Question

On OSX, I am using XCode to make a desktop app with a webview in it. The webview loads ok, and I can dynamically load content into it – but when I click on links inside the webview, they are not followed. They change color, but no new page is loaded. If I code my links with javascript like this – then they work.

<a href='http://x/' onClick="window.location = this.href">link there</a>

Is there an Objective-C one liner that allows links to be followed inside web-views?

Is there another issue I am not aware of here?

Answer 1

Turns out it was because I had code I copied form the web with some custom function to ignore WebPolicyDecisionListener…

Sorry for asking question without giving all the details – all this objective-c is new to me, I don’t know which bits do what yet. I do some pointing and clicking, and then some coding – I don’t know exactly how that all links up. With other languages, you have the whole program in one place – it takes a bit of a learning curve to get used to… but I digress.

I fixed by adding some comments – see code below…

- (void)webView:(WebView *)aWebView 
decidePolicyForNavigationAction:(NSDictionary *)actionInformation 
        request:(NSURLRequest *)request 
          frame:(WebFrame *)frame 
decisionListener:(id < WebPolicyDecisionListener >)listener
{
    if ([self requestIsLinkClick:actionInformation]) {
        if ([@"method" isEqual:[[request URL] scheme]]) {
            SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString([[request URL] resourceSpecifier]);
            if ([prototypeDelegate respondsToSelector:selector]) {
                [prototypeDelegate performSelector:selector];
            }
        }
        // [listener ignore];
    } // else {
        [listener use];
    //}
}