Re: launch app from browser
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Re: launch app from browser
David, trap reloadStack message: on reloadStack end reloadStack this will prevent two main stacks with the same name from being open simultaneously. Best wishes Viktoras David wrote: The question I have is if you want to get the html link to open a rev document - either by your application or the IDE - it seems on tests on OSX to open multiple instances of the application and not let the application open multiple stacks. I know this can be got around using text files to implement locks - and I remember some issue and I think IDE or engine enhancements to work with these issues - but can't find them :) How do you get an html link to a .rev file not to open multiple instances of the app? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
The question I have is if you want to get the html link to open a rev document - either by your application or the IDE - it seems on tests on OSX to open multiple instances of the application and not let the application open multiple stacks. I know this can be got around using text files to implement locks - and I remember some issue and I think IDE or engine enhancements to work with these issues - but can't find them :) How do you get an html link to a .rev file not to open multiple instances of the app? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
The only way to get this working would be using HTA. Note, it works on MS windows (98 and up) only. It is an html file that starts like this: Put your title here Click here to launch the myapp.exe Save this file as test.hta. Thats it. HTA's have same restrictions as any other applications on windows. Now you can use javascript (jscript), vbscript, activex components and whatever you need... If there are frames in the hta application then each frame must be allowed to get access to system by setting it to "application" and "trusted" like application="yes" trusted="yes" i.e.like: application="yes" trusted="yes" width="100%" height="97%" marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 scrolling="auto"> Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
re: launch app from browser
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:52:38 +0300, Lars Brehmer wrote: > I just mean "launch" in the simplest sense of the word - launch > an app that resides on your hard drive. Lars, this is a huge security risk, and therefore is normally not allowed unless you are running on an intranet with special permissions set forth, etc. The reason is that some malicious person could create a link on a public web page that ran a shell command that deleted a bunch of files on your disk, or worse. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
Lars Brehmer wrote: All I want to know is whether or not you can have a hyperlink or button in an html document (that resides on your hard drive) and is open in your browser and that launches another application which also resides on your hard drive, exactly the way clicking on a mailto link in your browser opens your mail app or clicking on a link to a H.264 video file launches Quicktime Player. Or just like clicking on a web link in a rev document launches your browser and internet connection or using "launch" in a rev script launches any app you want it to launch. In this case the app I want to lauch is a simple standalone created in Rev. Cheers, Lars Lars, The simple answer is that *if* it can be done, it will not be straightforward. The more detailed answer is... Launching an application directly from html or script in a web page without user confirmation is rightly considered a security risk, so although you can easily make an html hyperlink like: click to launch myapp In your html. What results from that will depend on the browser in use and perhaps the user's security preferences. Some browsers (e.g. IE6) may show a dialog offering [Run] [Save to disk] [cancel], others such as Firefox may not offer the [Run] option at all, but only [Save to disk], which is no use to you. As others have suggested, you might try launching a document that the user's web browser already has an association for. That means, an internal web-browser preference will have been set by the user associating that document type with your app. So e.g. if the browser had been told that files ending .rev should be opened using myapp.exe, then the hyperlink run myapp would launch myapp.exe to handle the document stack.rev. This basically what is happening with quicktime, email clients, acrobat and so-on, the browser has been pre-configured to use specific software to handle those media types and requests. An all-browser, all platform solution for this will take some work, here are some links I got from googling "launch exe from web page", relevant for windows only, and mostly IE oriented, all are a rather technical or cost money. http://www.particlesoftware.com/en/index.html http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/q/%2Flaunchinie.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp Mac I don't know. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
Hi Lars, You want to embed some AppleScript inside a web site to be run from Safari, which will launch your application. I know it can be done, but I don't have the recipe at hand at the moment. I hope someone else can help you with that. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http;//www.salery.com Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 12-jul-2007, om 19:52 heeft Lars Brehmer het volgende geschreven: Thanks for replies to my original question, but I guess either what I had in mind and thought would be simple either isn't possible at all, or I just didn't ask the question in a way that any normal person could understand what I was trying to say. Sorry about that. When I say "launch an app from a browser" I do not mean launch or download an app on a server and I don't mean anything involving file down or uploading or anything of the sort. I don't mean anything involving any connection to the web or another server or another machine at all. I just mean "launch" in the simplest sense of the word - launch an app that resides on your hard drive. For example on a Mac in Mac Help you are looking at the help file for connecting to the internet. On that page in the help file there are links"open network diagnostics" and "open network preferences," which when clicked launch tose apps. These links do exactly what single clicking on a dock icon does or douple clicking on an app icon in the finder, or for that matter single clicking on an app icon in the Windows start menu or double clicking on an app shortcut on the desktop or on an app icon in the programs directory. All I want to know is whether or not you can have a hyperlink or button in an html document (that resides on your hard drive) and is open in your browser and that launches another application which also resides on your hard drive, exactly the way clicking on a mailto link in your browser opens your mail app or clicking on a link to a H.264 video file launches Quicktime Player. Or just like clicking on a web link in a rev document launches your browser and internet connection or using "launch" in a rev script launches any app you want it to launch. In this case the app I want to lauch is a simple standalone created in Rev. Cheers, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
Lars- > could understand what I was trying to say. Sorry about that. When I say > "launch an app from a browser" I do not mean launch or download an app on > a server and I don't mean anything involving file down or uploading or > anything of the sort. I don't mean anything involving any connection to > the web or another server or another machine at all. I just mean > "launch" in the simplest sense of the word - launch an app that resides > on your hard drive. If you read my reply, that's exactly what I gave you. The example launches a stack document that resides on the root directory of the hard drive. I'm afraid you or someone else will have to learn some html to get what you want accomplished, and even then I'm not convinced you'll be able to launch an executable application due to security restrictions of various operating systems. -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
re: launch app from browser
Thanks for replies to my original question, but I guess either what I had in mind and thought would be simple either isn't possible at all, or I just didn't ask the question in a way that any normal person could understand what I was trying to say. Sorry about that. When I say "launch an app from a browser" I do not mean launch or download an app on a server and I don't mean anything involving file down or uploading or anything of the sort. I don't mean anything involving any connection to the web or another server or another machine at all. I just mean "launch" in the simplest sense of the word - launch an app that resides on your hard drive. For example on a Mac in Mac Help you are looking at the help file for connecting to the internet. On that page in the help file there are links"open network diagnostics" and "open network preferences," which when clicked launch tose apps. These links do exactly what single clicking on a dock icon does or douple clicking on an app icon in the finder, or for that matter single clicking on an app icon in the Windows start menu or double clicking on an app shortcut on the desktop or on an app icon in the programs directory. All I want to know is whether or not you can have a hyperlink or button in an html document (that resides on your hard drive) and is open in your browser and that launches another application which also resides on your hard drive, exactly the way clicking on a mailto link in your browser opens your mail app or clicking on a link to a H.264 video file launches Quicktime Player. Or just like clicking on a web link in a rev document launches your browser and internet connection or using "launch" in a rev script launches any app you want it to launch. In this case the app I want to lauch is a simple standalone created in Rev. Cheers, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
Lars- If the publisher already has existing products like this, then they've probably already worked out the cross-browser and cross-platforms issues, which can be quite sticky. (You'll need to look at the navigator object model properties) What you're no doubt looking for is the tag, which allows for external content from an html page. Here's a whole (minimal) web page that launches a rev stack on a Windows system (as long as the associated application has been installed and registered to handle .rev file extensions): your browser doesn't handle iframes, eh? Note that actual executable applications can't be launched this way, for the obvious security reasons. -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
I have done this before - but it was a long long time ago - so maybe someone else can help you better these are the bits of the puzzle I know: 1. just link to a file as if it were an html page - opn.rev 2. Hope and pray that your ISP has their mim-types set to serve this file correcltly - this is to do with mime-types and application/octet-stream I think is the default and should be fine 3. The user after clicking on the link will then be presented with a dialog to save or open with an application... the user should select the rev application you want to associate with the file extension (presumably its a ".rev" stack"). How this works is browser dependent. 4. Further links to files with the same ".rev" file extension will be associated by the browser with the application and opened by the application. These are the potential pitfalls: 1. Application is opened multiple times, rather than "documents" being opened by the same application - there are ways round this ask on the list or search the archive 2. It's too complicated for the end user to set up. It should be possible to get you Rev app to automatically set the browser up to do this for the user - but this requires a lot of work to get right for all those different browsers and platforms. Anyway its not too hard. Not sure what the problems are for obscure browsers - but at a minimum they should all be able to download the file. 3. The mime-types on you server are not set up properly and you get text in the browser instead of the option to download - contact you hosting provider and talk to them sweetly. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
re: launch app from browser
Thanks for the quick reply Stephen! however; Quick, easy question; I need to launch a standalone from within a web browser, Why? The "why" is easy. A publisher making a multi-media language course is interested in integrating a vocabulary trainer of mine into their project. Their project is not a web app, but it is done in html and runs locally on the user's machine in their web browser. My app is a standalone and wouldn't run in the browser, of course, but it makes sense to me to be able to click a button or link in the language course html document that launches it. I guess this is just to allow the user to lauch my trainer without navigating to it in the start menu or finder. Again, I know absolutely no html or java or the like, but I somehow assume there is a way to do this, just like clicking an e-mail address on a web page launches your mail app, or clicking on a link to an h.264 video on a web site launches Quicktime Player locally, or clicking a download link on the Veoh site launches Veoh player. And in these three cases a file path is not necessary, although if a file path IS necessary, that wouldn't be a problem, since their installer would also install my app, so the file path is known. I do use Dreamweaver/Fireworks and have searched through their help files for this and found no hint. And since opening an app via start menu - dock - finder etc. is as basic as it gets, I guess this is not a big deal. It is, however, a nice little convenience for the user, so I thought I'd try to see whether it is indeed possible. Any advice? Cheers, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: launch app from browser
Quick, easy question; I need to launch a standalone from within a web browser, Why? but I know absolutely zero html etc. well it's simple... play around with the OS cross-platform NVU and switch back and forth between compose and HTML. you'll learn quickly and can hack it right there. It's a lot easier to use a GUI. It also uploads to web servers. http://www.nvu.com/download.php here's a starter, but an absolute or relative location on the (I assume) local drive has to be specified. THIS IS A LINK PAGE, dude Download file MYBIGFILE.txt watch for line wraps in email. this will not work on a server, by the way. This would be an html file either installed on a user's hard drive or being read from a CD-rom with Firefox, Explorer, Safari, etc. The standalone is already installed on the hard drive. In rev the button script is simply; on mouseUp if the platform is "macOS" then launch "/applications/eestikeeluus.app" else launch "C:\Program Files\eestiKeel\eestiKeel.exe" end if end mouseUp How do I script a button in this html file to do the same thing? Please remember, I know no html. Cheers, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
launch app from browser
Quick, easy question; I need to launch a standalone from within a web browser, but I know absolutely zero html etc. This would be an html file either installed on a user's hard drive or being read from a CD-rom with Firefox, Explorer, Safari, etc. The standalone is already installed on the hard drive. In rev the button script is simply; on mouseUp if the platform is "macOS" then launch "/applications/eestikeeluus.app" else launch "C:\Program Files\eestiKeel\eestiKeel.exe" end if end mouseUp How do I script a button in this html file to do the same thing? Please remember, I know no html. Cheers, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
