I had my BBCodeparser indeed use ie in the pre public versions, but it hanged too much and didn't work properly.
then I found that best way is not let IE understand any of the stuff that is going on and I made dir() to scan all IE tempfiles and take the right one.
it was too slow.
with winhttp I have not experienced any of these problems, cause it just simple get's the source and does not interprete it.
I have experienced with pre finals of winhttp sdk 5.0 some problems, with bbchecker thou...
problems has occured when same page has been transferred about 250 times.
I think your script is fine, but as you stated, it's not reliable.
and I was looking for kixOnly solution with maybe some help from outside dll's like kiXforms and winhttp5.

but, is this, what I'm lacking in my script, possible:
to have kiXforms have textbox or frame which is scrollable on both dimensions?

cheers and thanks for your insight,

just a thougth...

-Shawn

You've had a chance to play with kixforms ... what's your opinion of the polling for event strategy as opposed to the execute event strategy ...

kixforms uses the polling technique, eg:

while $form.getevent
if $button.click
?"hi there"
endif
loop

kixwinvb uses the execute strategy:

$button.onclick = "button_click()"

while $form.visible
$=execute($form.getevent())
loop

function button_click()
?"hi there"
endfunction

any thoughts ?

-Shawn

lol

[ 04 January 2002: Message edited by: Alex.H ]

but jpols seems to wait for some execution()'s...

BB didn't accept it so added it here as text:

;
; BBCodeParser.kix - KiXtart Bulleting Board Code Parser version 2.0 beta2
;
; Dependencies:
;	KiXtart 4.01 or later
;	KiXForms (build 4)
;	Winhttp SDK 5.0
;
; -Lonkero
;

$ = setconsole("hide")
break on
del "%temp%\*.bbcp"
go "%systemdrive%"
cd "\"
gosub "question"
$form = createobject("kixtart.form")
$form.caption = "BBCodeParser 2.0 by Lonkero"
$form.width = $form.screenwidth - 100
$form.height = $form.screenheight - 200
$form.left = 50
$form.top = 30
$form.fontsize = 10
$form.moveto(10,10)
$form.print("Code's Retrieved from topic:")
$form.fontbold = 1
$form.moveto(200,10)
$form.print("$page")
$saveb = $form.commandbutton(150,$form.height-70,150,25,"SAVE this one")
$printb = $form.commandbutton($form.width -300,$form.height-70,150,25,"PRINT this one")
$form.fontbold = 0
$form.fontname = "Arial Black"
$index = $form.listbox(5,40,100,$form.height - 110,"")
$form.fontsize = 8
$form.fontname = "Arial"
gosub "retrieve"
$this = 0
$code0.visible = 1
$form.visible = 1
while $ = $form.getevent()
	select
	case $index.click
		$ = execute('$$code$this.visible = 0')
		$this = val(substr($index.text,6,1))-1
		$ = execute('$$code$this.visible = 1')
	case $printb.click
		gosub "print"
	case $saveb.click
		gosub "save"
	endselect
loop
del "%temp%\*.bbcp"
exit
:question
$formQ = createobject("kixtart.form")
$formQ.caption = "BBCodeParser 2.0 by Lonkero"
$formQ.width = 450
$formQ.height = 100
$formQ.left = 100
$formQ.top = 100
$formQ.moveto(10,0)
$formQ.fontbold = 1
$formQ.print("Place Here the URL of the page you want to retrieve code from")
$formQ.fontbold = 0
$pageQ = $formQ.textbox(10,20,350,20,"")
$formQ.fontbold = 1
$buttonQ = $formQ.commandbutton(370,20,50,20,"Get It!")
$formQ.moveto(10,50)
$formQ.fontbold = 0
$formQ.print("Tip: easily done with cut&copy from your webbrowser's addressbar")
$formQ.visible = 1
do $ = $formQ.getevent() until $buttonQ.click()
$page = $pageQ.caption
$formQ.visible = 0
$formQ = 1
if not instr($page,"http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?")
	$ = messagebox("You didn't give kixBB url-address. This script supports only BB found at kixtart.org!","Usage error",48) exit
endif
return
:retrieve
$formr = createobject("kixtart.form")
$formr.caption = "BBCodeParser 2.0 by Lonkero"
$formr.width = 300
$formr.height = 150
$formr.left = ($formr.screenwidth - $formr.width)/2
$formr.top = ($formr.screenheight - $formr.height)/2
$formr.fontsize = 8
$formr.fontbold = 0
$formr.visible = 1
$formr.moveto(10,0)
$formr.print("page Retrieval...")
$formr.fontsize = 10
$formr.fontbold = 1
$formr.moveto(30,20)
$formr.print("Starting Winhttp...")
$httpObj = createobject("winhttp.winhttprequest.5")
if vartype($httpObj) <> 9 ? $ = messagebox("failed to start Winhttp, quitting...","Subsystem Error",16) exit else $formr.moveto(50,40) $formr.print("WinHTTP Started") endif
$httpObj.open("GET",$page)
? if @error $ = messagebox("failed to Initialize Winhttp ( error:@serror ), quitting...","Subsystem Error",16) exit else $formr.moveto(50,60) $formr.print("WinHTTP initialized") endif
$httpObj.send()
$crlf = chr(13)+chr(10) $i=0
$data = $httpObj.Responsetext
$formr.moveto(30,80) $formr.print("Page Transferred")
$formr.moveto(10,100) $formr.print("Parsing Data...")
$x = instr($data,">code:</font><HR><pre>")
while $x <> 0
	$data = substr($data,$x+22,len($data)-($x+21))
	$x = instr($data,"</pre>") - 1
	$post = substr($data,1,$x)
	$index.additem("code "+($i+1),$i)
	$ = open(1,"%temp%\code "+($i+1)+".bbcp",5) $ = writeline(1,"$page"+$crlf+$crlf)
	$ = execute('$$code$i = $$form.listbox(110,40,$$form.width - 120,$$form.height - 60,"")')
	$ = execute('$$code$i.visible = 0')
	$c=0
	for each $section in split($post,"<P>")
		for each $line in split($section,"<BR>")
			do
				$che = ""
				if instr($line,"&lt;") $p = instr($line,"&lt;") $line = substr($line,1,$p-1)+"<"+substr($line,$p+4,len($line)-($p+3))
				else $che = $che+"1"
				endif
				if instr($line,"&gt;") $p = instr($line,"&gt;") $line = substr($line,1,$p-1)+">"+substr($line,$p+4,len($line)-($p+3))
				else $che = $che+"1"
				endif
			until $che = "11"
			$ = execute('$$code$i'+'.additem("$line",$c)')
			$ = writeline(1,"$line"+$crlf)
			$c=$c+1
		next
	next
	$ = writeline(1,""+$crlf+"By BBCodeParser 2.0"+$crlf)
	$ = close(1)
	$x = instr($data,">code:</font><HR><pre>")
	$i=$i+1
loop
$formr.moveto(120,100) $formr.print("Done") sleep 1 $formr.visible = 0 $formr = 1
return
:save
$formQ = createobject("kixtart.form")
$formQ.caption = "BBCodeParser 2.0 by Lonkero"
$formQ.width = 450
$formQ.height = 100
$formQ.left = 100
$formQ.top = 100
$formQ.moveto(10,0)
$formQ.fontbold = 1
$formQ.print("Give path (optional) and filename for this script")
$formQ.fontbold = 0
$fileQ = $formQ.textbox(10,20,350,20,"")
$formQ.fontbold = 1
$buttonQ = $formQ.commandbutton(370,20,50,20,"Save It!")
$formQ.moveto(10,50)
$formQ.fontbold = 0
$formQ.print("note: Omitting the path will save file in %systemdrive%\")
$formQ.visible = 1
$close = 0
while $formQ.getevent() and $close = 0
	if $buttonQ.click() copy "%temp%\code "+($this+1)+".bbcp" "$fileQ.caption" $close = 1 endif
loop
$formQ.visible = 0
$formQ = 1
return
:print
$formi = createobject("kixtart.form")
$formi.caption = "BBCodeParser 2.0 by Lonkero"
$formi.width = 450
$formi.height = 100
$formi.left = ($formi.screenwidth - 450)/2
$formi.top = ($formi.screenheight - 100)/2
$formi.moveto(100,45)
$formi.fontbold = 1
$formi.print("Printing in Progress...")
$formi.visible = 1
sleep 1
shell "notepad /p %temp%\code "+($this+1)+".bbcp"
$formi.visible = 0
$formi = 1
return

[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Lonkero ]

and, because bb is poor on accepting html, this issue should be solved before I can land the final.

btw, as you see, I don't like IE.
that's why I don't want to do this with it.
so far, for all the functions to work, the files needed are as listed:
kix32.exe
kixforms.dll
winhttp5.dll
notepad.exe

where the exe's are obvious in win-based machine.

cheers,

cheers,