HTML commands

Thu May 16 16:47:39 PDT 2013

Also, Chris, I should mention that one advantage of using filepro's file 
I/O functions over just "html" or "jsfile" is that you then also have a 
convenient way to easily test if there was a problem opening the output 
file before you attempt to write to it (using the return value of the 
open function, and then maybe updating a log file with the problem).

Bruce

On 5/16/13 7:21 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
> Chris, with version 5.014 of filepro, if, for example, ab is a dummy
> field, you can use:
>
> Then:  html :tx ab
>
> or
>
> Then: jsfile :tx ab
>
> to output just about any value of ab as-is.
>
> BUT you need to be consistent for each output document that you are
> outputting - that is open, write to, then close the output file with one
> technique or the other - don't mix html commands with jsfile commands
> with filepro's file functions.
>
> BUT, just opening and writing one line with "html :cr"  html :tx yyyyy,
> and closing it with "html :cl", will create  five lines of output with
> the <HTML>, <HEAD>, </HEAD> and </HTML> being supplied by filepro
> automatically.
>
> I prefer to have total control of the output, so I use jsfile which only
> outputs the lines for which I used a "jsfile :tx" command.  So for
> instance if I am creating an input form, I will do so with some code
> like this:
>
> @menu  Then:  '<some parsing routine perhaps to parse input data from
> previous input form request>
>
>                Then:  '<some transaction processing perhaps based on what
> was parsed - i.e., maybe updating a record>
>
>                Then:  jsfile :cr "somedir/somefile"
>
>                Then:  jsfile :tx "blah blah blah"  'where this is
> everything for the doc - headers, JS, CSS, HTML, etc.
>                            (and this could be hundreds of lines starting
> with just "jsfile :tx" to output the entire html document)
>                Then:  jsfile :cr-       'finally close the file like this
>
>                Then:  'maybe some commands here to close files opened by
> lookups if needed, then
>
>                Then:  exit
>
> So this way you only need three commands of this type to output
> everything: jsfile :cr, jsfile :tx and jsfile :cr-.
>
> You can also use filepro's OPEN(), WRITELINE() and CLOSE() I/O functions
> to also take complete control of what is output.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On 5/16/13 6:24 PM, Chris Rendall wrote:
>> I'm running filePro 5.0.14 and I'm trying to use the HTML commands.  I'm using jQuery and HTML5, but there a lot of HTML commands that don't seem to be native to filePro, like the <label for... > tag.
>>
>> Is there a way to get filePro to return HTML tags that aren't built in?  I've tried using :ZZ by itself, but that gave me an error.  Do newer versions of filePro have more HTML commands?
>>
>> --- Chris
>>
>>
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