Write to file, pull information from file 2

TempestT37 · May 29, 2003

Hello Group
I need a form that will reside on the client computer.
This form will save a file on the client’s computer that will need to be read from later.

The form will be filled out on employee’s laptops while off line. When they return to the office they will get online, login in to the company web site and go to a form that is identical to the form that resides on their computer, grab the file that was saved earlier and auto load the information into this online form, then upload to a database.

I have the online form adding to the database already done and will use the same form for the employees computer.
I have read that JavaScript cannot write to a text file unless it is a cookie, so can a cookies be uploaded to fill out the form? Or is there a better way to do what I am trying to do?
The employee’s laptops OS range from win98 to winXP and our site host supports asp and aspupload.
TIA
Michael

jemminger · May 29, 2003

cookies have a storage limit of about 4k

one option would be to use vbscript in a .hta file. an .hta is an html application - it is a trusted application, so it won't ask about activex objects that want access to the filesystem:

save as file.hta[tt]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>write to file</title>
<script type="text/vbscript">
sub writeToFile(s)
set oFS = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject&quot

set oFile = oFS.opentextfile("c:\temp\file.txt", 8, true)
oFile.writeline(s)
oFile.close()
set oFile = nothing
set oFS = nothing
end sub
</script>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
</head>

<body>
<form>
<textarea name="ta" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p/>
<input type="button" value="save" onclick="writeToFile(document.forms(0).ta.value);" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
[/tt]

more info on HTA:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/hta/hta_node_entry.asp?frame=true

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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

CliveC · May 31, 2003

Jemminger, Take a star for introducing me to yet another thing that I was unaware of.

I had hoped that I could use an hta file to launch an exe locally. I tried:

<a href="c:\mydir\myapp.exe">launch MyApp</a>

but alas it still propmted me with the download or run screen. Can you think of any other way to launch an exe locally?

Clive

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jemminger · May 31, 2003

CliveC,

I want to say that VBScript has some method of doing it, but I've never researched it...

perhaps WScript can do it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/wsobjWScript.asp

=========================================================
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

jemminger · May 31, 2003

this might help too:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/15069/fid/202

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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

CliveC · Jun 1, 2003

Thanks Jeff, Couldn't get the shell call to work however I did find something else in another thread from BIGBADDAVE that helped me come up with this.

<object classid="CLSID:018B7EC3-EECA-11d3-8E71-0000E82C6C0D" codebase="c:\mydir\myapp.exe"></object>

I would feel more comfortable if I new what the classid paramater meant and whether it would need to be different for different exe's.

Anyone??

Clive

http://tubularity.com

TempestT37 · Jun 4, 2003

Jeff
Thank you for the neat idea. The only way I got it to work was remove the button and go to a computer that did not have Norton installed, Norton would block the script even when I disabled Norton.
Michael

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