[hillemania]

I'm really new to Macs, never really done much with them. I need to be able to use applescript to call a specific browser, in this case Netscape Communicator 4.78 and open an html file with it. The will have to install this browser if they don't have it, but they will get to choose where it is installed.
Basically I need to be able to make it open an html page. Any script that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by hillemania:
<STRONG>I'm really new to Macs, never really done much with them. I need to be able to use applescript to call a specific browser, in this case Netscape Communicator 4.78 and open an html file with it. They will have to install this browser if they don't have it, but they will get to choose where it is installed.
Basically I need to be able to make it open an html page. Any script that anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.</STRONG>

If you have a specific file that you want to open then do this:


tell application "Netscape Communicator"
  activate
  open file "Macintosh HDesktop Folder:file.html"
end tell


If you want to prompt the user for a file do this:


tell application "Netscape Communicator"
  activate
  open file (choose file with prompt "Choose an HTML file.")
end tell


And one more thing, it seems that you want to distribute this script... more people use Internet Explorer.. but you can never be sure which browser that person uses. So if you want to open the file with their default browser, whether it be Explorer, Netscape, iCab, Opera etc... do this:

open location "file:///Macintosh HD/Desktop Folder/file.html"


And it will open that file with their default browser.

[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Synotic ]

[Camelot]

Originally posted by Synotic:
<STRONG>
tell application "Netscape Communicator"
  activate
  open file "Macintosh HD esktop Folder:file.html"
end tell

snip...
</STRONG>

and if the file isn't local (i.e. it's on a remote server):

tell application "Netscape Communicator"
  activate
  GetURL "http://www.server.net/path/to.html"
end tell

(GetURL works in both Netscape and Explorer)

[Synotic]

Camelot, are you using my script to convert the clipboard to UBB? I made it so that you no longer get stuff like:

[b]this[/b] [b]is[/b] [b]my[/b] [b]test[/b]

insetad it cleans up the tags so it will be like:

[b]this is my test[/b]

It also makes it so that you can put in :D and not make you check off "disable smilies"

Edit: It took me forever to make the UBB code above look right but not actually execute, but the script itself doesn't work right.. just download it from
here.

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: Synotic ]