&| What: | Getleft |&
&| Where: | https://web.archive.org/web/20130703213357/http://personal.telefonica.terra.es:80/web/getleft/download.html <<br>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/getleftdown |&
&| Description | Web page grabber featuring support for http and ftp, modification of html pages for local file consistency, links can be followed, recursion of link following can be limited, support for multiple languages. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS. |&
&| Requirements | Tcl/Tk 8.4 or newer, as well as [curl]. |&
&| Updated | 2008-01 (v1.2) |&
Description: Web page grabber featuring support for http and ftp, modification
of html pages for local file consistency, links can be followed,
recursion of link following can be limited, support for multiple
languages. Works on Linux and Windows. Requires Tcl/Tk 8.4 or newer, as
well as curl.
Currently at version 1.2.
Updated: 10/2011
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/getleft/
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.
* Filters not to download certain kind of files.
* You can get a site map before downloading.
* Follows links to external sites.
* Multilingual support, fourteen languages so far.
* 'Includes "''[[a]]n extremely handsome help system''", [Andrei Gratchev]'s [HelpSystem] [http://midc.miem.edu.ru/HelpSystem/].
* Some others.
Unfortunately it only understands plain [html]; that means it doesn't understand
JavaScript or Java. PHP and other technologies that are processed in the server
work fine, though.
For more details please visit the homepage [http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/getleft/]
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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 deficiency; 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.
[Kevin Walzer] See http://www.codebykevin.com/opensource/tutorial.html for general information on the structure of Mac application bundles. You actually can use a starkit in a Mac app bundle: it would go in myapp.app/Contents/MacOS as the application executable. You would still need to structure the other parts of the app bundle correctly, as outlined in that web page.
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