MonoTouch.Dialog: how can a navigation control surround an HtmlElement? - html

For this code:
var Root = new RootElement("ConnectionView")
{
new Section("Sales")
{
new HtmlElement("Discover more about foo",
"http://foo.com")
}
}
var dvc = new DialogViewController(Root, true);
this.NavigationController.PushViewController(dvc, true);
this.AddChildViewController(dvc);
this.View.AddSubview(dvc.View);
The dialog is created as expected, with headers and elements.
However, although the HtmlElement opens the URL as anticipated, it navigates the app to a full-screen display of the web site without any navigation methods for returning to the dialog proper. Other elements that open views retain the navigation controller as expected and do not open full screen.
Note: I am using the flag on the DialogViewController to enable Nav.

Without doing much work, the simplest thing to do is to make sure that your DialogViewController is hosted in a UINAvigationController, which will provide a simple way of going back.
Alternatives include subclassing the HtmlElement and adding your own UI to control that.

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ZoomWindow extension breaks without GUI?

Using v2.13 of the viewer, the ZoomWindow extension relies on having the default GUI enabled. Is there a way around this? The load method is:
proto.load = function() {
var viewer = this.viewer;
var toolbar = viewer.getToolbar(true);
//var toolbar = viewer.getToolbar ? viewer.getToolbar(true) : undefined;
// Init & Register tool
this.tool = new namespace.ZoomWindowTool(viewer);
viewer.toolController.registerTool(this.tool);
// Add the ui to the viewer.
this.createUI(toolbar);
return true;
};
which fails because getToolbar is undefined.
It seems from the commented out line that this has been considered, but not implemented.
What is the best way to implement a work around - should I copy the entire extension with a new name, or can I replace the load method at runtime?
Edit: was looking to use the headless viewer, but it seems easiest just to hide the UI with css.
It's not clear to me if you are using the GuiViewer3D or want to use the Viewer3D, the viewer without Autodesk custom UI. If you use GuiViewer3D, you can simply wait for the toolbar to be loaded before loading the ZoomWindow extension, which requires the toolbar controls to be created in order to add a button to it.
viewer.addEventListener(Autodesk.Viewing.TOOLBAR_CREATED_EVENT, function () {
viewer.loadExtension('Autodesk.Viewing.ZoomWindow')
})
Here is a blogpost I wrote a while ago about using events in the viewer. It is not up-to-date with the current version but remains valid:
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/cloud_and_mobile/2015/10/event-watcher-extension-for-view-data.html
Now as Zhong mentioned, if you want to use the headless viewer with no UI and still use the extension, you may have to copy and customize it as you suggested. But an easier workaround could be to use GuiViewer3D and simply hide the existing toolbar with css, so the the js code remains valid. Set display:none on div id="guiviewer3d-toolbar", for example, or on the adsk-control class.
Hope that helps

Back Navigation using Xamarin Razor on WebViewClient

Please help me to find the way how to navigate back on webviewclient using back button on android.
I am using Xamarin hybrid app using Razor views,
I am using loadDataWithBaseURL method to find each method and move on that page, like following:
if (method == "SignIn")///sign-in.html
{
var template = new SignIn();
var page = template.GenerateString();
webView.LoadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", page, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);
}
The above code I am using in ShouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, string Url)
the URL is passed as "hybrid:SignIn?"
Now back navigation is not working either on using OnBackPressed() method, or using OnKeyDown()
I also tried, WebBackForwardList, I can see in debug mode te current items in it , but no any url to go back on.
The url is always "about:blank"
and page is showing blank on GoBack() method.

display only a specific content in AS3 code using webStage View

I'd like to display, in my app, only a part of a web page.
On this website, I'd like to display, in my app, only the div id "MovieCart".
What should I write in my as3 code in order to do so ?
For now, I have this line :
webView.loadURL("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40565");
But, of course, it's displaying the fullwebpage.
EDIT
So, I've tried this :
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onComplete);
var res : String = ExternalInterface.call("function(){return document.getElementById('movieCart').outerHTML}");
var urlOfMovie: URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40567");
var loaderMovie:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loaderMovie.load(urlOfMovie);
webView.loadString(res);
But, as it's an AIR app, ExternalInterface.call can't be call. Any idea ?
Here is one easy way you can accomplish this:
//First, load the full page as you're currently doing:
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, webLoadComplete); //listen for when the load is finished
webView.loadURL("http://www.cinecity.nc/Cinecity/Film/40565");
//runs when the load finishes
function webLoadComplete(e:Event):void {
webView.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, webLoadComplete); //stop listening
//second, invoke the following Javascript on the page which assigns the `MovieCart` element as the html for the whole document body
webView.loadURL("javascript:document.body.innerHTML = document.getElementById("MovieCart").outerHTML");
}
Disclaimer:
Keep in mind that scrapping content from websites is generally frowned upon and you may be infringing on peoples work/copyrights by doing so.

Copy an Image from Flex Application (Web) and paste it outside the application

I have a requirement that we should be able to copy an image displayed in our application, to Clipboard and paste it outside (Like on Excel).
I was trying the below code snippet (Inside a button Click).
Clipboard.generalClipboard.clear();
var dataLoaded:Boolean = Clipboard.generalClipboard.setData(ClipboardFormats.RICH_TEXT_FORMAT,
byteArray, false);
The dataLoaded object is true, however it does not paste anything when tried on Excel or MsPaint.
Do we have any way to achieve this?
Thanks.
The code you are showing is not enough in itself to get a successful transfer. Like many other operations within the security sandbox of a FP app (web) this code can only respond to a direct user interaction. So your code without any valid context cannot work of course but if called within a mouse down listener for example (a true user generated mouse event, creating a fake mouseevent would still not work) it should respond correctly:
private function handleMouseClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
Clipboard.generalClipboard.clear();
var dataLoaded:Boolean = Clipboard.generalClipboard.setData(ClipboardFormats.RICH_TEXT_FORMAT, byteArray, false);
}

How do I access the popup page DOM from bg page in Chrome extension?

In Google Chrome's extension developer section, it says
The HTML pages inside an extension
have complete access to each other's
DOMs, and they can invoke functions on
each other. ... The popup's contents
are a web page defined by an HTML file
(popup.html). The popup doesn't need
to duplicate code that's in the
background page (background.html)
because the popup can invoke functions
on the background page
I've loaded and tested jQuery, and can access DOM elements in background.html with jQuery, but I cannot figure out how to get access to DOM elements in popup.html from background.html.
can you discuss why you would want to do that? A background page is a page that lives forever for the life time of your extension. While the popup page only lives when you click on the popup.
In my opinion, it should be refactored the other way around, your popup should request something from the background page. You just do this in the popup to access the background page:
chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage()
But if you insist, you can use simple communication with extension pages with sendRequest() and onRequest. Perhaps you can use chrome.extension.getViews
I understand why you want to do this as I have run into the problem myself.
The easiest thing I could think of was using Google's method of a callback - the sendRequest and onRequest methods work as well, but I find them to be clunky and less straightforward.
Popup.js
chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage().doMethod(function(params)
{
// Work with modified params
// Use local variables
});
Background.html
function doMethod(callback)
{
if(callback)
{
// Create/modify params if needed
var params;
// Invoke the callback
callback(params);
}
}
As other answers mention, you can call background.js functions from popup.js like so:
var _background = chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage();
_background.backgroundJsFunction();
But to access popup.js or popup.html from background.js, you're supposed to use the messages architecture like so:
// in background.js
chrome.runtime.sendMessage( { property: value } );
// in popup.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(handleBackgroundMessages);
function handleBackgroundMessages(message)
{
if (message.property === value)
// do stuff
}
However, it seems that you can synchronously access popup.js from background.js, just like you can synchronously access the other way around. chrome.extension.getViews can get you the popup window object, and you can use that to call functions, access variables, and access the DOM.
var _popup = chrome.extension.getViews( { type: 'popup' } )[0];
_popup.popupJsFunction();
_popup.document.getElementById('element');
_popup.document.title = 'poop'
Note that getViews() will return [] if the popup is not open, so you have to handle that.
I'm not sure why no one else mentioned this. Perhaps there's some pitfalls or bad practices to this that I've overlooked? But in my limited testing in my own extension, it seems to work.