Accessing Local Drive Using Activex
May 3, 2011
I have an html file I've built with embedded Javascript (using ActiveX) that successfully reads a file on my local hard drive when I run the html file through my web browser (IE) locally. However, when I copy the html page up to a webserver and access it through the internet, it doesn't appear to be reading the local file. I'm assuming this can't be done because of security reasons? Am I correct in that? Is there any way using Javascript/ ActiveX that you can get a webpage on the internet to access a file on the visitor's local drive?
View 9 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Oct 14, 2005
I have a web page (offline) that accesses the user's CD drive to play an audio file on a CD. It uses this routine:
<OBJECT id=player1 height=64 width=160 classid=CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6>OBJECT>
</font><script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("player1").uiMode="full";
document.getElementById("player1").settings.autoStart=false;
document.getElementById("player1").settings.volume=50;
player1.URL=src="file:///"+YouWrote+":/Track01.cda";
</script>
That variable "YouWrote" (the CD Drive letter) is set by a cookie on the page - defaults to "D", but the user can change this, refresh the page, and access the audio in the correctly referenced drive.
Works well - if the page is resident in memory and refreshed if necessary.
My problem is if I put this page on a CD - that is, I want the page to load up from the CD drive - and there's only one drive - it doesn't work.
I can't seem to get the user to be able to choose the drive letter by setting the cookie (or even go with the default), then refresh the page, switch the CD with the Audio CD, and get Windows Media Player to find and play the Track01.cda file.
It chokes because the player says it can't play files with this extension. But it is obviously still thinking about the html file it loaded.
How do I disconnect the knowledge of the loadup CD in Windows Media Player's mind (assuming anything Windows has a mind)? Is there some obvious logical procedure I should follow and/or for the js script?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Sep 3, 2009
Is there a way to create a new file with JavaScript. I have a script on a local drive and I need to create a file (XML) that i can then read off.Is this possible?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 12, 2011
I think I know the answer to this but I want to ask anyway. There are scores of pages on a particular website that I need to download so I can process them. They would all come down as XML files. I wrote a desktop app a while ago to do this but I was hoping to move this functionality to my website. This is an example of one of the pages I would download/copy:[URL]... A related question is... after I get all of these pages into a folder on my machine... I will need to point JQuery to the folder where they were copied and process each one. Does JQuery have a built in way to open a folder and capture all the files inside so they can be processed? I couldn't find anything like that.
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 5, 2009
Is there a way to scan files on a local hard drive using Javascript? I'm trying to create a GUI for a program using html and js. As such the html files will only be accessed from the local machine using Firefox. I would like to avoid using server-side scripts, as I want to use this on a computer without server software installed. My overall objective is I want the javascript to scan all files (data plots I've made) in a directory on the local machine. The JS would create a list of possible dates based on which files were found, the user would then select the date which would then display the corresponding plot.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 11, 2010
I need to upload/read an xml from a local drive of any platform (linux, windows, mac) and synchronize it with my web server, which will then update my DB. Local xml file path is predefined and stored in my DB. This is part 1.Part 2, I will have to update the sync(ed) xml and replace the file on my local drive.Part 1 and part 2 will execute in sequence when the user click on a "Sync" button after logged in.Here is what I plan to use, PHP, MySQL, Javascript.What I know so far.1. Due to security reasons we cannot dynamically update the value of the input file type. So setting the known file location is not possible.I will like to know if there is anyway we can upload/read & overwrite a xml file without any middleware like adobe air that needs to be pre-installed to any of the platform to achieve what I plan to do?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Nov 17, 2006
We have a directory of files on our ftp server. Is there a javacript to
make a connection to the ftp server and compare files on a local drive
and on the server? Files that have been changed or added need to be
copied across from the ftp server to the local drive.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Oct 24, 2011
I am trying todevelop a prototypeto create a new .xml file in my system local drive with the xmllike data populating fromthe below jQuery method. [code]...
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jan 9, 2010
Is it possible to download the jQuery API documentation to my local hard-drive? If so, I don't need to connect the Internet every time when I want to refer the API docs.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2011
I am working on a project using HTML and javascript to allow the user to choose a vehicle from a drop down menu, then load a new page showing some information about this vehicle. The information is stored in an Excel file. I posted regarding this issue a while back and got an excellent response from Old Pedant about using ActiveX - which has thus far worked perfectly. My initial condition was that I would only be using IE7+. However, my next idea was to be able to use it on an IPad (which I unfortunately do not own yet, making any kind of testing difficult) which I am fairly certain ActiveX won't work on. So, I was looking for any other method which would be similar.
Important note: this will not use the internet at all, all of these files will be available locally. There is a lot of material on running queries to servers, but I didn't think that would really apply here. It seems pretty clear that JS has difficulty accessing files client side (which I understand why completely), but I was hoping to find something that worked for the gray zone I'm currently working in since I'm not using servers at all.
I know that this is not really the intended use of HTML/JS, but I was hoping that by writing it as an HTML file, it'd be accessible to anyone with a browser. Some of my target computers have odd limitations (such as not being to download .exe files).The code I based my original off of is shown below:
<script type="text/javascript">
var conn = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Open ( 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:fullpath oMyExcel.xls;Extended Properties="Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1";)';
var sql = "SELECT * FROM [nameOfSheet$]";
var rs = conn.execute( sql )
[Code]...
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 12, 2009
Does anyone know this frame layer pop up because I found it the other day but forgot the google keywords I used to find it. Now I cannot find it anymore to save my life but need it
View 3 Replies
View Related
May 25, 2011
is that possible to read a file from usb drive, that to be used validate access to gain the authority. and if so...how?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Mar 30, 2010
I am working on a project in which I will have to generate a .html file and save it to the user's hard drive.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Mar 16, 2009
I have changed minor things on the Dynamic Drive DHTML Tooltip V2 and now i have the problem that it isnt working anymore.
How to find the error in the Code?
The last two codebits are just to understand the first codebit. there are no error's in them.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 4, 2005
I am totally lost on this. this is it. i have a page which has a text box.when i click on the browse button,i need a javascript code which will directly find the CD drive installed on the system and open the contents.
<TD WIDTH=30% CLASS="clsTableElement">Select File</TD>
<TD WIDTH=70% ALIGN=center VALIGN=middle><INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="CACERT" SIZE=30 ></TD>
how can this be done.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Mar 5, 2009
I have made aa simple offline website to be used as an intranet. This is made up of an html file and a seperate js file.
While testing, i had the html on my c: drive and the one line js file sitting on a network drive (g - everything worked how it should.
I then put the html onto g: drive and find that the part that the js file controls no longer works...
All my file paths are the same and point to the right place but for some reason the js doesn't work.
View 5 Replies
View Related
May 5, 2009
I am trying to use Accordion Content script v1.7 from DynamicDrive.com on some pages. I have set up a test page to show the error messages. I have changed the doctype of the page several times, including the exact one they use on the sample/instruction page on DD, but no luck. It is also throwing an error of undefined var ddaccordion, which is defined in ddaccordion.js, which is the JS file that goes with sample page , which is located in the same directory.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 23, 2005
Im supposed to write an activeX dll that will be called by javascript
(with the OBJECT TAG) and was wondering if its supposed to have any
special features or its a regular activeX dll.
Also I would like to know if it matters if its written in C++ or VB,
and if someone has sample C++ code that does this i will be grateful
to see!
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 20, 2005
I have a ActiveX object. This is working fine in English windows and IE, But causes IE to crash in Chinese windows.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 6, 2010
I have JavaScript code, that exports a HTML table to MS Excel.
This works fine on my development (local) server, however, it fails to work on my 'live' IIS server. Once I click on the Export link, I confirm the "Export to Microsoft Excel?" message, then nothing happens. I am not sure if MS Excel needs to be installed on the server or not?code...
View 7 Replies
View Related
Aug 1, 2009
I am currently detecting for Shockwave within IE by doing the following:
var isInstalled = false;
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var control = null;
try {
control = new ActiveXObject('SWCtl.SWCtl');
} catch (e) {
[Code]...
This works as expected and if it fails to detect Shockwave I tell the user to install Shockwave.The problem comes when AcitveX is disabled as it still returns the same message that it's not installed. I would prefer to be able to include an extra step to detect if ActiveX is disabled, in which case I can tell the user to enable it rather than giving them false advice. My only idea would be to detect for an ActiveX Object that every IE user should have installed.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 6, 2010
I have JavaScript code, that exports a HTML table to MS Excel. This works fine on my development (local) server, however, it fails to work on my 'live' IIS server. Once I click on the Export link, I confirm the "Export to Microsoft Excel?" message, then nothing happens. I am not sure if MS Excel needs to be installed on the server or not?
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function ExportToExcel() {
input_box=confirm("Export to Microsoft Excel?");
if (input_box==true) {
[Code]....
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jan 3, 2003
I thought I'd post this and see what you guys think (go easy on me :)). Anyway, my teacher gave the class a project to see if we could make a hangman game with an ActiveX object's draw methods and some good ole' DHTML. I've always wondered why javascript doesn't have any draw methods or graphics objects like Java has.
I suppose SVG will take the place of activeX and Flash... hopefully. Once we had the right object id it was a piece of cake (I found it by the way). Anyway, here's my program. I would've put the code in this post but I have a few includes and graphics that go with it. Best viewed in 1024 x 768 resolution, and IE only (of course).
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 31, 2006
I have a windows media file that I want to play on a webpage but the stupid activex content blocker keeps on poping up. I have heard that there is a way of getting around this or to preload the content. Does anyone know how to do this?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Mar 9, 2007
I built a form that utilizes arrays for storing data, prototype objects stored in arrays, and DOM using getElementByID and getElementByName. Now, in XP SP2 with the security center turned on, I get alerted by IE6/7 that there is an ActiveX script on the page and it asks to be allowed.
I don't want users IE to see this ActiveX warning. First, the users going to be using this form are not exactly tech savvy enough to know to allow it. Second, I had no idea JavaScript was related to ActiveX--which begs the question, what sort of things cause JavaScript to be flagged as ActiveX?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Oct 4, 2010
How can I animate this car: driving from left to right of the screen? I imagine it starting on the outside of the wrapper border so top left 0 and ends top right 960px... When it hits top right corner can it then flip 180 degrees and drive back in the other direction? Also how can I do it in jquery for the browsers that don't support the CSS3? I was also wondering if you click on the car could some flames shoot out the exhaust which makes it drive faster??
View 9 Replies
View Related
