Hi am developing a Windows store 8.1 app using C# and xaml. I get the some configuration settings in my mail with a URL, which are lets say host address, port number, and some app id. When i click on the url it should open my app and fill the settings in the app(Defaultly am launching Configuration page in my app which contains three textboxes, those three values should pre populate here)
Is it possible to do it Winrt 8.1? If so how can i achieve it? Can someone please help me out to solve this?
Thanks in advance
First you need to handle URI activation.
In your manifest, add a Protocol and reserve a Name(here is alsdk). You can refer here for more information.
Then please override OnActivated event in App.xaml.cs (receive params here).
public App()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
this.Suspending += this.OnSuspending;
}
protected override void OnActivated(IActivatedEventArgs args)
{
if (args.Kind == ActivationKind.Protocol)
{
// Retrieves the activation Uri.
var protocolArgs = (ProtocolActivatedEventArgs)args;
var uri = protocolArgs.Uri.ToString();
}
}
After that you can launch your app with params in the browser:
As for passing params,please refer here.
Related
I want to integrate some voice commands in my windows phone 8.1 app.
The first thing I want to do is to open my app by a voice command and navigate to a certain page.
According to MSDN article Quickstart: Voice commands (XAML) I can use the override of protected virtual void OnActivated(IActivatedEventArgs args) method in App.xaml.cs to meet my requirements. But it does'nt work the way I though it would!
I have the method with the following structure:
protected override void OnActivated(IActivatedEventArgs args)
{
if (args.Kind == ActivationKind.VoiceCommand)
{
var commandArgs = args as VoiceCommandActivatedEventArgs;
if (commandArgs != null)
{
// ... some logic here
}
}
}
The problem is when I'm activating my app by saying "Open 'name of my app' [optional words]" the app opens but the Activated event never fires! The app opens and OnLaunched event fires. So I can't even enter the OnActivated method.
Does anyone know the problem? Why can't I enter OnActivated method using voice commands?
P.S. I tried it with a simulator as well as with a real device.
you can see this article,
http://t.co/Q5hRxRPvwR
is in spanish, but you will understand.
After you install the app and run it, the xml should be installed, like said in documentation.
After ask to cortana "What can I say?" it will show all you can said, and the apps that supports cortana. Choose you app and you will see what you can say for your app, like
If you say what your app can listen, your app will be activated.
I was trying to recreate the simle Text to Speech example used on the MSDN website. However whenever the code came to create the instance of the SpeechSynthesizer class it failed with a Unauthorised Acception error when running on the WP8.1 emulator. I currently do not have an actual device to test on to see if this makes a difference.
My code was simply:
private async void TTS()
{
// The media object for controlling and playing audio.
MediaElement mediaElement = new MediaElement();
// The object for controlling the speech synthesis engine (voice).
var synth = new Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis.SpeechSynthesizer();
// Generate the audio stream from plain text.
SpeechSynthesisStream stream = await synth.SynthesizeTextToStreamAsync("Hello World");
// Send the stream to the media object.
mediaElement.SetSource(stream, stream.ContentType);
mediaElement.Play();
}
I know there was an issue with the SpeechSynthesizer in Windows 8.1, and I found solutions to this when looking to fix the problem, but found little about the problem with WP8.1 SpeechSynthesizer. Has anybody else came across this problem and found a fix?
You should add one DeviceCapability in Package.appxmanifest file:
In DeviceCapability Tab, check the microphone, because it will provides access to the microphone’s audio feed, which allows the app to record audio from connected microphones.
Look at this library: App capability declarations (Windows Runtime apps)
Does anybody know how can I recognize when is the app first launched? I need to show message dialog only at the first start after install. Thanks...
You can use IsolatedStorageSettings and check for a flag.
var settings = IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings;
if (!settings.Contains("WasLaunched")) {
MessageBox.Show("First time to launch");
settings.Add("WasLaunched", true);
}
Note that re-deploying your app will reset the flag since its just a file saved in Isolated Storage but this should work if you launch your app from within emulator/actual device.
I want to launch a local exe-file (without saving it to another location first) upon clicking on a link on a local html file.
It either needs to work in IE, Firefox, Chrome or Opera, I don't care. It's just for a presentation tomorrow.
It's simply not possible. If it was, it would be considered a security flaw and fixed. On Firefox within hours, on IE within some months.
UPDATE: You could try registering your custom protocol: http://openwinforms.com/run_exe_from_javascript.html
But I believe the browser will still prompt you whether you want to run the app.
I want to share my experience.
The accepted response says that it is not possible but it is quite possible indirectly.
If you want to execute an exe on a pc, it means that you have acces on this pc and you can install your exe on that machine.
In my case, I had to take a 3D scan from a 3D scanner via a web application. It seemed impossible at the beginning.
After lots of research, I found that we can send socket messages via javascript.
It means that if we had an application which listens a specific port, it can communicate with a website.
Let's explain how I did this.
In my web application, I created a javascript method like this :
function openCapron3DScanner(foot) {
$("#div-wait").show();
//Creates a web socket pointed to local and the port 21000
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:21000");
ws.onopen = function () {
//Sends the socket message to the application which listens the port 21000
ws.send(foot + "-" + #ProjectHelper.CurrentProject.Proj_ID);
};
ws.onerror = function myfunction() {
$("#div-wait").hide();
alert("Erreur connection scanner.");
}
ws.onmessage = function (evt) {
//Receives the message and do something...
var received_msg = evt.data;
if (received_msg == "ErrorScan") {
alert("Erreur scan.");
}
else {
refreshCurrentProject();
}
};
ws.onclose = function () {
$("#div-wait").hide();
};
};
And I created a windows forms application who listens the localhost and port 21000.
This application is hidden, only shown in icon tray.
The only thing to do is to add the application on windows startup via code on the first load to assure that the next restart of windows it will be executed and listen the port.
private static WebSocketServer wsServer;
static WebSocketSession LastSession;
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
wsServer = new WebSocketServer();
int port = 21000;
wsServer.Setup(port);
wsServer.NewMessageReceived += WsServer_NewMessageReceived;
wsServer.Start();
}
private static void WsServer_NewMessageReceived(WebSocketSession session, string value)
{
if (value.StartsWith("ScanComplete-"))
{
//If the scan is ok, uploads the result to the server via a webservice and updates the database.
UploadImage(value);
//Sends a confirmation answer to the web page to make it refresh itself and show the result.
if (LastMacSession != null)
LastMacSession.Send("ScanComplete");
}
else if (value == "ErrorScan")
{
//If the C++ application sends an error message
if (LastMacSession != null)
LastMacSession.Send("ErrorScan");
}
else//call the 3D Scanner from the web page
{
LastSession = session;//Keeps in memory the last session to be able to answer via a socket message
//Calls the C++ exe with parameters to save the scan in the related folder.
//In could be don in this same application if I had a solution to consume the scanner in C#.
var proc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(#"C:\Program Files\MyProjectFolder\MyScannerAppC++.exe", projectID + " " + param);
}
}
I hope it will help.
Use System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() method.
protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("notepad.exe");
}
You'll have to use C#, but since that's on your post, it should work. You'll also need the full path, if the file is not in your environment path that's loaded in memory.
For a 'regular link' you'd still need to place this in an ASPX page.....
Click me
We're getting really fugly now though.
You can't run an exe file on a website. (First, if it's a Linux server, exe files won't run on it and second, if you're on a Windows server, your host would kill the program immediately. And probably terminate your account.)
That link (assuming it was Play Now!) will just allow your user to download the file. (C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\ exists on your computer, but it doesn't exist on the web server.)
You could setup a custom protocol on your local OS, if it's Windows, in regedit.
Check out this and this.
Then you create a simple HTML page, and place a link, something like this :
Start!
Given that you registered your custom "presentation" protocol, and configured it correctly in the registry, the application should launch when you click that link.
I have designed an Applet to take a screenshot and save it on the users computer using the java.awt.Robot class. I need to embedd this applet into an html page (using the object tag) so that when the user clicks a button on the webpage the screenshot is taken.
The applet itself works fine, i've tested it by adding a temporary main method to it and running it on my local machine as a regular java app.
Where I'm having difficulty is setting up permissions to allow it to run from its embedded location. Obviously the robot class is somewhat hazardous so an AWTPermission needs to be established and the applet itself needs to be signed.
I followed through the tutorial at http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/security/toolsign/index.html and succeeded in creating a signed .jar file and then a policy file that allowed the demo application in that tutorial to run. Where I am now running into issues is how to reconcile what I've learned with the situation my applet will be used in.
My target audience comprises around 100 machines and I need it to be executable on all of them. I have packed my java .class file into a .jar and signed it using keytool and jarsigner. I then uploaded the .jar and .cer files to the server directory where the pages in question are hosted.
However: When I then used policytool to create a new policy file on one of the machines to test the setup I am still unable to execute the applet from the HTML. I get Java.Security.AccessControlException Acess Denied java.awt.AWTPermission createRobot errors.
I rather suspect its the policy step that is going awry, so I'll outline the steps I took:
I download the certificate to the local machine and generate a keystore from it, I launch 'policytool' from this directory through the commandline
I add the directory on the local machine where the keystore generated from and my certificate is located.
I then hit the add policy button and enter the SignedBy alias
Then Add Permissions and select AWTPermission
Targets name I select createRobot
The function field I have been leaving blank as I cant think what would apply here
Signed By in this window is also left blank
I then hit 'OK' and 'Done' and get a warning that there is no public key for the alias I've entered in the first step. I do a 'save as' and save my policyfile to the same directory as I put the certificate and the keystore generated from it.
This is not allowing me to run the applet from the webpage however and my limited understanding of this aspect of programming offers no clues as to what has gone wrong.
Ideas, thoughts, observations? If I havent explicitly mentioned something then I havent done it. My biggest suspect is the warning I recieve but I cant seem to find why its appearing
EDIT: Forgot to mention a step. I manually added to my jre\lib\security\java.security file the line 'policy.url.3=file:/C:/Testing/debugpolicy' since thats the path and policy filename I created during the above steps. I also just now managed to remove the warning I mentioned earlier, I'd been mixing up my alias' and gave the alias for the private keystore rather than the public one during policyfile creation, however I still encounter the same problems
If an applet is correctly signed, no policy file is required, nor is it required to separately upload any certificate. A correctly signed applet will prompt the user for permission when the applet is visited, before it loads. Does the prompt appear?
Here is a small demo. I wrote that demonstrates Defensive loading of trusted applets. That is the security prompt I am referring to.
If the applet is both digitally signed by the developer and trusted by the end user, it should be able to take a screen-shot.
There is one other thing you might try if the applet is trusted, just as an experiment (1). Early in the applet init(), call System.setSecurityManager(null). That will both test if the applet has trust, and wipe away the last remnants of the 'trusted' security manager given to applets.
And in the case that works, and it makes the screen capture successful, it suggests either a bug or Oracle changed their mind about the defaults of what a trusted applet could do.
1) Don't do this in a real world or production environment. To quote Tom Hawtin:
This question appears to have given some the impression that calling System.setSecurityManager(null); is okay. ... In case anyone has any doubts, changing global state in an applet will affect all applets in the same process. Clearing the security manager will allow any unsigned applet to do what it likes. Please don't sign code that plays with global state with a certificate you expect anyone to trust.
Edit 1:
Here is the source of the simple applet used in that demo. For some reason when I originally uploaded it, I decided the source was not relevant. OTOH 3 people have now asked to see the source, for one reason or another. When I get a round tuit I'll upload the source to my site. In the mean time, I'll put it here.
package org.pscode.eg.docload;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
/** An applet to display documents that are JEditorPane compatible. */
public class DocumentLoader extends JApplet {
JEditorPane document;
#Override
public void init() {
System.out.println("init()");
JPanel main = new JPanel();
main.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
getContentPane().add(main);
try {
// It might seem odd that a sandboxed applet can /instantiate/
// a File object, but until it goes to do anything with it, the
// JVM considers it 'OK'. Until we go to do anything with a
// 'File' object, it is really just a filename.
File f = new File(".");
// set up the green 'sandboxed page', as a precaution..
URL sandboxed = new URL(getDocumentBase(), "sandbox.html");
document = new JEditorPane(sandboxed);
main.add( new JScrollPane(document), BorderLayout.CENTER );
// Everything above here is possible for a sandboxed applet
// *test* if this applet is sandboxed
final JFileChooser jfc =
new JFileChooser(f); // invokes security check
jfc.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.FILES_ONLY);
jfc.setMultiSelectionEnabled(false);
JButton button = new JButton("Load Document");
button.addActionListener( new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
int result = jfc.showOpenDialog(
DocumentLoader.this);
if ( result==JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION ) {
File temp = jfc.getSelectedFile();
try {
URL page = temp.toURI().toURL();
document.setPage( page );
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
} );
main.add( button, BorderLayout.SOUTH );
// the applet is trusted, change to the red 'welcome page'
URL trusted = new URL(getDocumentBase(), "trusted.html");
document.setPage(trusted);
} catch (MalformedURLException murle) {
murle.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace();
} catch (AccessControlException ace) {
ace.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public void start() {
System.out.println("start()");
}
#Override
public void stop() {
System.out.println("stop()");
}
#Override
public void destroy() {
System.out.println("destroy()");
}
}