Matthias Berth wrote:
There is a way to provide predefined answers to the popup dialogs, the Installer package does that, see the bottom of: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/742
Chasing around a bit in the image leads me to:
BlockContext>>valueSuppressingMessages: aListOfStrings supplyingAnswers: aListOfPairs
BlockContext>>valueSupplyingAnswers: aListOfPairs "evaluate the block using a list of questions / answers that might be called upon to automatically respond to Object>>confirm: or FillInTheBlank requests"
So I guess you have a block with whatever you want to do and some predefined answers:
[ myUrl extractInfo "This may trigger some popups" ] valueSuppressingMessages: {'css error*'. 'doctype error'} supplyingAnswers: {{'input doctype'. 'XHTML 4.1'}}
The first list contains string patterns for messages that will be answered with OK, the second is a list of pairs of the form (pattern, answer) where pattern is a string and answer is any object.
I hope this helps
Matthias
Hello Matthias,
Wow! Thanks for the information. Squeak is full of treasures like this. Part of the trick of mastering Squeak is learning how to discover all of these treasures. :)
This will definitely be of tremendous help. I really, really, really want to use Squeak for as much as I can. But a popup was going to be a big stumbling block. I was kind of looking in the classes to see if there was another way to use them that I was missing. Something that doitAllAndAnswerYes or something. :)
This is great. I can write my own doitAll method. And for so many other times that this pops up.
This helps tremendously. Now I can dig into Todd's Html+Css validator and master it and if I want some convenience methods to make things web scraping easier. I can write them. :)
This is a great help. Thank you very, very much.
Have a great one.
Jimmie
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