there probably is:

Thanks,
Oliver

[Chuckit]

I haven't used the WebKit much, but from the documentation it looks like you could do something along the lines of [[[webView backForwardList] currentItem] URLString].

[oVeRmInD911]

I use

Code:
[[[[webView_main mainFrame] dataSource] request] URL]

That should work. Though it a bunch more calls than the guy above me's idea.

[iOliverC]

Hi guys,

I took Chuckits code and made it like:

Code:
NSString *currentURL =  [[[helpWebView backForwardList] currentItem] URLString];
[helpURLBar setStringValue:(currentURL == nil ? @"" : currentURL)];

helpURLBar is the NSTextField. I load up my window that has the WebView in, it has nothing loaded. I click a button and it loads a website, but the text field still displays nothing, any ideas?

Thanks,
Oliver

[Chuckit]

I'd go with Overmind's solution, personally. That seems more like how it's intended to be done. I just went for the more obvious method named "backForwardList."

[iOliverC]

Im a little confused by this, I tried Overminds code which is:

Code:
NSString *currentURL =  [[[[helpWebView mainFrame] dataSource] request] URL];
[helpURLBar setStringValue:(currentURL == nil ? @"" : currentURL)];

I get this warning "initialization from incompatible pointer type". Here is a screeny of what Im trying to do:



Notice how the url bar is empty? What I want is the url of the page in the WebView in the TextField above it. The TextField is not editable, and I've tried it where its just normal, still doesn't work.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Oliver

[Uncle Skeleton]

you probably want to get the -absoluteString from the NSURL

[Wevah]

Yeah. currentURL is an NSString, and [[[[helpWebView mainFrame] dataSource] request] URL] returns an NSURL (or so I'm assuming; I haven't worked with WebKit myself yet).