JavaScript - Accessing An Xml File Through Javascript

Hello everyone,

I am fairly familiar with the concept of Objects and their properties and methods, but javascript being object based as opposed to object oriented has me stumped on how to access an object's properties from an onclick event handler created for another object created within the original object.

In the example below, I have a constructor function called anyObj. to which I pass an object reference to an element.

anyObj has 3 properties and one function increaseWidth()

increaseWidth() creates a new button with an onclick event handler and this is where I have a problem.

The onclick function needs to increase the value of anyObj's this.width property. I originally had a line this.width += 10; in the onclick but quickly realised why this wasn't working because the this in the onclick function refers to the new button object and not the this.width property of anyObj.

The workaround I have used, and it works, is to make a copy of all the this.xxxxx properties. eg. width = this.width; and use the width variable in the onclick as you can see below. This "workaround" works fine but doesn't feel ideal to me.

So, what I am asking advice on is, is there a better way to access the anyObj()'s properties from within the onclick function than the way I have done it? Obviously I would prefer to not have to make copies of all the anyObj() properties like I have to make them accessible to the onclick function.
Code:

         function anyObj(divObj){
                this.elem = divObj;
                this.width = 50;
                this.height = 50;
                this.increaseWidth=function(){
                    width = this.width;
                    height = this.height;
                    //create a button for this object to be appended to an element later on
                    var newButton = document.createElement('button');
                    newButton.onclick=function(){
                        width += 10;
                        //...
                        //...
                    }
                    //...
                    //...
                }
            }

I have an html file I've built with embedded Javascript (using ActiveX) that successfully reads a file on my local hard drive when I run the html file through my web browser (IE) locally. However, when I copy the html page up to a webserver and access it through the internet, it doesn't appear to be reading the local file. I'm assuming this can't be done because of security reasons? Am I correct in that? Is there any way using Javascript/ActiveX that you can get a webpage on the internet to access a file on the visitor's local drive? (other than cookies)

All --

I have a JavaScript config file called gameSetting.js which contains a bunch of variables which configures a particular game.

I also have a shared JavaScript library which uses the variables in gameSetting.js, which I include like so:

<script type="text/javascript" src="gameSetting.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="gameLibrary.js" ></script>

In gameSetting.js I have:

$(document).ready(function()
{
// call some functions / classes in gameLibrary.js
}

in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, this works fine. However, in IE, when it's parsing gameSetting.js, it complains that the functions that live in gameLibrary.js aren't defined. When it gets to parsing gameLibrary.js, the variables in gameSetting.js are reported as not being defined.

I've tried dynamically bootstrapping the gameLibrary file using this function in document.ready for dynamic load...

$.getScript("gameLibrary.js");

However, the same problem still happens in IE, where when it parses the files individually it's not taking into context the file/variables that came before, so it's not an out of load order problem.

My options a

1) collapsing all the functions in gameLibrary.js and variables in gameSetting.js into one file. However, this is not practical because this is dealing with literally hundreds of games, and having a gameLibrary.js in ONE location for ONE update is what makes most logical sense.

2) figure out a way to get this to work where variables in file1 are accessible to file2 in IE (as it seems they are in other browsers).

jQuery seems to be able to have multiple plugins that all refer to the based jQuery-1.3.2.js, so I know there is a way to get this to work.

Help appreciated.

Nero

I can get this code to take two separate sections of a file which are not beside each other and write them into another file. It always comes up as a single full line of the code instead of the sections I want. The code includes the student number first name last name and three results of assignments. I want the code to write the student number and three results of all the students into a file and then work out the average of the student results. Can you help?

Code:

 try{                    
               while (in.hasNextLine())
               {
                  String line = in.nextLine();
                  out.println( line);
                  int i=0;
                  if(!Character.isDigit(line.charAt(i)))  { i++; }
                  studentStringNumber = line.substring(0, i);
                  String stringResult = line.substring(i);
                              	
                  studentStringNumber = studentStringNumber.trim();
                  stringResults = stringResults.trim();
                  double stringResultsValue = Double.parseDouble(stringResults.trim());
                  stringResults = in.nextLine();
                              	
                                 
                  studentStringNumber = in.nextLine();
                  studentNumber = Integer.parseInt(studentStringNumber);
                  if(in.hasNextInt())
                  {
                     int value = in.nextInt();
                  }
               						 					   
                  results = Double.parseDouble(stringResults); 
                  if(in.hasNextDouble())
                  {
                     double value = in.nextDouble();
                  } 
               						               	
                            	
                  Scanner lineScanner = new Scanner(line);
                  studentStringNumber = lineScanner.next();
                  while(!lineScanner.hasNextDouble())
                  {
                     studentStringNumber = studentStringNumber+ " " +lineScanner.next();
                  }
                  stringResultsValue = lineScanner.nextDouble();     
               }
            }

Does anyone know how to accomplish this? I got the html file to show but none of the text in the file will show.

Hi i am using javascript for the first time and i have a problem .I have 2 files html and javascript file in seperate but i donot know how to make them work .the code is down below .Thanks in advance for help.


HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<meta name="description" content="Instagram API - usage" />
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<input id="lat_input" type="number" value="60.221374"/>
<input id="lng_input" type="number" value="24.805391"/>
<button id="search_location">Search</button><br/>
<button id="get_popular">Get popular</button>
<div id="images"></div>
</body>
</html>



Javascript file


// API DOCUMENTATION:
// Instagram Developer Documentation

var clientId = 'e7538f47e197479d8d32a63ae3ae4cd2';

$('#search_location').click(function () {
getMediaByLocation($('#lat_input').val(), $('#lng_input').val());
});

$('#get_popular').click(function () {
getPopularImages();
});

function getMediaByLocation(lat, lng) {
var o = {
lat: lat,
lng: lng,
client_id: clientId
};

$.getJSON('https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/search?callback=?', o, function (response) {
processImages(response.data);
});
}

function getPopularImages() {
var o = {
client_id: clientId
};

$.getJSON('https://api.instagram.com/v1/media/popular?callback=?', o, function (response) {
processImages(response.data);
});
}


function processImages(array) {
$('#images').empty();
$.each(array, function (index, element) {
var fs = $('<fieldset>').appendTo('#images');

$('<img>').attr('src', element.images.low_resolution.url).appendTo(fs);

if (element.caption) {
$('<pre>').text(element.caption.text).appendTo(fs);
}

$.each(element.comments.data, function (index, comment) {
$('<pre>').text('Comment from ' + comment.from.full_name + ': ' + comment.text).appendTo(fs);
});

});
}

Hi,

I have the following code snippet:
test.html
======
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var testVariable = "test";
</script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="test.js">
</script>

test.js
=====
var testVariable = window.top.testVariable;

In firefox, I'm able to access testvariable defined within test.html in test.js.

But in chrome, test.js couldnot get the window.top.testVariable field defined in test.html.

Can any one please let me know how i can make it work in chrome?. Am i missing something here?.

Hello,

I have a multi-dimensional object, derived from JSON returned by the Foursquare API. The object has the following structure (as printed using a print_r type method from http://www.openjs.com/scripts/others...hp_print_r.php

PHP Code:
    '0' 
        'id' => "27110xxx"
        'created' => "Sun, 11 Apr 10 15:09:45 +0000"
        'timezone' => "America/New_York"
        'user' ...
            'id' => "48xxx"
            'firstname' => "Barry"
            'lastname' => "xxx"
            'photo' => "http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/userpix_thumbs/4abb5bxxxxxx.jpg"
            'gender' => "male"
        'display' => "xxxx. @ [off the grid]"
    '1' ...
        'id' => "2538xxxx"
        'created' => "Wed, 07 Apr 10 13:24:41 +0000"
        'timezone' => "Europe/London" 


Could anyone tell me the best way to access its elements? I have this so far which gets the required values, but I want to preserve the order ie. get the data from the first element in the object first, then move to the next - each element represents a user so I want to keep their data separate.

PHP Code:
/* This is a custom function which has the same function as print_r */
    function dump(arr,level) {
        
        var firstName, lastname, geolat, geolong, photo;
        
        var dumped_text = "";
        if(!level) level = 0;
        
        //The padding given at the beginning of the line.
        var level_padding = " ";
        for(var j = 0; j < level + 1; j++) level_padding += "    ";
        
        if(typeof(arr) == 'object') { //Array/Hashes/Objects 
            for(var item in arr) {
                var value = arr[item];
                
                if(typeof(value) == 'object') { //If it is an array,
                    dumped_text += level_padding + "'" + item + "'\n";
                    dumped_text += dump(value,level + 1);
                } else {
                    dumped_text += level_padding + "'" + item + "' => \"" + value + "\"\n";
                }
                
                if (item == 'firstname')   {
                    firstname = value;
                    document.write("First name: " + firstname + "<br />");
                    document.write(item);
                }
                
                if (item == 'lastname')   {
                    lastname = value;
                    document.write("Last name: " + lastname + "<br />");
                    document.write(item);
                }
                
                if (item == 'geolat') {
                    geolat = value;
                    document.write("Latitude: " + geolat + "<br />");
                    document.write(item);
                }
                
                if (item == 'geolong')  {
                    geolong = value;
                    document.write("Longitude: " + geolong + "<br />");
                    document.write(item);
                }
            }
        } else { //Stings/Chars/Numbers etc.
            dumped_text = "===>"+arr+"<===("+typeof(arr)+")";
        }
        return dumped_text;
    }
    
    var myObj = <?php echo json_encode($checkin); ?>;
    
    alert(dump(myObj));

Sorry for the bloated code, I normally work in Java and PHP so although I understand the theory, I haven't worked with objects much in JavaScript before. Any help would be much appreciated!

I have developped a script in order to resize the height of a div on a web page in order to display it at least up to the size of the window. Here is the code:

function resize(){
var frame = document.getElementById("content");
var padding_top = parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(frame,null).getPropertyValue("padding-top"));
var padding_bottom = parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(frame,null).getPropertyValue("padding-bottom"));
var padding = padding_top + padding_bottom;
var bodyheight = document.body.scrollHeight;
var windowheight = window.innerHeight;
if (bodyheight < windowheight){
frame.style.height = windowheight - padding + "px";
}
}

It works well, but I was wondering why I am not able to get the padding-top and -bottom using these two instructions:

var padding_top = frame.style.paddingTop;
var padding_bottom = frame.style.paddingBottom;

The script runs but Firebug shows empty strings for both values. How come? Is there a bug in Firefox?

Thanks inadvance for your time and help.

Hey

is it possible to access javascript variables in an iframe src page from the parent page, or vice versa. How do you do this? What about the DOM?

thanks

Hello,

I am working on a project using HTML and javascript to allow the user to choose a vehicle from a drop down menu, then load a new page showing some information about this vehicle. The information is stored in an Excel file. I posted regarding this issue a while back and got an excellent response from Old Pedant (thanks again!) about using ActiveX - which has thus far worked perfectly. My initial condition was that I would only be using IE7+. However, my next idea was to be able to use it on an IPad (which I unfortunately do not own yet, making any kind of testing difficult) which I am fairly certain ActiveX won't work on. So, I was looking for any other method which would be similar.

Important note: this will not use the internet at all, all of these files will be available locally. There is a lot of material on running queries to servers, but I didn't think that would really apply here. It seems pretty clear that JS has difficulty accessing files client side (which I understand why completely), but I was hoping to find something that worked for the gray zone I'm currently working in since I'm not using servers at all.

I know that this is not really the intended use of HTML/JS, but I was hoping that by writing it as an HTML file, it'd be accessible to anyone with a browser. Some of my target computers have odd limitations (such as not being to download .exe files).

The code I based my original off of is shown below:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

var conn = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Open ( 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\full\path\to\MyExcel.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1";)';

var sql = "SELECT * FROM [nameOfSheet$]";
var rs = conn.execute( sql )
while ( ! rs.eof ) 
{
    // just an example of dumping everything from the sheet out to the browser:
    for ( var f = 0; f < rs.fields.count; ++f )
    {
        document.write( rs.fields(f).value + "," );
    }
    document.write("<br>\n");
    rs.moveNext();
}

rs.close();
conn.close();
</script><script type="text/javascript">

var conn = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Open ( 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\full\path\to\MyExcel.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1";)';

var sql = "SELECT * FROM [nameOfSheet$]";
var rs = conn.execute( sql )
while ( ! rs.eof ) 
{
    // just an example of dumping everything from the sheet out to the browser:
    for ( var f = 0; f < rs.fields.count; ++f )
    {
        document.write( rs.fields(f).value + "," );
    }
    document.write("<br>\n");
    rs.moveNext();
}

rs.close();
conn.close();
</script>

Thank you,
klarosa

What i have is a system where the amount of HTML lines is generated by php when the page loads. Each time has exactly the same set up except there names have an int added to them in accending order.

What i need is for them to pass a variable to the javascript function telling them what number they are, and the javascript then using this to access it to read and change information.

Is the line below correct for this task?

Code:

document.Purchase.(Tax+i).selectedIndex;

I'm trying to accessing the Parent window fom a sub window previously opened using window.open

I'm using firebug to t yand debug, and it shows that this DOM entry exists..
window.opener.location.href
But trying to access it gives "window opener is null" error



I've tried all these, and get the various errors tagged on the end...

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
//alert(opener.location); // =  opener is null
//alert(opener.location.href); // =  opener is null
//alert(parent.location); // = uncaught exeption - could not convert to javascript argument arg 0
//alert(parent.location.href); // = Permission denied to get property Location.href
//alert(parent.opener.location); // = uncaught exeption - could not convert to javascript argument arg 0
//alert(parent.opener.location.href); // = Permission denied to get property Location.href
//alert(parent.window.opener.location.href); // = Permission denied to get property Location.href
//alert(parent.window.opener.location.href); // = Permission denied to get property Location.href
//alert(window.opener.location); // = window opener is null
//alert(window.opener.location.href); // = window opener is null
//alert(window.parent.location); // = uncaught exeption - could not convert to javascript argument arg 0
</script>

driving me crazy! Anyone have a solution?

i have this code:
PHP Code:
<?php
foreach ($freechat_list as $r)
{
     $uniqueCode = substr($r,0,12);
     $id = substr($r,13);
     $blocked_record = RcBlockListTablePeer::isBlocked($id,$requestor_id);
     ?>                                 
     <a href="#" id="profilelink" name="profilelink"  onClick="return viewornot(<?php echo $id."/".$blocked_record; ?>)"><?php echo $uniqueCode; ?></a>
}

then i have my JS:
[CODE]
thank you all but i am totally confused now...here is my full code:
<?php
foreach ($freechat_list as $r)
{
$uniqueCode = substr($r,0,12);
$id = substr($r,13);
$blocked_record = RcBlockListTablePeer::isBlocked($id,$requestor_id);
?>
<a href="#" id="profilelink" name="profilelink" onClick="return viewornot(<?php echo $id."/".$blocked_record; ?>)"><?php echo $uniqueCode; ?></a>
}
my JS:
Code:

    function viewornot(id)
    {
       alert(id);
    }

alert(id) only gives me the id but in my href i concatenated it with blocked_record: viewornot(<?php echo $id."/".$blocked_record; ?>)

please help?

Hello, I have a simple form with simple validation. I am just playing around a bit with forms and don't really have concrete knowledge.

What I have done is created a form. Asking for first name, last name, age and email. When the user clicks the submit button I want 2 functions to run, the first checking the input is correct and also making sure all fields have a value.

Once everything is checked and is O.K I want to go into another function which sends all this information to an array one by one. I am having difficulty accessing each individual input tag. I could achieve what I want to do, but it will take double the lines of code because each input has a different 'name'. So, what I am trying to do is access the input tags the same as you would do an array. Here is my code:

HTML:
Code:

<form name="regForm" id="form">
	 <fieldset>
		 <legend>Real Heroes - Registration Form</legend>
	
	 <p>First Name:<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="20" name="txtFirstName" /></p>
	 <p>Last Name:<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="20" name="txtLastName" /></p>
	 <p>Age:<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="3" name="txtAge" /></p>
	 <p>Email Address:<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="50" name="email" /></p>

	 <p><input type="button" value="Submit Registration" name="butChkForm" onclick="callFuncs_onclick()" />
		<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="resetForm" /></p>
</fieldset>
</form>

JavaScript:
Code:

//CALLING THE FORM SCRIPTS//
function callFuncs_onclick()
{
	 chkForm_onclick();
	 creatingDatabase_onclick();
}


//**************FORM VALIDATION***************//

function chkForm_onclick()
{
	 var theForm = document.regForm;
	 if (theForm.txtFirstName.value == "" || theForm.txtLastName.value == "" || theForm.txtAge.value == "" 
		 || theForm.email.value == "")
	 {
		 alert("Please complete all of the form.");
		 if (theForm.txtFirstName.value == "")
		 {
			 theForm.txtFirstName.focus();
		 }
		 if (theForm.txtLastName.value == "")
		 {
			 theForm.txtLastName.focus();
		 }
		 if (theForm.txtAge.value == "")
		 {
			 theForm.txtAge.focus();
		 }
		 if (theForm.email.value == "")
		 {
			 theForm.email.focus();
		 }
	 }
	 else if (isNaN(theForm.txtAge.value))
	 {
		 alert("That is not valid input for this field. Please re-enter your age.");
		 theForm.txtAge.focus();
	 }
	 
	 else
	 {
	 alert("Thank you for completing the form, " + theForm.txtFirstName.value);
	 }
}

function creatingDatabase_onclick()
{
	 var form = document.regForm;
	 var index = form.input[0].value;
	 alert(index);
}

I'm not quite sure where I am going wrong. Please note that these functions really labour the point, I know I have way too many lines of code but I am still very amateur with JS.

Thank you for any help/information.

Kind Regards,

LC.