how to get data from widget browser

Wed May 25 15:43:14 EDT 2016

Hmm.  I'll have to do some experimenting.  (as far as the threading goes)
 if I can feed positional and vector data to a browser widget (or 2 or 3)
that has a javascript library for flocking/seeking/avoidance/ behaviors
(like boids) I a) won't have to convert a library I don't truly understand
to livecode, and b) might be able to do some sneaky threading to make
things work faster.  And the data can be returned using the
liveCode.whateverfunction() method to transfer the results back to lc.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread, have just been trying to figure
out how to do something and this may help.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Jacques Hausser <Jacques.Hausser at unil.ch>
wrote:

> 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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