How to get the URL out of FireFox

Hello World,

I'm pretty new to the c++ language and I want to read the URL of a running Browser (in this case FireFox).

It shoud work in this way.

you write in the browser: "www.goooogle.de"
Press enter
---> copy url to my program.
---> check url == Google
if not ---> insert google.de

Is there a documentation for programming firefox addons?

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Is there a documentation for programming firefox addons?

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Why don't you google for something like "programming firefox extensions"? That seems like a much better idea than asking here.

At any rate, one of the first search results is this site which looks like a good tutorial.

On Windows, reading the current URL can be done easyly with Windows api (see on Win32 ng)

First get the HWND for the address text box in teh firefox exlporer. you can use programs like Spy++ (I forgot what it was called, but it came with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0). The you can use SendMessage and send a WM_GETTEXT message to it.

Here is an example

Code:

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HWND hFireFox, hAddressBox;
hFireFox = FindWindow("FireFox", "FireFox");
hAddressBox = FindWindowEx(hFireFox, NULL, MAKEINTATOM(0x800), "AddressBox");  //Forgot what the 3rd parameter does
char szAddressBox[MAX_PATH];
SendMessage(hAddressBox, WM_GETTEXT, MAX_PATH, szAddressBox);

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I haven't tested this out yet, so there might be a few errors from the LPSTR to CHAR[] conversion. I also didn't get the correct names for the firefox menus.

To check use strcmp() and use WM_SETTEXT to send text to firefox

Code:

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if (strcmp(hAddressBox, "www.google.de") != 0)
{
    \\if false then...
    SendMessage(hAddressBox, WM_SETTEXT, NULL, "www.google.de\0");
}

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You can use the boost filesystem library. They make it convenient to work with URLS. Also, you could just use find_if and then tokenize your searches.

Actually, CrissyCrisCris, it would be better if you provide C++ solutions on the C++ board rather than C solutions. I second boost.