On 27 Feb 2012, at 00:52, Kay C Lan wrote: > If I manually enter the pdf file I wish to convert, from the resulting web > page I can see how I can use LC to download the converted text file, what I > don't know is how to us LC to feed the website my pdf file so I can > automate the entire process. > > I can see: > onload="document.theForm.stdin.focus()" > form name = "theForm" > method="post" > enctype="multipart/form-data" > action="pdf2txt.htm" > input type="file" > name="stdin" > > I'm assuming I use the LC 'post' command, but the example in the LC > Dictionary is rather basic, my knowledge of Javascript nonexistent, so > apart from using URLEncode to encode the pathname because it contains /, I > don't know what of the above I need to include in post, and where I > substitute the actual pathname to the file I wish to convert.
You'll need to use libURLMultipartFormData for this. Try something like this: on mouseUp answer file "" ## select the pdf file put it into tFilePath if tFilePath is empty then exit mouseUp put "http://www.fileformat.info/convert/doc/pdf2txt.htm"; into tUrl put empty into tForm put "<file>" & tFilePath into tFile if libURLMultipartFormData(tForm, "stdin", tFile) is not empty then answer it ##error else set the httpHeaders to line 1 of tForm post line 2 to -1 of tForm to url tUrl put it into field 1 -- or whatever if the result is not empty then answer the result end if set the httpHeaders to empty end if end mouseUp I tried it and it seems to work, but it returns an html page from which you need to extract the url which will download the text file. Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
