javascript filename

[mgershma@hotmail.com]

Hi.

Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
it's
located in?

For example, file 'mike.js' contains several functions and
variables. I would like to set the variable to the filename of this
file dynamically:

var sourceFileName = "mike.js";




Thank you in advance,


Mike




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[Stephen Chalmers]

Re: javascript filename


<mgershma@hotma il.com> wrote in message news:1123611749 .356860.138810@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> Hi.
>
> Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
> it's
> located in?
>
> For example, file 'mike.js' contains several functions and
> variables. I would like to set the variable to the filename of this
> file dynamically:
>
> var sourceFileName = "mike.js";
>[/color]

Once loaded from a .js file, a script becomes a part of the document that loaded it, just as if the script had been
coded directly into the document at the position of the <script src=...> tag.
After loading the script from an external file, no further reference is made to that file or its contents.
Yes - really.

--
Stephen Chalmers

[RobG]

Re: javascript filename

mgershma@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi.
>
> Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
> it's
> located in?[/color]

You could try removing script elements with src attributes one at a time
then call the function. If the call fails you could guess that the
failure was because you removed that particular element. But it would
not be very pretty or robust I expect.
[color=blue]
>
> For example, file 'mike.js' contains several functions and
> variables. I would like to set the variable to the filename of this
> file dynamically:
>
> var sourceFileName = "mike.js";
>[/color]

You can create new script elements and give them a src attribute that
contains the URI of a script file:

var oScript = document.create Element('script ');
oScript.type = 'text/javascript';
oScript.src = 'mike.js';
document.body.a ppendChild( oScript );


--
Rob

[Csaba Gabor]

Re: javascript filename

mgershma@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
> it's located in?[/color]

I didn't try this, but...
script elements live under the documentElement element, regardless of
where they're defined in the document. So you might think to fish them
all out with
getElementsByTa gName. Furthermore, script elements are created at the
time they are encountered.

Therefore, you could place code at the top of your .js file to iterate
through all the current script elements and take the last one
encountered. Then check the .src on that element:

var aScripts;
aScripts=docume nt.documentElem ent.getElements ByTagName('scri pt');
var lastIdx;
for (var idx in aScripts) lastIdx=idx;
alert ("I'm in " + aScripts[idx].src);

Hope it helps,
Csaba Gabor from Vienna

[huchengtw@gmail.com]

Re: javascript filename

Dear,

Using oScript.src may be a great solution to solve it. But, in my
experience, HTML Document in IE will download it asynchronously. So, if
you set oScript.src and evaluate the variables or functions
immediately, you will get an undefined exception.

Because my js just runs in IE. So, I use an ActiveX Object (XMLHTTP
object) to download the source code. After I get the source code, I
append it to oScript.text. In this way, IE will load these source code
immediately, and you can use them right now.

ex:

var objHTTP = new ActiveXObject(" Msxml2.XMLHTTP. 4.0");
objHTTP.open("G ET", filename, false);
objHTTP.send();
if(objHTTP.read yState == 4)
{
oScript.text=oS cript.text + objHTTP.respons eText;
}

var oObj=eval(funct ion name);


RobG 寫道：
[color=blue]
> mgershma@hotmai l.com wrote:[color=green]
> > Hi.
> >
> > Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
> > it's
> > located in?[/color]
>
> You could try removing script elements with src attributes one at a time
> then call the function. If the call fails you could guess that the
> failure was because you removed that particular element. But it would
> not be very pretty or robust I expect.
>[color=green]
> >
> > For example, file 'mike.js' contains several functions and
> > variables. I would like to set the variable to the filename of this
> > file dynamically:
> >
> > var sourceFileName = "mike.js";
> >[/color]
>
> You can create new script elements and give them a src attribute that
> contains the URI of a script file:
>
> var oScript = document.create Element('script ');
> oScript.type = 'text/javascript';
> oScript.src = 'mike.js';
> document.body.a ppendChild( oScript );
>
>
> --
> Rob[/color]

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: javascript filename

JRS: In article <1123611749.356 860.138810@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>
, dated Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:22:29, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript,
mgershma@hotmai l.com <mgershma@hotma il.com> posted :[color=blue]
>
> Does anybody know how can JavaScript get the filename of the file
>it's
>located in?
>
> For example, file 'mike.js' contains several functions and
>variables. I would like to set the variable to the filename of this
>file dynamically:
>
> var sourceFileName = "mike.js";[/color]

Include that statement in that file, preferably at the beginning.

If you vary file-names in an arbitrary fashion, write a simple tool on
your editing system that updates such lines at need.

If one Web page calls more than one *.js file, the variable will hold
the name of the most recently invoked file.


Alternatively : the name of the *.js file is given by being included in
an HTML "statement" such as
<script type="text/javascript" src="include1.j s"></script> .

Rather than writing that all literally in HTML, write it with javascript
using a variable for the file name.

<script type="text/javascript">
St = "include1.j s"
document.writel n(
'<script type="text/javascript" src="', St, '"><\/script>')
</script>

Test :
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write( LZ.toString())
</script>

That, for me, writes the code of LZ (which is in include1.js), showing
that a file whose name is given by St has been included.

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