wjdashwood
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saveas execCommand with own interface
I would like to use execCommand('saveas') but not have the dialog box pop up.
I know by putting execCommand(SaveAs, false, tempcontent.php); perhaps would work, but it doesn't seem to in my code. I figure the format of the filename can't be right or something.
Can anyone give me a clue as to what the filename should be. I do want it to be exactly the same everytime this command is used, but I don't really care what it is called, as long as I know.
Thanks,
H
I know by putting execCommand(SaveAs, false, tempcontent.php); perhaps would work, but it doesn't seem to in my code. I figure the format of the filename can't be right or something.
Can anyone give me a clue as to what the filename should be. I do want it to be exactly the same everytime this command is used, but I don't really care what it is called, as long as I know.
Thanks,
H
ASKER
I don't want to save it to the user's hard disk. I want to save it to a directory hosted at the location of the website.
What I need is a way of getting all of the data in the editable area and saving it to a file or to a variable. It doesn't have to be the saveas command, I just thought that would be a handy way of getting all of the data in the editable area, I need the html code to be saved somehow.
Do you have any other suggestions on how I can do it. I don't want the user to be prompted though. They will press the save button and this will start the process. If I wanted a prompt I would create my own to fit with the design of the page.
Thanks,
H
What I need is a way of getting all of the data in the editable area and saving it to a file or to a variable. It doesn't have to be the saveas command, I just thought that would be a handy way of getting all of the data in the editable area, I need the html code to be saved somehow.
Do you have any other suggestions on how I can do it. I don't want the user to be prompted though. They will press the save button and this will start the process. If I wanted a prompt I would create my own to fit with the design of the page.
Thanks,
H
If you want to allow the user to upload a file to your server, that is an entriely different issue!
Just use
<FORM method=post ENCTYPE="multipart/form-da
<input type=file name="TheFile">
</FORM>
in your HTML. It displays a textbox and a [Browse...] button.
See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/input_file.asp
The server will need to be able to handle uploads, but all servers can do that these days.
-- Dan
Just use
<FORM method=post ENCTYPE="multipart/form-da
<input type=file name="TheFile">
</FORM>
in your HTML. It displays a textbox and a [Browse...] button.
See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/input_file.asp
The server will need to be able to handle uploads, but all servers can do that these days.
-- Dan
ASKER
The problem is that I have no way of collecting the data. Originally I display it by outputting two variables, one with the css and one with the main html, but as soon as I make a change the variables no longer hold the data. The only way I can think of getting the data back, is by using an execCommand function to save it or select it and somehow copy it. The data is not in a form it is just held within a <div></div>
I don't understand you last comment at all. First you want to know how to download a file and then you want to know how to upload a file, and now there is something about variables and <div> tags....
If you need to maintiain some information on the client machine, the way to do that is to create and save a "cookie" Use the
document.cookie
object to do that. See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/cookie.asp
If you need to maintiain some information on the client machine, the way to do that is to create and save a "cookie" Use the
document.cookie
object to do that. See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/cookie.asp
ASKER
I need to somehow save the data which is held in an editable area of a page. I thought this could be done using the saveas function, but apparently not, as I can't do that without a dialog box popping up. So I am now looking for other ways of getting the information.
There is another execCommand which is called selectall. I was considering using this and then somehow getting the selected part into a variable or file. Can this be done?
I already use cookies but it isn't really relevant to what I am doing in this bit.
Sorry I'm struggling to explain exaclty what I'm doing. Thanks for keeping with it.
There is another execCommand which is called selectall. I was considering using this and then somehow getting the selected part into a variable or file. Can this be done?
I already use cookies but it isn't really relevant to what I am doing in this bit.
Sorry I'm struggling to explain exaclty what I'm doing. Thanks for keeping with it.
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This link shows a workaround:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=unUk16U0CHA.428%40TK2MSFTNGP09
It uses the FileSystemObject to save the HTML. Since that is an ActiveX object, the user will be proyed about using "unsafe objects" so there is still a prompt.
Best to just let the prompt come up. The user will be promyed, but he will neeed only click the [OK] button. It is always good to let the user know that you are saving data to his hard disk.
function DoTest() {
document.execCommand( 'saveas', false, "c:\\temp\\pg.htm" )
}
-- Dan