Grab a URL into filemaker?

[hartmut]

I would like to know if there is a way or a sample file that will show how to grab a url from a web browser? Thank you

[Genx]

Can you be more specific?

Do you mean web viewer or web browser.

[hartmut]

A Web Browser Sorry

If the Web viewer does work I would like to know that as well.

Thanks and Sorry I was not specific

[Genx]

No clue how to do it with a web browser - especially because you might have 20 of them open, which could be safari / ie / firefox / opera etc. and each of which would require a different methodology for obtaining the URL. Not to mention the fact that it would be again different on both OS's. The point is, getting a URL from a web browser just has no real context and so is problematic.

Regarding a web viewer, it's much simpler. All you have to do is name your webviewer (in layout mode, bring up the object info window, select the webviewer and then give it a name). After that, whenever you're on the layout, you can obtain the url via the following function: GetLayoutObjectAttribute( "webviewer_object_name" ; "source" )

[hartmut]

Thank You Genx.

Is it possible just to get the web page address? Not all the other HTML? Just the url posted in the address bar?

[bruceR]

Perform applescript:

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return

tell application "Safari" to get URL of every tab of window 1

set theLinks to result as text

copy theLinks to cell "Links" of current record

[hartmut]

thanks