Re^2: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi

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Re^3: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 14, 2017 at 16:06 UTC
This is more ~~java~~ JavaScript related than perl, but i have a page where i want to execute ~~java~~ JavaScript when it loads. based on what it does so you could try `print $q->header( -type =>'text/html'); print <<"EODEOD"; <title>mytitle</title> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function iframeLoad(a) { window.parent.postMessage({ 'func': 'GetFileLoadStatus', 'message': 'Message text from iframe.' }, "*"); } //--> </script> <body onload="iframeLoad()"> EODEOD` [download] Edit: a was just a temp var, my sub was `function iframeLoad(a) { a = document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML; parent.document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML = a; parent.document.getElementById("hiframe").src = "about:blank"; }` [download] In the parent i had `... function showTable(loc) { document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML="Waiting on:" + loc; document.getElementById("hiframe").src = loc; } ... <input type="button" value="run program" onclick="showTable('/cgi-bin/ +program.pl?parm1=1')"> <iframe id="hiframe" src="about:blank" style="visibility:hidden;displa +y:none"></iframe> <div id="tableId" style="background-color:lightgray"></div> ....` [download] and the cgi call also returned `.... <div id="tableId"> <pre> some stuff to display more stuff </pre></div>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Mar 14, 2017 at 16:21 UTC
s/java/JavaScript/g	[reply]
Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 14, 2017 at 17:38 UTC
s/java/JavaScript/g What does that mean?	[reply]
Re^6: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 14, 2017 at 17:55 UTC
Re^7: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 14, 2017 at 19:05 UTC
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Re^4: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 14, 2017 at 18:07 UTC
Hi: Don't want to do anything on load. Go here http://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/jala_AdminCore.htm at bottom are two buttons. Click Get File Load Status to load the iframe with the results (nothing because the part did not run that produces results). The other button clears the iframe. I want to execute these funtions from the cgi script on the server. The first one loading results when the actual process is complete and the clear function from the close button on the response form in the iframe. Again the perl code (more of it) updating tables disabled if ($action eq "updatetable_3") { # warn("Entered update_tables.cgi with action = UpdateTable_3"); # UpdateUserTable($dbh); # $message = "Update User Data Table"; # $filemessage = "User Data Table Update Complete"; } elsif ($action eq "updatetable_4") { # warn("Entered update_tables.cgi with action = UpdateTable_4"); # UpdateTenantTable($dbh); # $message = "Update Tenant Data Table"; # $filemessage = "Tenant Data Table Update Complete"; } elsif ($action eq "updatetable_5") { # warn("Entered update_tables.cgi with action = UpdateTable_5"); # UpdatePropertyTable($dbh); # $message = "Update Property Data Table"; # $filemessage = "Property Data Table Update Complete"; } elsif ($action eq "updatetable_6") { # warn("Entered update_tables.cgi with action = UpdateTable_6"); # DownloadUserTable($dbh); # $message = "Download User Data Table"; # $filemessage = "Download of File Completed: '$count'"; } else { # print p (escapeHTML ("Impossible Error: selected action is unknow +n: $action")); $message = "Database Failure"; $filemessage = "File Load Falure. Impossible Error: selected action +is unknown: $action"; } warn("Just before close connection"); manageusers::CloseConnection(); #window.parent.postMessage({ # 'func': 'GetFileLoadStatus', # 'message': 'Message text from iframe.' #}, "*"); if ($action eq "updatereport"){ warn("In updatereport before CreateFataFeedbackForm"); CreateDataFeedbackForm($message, $filemessage); } [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 15, 2017 at 01:46 UTC
I still think you do want to do things onload to get your alert box, but i did go to your page and now understand better what you want. ok for starters add this above "function onMessage(event)" `function showTable(loc) { document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML="Waiting on:" + loc; document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = loc; }` [download] then under `<iframe id="dataDialog" name="dataDialog" style="float:right"; src=""; + border:1px solid black;" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" all +owfullscreen="false" frameborder="no" width="200" height="400" > </iframe>` [download] add `<div id="tableId" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>` [download] now change `<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Member Table Data Updat +e" style="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClic +k = "self.location='https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_ +tables-development.cgi?action=updatetable_3'"/>` [download] to `<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Member Table Data Updat +e" style="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClic +k = "showTable('https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_tabl +es-development.cgi?action=updatetable_3')"/>` [download] .location and .src may do the same, my code uses .src Now try pressing the "Member Table Data Update" button, is that better? now if you still want the "Get File Load Status" button change its code to `<input type="button" class="jalaLtSans" value="Get File Load Status" s +tyle="background-color:#0D4A80; width : 250px; color:#fff" onClick = +"showTable('https://www.jala-mi.org/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_tables-d +evelopment.cgi?action=updatereport')"/>` [download] How is that? aww but you want to get rid of the "waiting on" junk now dont ya? Well that is part of the side effect of my iframeLoad call from the cgi. so change your cgi-bins that use this technique to look something like `print $q->header( -type =>'text/html'); print <<"EODEOD"; <title>mytitle</title> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function iframeLoad(a) { a = document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML; parent.document.getElementById("tableId").innerHTML = a; parent.document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = "about:blank"; }//--> </script> <body onload="iframeLoad()"> <div id="tableId"> EODEOD ...... print '</div>';` [download] After running this a bit you may understand why my code has style="visibility:hidden;display:none" for hiframe now as an exercise for the reader, imagine that showTable instead looked like this `function showTable(loc,table) { document.getElementById(table).innerHTML="Waiting on:" + loc; document.getElementById("dataDialog").src = loc; }` [download] and the onClicks were suitably modified to contain the proper ids, say table1,table2,table3 and these were spread out in your code `<div id="tableid1" style="background-color:lightgray"></div> <div id="tableid2" style="background-color:lightgray"></div> <div id="tableid3" style="background-color:lightgray"></div>` [download] and each different cgi-bin program used its own tableid instead of the generic TableId i showed. cute huh? I just showed you stuff from the simpler page so you wouldnt get too confused. One side effect i havent corrected for is that only one "button" can be in progress at a time, i never put a locking protocol in place, i just dont press another button till the last has finished And yet i still tend to deny knowing any javascript,and Noscript blocks most pages i visit. I also deny knowing any cobol, c, or assembler too cuz last time i admitted to knowing cobol they made me program in it. and made me read other peoples dumps, Dont know TPF either BTW: Doesnt routine that send back html to the iframe? should have been "Doesnt the routine send back html to the iframe?" Aparently not, it just replaced the main page it seems. and Gad it takes me time to work out the bugs in this stuff. "what do you mean ME kemosabe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuMevc6G4w edit: i like this one better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1TmhBJxO70	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 15, 2017 at 12:51 UTC
Re^7: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 15, 2017 at 19:23 UTC
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Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 14, 2017 at 18:15 UTC
Don't want to do anything on load. yes you sure do, you want to display a message when the cgi page loads that is sent back after you press the the Get File Load Status button	[reply]
Re^6: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 14, 2017 at 18:43 UTC
Re^7: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 14, 2017 at 18:58 UTC
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Re^4: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 15, 2017 at 01:43 UTC
Enough of this. I will ser a global variable as a flag and "watch" it in javascript on the html page. When it changes I request the form to load into the iframe.	[reply]
Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by poj (Abbot) on Mar 15, 2017 at 07:38 UTC
Following up on what huck suggested, here is a demo to play with using Ajax. Change the file paths and urls to suit your web server. An html page <html> <head><title>Example</title> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jque +ry.min.js"> </script> <script> $(document).ready(function() { $(".update").click(function(){ var button = this; $.ajax({ type: 'POST', url: 'runme.cgi', data: { 'action': $(button).attr("id") }, success: function(res) { alert( res.msg ); var myIFrame = document.getElementById("dataDialog"); myIFrame.src = "runme.cgi?action=result"; }, error: function() { alert("Error : did not work"); } }); }) }) </script> </head> <body> <iframe id="dataDialog" src="about:blank"></iframe> <h2>Using Ajax</h2> <button class="update" id="update_1">Update 1</button> <button class="update" id="update_2">Update 2</button> <button class="update" id="update_3">Update 3</button> <button class="update" id="update_4">Update 4</button> </body> </html> [download] and the script `runme.cgi` #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; use JSON; use strict; my $logtext; my $logfile = 'c:/temp/web/update.log'; # somewhere writeable my $q = new CGI; my $action = $q->param('action'); if ($action =~ /update/){ # do stuff to update database sleep 1; open OUT,'>', $logfile or die "$!"; print OUT "Result of $action on\n".scalar(localtime)."\n"; print OUT "Line $_ message\n" for (1..rand(10)); close OUT; my $json = encode_json( { msg => "$action done" } ); # response print $q->header( -type => 'application/json' ),$json; exit; } if ($action eq "result"){ # get results of last update if (-e $logfile){ open IN,'<', $logfile or die "$!"; $logtext = do {local $/;<IN>}; close IN; } print $q->header( {-pragma =>'no-cache', -cache_control => "no-store,no-cache,must-revalidate"} ), $q->start_html, $q->pre($logtext),$q->end_html; exit; } [download] poj	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by huck (Prior) on Mar 15, 2017 at 02:05 UTC
You should just loaded the cgi-bin call into the iframe rather than the main page in the first place.	[reply]
Re^6: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 15, 2017 at 21:40 UTC
Re^3: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 14, 2017 at 15:52 UTC
See maybe Watching long processes through HTTP.	[reply]
Re^4: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by tultalk (Monk) on Mar 14, 2017 at 17:36 UTC
Interesting read but I am not dealing with a log process and waiting. Just need to send a windowmessage from perl script to my form	[reply]
Re^5: send windowmessage from cgi back to form that called the cgi by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2017 at 02:02 UTC
Its time to step back and learn about the internet and learn about internet	[reply]