Printer type hp officejet pro 6830
Is there a way to scan from html/java script image from a scanner ?
If it cant be done can anyone recommend a lib for java that give access to the printer/scanner.
The over all idea is to add a button to web page and scan image back to the page or to a local folder
I already tried using Scanner.js: HTML/JavaScript Web Twain WIA
but it didnt work for me not sure why?
thanks
This can kinda be done.
Before starting I must specify that I'm trying this on my HP PhotoSmart network printer, but it should apply to yours as well.
If from your browser you surf to your printer IP address (I suppose you're using it as a network printer, ie. http://192.168.1.79), you should find a couple of options and the ability to scan documents from the web browser itself (you might have to enable this function first from the settings).
It works and you could spend hours reverse-engineering that things. Luckly, it seems someone has already done that: hp-webscan and it's only ~60 lines so it's easy to convert to another environment/language.
Otherwise HP printers should expose a CUPS (IPP) / SANE interface and you could use that.
SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is a set of API to communicate with scanners across a network. I gave you the link to the Wikipedia page describing the technology. Here's an example of binding for Node: node-sane.
Python Flask service, which can be called from javascript to start scanner, and get the scanned image as pdf. This python code will allow you to use image scanner from a web page. An example for a web page "client_page.html".
You can edit the code so it will return an image :
https://github.com/KHBillel/ImageScanner4Web
I'm currently working on a webapp with the polymer-framework.
However, the whole application depends on the geolocation of the device. I'm setting the location in the app-globals file to use it globally, but it takes some time (around 500ms).
My question now is, how can I say to polymer that it should get to work, after the geolocation is set?
Thanks!
I think it depends on the specific behavior you're looking for. A few cases:
Everything still loads when the page loads, including perhaps some app UI and you have a loading icon or similar to indicate that the app is still starting up while you're waiting for the location.
You don't want to show the app until you have the location. Perhaps you don't want the app resources to be loaded at this time either.
You don't even want Polymer to be loaded until you have the location.
There's a lot of options & they may depend on your app architecture a bit, but for a general structure:
show a loader icon on startup & just wait to populate any templates you have until location is set
perhaps keep the hidden attribute on your main app element until location is available &/or don't append the element to the DOM until this point (although with similar resource loading opportunity caveat as in 3 below).
you could wait to add polymer & related elements until location is available, but generally seems silly to do this since your app could be doing this work while the user is waiting for a location to be found.
If you've got a more specific need then more details are probably needed.
I created an Air desktop app with Flash CS 5. Usually Windows (XP) is opening an application (like Firefox) with the latest set size and position.
For my installed Air app it's always just the default one.
How to start it with the latest used size and position?
Thanks.
Uli
hope this will work for you:
http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Using_the_FullScreen_functionality_in_AIR-8004.html
http://blog.ochodurando.com/2010/04/adobe-air-e-fullscreen/
You need to save a record somewhere that remembers the window's size, and possibly position. If your app has a preferences file, this would be an ideal place to store that information. Then, whenever your app starts, it checks for this information and resizes the window if any values are found.
Most popular programs include this feature (and don't even mention it, since it's pretty basic UI), but it's done intentionally and not as a default for every application. Thus if you want it, you have to program it in.
You can read and write to application.xml. You'll find there and nodes.
file = new File( File.applicationDirectory.nativePath + "/META-INF/AIR/application.xml" );
Adobe restrict writing access to application diractory but this trick is useful if you don't want to create a separate config file in app-storage:/ folder, which is of course prefered.
I have an unattended touch screen kiosk application which needs to be able to automatically reload the browser home page after a network outage has occurred. At the moment the browser will display an "Unable to connect to the internet" error and will wait for a manual reload to be carried out before proceeding. Can this be automated?
I've searched for plugins and have found some plugins which deal with auto-reload but they don't seem to work in this context. I am guessing that the plugin is only active when a page is loaded so in this case with an error condition, perhaps the plugin is not active.
One alternative might be to override the error page which is displayed by Chrome but I don't know if this is possible. I could then instantiate a Javascript timer to try a reload every n seconds for example. Is this possible?
I saw a suggestion to use frames to allow the outer frame (which is never refreshed) to keep trying the loading of an inner frame but I'm not keen to use frames unless there is no alternative. I also saw a suggestion to use AJAX calls to check if the network was working before attempting a page load but this seems overkill if there is a way to correct the error only when it has occurred rather than pre-empt an error for every page load.
Host system is Windows 7 by the way. I'm keen to keep the browser running if possible rather than kill and create a new browser process.
If you don't want to tackle chrome extension development, you could wrap your site in an iframe, and then periodically refresh the iframe from the parent frame. That way you don't need to worry about OS issues.
if the content were loaded from ajax from the start then the it could simply output a custom message on the page as it does a check via AJAX. Probably prevention over remedy is always recommended
Assuming linux, you could create an ifup script to simply relaunch the browser with something like
#!/bin/sh
killall google-chrome
DISPLAY=:0 google-chrome
On debian/ubuntu, edit /etc/network/interfaces to include a post-up line; Google ifupdown for other distros.
On windows, you'd do roughly the same with a PowerShell script.
If you really want the precise behaviour you describe (without restarting the whole browser), I suggest you develop a plugin/extension: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html
I know you are using Chrome, but in Firefox this is trivial by overriding the netError.xhtml page to do a setTimeout(location.reload, 10000);.
I'm writing a web app to be used offline on iOS. I've created a manifest, am serving it up as text/cache-manifest, and it usually works fine, when running inside Safari.
If I add it as an app to my home screen, then turn on Airplane mode, it can't open the app at all -- I get an error and it offers to close the app. (I thought this was the entire purpose of an offline app!)
When I load the app a first time when online, I can see in my logs that it's requesting every page listed in the manifest.
If I turn off Airplane mode, and load the app, I can see the first file it's requesting is my main.html file (which is both listed in the manifest, and has the manifest=... attribute). It then requests the manifest, and all my other files, getting 200's for all (and 304's for anything requested a second time during this load).
When I load the page in Chrome, and click around, the logs show the only thing it's trying to reach on the server is "/favicon.ico" (which is a 404, and which I don't think iOS Safari tries to load, anyway). All of the files listed in the manifest are valid and served without error.
The Chrome inspector lists, under "APPLICATION CACHE", all the cached files I've listed which I expect. The entire set of files is about 50 KB, way under any limit on offline resources that I've found.
Is this supposed to work, i.e., am I supposed to be able to create an offline iOS app using only HTML/CSS/JS? And where do I go about figuring out why it's failing to work offline?
(Related but doesn't sound quite the same to me, since it's about Safari and not a standalone app: "Can't get a web app to work offline on iPod")
I confirm that name 'cache.manifest' solved the offline caching problem in IOS 4.3. Other name simply did not work.
I found debugging HTML5 offline apps to be a pain. I found the code from this article helped me figure out what was wrong with my app:
http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2009/09/27/debugging-html-5-offline-application-cache/
Debugging HTML 5 Offline Application Cache
by Jonathan Stark
If you are looking to provide offline access to your web app, the Offline Application Cache available in HTML5 is killer. However, it’s a giant PITA to debug, especially if you’re still trying to get your head around it.
If you are struggling with the cache manifest, add the following JavaScript to your main HTML page and view the output in the console using Firebug in Firefox or Debug > Show Error Console in Safari.
If you have any questions, PLMK in the comments.
HTH,
j
var cacheStatusValues = [];
cacheStatusValues[0] = 'uncached';
cacheStatusValues[1] = 'idle';
cacheStatusValues[2] = 'checking';
cacheStatusValues[3] = 'downloading';
cacheStatusValues[4] = 'updateready';
cacheStatusValues[5] = 'obsolete';
var cache = window.applicationCache;
cache.addEventListener('cached', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('checking', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('downloading', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('error', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('noupdate', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('obsolete', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('progress', logEvent, false);
cache.addEventListener('updateready', logEvent, false);
function logEvent(e) {
var online, status, type, message;
online = (navigator.onLine) ? 'yes' : 'no';
status = cacheStatusValues[cache.status];
type = e.type;
message = 'online: ' + online;
message+= ', event: ' + type;
message+= ', status: ' + status;
if (type == 'error' && navigator.onLine) {
message+= ' (prolly a syntax error in manifest)';
}
console.log(message);
}
window.applicationCache.addEventListener(
'updateready',
function(){
window.applicationCache.swapCache();
console.log('swap cache has been called');
},
false
);
setInterval(function(){cache.update()}, 10000);
Sometimes an application cache group gets into a bad state in MobileSafari — it downloads every item in the cache and then fires a generic cache error event at the end. An application cache group, as per the spec, is based on the absolute URL of the manifest. I've found that when this error occurs, changing the path to the manifest (eg, cache2.manifest, etc) gives you a fresh cache group and circumvents the problem. I can vouch that all of our web apps work offline in full-screen with 4.2 and 4.3.
No offline web app (as of iOS 4.2) can run without an internet connection (which means Airplane mode, too) when using <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> in the html head section. I have verified this with every example I've seen and the ones that use Safari to render the site work fine, but when you throw in that meta tag, it won't work. Try your app without it and you'll see what I mean.
I have found that clearing the Safari cache after enabling Airplane mode to be an effective way of testing whether the app is really functioning offline.
I have sometimes been fooled into thinking that the application cache was working when it wasn't.
I had struggled with this iOS 4.3 "no offline cache" problem since I updated my iPad to 4.3.1 from 4.2. I saw in another post in this site that it was working again in 4.3.2. So I updated by iPad again, now to iOS 4.3.3. But still couldn't get the offline caching to work until I renamed my manifest file to "cache.manifest". Then the caching started working again and I could run my HTML5 offline app from the Home Screen. I did not need to put the favicon.ico in to the cache manifest. And I also had full screen going (setting the "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" to "yes").
I have several working offline and on/offline web apps.
When I turn off airport mode, I get a request for the manifest and some other files.
I don't get requests for images, JavaScript, CSS or cached AJAX files.
If you see requests for your resources, IOS doesn't have them cached.
Safari in general is more picky with manifests.
I suggest you try Safari on your computer.
I have run into the same problem today on iOS 4.3. I was able to fix the problem by adding a favicon.ico file and also adding it to the manifest.
I've written an offline app that still seems to work in 4.2 and 4.2.1; the post is a little dusty, but the code still runs:
http://kentbrewster.com/backchannel/
Remy Sharp has a newer post with code that also works, here:
http://remysharp.com/2011/01/31/simple-offline-application/
His app:
http://rem.im/boggle/
After days of messing with getting offline web apps to work on an iPhone/iPod Touch using the Webserver's HTTP authentication, I discovered these useful nuggets:
Make sure Safari is at the URL root of the web app when tapping "Add to Home Screen". I used jQuery Mobile and was sometimes adding the link with"/#pageId". Caused trouble.
Run your Ajax calls in serial. This might only be important if your web app is using HTTP authentication, but my app was firing a whole slew of Ajax calls on page load in parallel and it caused the app to hang on the "apple-touch-startup-image".
Ajax calls are "successful" when offline (at least using Prototype.js). Test for an actual piece of data in the Ajax response, not just on the HTTP status. I used this to test for displaying cached (SQL) or live data.
In the manifest use "NETWORK:\n*\n". From what I could muster, this is a catch-all statement for anything not explicit in the "CACHE:" section. Use Chrome to make sure your manifest is correct. Look at Chrome's console for errors.
Not directly related, but tripped me up for a bit, openDatabase.transaction() calls are ASYNCHRONOUS! Meaning, the line of JS code after transaction (execute(), error(), success()) will execute BEFORE the success() function.
Good luck!
I found this solution that seemed to work for me, since I also ran into this problem during my development. This fix has worked fine for me so far and also for other people that I've asked to test it with, and I'm able to get it running offline (in airplane mode) and off the home screen after caching and whatnot. I've written a post about it on my site:
http://www.offlinewebapp.com/solved-apple-mobile-web-app-capable-manifest-error/
Delete your current web app icon on the home screen.
Go to settings and clear your Safari browser cache.
Double tap your home button to open the multitasking bar. Find the Safari one, hold your
finger down on it, and exit it.
Please let me know if this works for you also! Good luck!
I've written an app and it works fine through the mobile browser, but when adding the desktop... Doesnt work. I guess apple have given up on IOS4 and all efforts are now on OS5. Shame :(
I have one potential workaround for this - it seems a bit crazy, but here goes... I work with the cache.manifest and full screen apps a lot (here's a test if you need: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/07/12/argy-bargy/ - add to home screen then turn on flight mode and it launches - at least, as of iOS 4.2.1)
One weird thing I found is that sometimes it seems that some kind of "meta" information in files can mess them up from being cached - Have you ever noticed that in bash that if you do a "ls" some files (depending on your colour settings) are highlighted for no apparent reason? Files can have meta data that the operating system (I think) adds automagically - and there are ways to remove it... I can't remember why but here's some more details: Strip metadata from files in Snow Leopard
After tearing my hair out one day - and refusing to give up because I knew it SHOULD have worked... Chrome was saying it loaded all the files, but ended with a generic error. In the end I recreated the project structure with blank files and copy/pasted the contents over. It worked - started caching as it was supposed to!
When I looked at the files I noticed there was some meta info. I tried scrubbing this info and the original project worked again. I'm not sure this was the reason it worked again - perhaps it was just a coincidence.
Because it worked, I didn't think too much about it. The same problem happened again some months later and the copy/paste trick worked again. I was busy, so I didn't investigate further - but vowed I would get to the bottom of it the next time it happened.... but I haven't had to yet.
Phew. Anyway, glad I got to write that down somewhere...
[UPDATE: months and months later - I've not been able to reproduce this, so I don't think it's the metadata]