Using javascript in the browser's console (firefox), I can do:
document.activeElement.placeholder
If the mouse cursor is in the StackOverflow search bar, the code above returns:
"Search…"
I can achieve the same using Parenscript with:
(ps:chain document active-element placeholder)
Is it possible to achieve the same output using CL Plump (manual) and/or Clss (manual) instead of Parenscript?
If so, how to do it?
I have tried finding this on the documentation references above but I could not find it. I am new to CL, though. Maybe I missed something.
Thanks.
When using Parenscript you are using the browser engine through JavaScript. The browser has a concept of user interaction, such as focus, on top of the model representing the document itself.
Plump and CLSS are not browser engines. They only have an object model of the HTML document they have parsed. They do not model anything like user interaction, so they also do not have something like the »active element«.
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Doesn't vscode support creating element and DOM manipulations? I've read the api referrence but cannot figure out how to get the handle of document. I'm looking for something equivalent to workspaceElement = atom.views.getView(atom.workspace) in atom.
VSCode does not expose the DOM, the only DOM manipulations that can be performed are through the API calls like decorations. Here is a sample of the decorator API in action https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/tree/master/decorator-sample
The primary reason for not allowing direct manipulation of the DOM is to improve the speed and stability of the editor.
I'm currently working with a HUGE javascript object and i'm lost when i'm on a function...
I've no information about this function (his parent, etc..)
I want to know if someone have a trick to get more information.
Outline (CTRL+R) is a good thing but too lite for this type of document.
Maybe a plugin?
Thank's
You can try ShowFunctionName. It's supposed to display the function name in the status bar. I haven't tested it, but I skimmed through the source. It looks for a particular scope, starting from the current cursor location, moving backwards. I don't know of anything off hand that goes beyond the first "function name", but I wouldn't be surprised if someone built a plugin to do that.
We are develpoing a web-based automation solution for a web application that is built using ExtJs.
Currently i am testing various different object identification techniques that identify web elements in the best way.
We'd like to use the IE developer tools (F12) to highlight and select DOM objects on the page, and (somehow) get their corresponding ExtJs component (along with its corresponding properties, such as itemId).
Is this possible to do through code or through some other technique?
I am unfamiliar with IE Dev tools for such things, however I can attempt to answer targeting specific components and their elements.
You can target Ext components via several ways:
Ext.ComponentQuery.query(CQselector) method (see docs for examples)
Ext.getCmp(componentID) if you know component ID
up() and down() methods from any container/component. these also take CQselector expressions
Any of these methods are accessible from the page since Ext library is loaded. In browsers like FF and Chrome you can execute these methods directly from the console. I am guessing similarly they should be available in IE Dev tools.
Once you have reference to the Ext component you can get HTML elements through .dom or .el or similar properties. Or you could use Dom query directly.
I believe that if you set the id property rather than the itemId, you can achieve the desired result as this is passed through as the html id property of the top level container for the component (I think!). It's a little complicated to get that to work with accuracy though given the amount of nested divs/tables that are used in most of the extjs components. Good luck!
Hard to tell what you're looking for, but if you're trying to get a reference to an Ext.Component that is rendered, you can look for the wrapper node for your component in the HTML structure. The HTML id is the same as the component id. If you run var comp = Ext.getCmp('some-id-12345') and if that returns something, you've found the wrapper for an Ext.Component.
You could then use
comp.itemId
To retrieve the itemId
You should look into http://www.illuminations-for-developers.com/ A plugin for firebug that shows Ext.Components.
You can also use the Sencha Page Analyzer to see the entire component tree
My problem is very similar to the one posted here:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Plotting-Addresses-Maps-t1968130.html
except that thread never found any solutions. Basically, I'm working on an Access form that has a datasheet as a subform. Upon clicking a button on the main form I'm trying to make it so that a browser window opens up and, using the address columns from the spreadsheet data in the subform, plot all the address markers listed. I've looked up a lot of ways to attempt this but I've yet to find a way that seems to work.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to plot multiple markers on Google Maps, but according to research (and after trying it myself) it seems like it isn't, although I don't want to rule it out entirely because I'm still not 100% sure. However I know both Google Earth and batchgeo.com do allow this. I still want to try and do this on Google Maps, but if that doesn't work I want to try to do it using batchgeo.com and if that still doesn't work, then Google Earth (I don't want to make the user download external software if possible).
If it helps, from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to embed to already existing websites.
I'd really appreciate if someone could help me figure out how to approach this problem!
Maybe this would help?
http://ramblings.mcpher.com/Home/excelquirks/getmaps/mapmarkers
It is Excel but should be translatable.
Here is another example, this time using Access:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Google-Maps-Multiple-Mar-t1973499.html
...from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not
sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to
embed to already existing websites.
You're right. There's no way, that I'm aware of, to embed a Google Maps object in a form (like an ActiveX control). Microsoft MapPoint is a software product that lets you do Map integration by way of an ActiveX control (no need to use HTML and/or javascript).
What I usually do on a project like you're working on is I get my HTML page working the way I want it to, outside and independent of MS Access. You should be able to program and test the HTML file locally without having to use an actual web server. Just use something like NotePad++ or Sublime Text Editor 2 to write your HTML and Javascript and then open the file in your browser to see if it works. I'm quite sure you'll need to use Javascript in your HTML page to make this work. That's what the Google Maps API is all about.
After you have your webpage working, then you will have to go into Access and write code to create that web page on the fly with the address data for the current data set. You can just write it out to the Windows Temp folder and then open your browser control that that web page.
Julian Knight's answer links to more specifics on how to create the HTML page on the fly. It looks like gobble-de-gook, mostly because it is. Outputting HTML/Javascript/CSS from VBA is far less than optimal. This is why you troubleshoot it outside of Access, as much as you can.
Now that I can navigate a Web page via WWW::Mechanize and get information via HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath by accessing an id, I am left using Firebug to read the DOM in order to discover the layout of the HTML tree. The content that Mechanize captures is unstructured HTML, not good for human eyes.
Is using Firebug to ascertain the id I am after a typical approach? Once I get the id then I'm good to go, it's just that I've got several ids and pages with more ids to chase down and I was hoping to get (dump, print, etc.) a formatted layout of the DOM in order to make that discovery easier. Though granted, Firebug makes it pretty easy, too. I'm just wondering if I am missing an easier method.
Crossposted at PerlMonks.
If you need text, xmllint --html --format (comes with libxml2) does a decent job.
If you want a tree and mess with it and test out various expressions in a GUI, then Xacobeo is your new best friend.
Note: since both those tools rely on libxml, replace HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath with HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML for compatibility. Evaluating XPath will be faster that way, too.
If you know Javascript/JQuery, then also install FireQuery. You can then test out CSS expressions in FireBug, and use them with modules that select HTML through CSS expressions, e.g. Web::Query.
I use XML Developer from Oxygen IDE for my recent development on XPath:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
It is a 30-day trial type of tool, but you can also search for XPath visualizer
It doesn't visualize a tree for you as far as I know (maybe there's a panel doing that). But it gives you some smart complete functionally that helps you to know what nodes you have available at any point. It is pretty big for XPath because it is hard to know where the parser pivot is really pointing at.