How to detect if html was opened as a webdialog

Jim

I have a javascript/html application (.hta) that runs as an independent application. Is there a way to have it detect if were opened as a webdialog via SketchUp?

I tried to test the skp: protocol, but that opened a new window.

if (window.location="skp:")
// webdialog
else
// sketchup not available

Jim

Darn, Thom must have left work and be out drinking beer and eating cookies already.

Anyhow, for future reference I ended up checking the window.location.href - which is a file path in both sketchup and the .hta. The webdialog uses a .htm file and the hta uses the same file renamed to .hta. If the filename extension is .htm, sketchup is available.

thomthom

I was drinking beer and playing poker. ...and lost...

@jim said:

I tried to test the skp: protocol, but that opened a new window.

if (window.location="skp:")

You're assigning window.location to "skp:" - you used a single =
Like ruby, you must use == to test for equality.

@jim said:

Anyhow, for future reference I ended up checking the window.location.href - which is a file path in both sketchup and the .hta. The webdialog uses a .htm file and the hta uses the same file renamed to .hta. If the filename extension is .htm, sketchup is available.

I don't quite get that. You have a .hta application, you also use that in a Webdialog. You use WebDialog.set_file("myHTA.hta") and window.location.href = "myHTA.htm" ??

Jim

Thanks Thomas,

I've thought some more and decided I am taking the wrong path. Better to separate out the common features from the sketchup/non-sketchup features; and only include what we need.

thomthom

Now I'm curious to what you're cooking.

Jim

I've been helping Chris Glasier.

chrisglasier

@thomthom said:

You have a .hta application, you also use that in a Webdialog. You use WebDialog.set_file("myHTA.hta") and window.location.href = "myHTA.htm" ??

Firstly as htas are not compatible with Macs we thought we ought to try and get a WD version working for them.

Secondly we know we can launch Sketchup from an hta but we haven't got as far as seeing how to manipulate within it preferably from a single plan/do interface.

Anyway thanks again for your help. I thought you deserved some kind of explanation.

Regards

Chris