Chris, I think I understand your cross-domain issues now. It's strange
that you can see the values for window.parent.location in firebug, but
you can't set a javascript value with window.parent.location.search.
It doesn't even seem like you can construct a valid URL in Orkut.
On Dec 4, 8:26 pm, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe this is the wrong place to ask this, i'm not sure if the
> question is the same, but it sounds somewhat similar to my problem.
>
> What i want to do is have clickable links on my gadget view page,
> which link to the canvas view page, with the page for the selected
> element shown.
>
> To accomplish this i've first retrieved the appId (thru some silly
> hacks, more on this later), and then i retrieved theUIDfor the link
> (more silly hacks, more on this later too). With it i have now
> constructed a valid /Application.aspx?appid=abc&uid=def link, set
> target to _top ... and presto, a link to the canvas page.
>
> However the trouble i already ran into before, is that if i do a :
> console.log(window.parent.location);
> everything is peachy ... however a:
> console.log(window.parent.location.search);
> makes firefox stop @ that code ... presumably this is the cross domain
> security, since the iframe of the gadget is on a different domain then
> orkut.com, so access might be restricted right?
>
> I've worked around this problem of getting theUIDfrom the
> parent.location by abusing the owner's profile URL and doing
> a .replace('Profile','Application') on it, to hack a valid URL
> together ... this of course isnt really a viable long term solution
> but a bad hack.
>
> Now i'm running into the same problem again, since i want to add a
> "&selected=ghij" to the URL, and in my open social application, use
> this value to know what i should be showing ... but i can't access it
> properly without firefox interrupting the javascript execution due to
> the cross domain issues..
>
> So my question comes down to:
>
> How to make a link to:
>
> /Application.aspx?uid=ABC&appid=def&selected&ghi
>
> and how to access the selected get param? or is this simply not
> possible at the moment?
>
> It's kind of important for the design of the application flow choices
> for me :-)
>
> oh and about the silly hack for the appid ... i should be able to do
> something like:
> var stream = response.get('activities');
> var appId = stream.getField(opensocial.Stream.Field.APP_ID);
>
> this fails because .getField() isnt a function on this object so i
> looked @ the stream object and hacked around it by using:
> var stream = response.get('activities');
> var appId = stream.getData().requestedStream.params.appId;
>
> dirty as can be, and very much not intended i think, however it works
> for now until there's new docs on what to do, or the original example
> works :-) If anyone has a cleaner solution i'd be much obliged.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Chris Chabot
>
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:52 PM, aplicativos.globo wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > If got it right you want to link to your app in canvas/profile to a
> > specific "page" of your app.
>
> > If you're using your gadget as html content, the API will place your
> > code in an iframe therefore if you create the link you need and use
> > window.parent.location you'll get the browser to open the link you
> > created, if you only use window.location you get the result you
> > described.
>
> > Did it help?
>
> > Vanessa.
>
> > On Dec 3, 5:26 am, nands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi ,
> >> I'm trying to link the multiple pages of my application on the
> >> canvas.
> >> I tried using the tip where one or more arguments could be passed and
> >> the passed values could be used to load a new page.
> >>http://sandbox.orkut.com/Application.aspx?
> >> appId=<your_application_id>&up_path=about
>
> >> Now this link was a href so when click, the complete container page
> >> (in my case Orkut ) page opens inside my canvas.Basically the full
> >> orkut page opens up inside another...which is not what we want here.
>
> >> I need a way to browse through the multiple pages of the application
> >> easily and if possible pass a few values using GET.
>
> >> One way I thought of is that we put the full html code of every page
> >> in seperate div elements in a single file and hide/unhide them or
> >> fetch data to populate them as and when required depending on user
> >> actions through javascript handlers. This renders the page static.
>
> >> Otherway I have figured out is the fetch data from _IG_FetchContent
> >> and use innerHTML inside specific sections of my page to load
> >> complete
> >> html retrieved from remote server. In this case all the hrefs will be
> >> handled by onclick javascript functions.
>
> >> Lastly, we can do it dynamically using createElement and removeChild
> >> methods to generate the complete page.
> >> These all seem to work but are not convincing.. is there a
> >> better way to do it ?
> >> Thanks.
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