capture textarea data

capture textarea data

• Rick_ETF

  Hi Robert,

  I looked at NetSnippets and that is nothing like what I want the program to do.

  My idea is to capture data entered into a textarea element in a web form on submission. During my own research I encountered the excellent site codeprojects.com and also was looking at the IE extensions section on msdn.com where I read concerning the *.dll's used by IE. I learn by example and have yet to find the right code snippet that shows how to hook the textarea data on submission.

  Another problem is finding a user-able way of integrating such a 'log' function into a Website forum software (such as phpBB or vBulletin) so that perhaps a record of the thread or at least active thread URL is recorded alongside the textarea data.

  I want the log to record without user interaction, such as a background process, as most logs happen without the user having to think about the logger. This project is going to be shelved until a) someone else writes a working program for me to use(!) b) I find some spare time from religious studies.

  Thanks all the same. But I am also finding the current state of internet 'programming' makes most my ideas for advancing the net invalid. Such as HTML. HTML is not the best DTP software I ever come across.

  Personally, I would like to 're-invent' the net altogether. The server client model is fine, and in fact servers do not interest me but its the clients end. Why does the browser process HTML, why not software objects

  I keep thinking to myself of a book I wrote many years ago when I was a child. The book was called 'Lost' and it concerned Islands as concepts. Each island is a concept in itself.

  Therefore, why can not we create the Internet as we do our programming software Make it into 'islands' for us to visit and to feel Lost roaming the vista

  There would be modules - or web objects - that are reusable and a central database to download and using these web objects in your own designs to create an interactive site. Such as a simple menu 'code'. I remember a code in 'javascript' that would fade up and down the color of a document anchor (a link). This code could be written in a library or as a web object to be reused on other sites but instead of having to wade through 1000's of lines of code the 'link fader' object would only require the color values and speed of fade to be used for a link.

  Think, like, oh, right mouse click link, select from list of effects 'fade' and attach object fade to link and assign properties.

  This is much better than the state of affairs we have today on the net with all the CSS hacks and javascript hacks and so forth. Kinda like a visualBasic for the web designer!

  
  

• tribal

  Hi Obrzut,

  Where do I start... Whats your development language.... There is the excellent ATL Bho example at thecodeproject.com that implements ISetSite (the hook into IE), from which you can hook into the 'document' object (use the mshtml.dll library) and then enum the DOM to find all textarea tags and then read the innertext property to capture the entered text, or the innerhtml property to capture the entered RTF code.

  I don't see the point though of retaining a client copy of a forum post, as the news server should have message redundency and backup. Messenging programs like Trillian have logs that you can view to review your message history and there are capture bhos like Netsnippets and Portfolio that allow you to capture screen images or text snippets from web forms.

  Regards.

  
  
  
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