I use project hybridWebView standart. Xamarin.Forms - HybridWebView Custom Renderer
If i use the html file that is in the Android project - Content / index.html - Everything works.
If I use html file which is hosted by mysite.com - The first time the hybridWebViewPage.axml page is loaded, I get the data in a variable var data. If I go to another page, and then go back to the hybridWebViewPage.axml page, I do not get data in the variable var data.
hybridWebView.RegisterAction(data => DisplayAlert("Alert", "Hello " + data, "OK"));
Why is this happening?
Because the hybridWebView.RegisterAction method is called in the construction method of the contentpage which will be called when you navigate to it first time. In addition, when you come back from another page, the construction method will not be called because the instance of it is still in the storge. There is the link about the navigation stack.link
I have set my content page like below on all my xaml based on the documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/ios/page-home-indicator
<ContentPage ...
xmlns:ios="clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms.PlatformConfiguration.iOSSpecific;assembly=Xamarin.Forms.Core"
ios:Page.PrefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden="true">
...
also tried it in code behind
On().SetPrefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden(true);
It's working on first load of the page, but it's not when you navigate to next page.
does it only work on the page you put
ios:Page.PrefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden="true"
If yes, you have to put it in the header of the next page too. In Fact you have to put it on all the pages you want the home indicator hidden. The next page does not know preferences from previous page - as long as you dont use templates.
When you set PrefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden property,it doesn't mean that HomeIndicator is completely hidden,it just keeps it from showing all the time.Each time the screen is touched, the Home Indicator pops up again and disappears after about two or three seconds of touching.
So I would like to be able to have a print button for entries in our database so users can print an entry via a print friendly "form".
My thought was to create a separate page, add labels and have those labels pull the relevant information.
I know I can add the open widget information via this code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showPage(app.pages.TestPrint);
But I'm running into a few problems:
I can't get the page to open in a new window. Is this possible?
window.open(app.pages.TestPrint);
Just gives me a blank page. Does the browser lose the widget source once the new window opens?
I can't get the print option (either onClick or onDataLoad) to print JUST the image (or widget). I run
window.print();
And it includes headers + scroll bars. Do I need to be running a client side script instead?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
To get exactly what you'd want you'd have to do a lot of work.
Here is my suggested, simpler answer:
Don't open up a new tab. If you use showPage like you mention, and provide a "back" button on the page to go back to where you were, you'll get pretty much everything you need. If you don't want the back to show up when you print, then you can setVisibility(false) on the button before you print, then print, then setVisibility(true).
I'll give a quick summary of how you could do this with a new tab, but it's pretty involved so I can't go into details without trying it myself. The basic idea, is you want to open the page with a full URL, just like a user was navigating to it.
You can use #TestPrint to indicate which page you want to load. You also need the URL of your application, which as far as I can remember is only available in a server-side script using the Apps Script method: ScriptApp.getService().getUrl(). On top of this, you'll probably need to pass in the key so that your page knows what data to load.
So given this, you need to assemble a url by calling a server script, then appending the key property to it. In the end you want a url something like:
https://www.script.google.com/yourappaddress#TestPage?key=keyOfYourModel.
Then on TestPage you need to read the key, and load data for that key. (You can read the key using google.script.url).
Alternatively, I think there are some tricks you can play by opening a blank window and then writing directly to its DOM, but I've never tried that, and since Apps Script runs inside an iframe I'm not sure if it's possible. If I get a chance I'll play with it and update this answer, but for your own reference you could look here: create html page and print to new tab in javascript
I'm imagining something like that, except that your page an write it's html content. Something like:
var winPrint = window.open('', '_blank', 'left=0,top=0,width=800,height=600,toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,status=0');
winPrint.document.write(app.pages.TestPage.getElement().innerHTML);
winPrint.document.close();
winPrint.focus();
winPrint.print();
winPrint.close();
Hope one of those three options helps :)
So here is what I ended up doing. It isn't elegant, but it works.
I added a Print Button to a Page Fragment that pops up when a user edits a database entry.
Database Edit Button code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showDialog(app.pageFragments.FragmentName);
That Print Button goes to a different (full) Page and closes the Fragment.
Print Button Code:
app.datasources.ModelName.selectKey(widget.datasource.item._key);
app.showPage(app.pages.ModelName_Print);
app.closeDialog();
I made sure to make the new Print Page was small enough so that Chrome fits it properly into a 8.5 x 11" page (728x975).
I then created a Panel that fills the page and populated the page with Labels
#datasource.item.FieldName
I then put the following into the onDataLoad for the Panel
window.print();
So now when the user presses the Print Button in the Fragment they are taken to this new page and after the data loads they automatically get a print dialog.
The only downside is that after printing the user has to use a back button I added to return to the database page.
1.
As far as I know, you cannot combine window.open with app.pages.*, because
window.open would require url parameter at least, while app.pages.* is essentially an internal routing mechanism provided by App Maker, and it returns page object back, suitable for for switching between pages, or opening dialogs.
2.
You would probably need to style your page first, so like it includes things you would like to have printed out. To do so please use #media print
ex: We have a button on the page and would like to hide it from print page
#media print {
.app-NewPage-Button1 {
display : none;
}
}
Hope it helps.
1. Here is how it is done, in a pop up window, without messing up the current page (client script):
function print(widget, title){
var content=widget.getElement().innerHTML;
var win = window.open('', 'printWindow', 'height=600,width=800');
win.document.write('<head><title>'+title+'/title></head>');
win.document.write('<body>'+content+'</body>');
win.document.close();
win.focus();
win.print();
win.close();
}
and the onclick handler for the button is:
print(widget.root.descendants.PageFragment1, 'test');
In this example, PageFragment1 is a page fragment on the current page, hidden by adding a style with namehidden with definition .hidden{display:none;} (this is different than visible which in App Maker seems to remove the item from the DOM). Works perfectly...
2. You cannot open pages from the app in another tab. In principle something like this would do it:
var w=window.parent.parent;
w.open(w.location.protocol+'//'+w.location.host+w.location.pathname+'#PrintPage', '_blank');
But since the app is running in frame nested two deep from the launching page, and with a different origin, you will not be able to access the url that you need (the above code results in a cross origin frame access error). So you would have to hard code the URL, which changes at deployment, so it gets ugly very fast. Not that you want to anyway, the load time of an app should discourage you from wanting to do that anyway.
I have two frames in my .NET app (frame1 and frame2). In frame2, I have a button to switch from one language to another one and it works fine within this frame -> postback is done, language is switched and page reloads in the other language. Problem is that there are localized buttons in my other frame (frame1) but they do not refresh. How and where should I trigger the refresh of frame1 ?
Sorry for maybe not being very clear, I'm still a newbie in frames...
The idea is to call from the iframe the parent window, there a function reload the frames that the parent (main window) contains and refresh them.
For example you can have this function on top window, that contains the iframe, to handle the refresh on all iframes.
function ReloadRestFrames(ButNotMe)
{
if(ButNotMe != 'iframe_a_id')
document.getElementById('iframe_a_id').contentWindow.location.reload();
if(ButNotMe != 'iframe_b_id')
document.getElementById('iframe_b_id').contentWindow.location.reload();
}
Then from the frame that you make the post back you call it on load as:
parent.ReloadRestFrames("iframe_a_id");
and this make all iframes (except the one that make the call) on the same page to reload.
Related:
Calling a parent window function from an iframe
What's the best way to reload / refresh an iframe using JavaScript?
How to refresh an IFrame using Javascript?
I am trying to download information from a website and I have hit (yet another) brick wall in a long and tiresome journey to get something productive developed.
I have a program which uses WebBrowser to login to a site - with a valid username and password - therby allowing me to set up a legitimate connection to it and retrieve information (my own) from it.
From the initial page presented to me after login, I can use WebBrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("A") and WebBrowser.Document.GetElementById("Some Id") etc. to work my way around the website, and processing all the DocumentCompleted events returned until ... I arrive at a page which appears to have a TabControl embedded in it.
I need to be able to choose the middle Tab of this control, and retrieve the information it holds. When I access this information 'normally' (i.e. from IE and not from my WebBrowser program) I can click each of the three tabs and information duly appears - so its there, tantalisingly so ... but can I manupulate these Tabs from my program? I feel it should be possible, but I can't see how I can do it.
The problem manifests itself because when I am processing the page which has the Tab in it my code looks like this:
static void wb_TabPage(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
WebBrowser wb = (WebBrowser)sender;
HtmlElement element;
element = wb.Document.GetElementById("Bills"); // Find the "Bills" tab
element.InvokeMember("Click"); // Click the "Bills" tab
// Unhook THIS routine from DocumentCompleted delivery
wb.DocumentCompleted -= new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(wb_TabPage);
// Hook up this routine - for the next 'Document Completed' delivery - which never arrives!
wb.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(wb_Bills);
return;
}
And that's the problem - no more Documents are ever 'Completed' for me to process, even after the InvokeMember("Click"). It seems for all the world that the Tabs are being updated inplace, and no amount of Refresh(ing) or Navigating or Event Handling will allow me to get to a place or in a position where I can get the data from them
Does anybody have any idea how I can do this? Does anybody know how to manipulate Tabs from WebBrowser? Thanks in advance if you do ...
Try using the findcontrol function on your page. You will likely need to drill into the tab control itself to find the tab page and the controls contained in it.