World: r3wp

Native OLE DB provider ... has a free version http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/index.html

So, perhaps a way for users with /Pro to obtain database access without 
odbc ?

My website is down, so COMLib page is not accessible for now.
Migrating from http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/
to http://anton.wildit.net.au/

Anton, is this the third website you've shifted to?

Fourth. This time, I didn't receive any notification, so it was unexpected.

Just checked out IBprovider, as linked to by Graham, above. I've 
decided not to investigate more of it at this stage. Too much complication 
for me :) I have plenty to do already :) If someone is going to use 
it, that may change things, but I can't just go around investigating 
all the possible OLE applications this COMLib allows you to connect 
to.   (Mmmm.... maybe I'm just not big on databases. It doesn't make 
my blood pulse any faster.)

There was a video link posted on the mailing list to chickenfoot 
.. which allows you to script Firefox.

Is there any way of controlling Firefox using Com?  Or, do we have 
to use XPCOM ?

Any other ways for Rebol to control Firefox .. browser plugin ??

I had a look at XPCOM, which is supposed to be similar to COM (achieves 
much the same thing). I was overwhelmed by its complexity. I would 
only go there if I could contact some XPCOM experts.

Pretty cool though to script firefox .. so that you remove ads from 
your favourite pages

Is that what you want to do ? Because I just use Privoxy (a web proxy) 
to filter out the ads.

the video shows the guy being able to script firefox to pickup a 
report from his online banking site.

No, not really.

I want to be able to go to websites, feed data to forms and fill 
them out and then grab the results .. where the forms are generated 
dynamically in javascript

Which makes it tricky to do using Rebol.

here's a page http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interaction/ChooseDrugs

I would like to be able to send the drugs to this form for checking 
for interactions.

But I have to put the drug in the top field, search, select the highlighted 
item in the list, move it to the right list and repeat till done 
.. then check interactions.

If you know the names of the drugs in the system can't you just generate 
the html/get?


http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interaction/InteractionResults?drug=&drugList=551938&cD=6355&cD=551938&dN=%2220%2F20+Tears%22+%223-beta%2C5-alpha-stigmastan-3-ol%22+&CheckFDA=1

But .. you see there are codes in there.

Oh well.. I'm getting numerous errors running chickenfoot anyway.

It seems to work without the codes, I tried this :


http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Interaction/InteractionResults?drug=&dN=%2220%2F20+Tears%22+%223-beta%2C5-alpha-stigmastan-3-ol%22+&CheckFDA=1

The chickenfoot video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8967914974980683249&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU

I shall try again!  I did try this before and got server errors generated.

Ahh.. it appears to work .. but it does not.

I took a look at the page source, it seems to simply search the scrollable 
list titled search results, it doesn't appear to go back to the server.

It shows the text of the drugs you entered .. but not the correct 
drug interaction.

so, you reckon it's easily scriptable?

No

:)

I think it would take a little time to understand what the JavaScript 
is doing.

...but it may be possible to extract the drug list by processing 
the HTML ...once you understand what is loading into the "chooser"

Ok.

The drug list is in the HTML:


<select name="drugList" id="drugList" size="8" style="width:280px; 
font-family: verdana; font-size:10pt;" onDblClick="addDrugToList();">
					
					

<option value="4055" title="2-Amino-2-Deoxyglucose">2-Amino-2-Deoxyglucose</option> 
<option.....

So, those option values are being included in the http get.

I've seen the resent updates to comlib, great job Anton ! keep it 
up !, 2006 was crazy i've to switch bands an now im working in a 
unix enviroment, im only migrating bash scripts to rebol :)

Glad to see you back here Benjamin!

Oh wow ! You're back ! I wondered where you went. :)   "switch bands" 
 Do you mean you started work at a new company, which uses only unix 
? Hooray ! So now comlib is needed by one less person ! :)

COMLib has been updated:

Backwards compatibility fixes in the main rebol interface file, COMLib.r
http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/os/windows/COMLib/

This is in response to Philippe Legoff in RebolTalk
http://www.reboltalk.com/forum/index.php/topic,335.0.html

anton, can this be used to embed MS IE into a view app?

even if slow...

Umm... don't know.

what do you use the com lib for?

I'm just curious.

Check out the demos on the website.

hum interesting.

Hopefully, since it is a wrapper for COM, you should be able to do 
anything that COM allows you to do. So the answers to all these types 
of questions are to be found by researching COM land (which I myself 
am not very familiar with).

ok... I know that you can use com to get a text version of any file 
format which has a thumbnail viewer... which can be very usefull 
to read things like pdf, word, and other obscure file types....

hum... printing  :-)  that's cool.