Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.javascript > #38593

Re: alternate way?

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote on 24 Jul 2020 in
comp.lang.javascript: 

> JJ wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:36:01 -0700, Robert Baer wrote:
>>>     I have some stupid ideas to use javascrpt to (incrementally) read
>>>     and 
>>> parse an array.
>>>
>>>     The bad thing is that file is OUTSIDE any javascript function and
>>>     i 
>>> see no way to do a generic? "capture"/read/access of data.
>>>
>>>     Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>> 
>> If the file is in the local computer, you can not use a web browser to
>> fully automate the whole process. With a web browser, the user will
>> need to manually select the file. i.e. user interaction is needed. This
>> includes making the result of the process available to application
>> outside of the web browser application.
>> 
>> I'd suggest using Node.js, HTML Application, or Windows Script Host. Or
>> just the latter two if you don't want to download any additional
>> software. 
>> 
>    OK, scratch all of that bushwah.
> 
>    How about user picking out [from a selection] a "keyword' (which will
> be one word) and having a magic combination of simple HTML, CSS, and js 
> to pass that onto the browser keyboard find function [as if one had done
> a <ctrl>f and then typed in that "keyword"]?

"magic" exists only in your mind, and "alternate" reminds me of homeopathy.

A browser page, inclusive of on plage javascript, is not allowed to access 
local files on the client computer.

Perhaps you can explain what you really want? 



-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Back to comp.lang.javascript | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 00:08 -0700
  Re: alternate way? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-07-24 09:45 +0200
    Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 12:16 -0700
      Re: alternate way? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-07-25 14:42 +0200
        Re: alternate way? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-07-25 20:20 -0400
        Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-03 15:01 -0700
  Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-24 19:27 +0700
    Re: alternate way? Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-07-24 12:21 -0700
      Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-25 20:06 +0700
        Re: alternate way? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-07-25 11:29 -0700
          Re: alternate way? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-07-26 20:42 +0700
          Re: alternate way? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-08-04 04:38 +0200
            Re: alternate way? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-08-03 19:43 -0700
    Re: alternate way? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-07-25 00:57 +0200

csiph-web