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Temp Dir + Black Ice activeX 2

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fmrock

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Hey everyone, I am using the Black ice active X control to display tiff images on a website.

I started testing this on a vista machine and think there is an issue with permissions. The active X downloads the tiff to the C:\\test.tiff location. However, it will not work.

Code: 
	var LocalFile="c:\\test.tif";

I tried

Code: 
	var LocalFile="%TEMP%\test.tif";

But this did not work. Does anyone have any ideas on how to reference the TEMP directory, which should have the correct permissions.
 
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If i change the variable to

Code: 
var LocalFile="test.tif";

This puts the file on the desktop (which i dont want), but will now work in vista.... anyone have any ideas.
 
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I think i may need to excape the characters in this.

var LocalFile="%TEMP%\test.tif";

Which chars need to be excaped and how would you do that in JS.
 
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Does anyone have any ideas? I have not found anything that would work.
 
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Billy, do you have any examples of WSHell ActiveX calls?

I have tried a bunch of things with out any luck, and havent found anything to really help.
 
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Using the words in my post as a guide, I searched on Google for:

reading environment variables wshell

I found several posts that handed the code to you on a platter (in JS) within the first few pages.

Dan



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Maybe Mr Dan could provide us one of that wonderful code-in-a-platter links, because the ones I tried just worked for VBSScript, not for javascript.

Or maybe just one more mysterious post to teach us how to search Google ...

Cheers,
Dian
 
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If people can't be bothered to look few a few search results and try things for themselves, then they will never learn.

Whatever. Here's some code.

Code: 
<html>
<head>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		var aShell = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
		var tempDir = aShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings('%temp%');
		alert('Your temp dir is: ' + tempDir);
	</script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>

Dan



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

[tt]Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch
[/tt]
 
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BillyRay... Thank you for your help. I even tried searching again and didnt find that example.

I think im a little tired from the long hours i have been working, so your help is appriciated.

I tried the example you gave, and works with some IE security setting being changed.
 
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I think I'm a good google searcher and I'm used to find at first sight the code I need. That's a big part of my job.

And trust me, I wasn't able to find that command: I managed to run scripts, change registry keys, but couldn't find that method.

I actually didn't need the script, just was curious about this, and I tried more than 40 links.

Cheers,
Dian
 
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I have 50, and I pressed the "Next" button several times. Grrrr, I'm getting too old for this.

Cheers,
Dian
 
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