make webview load URL

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#1

i’ve been trying to find tihs for ages, but I just want the applescript to tell a web view to load a url
I want the webview to defined by name and the window it is in
webview “view” of window “main”

why is this so hard to find?

#2

Well, for starters, it’s not called “webview”, just “view”. Perhaps this post will help.

#3

Webviews are a relatively “new” technology. I use this (interesting code by Jonathan Nathan):

set URLWithString to call method "URLWithString:" of class "NSURL" with parameter "http://blah.com/"
set requestWithURL to call method "requestWithURL:" of class "NSURLRequest" with parameter URLWithString
set mainframe to call method "mainFrame" of webView
call method "loadRequest:" of mainframe with parameter requestWithURL

Or:

call method "stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:" of webView with parameter "location.href='http://blah.com/'"

To define the var “webView”, you may:

set webView to view 1 of window 1 --> or whatever

Or (recommended in previous Xcode’s versions), attach to the web view a “awake from nib” event, then:

global webView

on awake from nib theObject
	if theObject's name is "blah" then
		set webView to theObject
	end if
end
#4

im just starting to learn applescript,
and it seems really stupid.
what a confusing code.