found the culprit: setting browser.tabs.autoHide to false ( true is
default ) prevents processDocuments() from working. no idea why.
maybe the developers can shed light on this ?
jira:
http://simile.mit.edu/issues/browse/PIGGYBANK-67
jan
On 11/5/05, David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Could you check the Javascript Console (from Firefox's Tools menu) and
> see if there's any error message?
>
> You could also try to install Solvent and paste in your code and run it.
> Solvent should make it easier to debug.
>
> http://simile.mit.edu/solvent/
>
> Which existing scrapers did you try?
>
> David
>
> Jan Berkel wrote:
>
> >hi,
> >
> >piggy bank is a cool project, but when trying to write my first screen
> >scraper i ran into problems:
> >the scripts collect a list of urls and feeds them into
> >utilities.processDocuments() to scrape individual pages. I get the
> >"loading additional pages" box with all urls in it but then nothing
> >happens. It just stays open, no progress bar changes, nothing. I ran
> >it in debug mode but nothing helpful came out of it.
> >
> >to make sure that it wasn't a problem with my script I tested several
> >existing scrapers which use the same function but got the same result.
> >i also tried it in firefox 1.0.6 with all other extensions disabled.
> >
> >
> >my environment : pb 2.1 , firefox 1.5rc1w/ java plugin 1.5_05 on linux.
> >
> >cheers for any suggestions.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 08 2005 - 01:45:20 EST