I want to make a QR Code that when scanned, takes the user to a random website from a pre-defined list.
My first attempt was to use a Google Scripts editor to create a Web App then link that to the QR from a generic QR Code generator, but the App can't be made available for public use and the script I run doesn't work. My next attempt was to use a basic website maker like Wix (So it automatically publishes a website that can be linked to the QR Code) and use HTML to make a button that does that, however the Wix webpage can never establish a connection to the sites I have.
This is a brief hobby project I have going on, so I am making attempts to not have to purchase a domain/I want to try and make this free.
You might find https://a.zat.is useful then. It should make it very easy to embed a small QR code for any URL. Let me know if you have any questions about its use ;)
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I'm a huge begginer in programming and I want help about coding mobile stuff.
Actually, I want to create a QR code which allows to add an icon linked to a web app.
For example, I want to add figma web app on my phone. Usually, I would go the website, choose the option "add on my homescreen" and validate my choice. But I want to minimize the steps by just scanning a qr code to directly have the choice to add the web app.
To illustrate :
1. figma website
2. go to the options to add an icon of figma on my homescreen
3. validate my choice
4. the app is on my homescreen !
But I want this :
1. scan the qr code
2. Validate the action
3. The app is on my homescreen !
I suppose that it would be different depending the os that I use but if I can configure a QR code for ios and one for android it would be perfect !
I've started to generate QR code and modify the encoded text but I've found nothing interesting. Maybe I just simply don't have the right to do this i don't know ?
Is it a story of URI scheme or deep link ?
Anyway thanks for the help, it's still interesting to improve knowledge on something that could work (or not!).
This article is useful, it worth to have a look: https://web.dev/customize-install/
Alright this is the method that I used:
The QR code should contain a URL with a parameter that can be used to indicate that the installation flow should start, something like www.myapp.com/dashboard?installPWA=true, once you scan the QR code this will redirect you to that page on your phone, in that page you need to have code to handle the installation, for instance you can have a button that it only shows when the installPWA parameter is true and the PWA is not installed yet, the button could have an event listener that will trigger the install prompt
button.addEventListener('click', function (e) {
// Show the install prompt
deferredPrompt.prompt();
});
using an approach like the button one is important because the prompt must be called with a user gesture (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/06/a2hs-updates)2, this mean the user need to actively click the button, you can just use different ways to promote your app to the user.
I found this free PWA https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com and now wonder how I could do one such myself.
Since I couldn't find any access to its source code I wondered if it'd be difficult to reverse engineer.
I'm interested in building a PWA with QRCode functionality.
This one was created with AngularJS v1.3.20. You can find the source in your console windows under Sources tab. You can easily beautify the code inside the window to make it readable.
If you want to know how they organized their rest API, the browser network tab will help a lot, just filter by XHR and examine all the call from the front end to be.
The front end is very hard to revers engineer, because most sites are served as minified bundles, so you can't see the original code.
You can however find some other information about what they used to build it, for example in the html source you can see some ng-* tags, which indicates that this is angular, you can also see that body has attribute data-ng-app meaning this is angularjs and so on.
For the QR logic you can see that there are no back end calls, meaning that it is written entirely in the client. I would search for already available solutions for that.
I have some basic questions that I couldn't figure out after searching for quite some time now. All tutorials and guides I've come across have the code already set up and I can't find them of much use. For instance, the Friend Smash example has the code integrated with buttons and other scripts that I can't use it in my own game.
I used Parse to upload my game and test it on facebook and it's working fine, but I want to add the social features to it (login, share, score etc.)
Picking up the code snippets that I'm supposed to use either brings me up errors (undefined variables etc.) or messes things up (I get the not-working, bugged login window on top of the running game inside Unity, while nothing happens if I build and run it).
Where am I supposed to put the code? For example:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/unity/reference/current/FB.Init
In the "Example" part, where am I supposed to put this line?
FB.Init(SetInit, OnHideUnity);
Same thing here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/unity/reference/current/FB.Feed
If I use the "Example" code as it is I get errors.
Do I have to use specific names for the scripts?
This is my first time uploading a game and trying to add social features to it so these questions may seem simple, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere.
You should create your own class instead of "Example" class, where you put all your Facebook specific functions. Then you should invoke your methods with your own components, buttons, triggers, whatever.
It is also you, who should take care of pausing the game while running social functions (login, share etc.).
I started looking into OwnCloud app development to add some capabilities I would like to my server. To me it seems like Apps can't modify anything like the Login page or User Management page. Is this the case?
I want to build a user registration app and would love to integrate it into the user management page (if not and it has to exist as its own app page not a big deal). The one big problem I see so far is not being able to add a "Register" link to the login page. I could just go in and add it to the source manually, but I would like to keep the App self contained so others can use it too.
If this is not possible to do in an App I may just need to modify the core application and then see if they will accept my feature addition in a pull request.
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this for me. I don't want to waste my time trying to figure out how to do it with an App on the platform if it wont be doable.
After a lot of digging around I did figure out a way to do this.
In the App's app.php file, you can force a script to be loaded if the plugin is enabled:
$api->addScript('script_name'); // without .js
In that script jQuery can be used to add the elements to the page where you need them.
This was a good solution for me since I only needed to add a single button to the login page. I can see this being a bad idea if you want to make vast modifications. At that point you might as well just create a separate page that you have full control over.
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.