On Wednesday 14 January 2004 22:00, you wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Here's a question for you web gurus:  what I want to do is to control
> > a web
> > browser programmatically, specifically to tell an open browser window
> > to open
> > a new URL automagically rather than typing it in.  It could be any
> > Linux
> > browser:  Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera - maybe even
> > Lynx.
>
> Konqueror is HUGELY scriptable.. as are quite a few KDE apps.  They use
> the DCOP communication protocol which allows lightweight (but very easy
> to use) RPC.  You can query and modify almost every property it has.
> This includes such things as (but not limited to):
>
> o Current URL browsing
> o All menu items
> o Most 'widgets' associated with the window ("forms" and the like)
> o Bookmarks
> o History
> o Nearly anything else that Konqueror can do
>

Kurt,

This is exactly what I was looking for - thanks!   The article you mentioned 
looks good.  One question, though:  what does the "-1187" in your examples 
mean?  Is this a universal thing?  I've tried some of these commands and 
encountered the error "object not accessible."   Do I need to replace the 
"-1187" with something llike a process ID of a running konqueror program?  
(That didn't seem to work either.)  Or is it some sort of version string? 

Vaughn


> This is accessible via shell scripts using the 'dcop' command or
> through Python (with PyKDE, I think) or C or C++.  If you want to
> browse through which DCOP functions Konqueror (or any other KDE app)
> supports, just fire up the 'kdcop' command.  It is a graphical browser
> of all supported functions.
>
> There is a good into article on DCOP scripting in general here:
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/36/KDE_Scripting_DCOP.pdf
>
> A few random Konqueror DCOP commands:
>
> # open a new browser at google.com
> % dcop konqueror-1187 default createBrowserWindow http://www.google.com
>
> # find out the current browsing history
> % dcop konqueror-1187 KonqHistoryManager allURLs
>
> # create a new tabbed window, open up google.com in it, activate the
> original tab, open up kde.org in it
> % dcop konqueror-1187 konqueror-mainwindow\#1/action/newtab activate
> % dcop konqueror-1187 konqueror-mainwindow\#1 openURL
> http://www.google.com
> % dcop konqueror-1187 konqueror-mainwindow\#1/action/activateprevtab
> activate
> % dcop konqueror-1187 konqueror-mainwindow\#1 openURL http://www.kde.org
>
> # select all the text on a specific open page, copy it to the
> clipboard, paste it to a 'kate' editor window
> % dcop konqueror-1187 html-widget6 selectAll
> % dcop konqueror-1187 konqueror-mainwindow\#1/action/copy activate
> % dcop kate ClipboardInterface\#1-1 paste
>
> Hopefully you get the picture.  Almost any operation that can be done
> via menus (or behind the scenes) can be scripted using DCOP.  And this
> holds true for more than just Konqueror... check kdcop on KMail and
> Konsole just for fun :-)
>
> Have fun!
> Kurt
>
>
>
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