Version 19 of Getleft

Updated 2005-12-01 13:39:00 by jcw

http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/

Getleft is a web site grabber, given an URL it will try to download the complete site or, at least, the part of it that matches the options set by the user.

Its features include:

  • It changes the links in the pages it downloads to relative links, so you can surf the site directly from your hard disk.
  • Limited ftp support, it will download ftp links, but not recursively.
  • Resumes download if interrupted or in case of timeouts.
  • Filtes not to download certain kind of files.
  • You can get a site map before downloading.
  • Follows links to external sites.
  • Multilingual support, thirdteen languages so far.
  • 'Includes "[a]n extremely handsome help system", Andrei Gratchev's HelpSystem [L1 ].
  • Some others.

Unfortunately it only understands plain html, that means it doesn't understand JavaScript or Java, php and other tecnologies that are processed in the server work fine though.

For more details please visit the homepage [L2 ]

01dec05 jcw - Andrés, with some small adjustments your Wish-based standalone app for Mac OS X can be replaced by a starpack, now that Tclkit has an Aqua build version (thanks to DAS). Differences:

  • 2.1 Mb single file exe vs. 6.2 Mb app bundle (folder)
  • renamed "Script" folder to "getleft.vfs" for sdx later on
  • had to add Tile extension as getleft.vfs/lib/tile0.6/ to run this with the 8.4.9.1 tclkit I used
  • renamed Appmain.tcl to main.tcl
  • added two lines in front of main.tcl:
        package require starkit
        starkit::startup
  • in GetMainDirectory, added this to the front:
    if {[info exists ::starkit::topdir]} {
        return $::starkit::topdir
    }
  • that's it, I used "sdx wrap getleft -runtime tclkit8491aqua" to build the "getleft" exe

There are some drawbacks right now:

  • the result seems to always launch a terminal console window (tclkit aqua definciency, it's still early)
  • no "globe" custom icon, no icon in the exe at all, in fact

While this may not yet be good enough due to these drawbacks, it does show that Tclkit with Aqua is getting close, and the main advantage I expect to see is that such an application for Mac OS X with Aqua GUI can be assembled on any platform - you no longer need a Mac to be able to create / ship native Aqua apps.

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