01.26.12
Posted in Updates at 4:39 pm by Todd Wilson
Several small changes in this one:
- Fixed a bug related to duplicate token editor windows.
- Add buttons to wrap text and find within the request/response of a proxy transaction.
- Now using %20 instead of + to represent a space character when encoding GET/POST parameters.
- Now correctly displaying encoded GET/POST parameters in scrapeable file proxy comparer.
- Added search term to the top of the proxy search results window.
Also, for any out there keeping track, we’re nearing another full version release. At this point we’ve pretty much frozen the feature set for a 6.0 release, so we’re now going to be doing a lot of internal testing to ensure we catch any bugs and such before we do a full release. We’d also be grateful to any who are willing to help us test alpha versions. Please
let us know of any issues you find.
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01.24.12
Posted in Updates at 4:26 pm by Todd Wilson
Several changes in this one:
- Added the following methods: session.setStopScrapingOnScriptError, session.setStopScrapingOnMaxRequestAttemptsReached, session.setStopScrapingOnExtractorPatternTimeout, scrapeableFile.getMaxRequestAttemptsReached, scrapeableFile.getExtractorPatternTimedOut.
- Fixed a bug related to prompting for save upon exit.
- Deprecated proxy scripting. Can be re-enabled via the AllowProxyScripting property.
- Fixed a minor memory leak in the workbench.
- Updated the .NET driver to work with COM-based applications.
- Added initial support for memory profiling.
The memory profiling stuff is especially cool. There are times when a developer can inadvertently cause screen-scraper to run short on memory. We’ve added code to detect for these times, then give (hopefully) a good detailed description of what’s chewing up resources so that the problem can be addressed. It’s likely we’ll refine this one more over time, but even the initial implementation is pretty useful.
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01.04.12
Posted in Updates at 6:26 pm by Todd Wilson
The holiday enhancements have spilled over into 2012:
- Added “Always at the end” option to force scripts to run at the end of a scraping session, even if it gets stopped prematurely.
- The prompt to save dialog box only shows on exit when a change has actually been made.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to the extractor pattern text box such that when text is highlighted and the Control/Command-T key combination is pressed an extractor pattern token will be generated. This is the equivalent of using the corresponding menu item when the right-click pop-up menu is invoked.
- Improved error reporting.
- Added local script variables to the breakpoint frame.
- When in workbench mode screen-scraper will now breakpoint on a script error.
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