The application "Hotlist Grabber" for Macintosh will convert an NCSAMosaic for Macintosh hotlist into a SimpleText file and vice versa. The text files list the menu title and it's URL. This is a handy way to be able to sort titles in a text file to user preferences, for mailing hotlists, etc. Also, the advantage of mailing a hotlist text file is that when the end users converts it to a hotlist, Mosaic will create the correct "alis" resource in the hotlist. Otherwise, the hotlist looks for the machine on which it was created.
FILE MENU - contains the functions:
List -> Text select a NCSAMosaic "hotlist" from the dialog scroll window and convert to a SimpleText file. This option can be invoked by pressing "command-T".
Text -> List select a SimpleText file from the dialog scroll window and convert to a NCSAMosaic "hotlist". This option can be invoked by pressing "command-L". This portion of the program operates by "looking" for hard returns. The text file must have the text formatted in the order of a "Label" first and then a "URL", with the two separated by a hard return.
This application is freeware created with Prograph CPX 1.1. I wrote this program because when I shared my Hotlist with others, they had problems using the file (the system wanted to connect to my computer over the net). Also, it irritated me that I couldn't change the order of the addresses without deleting them and reentering them. This program facilitates this.
Version History
1.0.1 - Made reading of the text file less sensitive to where and how many extra hard returns are present.
1.0 - Initial release of the program.
Author:
Terry Bingham
tab@srv.net
Special thanks to
Mike Caldwell for help figuring out how to create resources in a new file.