Jan,
Sorry for the delay. We were travelling.
Thanks for finding out this bug. We don't know why yet but we'll look
into it.
David
Jan Berkel wrote:
>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 Fri Nov 11 2005 - 21:27:39 EST