[Solved] Help with devlopment

[Mods]

I wont go into too much detail what I'm creating but here's a basic run down.

There is a input box (Where it says "Resolve..." and below that there is a prefex like in the picture below.


Now what i want to do is when the input has been inputted and I press enter it will use my site + the input to search my site for the parameter then display it in the output.

Ive followed this tutorial and managed to get it working but I'm not sure how to make it so I can use the input box because the input is not static...

http://rainmeter.net/cms/Tips-WebParserPrimer

If anyone could help me that would be great.

[Kaelri]

Since you haven't posted your code, I'm going to assume that your site has some kind of URL with a search parameter, like this:

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http://www.yoursite.com/search?q=terms

If this is the case, you can assign the search terms to a variable:

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[Variables]
SearchTerms=whatever

[WebParserMeasure]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
Url=http://www.yoursite.com/search?q=#SearchTerms#
...

Then, use the InputText command to change this variable in the file, then refresh the skin so that WebParser can use the new URL.

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Command1=[!WriteKeyValue Variables SearchTerms "$UserInput$"][!Refresh]

(See more about using InputText here if you're not familiar with it.)

[Mods]

Since you haven't posted your code, I'm going to assume that your site has some kind of URL with a search parameter, like this:

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http://www.yoursite.com/search?q=terms

If this is the case, you can assign the search terms to a variable:

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[Variables]
SearchTerms=whatever

[WebParserMeasure]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
Url=http://www.yoursite.com/search?q=#SearchTerms#
...

Then, use the InputText command to change this variable in the file, then refresh the skin so that WebParser can use the new URL.

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Command1=[!WriteKeyValue Variables SearchTerms "$UserInput$"][!Refresh]

(See more about using InputText here if you're not familiar with it.)

Thank you very much for this, but for some reason its not displaying the value

[Kaelri]

Well, without the code, we're never going to know what "some reason" might be. ;)

[Mods]

Well, without the code, we're never going to know what "some reason" might be.

what code do you need? The website + what ive done with rainmeter already?

[Kaelri]

The complete code from your skin .INI file would be best.

[Mods]

The complete code from your skin .INI file would be best.

Honeslty I'm not very good at this but this is all I could come up with.

[Kaelri]

Try the InputText command as:

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Command1=[!WriteKeyValue Variables SearchTerms "$UserInput$" "#CURRENTPATH##CURRENTFILE#"][!Refresh]

[Mods]

Try the InputText command as:

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Command1=[!WriteKeyValue Variables SearchTerms "$UserInput$" "#CURRENTPATH##CURRENTFILE#"][!Refresh]

Nothing... I know its working to some point because when I press enter it refreshes my rainmeter...

[Kaelri]

Well, I can confirm that it does update the #SearchTerms# variable with the user's text input. What happens from there, I can't really help with without a valid "key" in the URL. All I can suggest is to check your log for errors; use the Debug option on WebParser to check if you're getting the right data; and/or use RainRegExp to make sure your regular expression is correct.