A ClientForm Question

[narke]

Does anyone here use ClientForm to handle a HTML form on client side?

I got a form, within which there is a image control, it direct me to
another page if i use mouse click on it. the code of the form as
below:

<form name="ZoomContr ol1:Form1" method="post"
action="CDocZ_M AG.aspx?Stat=Do cZoom_DocZoom&a mp;&amp;E=29YL5 3ZJBIEZ&amp;DT= ALB&amp;Pass=&a mp;Total=104&am p;Pic=1&amp;o="
id="ZoomControl 1_Form1" onkeydown="Java Script:Navigati on_ie();">

....

<input type="image" name="ZoomContr ol1:Imagebutton 2" onclick="if
(typeof(Page_Cl ientValidate) == 'function') Page_ClientVali date(); "
language="javas cript" id="ZoomControl 1_Imagebutton2"
src="../Images/Btn_GoImage.gif " border="0" />&nbsp;

....

</form>

So write below code to 'click' the image button,

forms = ParseResponse(u rlopen(url))

form = forms[0]
urlopen(form.cl ick("ZoomContro l1:Imagebutton2 "))

unfortunatly, however, when the code run, it just got a page which is
not the one i desired ( i actually wish to get the same page as i
'click' the button). I guess that is "onclick=" statement cause
something weird, but I do not understand it. And, in the source
containing the form, i found nowhere the Page_ClientVali date() resides.

What's wrong?

-
narke

[Francesco]

Re: A ClientForm Question

Il Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:36:24 -0800, narke ha scritto:
[color=blue]
> Does anyone here use ClientForm to handle a HTML form on client side?
>
> I got a form, within which there is a image control, it direct me to
> another page if i use mouse click on it. the code of the form as
> below:
>
> <form name="ZoomContr ol1:Form1" method="post"
> action="CDocZ_M AG.aspx?Stat=Do cZoom_DocZoom&a mp;&amp;E=29YL5 3ZJBIEZ&amp;DT= ALB&amp;Pass=&a mp;Total=104&am p;Pic=1&amp;o="
> id="ZoomControl 1_Form1" onkeydown="Java Script:Navigati on_ie();">
>
> ...
>
> <input type="image" name="ZoomContr ol1:Imagebutton 2" onclick="if
> (typeof(Page_Cl ientValidate) == 'function') Page_ClientVali date(); "
> language="javas cript" id="ZoomControl 1_Imagebutton2"
> src="../Images/Btn_GoImage.gif " border="0" />&nbsp;
>
> ...
>
> </form>
>
> So write below code to 'click' the image button,
>
> forms = ParseResponse(u rlopen(url))
>
> form = forms[0]
> urlopen(form.cl ick("ZoomContro l1:Imagebutton2 "))
>
> unfortunatly, however, when the code run, it just got a page which is
> not the one i desired ( i actually wish to get the same page as i
> 'click' the button). I guess that is "onclick=" statement cause
> something weird, but I do not understand it. And, in the source
> containing the form, i found nowhere the Page_ClientVali date() resides.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> -
> narke[/color]

Similar problem for me.
In the form, i have
<input type="button" value="entra" class="button"
onClick="docume nt.UserForm.sub mit()">
and i don't know how to click this.
urlopen(form.cl ick()) doesn't nothing.
UserForm is the name of the form.

Francesco

[John J. Lee]

Re: A ClientForm Question

Francesco <francesco@f0x. it> writes:
[color=blue]
> Il Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:36:24 -0800, narke ha scritto:
>[color=green]
> > Does anyone here use ClientForm to handle a HTML form on client side?[/color][/color]

Yes. :-)

[...][color=blue][color=green]
> > forms = ParseResponse(u rlopen(url))
> >
> > form = forms[0]
> > urlopen(form.cl ick("ZoomContro l1:Imagebutton2 "))
> >
> > unfortunatly, however, when the code run, it just got a page which is
> > not the one i desired ( i actually wish to get the same page as i
> > 'click' the button). I guess that is "onclick=" statement cause
> > something weird, but I do not understand it. And, in the source
> > containing the form, i found nowhere the Page_ClientVali date() resides.[/color][/color]

Learn JS ;-/ Could be lots of things, read these:

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/index.html#faq

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/doc.html#debugging

[color=blue]
> Similar problem for me.
> In the form, i have
> <input type="button" value="entra" class="button"
> onClick="docume nt.UserForm.sub mit()">
> and i don't know how to click this.
> urlopen(form.cl ick()) doesn't nothing.
> UserForm is the name of the form.[/color]

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/index.html#faq

See second bullet point under "Why does .click()ing on a button not
work for me?".


John

[narke]

Re: A ClientForm Question

John J. Lee wrote,
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> See second bullet point under "Why does .click()ing on a button not[/color]
work for me?".

Thanks for you advice. However, after read through the FAQs, I have not
managed to find a solution for my problem. I belive my button is
coupled with some Java script which mess thing up and there is no a
easy solution. Am I right?

-
narke

[Satchidanand Haridas]

Re: A ClientForm Question

Hi,

ClientForm and Mechanize like tools do not execute javascript . You will
normally have to do them manually in your python code itself. In your
case, if you have a button, which (and I assume) executes some
javascript code that sets some hidden variable and/or changes the
'action' attribute of the form, you will have to change/assign those
elements in your python code itself.

ClientForm and mechanize can get tedious to use when one has a lot of
JavaScript functionality in the form.

Hope this answered your question... :-)

regards,
Satchit


narke wrote:
[color=blue]
>John J. Lee wrote,
>
>
>[color=green]
>>See second bullet point under "Why does .click()ing on a button not
>>
>>[/color]
>work for me?".
>
>Thanks for you advice. However, after read through the FAQs, I have not
>managed to find a solution for my problem. I belive my button is
>coupled with some Java script which mess thing up and there is no a
>easy solution. Am I right?
>
>-
>narke
>
>
>[/color]

[John J. Lee]

Re: A ClientForm Question

"narke" <steven@lczmsof t.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> John J. Lee wrote,
>[color=green]
> > See second bullet point under "Why does .click()ing on a button not[/color]
> work for me?".
>
> Thanks for you advice. However, after read through the FAQs, I have not
> managed to find a solution for my problem. I belive my button is
> coupled with some Java script which mess thing up and there is no a
> easy solution. Am I right?[/color]

Yes.


John