Send Arguments (payloads) to Girder from HTML?

[grabtv]

Okay, I know how to send events to Girder using the <a href="javascript:document.title='GirderEventName'; "> trick.

Now, the question is: Is it possible for me to send arguments (payloads) along with an event using HTML (JavaScript/Flash)?

The idea is to create a host HTML document with a text form field that can send arguments to Girder:

<form name="userInput">
<input type="text" name="inputText">
<input type="button" value="Send Text" onClick="sendEvent&#40;document.forms&#91;'userInput'&#93;.elements&#91;'inputText'&#93;.value&#41;;">
</form>

....where sendEvent() would be a generic function that receives its value from the text field 'inputText' and sends it to Girder as arguments (payloads) upon the event.

Anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this?

[Promixis]

grabtv, have a look at http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32151#32151 for a different approach.

[grabtv]

grabtv, have a look at http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32151#32151 for a different approach.

Thanks, Mike C! 8)

I also found some answers after a bit of digging at: http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2737

You can also do this:

This sends an event with payloads 1 and 2

You then only have to retrieve the [pld1] and [pld2] values!

What I plan to do is this:
--Create an HTML text input field using HTMLOSD
--Initialize the Microsoft Windows XP Language Bar and set it to "Dictation" mode
--Talk into my microphone, and have my words appear on the VFD of my HTPC case!

OH, HAPPY DAY!!!

[miked]

--Talk into my microphone, and have my words appear on the VFD of my HTPC case!

I could imagine some spooky applications for this! Forget the VFD, get a wireless mic, and have the words overlaid on your TV screen with an XBob from www.decadenet.com. Bring your technophobe friends over, and show them how you have "become one with the TV," so that anything you say is printed on the TV screen.

[grabtv]

I could imagine some spooky applications for this! Forget the VFD, get a wireless mic, and have the words overlaid on your TV screen with an XBob from www.decadenet.com. Bring your technophobe friends over, and show them how you have "become one with the TV," so that anything you say is printed on the TV screen.

GWAHAHAHAHAHA..... *chokes* .....WAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!1111

[Haddood]

it is a great idea grabtv, another great application for it, is to get this HTMLOSD pop up using the speech plug in (functions as getting attension of your pc), then you speak what you like, and make a script that will trigger different events and you got girder doing complex speech recognition .....

if you got it done, would you care to share the code ... :roll:

[Promixis]

it is a great idea grabtv, another great application for it, is to get this HTMLOSD pop up using the speech plug in (functions as getting attension of your pc), then you speak what you like, and make a script that will trigger different events and you got girder doing complex speech recognition .....

if you got it done, would you care to share the code ... :roll:

You can do this using MSAgent - see the Luacom thread above

[grabtv]

Actually, you can use the Microsoft Language Bar OR Dragon Naturally Speaking to convert speech to text.

All I plan to do is have a generic form text area--so, in essence, you could also type-in what you want to display as well!

[Haddood]

it is a great idea grabtv, another great application for it, is to get this HTMLOSD pop up using the speech plug in (functions as getting attension of your pc), then you speak what you like, and make a script that will trigger different events and you got girder doing complex speech recognition .....

if you got it done, would you care to share the code ... :roll:

You can do this using MSAgent - see the Luacom thread above

hey Mike
i guess if it is up to you, you will go and write an OS with LUA com(though it is not possible by defenition), man give me a break, I am not familiar with com, and I do scripting in a very limited time frame .... What i loved about girder it is that you can do alot of stuff visually you don't have to dump long code then suffer debugging it ... and i hope it will not loose this in favor for LUA or LUA com ... as it will loose alot of users
greatings and i hope you will not hate me :-?

[Promixis]

[quote="Haddoodhey Mike
i guess if it is up to you, you will go and write an OS with LUA com(though it is not possible by defenition), man give me a break, I am not familiar with com, and I do scripting in a very limited time frame .... What i loved about girder it is that you can do alot of stuff visually you don't have to dump long code then suffer debugging it ... and i hope it will not loose this in favor for LUA or LUA com ... as it will loose alot of users
greatings and i hope you will not hate me :-?[/quote]

The beauty of COM is that it opens up many more possibilities for doing things that were previously not possible. Don't worry about the "visual" approach of Girder is this is what most users use. But for those that want to do more advanced things, Lua and LuaCOM are the way to go.