String problem, I'm confused...

[robmaggs]

Hi,

I want to take a text file of urls and then assign them to several button objects which in turn open an embedded web object

http://www.something.com
http://somethingelse.com
and so on...

I've done this so far by:

button1 = TextFile.ReadToString("C:\\url.txt");
url = String.Mid(button1, 0, -1);
Web.LoadURL("Web1", url);


This is great because it will load line 1 for button 1 but how do I move on to line 2 and load that url for button 2

I'm confused, any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Rob

[RizlaUK]

name your buttons 1,2,3,4,5 etc and use the below code in each button

tbUrl = TextFile.ReadToTable("C:\\url.txt");
if tbURL then
	strURL=tbUrl[String.ToNumber(this)];
	Web.LoadURL("Web1", strURL);
end

simple and basic but it should work

[robmaggs]

Thanks Rizla, I reall appreciate your help.

tbUrl = TextFile.ReadToTable("C:\\url.txt");
if tbURL then
strURL=tbUrl[String.ToNumber(this)];
Web.LoadURL("Web1", strURL);
end

Sorry for being such a dumbass but where am I naming buttons 1,2,3,4,5?

Am I doing this under the properties for each button object ie Attributes/object name or is this being assigned somewhere else?

I understand (I think) what is going on but I struggle with the code syntax somewhat.

Thanks in advance

Rob

[ShadowUK]

Yep, Call it Button1, Button2, Button3, ... and then run the code.

[robmaggs]

Hiya,

not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but for some reason nothing happens when I click the buttons.

Did I need to put any code anywhere else?

Thanks

Rob

[RizlaUK]

now try it

tbUrl = TextFile.ReadToTable("C:\\url.txt");
if tbURL then
	strURL=tbUrl[String.ToNumber(String.Remove(this,"Button")];
	Web.LoadURL("Web1", strURL);
end

[Derek]

Try this:

strURL=tbURL[String.ToNumber(Button.GetProperties(this).ObjectName)];

robmaggs: Watch tbURL and tbUrl case mixing. It's likely to cause headaches! Variable names are case sensitive.

[Ulrich]

Here is an example. You may have 1 to 5 buttons, according the number of URLs in the text file.

Ulrich

[robmaggs]

Thanks for your help, I think upeters solution might be more suitable for my project, but I'm struggling to work out how I could open URLs from a listbox.

I see from upeters example that a table is created from a texfile and populated with two values. In my case the first one would be a website name and the second a url. When the user clicks on a selection in the list box it would open a link in a web object (Web1)

-- read the text file
file_table = TextFile.ReadToTable("AutoPlay\\Docs\\url_1.txt");
for i, entry in file_table do
-- split the line
separator = String.Find(entry, "|");
option = String.Mid(entry, 1, separator-1);
action = String.Mid(entry, separator+1, -1);
ListBox.AddItem("ListBox1", option, action);
end

What would I have to do to get be able to call the url value from the table and open the url in the web object.

Sorry to be a pain, I just can't get my head around it.

Thanks Rob

[Ulrich]

Here is an updated example. I dropped the buttons of the former project and replaced them with a ListBox. Clicking on a single entry of the ListBox will load the corresponding page in the web object.

Ulrich

[robmaggs]

That's totally awesome, Thanks so much Ulrich and everyone who helped me.

Rob