I'm not sure it's possible, I've been reading some examples of Flash LocalConnection feature but in the end it's only possible if the 2 swf files are loaded on the same client computer.
The idea is to control a remote swf by pressing buttons on a local swf. Let's say I have a computer with a swf loaded on a browser and from across the web I press a button on another swf also loaded on a browser, an that pressing of the button makes an action on the first swf.
Thanks
Miguel Barata
It is possible, but you need a peer-to-peer server like Adobe Cirrus to establish a connection.
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I have an app that takes a screenshot of web pages and creates a resized image. The app is basically loading a web page that calls an ActiveX to load a web page using IE resources and take the screenshot. This app has been running on a Windows Server 2003 without any problems for a couple of years.
But now that I have upgraded the server to Windows Server 2008, the screenshot action is timing out. From tests I can see that it successfully takes a screenshot of any web page hosted on the Internet... except pages hosted on the same server.
Whenever it tries to capture a page loaded on a site hosted on the same server as the app, it times out. ESC is disabled and it seems that all other permissions are ok, ie: it works for remote pages but for home pages.
Any ideas as to what can be causing this and how to fix it?
After further testing I have narrowed down the reason for failure being due to the page being popluated from a MS-SQL database record on the same server as the one taking the screenshot. The same page generated on a remote server captures ok. I have further established that the error is not peculiar to the ACASystems DLL because it also affects another DLL for creating MHT files from web pages. This DLL (Chilkat.MHT) also uses IE to load and assemble the web page on the fly and then saves it as a.mht file.
So the problem is more related to IE assembling web pages from MS-SQL while running ActiveX. But to resolve this enigma?
Maybe a routing issue (DNS/hostfile..) ? Does the page loads on local session with IE ?
There is no solution for this without editing the ActiveX code. Since the DLLs in question are third party resources, such editing is not possible.
After testing 3 different ActiveX that load a web page that either take a screenshot or save as .mht, it was found that they all failed when loading a page that was querying SQL on the same server. After contacting the 3 DLL developers we were informed by all of them that their ActiveX has no impact on MS-SQL.
Unfortunately, our tests tell us otherwise. At this stage we are left guessing however this article about in-process vs out-process execution may be related.
The workaround for us to solve this problem was to assemble the page to be captured from request queries passed to the page rather than populate from SQL queries. This alternate works perfectly.
I want to open a web page at default browser at a specific position and also open another webpages at that one, not new task of that browser. maybe user opens new task of that browser but by clicking a button in my delphi program the selected web page have to open at first one. is that possible? my company wants me to program such thing BUT I do not know how to do. I really appricate any help. thanks.
There are instructions here to open the default browser, but you may even be able to "run" a url, as you can from the Windows run command. You then need to retain the handle of that process so that you can do something with it.
To open a web page at a particular point you would ideally use a named anchor in the page, ie, the bit after a hash: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_a_name If you don't have control of the page and there are no named anchors you could try scrolling: How to scroll the scrollbar in external application via WinAPI?
Using the JQTouch library, usely links like the following ... should open the new page in the SAME window. That works fine when I go to the site using Safari BUT when I launch the site from the home saved icon, it opens a fullscreen site and on the first link it opens a NEW Safari window. How can I make it stay in the same original fullscreen window?
You have to set the target to _webapp. E.g:
<li class="arrow">Some Page</li>
and then it will load on the same page.
You need to look into manifest files.
The manifest file declares what files (html, javascript, css, jpgs etc.) that the iPhone should cache in order to make a webapp work offline. A part of the manifest file is used to declare which URLs are OK to use when in full screen (webapp) mode.
Specifically look at NETWORK in manifest files.
Example:
NETWORK:
*
This should allow access to any URL you like, and stay in webapp mode.
Alternatively use target="_self" - I haven't seen target="_webapp" anywhere.
/Mogens
One solution I found here is to change the way you write your links for a mobile app. Rather than a href='link.url' you'd write a href="javascript.window.location.href='link.url'"
Dislaimer: I haven't personally tried this yet, so I can't guarantee it will work. But logically, it does make sense.
Using target="_webapp" works only if you remove the rel="external", you cannot have both.
Does anybody use bare .SWF files as webpages?
I know it's possible; it seems to work fine for me.
Why would I embed a SWF inside an HTML page if it's just going to be full screen (I mean the size of the browser's normal viewable page area, not COMPLETELY fullscreen)?
Is there a lack of browser support?
Or is this functionality determined by the browser's Flash plugin?
If you embed it in html page and the client doesn't have the flash plugin, most browsers show a missing plugin message. If u directly host the swf, a plugin-less browser might consider it as a download link and try to download the swf into the client machine instead of showing the missing plugin message.
My opinion is that if the browser has the Flash plugin it will render it, and it's up to you to implement how the swf behaves when you scale/resize the browser window/etc.
You can embed a swf in an HTML page and have it full browser screen offcourse, and you could interact with the browser a bit better ( some nice javascript/flash action going on ), not mention it would be more SEO/standards friendly.
I would recommend using SWFObject. Have a look at the fullpage demo.
It seems like drag and drop upload widgets disappeared from the face of Web 2.0. The last one of these I remember using was an activex widget, and inability of using it in anything other than IE doomed it. Have you used or seen one of these recently?
The Dojo Toolkit JavaScript library supports some drag & drop functionality that I've seen work in IE6+ and FF2+. The nice thing about Dojo and other JS libraries is that they abstract away all of the browser detection stuff.
I'm sure other JS libraries support this functionality.
FTP Drop for Yahoo Widgets allows you to drag files over the widget and the file will be sent to the defined ftp server.
You can upload to FTP in browser with an applet such as JFileUpload.
See: http://www.jfileupload.com/products/jfileupload/index.html
[Disclosure: This is my site]
It supports regular FTP, FTPS (explicit and implicit) and SFTP (FTP + SSH). It can resume broken transfer too.
Applets can be moved outside browser since JRE 1.6.0_10.
Our current project makes heavy use of drag+drop, using GWT and gwt-dnd you can do some very cool stuff. Standards based, and works in IE6, Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc..
The issue of how to transmit a file is a separate one I believe.
As for FTP support, I see that as being mostly replaced with HTTP File Upload support.
In the case you need more flexibility (progress bar, multiple file selection), then you can make use of flash to do this. You can use Javascript to interact with an invisible flash app which performs the file transfer. YUI's file upload control does this. You can see an example on Flickr's enhanced upload page.
We've built a custom version designed for use with GWT apps. Same concept.