how to get data from widget browser

Wed May 25 15:30:37 EDT 2016

Refering to your last post (browser widget and threading): your solution doesn’t work in the browser widget, indeed, although ‘do “anyFunction” in widget “myBrowser” works perfectly, as long as anyFunction is not meant to return anything).

> Le 25 mai 2016 à 19:20, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Actually not that complicated (I think).  My javascript understanding is
> pretty limited but..
> 
> As long as you have a defined handler in livecode, you can do interesting
> things.  If there is a function in your page that returns dataA and another
> that returns dataB, you would just have to build up your script wrapped in
> a liveCode.whateverHandler() call.
> Something like
> do "liveCode.whateverHandler(dataAFunction(),dataBFunction())" Then use
> paramcount() in livecode to do your processing.  Not that much different
> from the old way (call script) except you use the registered handler to
> wrap the function (or functions) being called. whateverHandler could be
> seen as a callback, so when a call is made to the widget, include some type
> of identifying param, and have it returned along with your data if
> necessary.
> 
> Some very interesting possibilities, like a callback loop.  Make a request,
> the widget responds firing an event, which makes a request.. One could make
> a browser widget clock this way, or move things around in the widget or..
> 
> I could lose so much time on this!
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Jacques Hausser <Jacques.Hausser at unil.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> mmm… yes, I’ll try something in that direction (except that in the real
>> case it will be a bit more complicated). A pity this beautiful widget has
>> nothing more straightforward to pick data from webpages (but perhaps it
>> has, well hidden).
>> Thank you anyway, Mike !
>> 
>> Jacques
>> 
>>> Le 25 mai 2016 à 16:03, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Just experimented with things and found a way that works.  There is
>>> probably a more direct way using do "script" in browser directly, but I
>>> haven't figured that out yet.  In the interim..
>>> 
>>> I put this into the htmltext of a widget
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <html>
>>> <body>
>>> Hi!
>>> <script>
>>> function testit () {
>>> liveCode.myJSHandler("myMessage",12345);
>>> }
>>> </script>
>>> </body></html>
>>> 
>>> It defines a function testit, that then defines an inline function using
>>> the liveCode object, handler named myJSHandler
>>> 
>>> In my livecode script I have this
>>> 
>>> 
>>> command setHandlers
>>>  set the javascriptHandlers of widget 1 to "myJSHandler" -- tells the
>>> widget that when the livecode.myJSHandler() function is able to execute
>> the
>>> myJSHandler handler in lc
>>> end setHandlers
>>> 
>>> command myJSHandler pMessage,pVar
>>>  put pMessage & cr & pVar -- A simple example with returned data
>>> end myJSHandler
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To see it in action, I executed in the message box..
>>> do "testit()" in widget 1 -- my only widget
>>> The function ran, called the livecode handler myJSHandler passing the 2
>>> values in, and the livecode handler put them into the message box as
>>> expected.
>>> 
>>> It should be possible to write a generic handler in lc to receive data,
>>> then add it to the javascripthandlerlist for that widget.  You shouldn't
>>> even have to pre-define your javascript as part of your htmltext, you
>>> should be able to execute on the fly.
>>> 
>>> do "liveCode.myJSHandler('this is a message',8*8)"in widget 1
>>> 
>>> Which will call the livecode myJSHandler  from javascript in the widget
>>> after evaluating the 8*8
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Jacques Hausser <
>> Jacques.Hausser at unil.ch>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Sorry to come back with this question. I have a widget browser defined
>> by
>>>> a html file. It works fine. But I’m trying to get the result returned by
>>>> some functions in the html, that is, to find an equivalent of the
>>>> revBrowserCallScript function, which was working well with the pre-8
>>>> versions of my stack. I tried “do ‘script’ in widget” with several
>>>> ‘scripts’, without success, I cannot find where the returned value is
>>>> hidden (I must confess I’m a featherless sparrow rather than an eagle in
>>>> javascript).
>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>> 
>>>> Jacques
>>>> 
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