Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to automate HTML ---> pdf

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Sunday 27 January 2008, felix@×××××××.com wrote:

>  dcop konqueror-6352 'konqueror-mainwindow#1' openURL
> 'http://slashdot.org'
>  dcop konqueror-6352 html-widget2 print true
>
> There's a bit more than that, since widget names change, but a simple
> perl program handles it easily (so far!).
>
> However, there's a problem.  The "openURL" command returns without
> waiting for the web page to finish loading, and the "print" command
> does not wait for it to finish loading.  The "print" command does wait
> for printing to finish before returning, which is nice.
>[cut]
> 1.  Is there either a DCOP command to wait for a URL to be loaded or a
>     DCOP command like openURL which waits?

I know of no direct method, and I can't answer your other questions 
either.
However, the following (admittedly *really* kludgy and quick-and-dirty) 
method *seems* to work:

dcop konqueror-6352 'konqueror-mainwindow#1' openURL 'http://my.url'

while true; do

  # check if the "stop" button is clickable
  stat=`dcop konqueror-6352 konqueror-mainwindow#1 actionIsEnabled stop`

  if [ "$stat" == "true" ]; then
    # "stop" button is active, so page is still loading
    sleep 5    
  else
    # "stop" button is not active, page has loaded
    break
  fi
done

# do what you want here

As I said above, I did some tests and this seems to work. However, I'm 
not claiming that it's the solution to your problem, nor that it will 
always work as expected. Therefore, I strongly suggest you test it 
thoroughly before using it.

Hope that helped.
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