I have a question about Use Quick View with Any File:

I would like to call Quick view from a program to read the data in a file. I am new to programming and do not know how all interfaces work. This is what I would like to do (I hope it is correct and can be done): 1. Open a file in MY Documents using QuickView. 2. Read that file for processing 3. Later on I would like to access that file directly from another web site without having to do it manually. Could someone help me with this. I am using JavaScript and any sample code would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help in advance, Vernon

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What you are trying to achieve is not clear.......to me anyway.

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I have developed a program for handicapping. However, rather than input the data manually, I have subscribed to a service which has the data in raw format which, if I can open the file (I was given the layout), then I can automatically retrieve just the data that I need for my calculations. Using Quick View, I am able to view the raw data, but when I try to open same I fail. I have tried C:\...\...\filename in the address bar, but get a message that access is denied. I have spoken with their tech people and they stated that I must open it using my program, but that is where I am lost. I hope this helps you, and you can give me a command that I can use in my code to open the file. Thanks, Vernon


On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 1:16 pm, KeithT wrote:
>What you are trying to achieve is not clear.......to me anyway.
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I think this is something only you & the tech people can thrash out between you,
I doubt Quick View is of any use to you.

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Quickview will only read local files. Javascript will not help
since for security reasons it cannot read or write to files.
You should be able to copy and paste the data from the
screen into a text file, from which you could then
manually extract them, though any formatting, tabular or 
otherwise, would be lost.

Unless the independent data items contain no spaces
it would be difficult to parse the file automatically to
extact each item as a separate entity. 

From what you say, it appears you retrieve the data in 
the form of a Web page. It seems likely, therefore that
they are displayed as a table. If so, it is theoretically
possible to save the HTML code from your Web browser 
as a text file and then write a program to parse the 
file to extract the rows and cells of the HTML table.
However it seems pretty clear you do not have the 
programming skills necessary to do this. 

All in all, you would be better off following the first 
suggestion and simply copy-paste the data block from 
the browser into a text file (Notepad should be adeqate 
for this unless the volume of data exceeds 64KB) and 
then processing it by hand.

Without more detailed information on how you retrieve
the raw data if in fact it is not as a Web page, it is not 
possible to give you any further advice. For example, do 
you actually download the data as a file, such as Excel, 
CSV delimited text, or what?

(Incidentally, this is not really a topic for this forum,
which is specifically for Win98-related matters. You
would probably be better off consulting a programming
forum.)







On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 1:21 pm, Vernon wrote:

>I have developed a program for handicapping. However, rather than input the data 

>manually, I have subscribed to a service which has the data in raw format which, 

>if I can open the file (I was given the layout), then I can automatically retrieve 

>just the data that I need for my calculations.  Using Quick View, I am able to view 

>the raw data, but when I try to open same I fail.  I have tried C:\...\...\filename 

>in the address bar, but get a message that access is denied.

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>I have spoken with their tech people and they stated that I must open it using my 

>program, but that is where I am lost.

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>I hope this helps you, and you can give me a command that I can use in my code to 

>open the file.

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>Thanks,

>Vernon

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