Saving a page

**Fashion** · 10-04-2004

This is an exemple of what i need:

I want to save page2 by clicking a button in page 1.
Is this possible with AMS5 pro and how to acheive that?

Thanks,

Stephen

**longedge** · 10-04-2004

It's way out of my league but it occurs to me having looked at the 'code viewer' in this THIS thread it ought to be possible. If the content of page 2 is e.g. a web object or a text file being loaded into a paragraph then it would be a lot easier.

**rhosk** · 10-04-2004

Yeah, it really depends on "what" is on Page2.

**Fashion** · 10-05-2004

In other words, user must be able to place some texts and cliparts in a "page" and then save it. It is a kind of simple publicity page maker with save capabilities.

I intend to use this saved page in another AMS app.

Is this possible? If not, is there any other way to do this?

Thanks,

Stephen

**longedge** · 10-05-2004

You could certainly get text input on a page and save that out as a file and then retrieve or print it whenever you like. As far as I know, there is no native way to do the same with images.

**Fashion** · 10-05-2004

Is it possible to take HTML text (image) and put this code in a web object using a text.File write from string function?

Thanks,

Stephen

**longedge** · 10-05-2004

Yes you can build html by concatenating the tags with the input text.

Are you are providing e.g. a set of thumbnails of images on the cd. If so you could then hard code the reference into the on click event of the image and use it in building the html and then save the html and images out to a folder.

**Fashion** · 10-05-2004

Thank a lot, i'm not a programmer and may be it will be easier for me to have an exemple. Can you explain your method in details?

Thanks,

Stephen

**yosik** · 10-05-2004

Stephen,
One solution would be to use a command line aware utility to capture your window. Irfanview does it well.
What I would do is put Iview in your Docs dir, launch an event (Page/Button...) which will launch a command line from Ivew (Something like i_view32.exe /capture=1 , which captures the active window), then use the image (clipboard, save or print..).

Good luck
Yossi

**Intrigued** · 10-05-2004

If you interested in what Yosik put forth... here is a DLL file that user Worm put together and shares now via the Examples forum...

http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8797

**Fashion** · 10-05-2004

Yeah thanks, i tried that but i don't want to capture all window. I just need user be able to put an image and/or text in a web browser object and save it for further use; making his own page and save it.

I told about web browser object but it can be any other way to achieve this app. Any help will be appreciate.

Thanks,
Stephen

**JimS** · 10-06-2004

Fashion,
What I would suggest doing is to build an example of the web page you are after. This will become your template.

Next, split the HTML document up into logical parts. (i.e. Head, Body, Foot) and save them as text files.

When it is time to build a dynamic webpage for your user, you just combine the HTML parts with your user data, to create the finished HTML page.

Here is an example of how it might go together:

In your program you get two variables from the user:

The/path/to/the/picture/file = pic_path

The user text = user_text

Now you need to read your text files in as variables.
head = TextFile.ReadToString("AutoPlay\\Docs\\head.txt");
body = TextFile.ReadToString("AutoPlay\\Docs\\body.txt");
foot = TextFile.ReadToString("AutoPlay\\Docs\\foot.txt");

head.txt might look something like this:
<html>

<head>
<meta **********="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta **********="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>User Page</title>
</head>

<body>

<p align="center">
<img border="0" src="file:///

body.txt might look like this:

" ></p>
<p align="left">

foot.txt might look like this:

</p>

</body>

</html>

Next youâ€™re going to write out the full HTML file
TextFile.WriteFromString("AutoPlay\\Docs\\user.htm l", head .. pic_path .. body .. user_txt .. foot, false);

Now you can navigate to the page, or save it, or whatever you want.

If you plan on moving the page between machines, or onto the Web, then you will need to make the path to the picture a â€˜relative pathâ€™ instead.

**TJ_Tigger** · 10-06-2004

I am currently using a couple of functions in a project I am playing with that dynamically creates html pages based from a data file. I have a function that creates and destroys the page and I fill in the body as necessary.

Code:

function CreatePage(strTitle)
	local String1 = ""
	String1 = String1 ..	'<html>' ..
				'<head>' ..
				'<title>'.. strTitle ..'</title>' ..
				'</head>' ..
				'<body bgcolor="white" text="black">' ;
	return String1;
end
	
	
function DestroyPage()
	return '</body></html>'
end

To use these functions I do this in the project.

Code:

strHTML = CreatePage(strName);
strHTML = strHTML .. '<p><b>'..tblGS.Name..'</b> by '..tblGS.Placed ..'<br>'.."\r\n"..
		                     'Size: ' .. tblGS.Container ..'<br>'.. "\r\n" ..
		                     strName ..'<br>'.. "\r\n" ..
		                     strNS .. " " .. strLat .. " "..strEW .. " " .. strLon ..'<br>'.. "\r\n" ..
		                     tblGS.State ..'<br>'.. "\r\n" ..
		                     'Difficulty: ' .. tblGS.Difficulty.. "\/"..'Terrain: ' .. tblGS.Terrain ..'<br>'.. "\r\n"..
		                     '<br>'.. "\r\n"..
		                     tblGS.Short ..'<br>'.. "\r\n"..
		                     '<hr>'..'<br>'.. "\r\n"..
		                     tblGS.Long ..'<br>'.. "\r\n"..
		                     '<hr>'..'<br>'.. "\r\n" ..
		                     '<a href="'..strName..'_hints.htm">Hints</a>'
strHTML = strHTML .. DestroyPage()
		
TextFile.WriteFromString(_TempFolder .. "\\"..strName..".htm", strHTML, false);

This creates a page per item that was read from a text file. Works great. I cannot claim the code as my own but found it here on the IR forum.

HTH
Tigg

**Fashion** · 10-06-2004

Thanks JimS,

i'm not sure to understand all your suggestion but i think i will be able to try it out. The problem is i don't have enough HTML knowledge to achieve that but i have good books and helps.

Thanks a lot,

Stephen

**Fashion** · 10-06-2004

Thanks Tigger too,

i will try this with some help here cause i'm not sure what to do with function.

Thanks again,

Stephen

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