Not visualizing ASCII STL file correctly - xtk

My problem seems similar to Not able to visualize a loaded data , but I have no console errors and I have already added the '-allow-file-access-from-files' flag to my Chrome Browser. Here's my Java coding,
window.onload = function() {
var r = new X.renderer3D();
r.init();
pros = new X.mesh();
pros.file = 'file:///C:/Users/Nathan/Downloads/JB Farmer STL ACII.stl';
pros.caption = 'Prosthetic';
r.add(pros);
r.render();
};
Should I "play around" with with camera position, I know I have to do that in Three.js.
Maybe the model needs normals? I'm not sure if it does or not. I haven't worked with 3D modeling, besides Three.js.
Update: Ummmm, I'm not sure what is going on with this, but I realized that XTK generated 2 canvases . I looked at the first two Lessons and they have one.
^ Now eliminated the extra canvas, must have copied a piece and that was in there.

For the moment, the loader of xtk doesn't seem to be done for local. I mean : it uses an XMLHttpRequest (XHR) to get the file with a GET request. First of all the request must be sent to something that can handle it (a server or localhost emilated by Wamp or equivalent). Then let's imagine if one broswer, no matter what one, allows XHR on a file at client side by his url, and imagine I'm a pirate and you come on my website. I know Windows well, I know in C:/Windows/System32 there always is a file where I can find your personals data. What do I do ? An XHR ! You've been hacked. It's a story but you see the idea.
That's why the only ways allowed by browsers to access local files are HTML5 File API & HTML5 Drag&Drop API (unfortunately...). Actualy a way to go through that limitation is having binary code at the client side (flash, java applet). The client is the only one who can ask to open a file or drop a file, so the browser is sure there won't be any security failure because of him.
So you should test it with something like Wamp and access your file with an url like "http://localhost/.../myfile.stl" or the relative url "/.../myfile.stl", or do the following if you realy want local files.
A few weeks ago I wrote my own parser for a private format for xtk and from local file, it worked well, I just used HTML5 APIs to read the file and get a String or BinaryArray from it and then wrote a parser that transformed it in a X.mesh. So I think the best would be to extend the X.loader for HTML5 file APIs, or like me to manualy load the file.
The following jsFiddle from Haehn helps : here !

What happens if you modify the filename with no space?
JB Farmer_STL_ACII.stl instead of JB Farmer STL ACII.stl

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WebKitGtk doesn't load local files

I've tried loading a local html file using webkit_web_view_load_uri() with a file:// URL. However, the webview would display a blank page. To circumvent this, I tried using webkit_web_view_load_html() and it worked correctly.
Now that I'm trying to load some images in the html using the <img> tag, the images aren't loaded (It displays a blank page).
I'm puzzled because I tried before (~ 2 months ago) a similar method and it worked.
Note: I copied the contents of the generated HTML into a file and loaded it with Firefox and it worked as it should (The images are visible), but with another WebKitGtk application I had lying around the images didn't load.
Note: I'm using C++ as the main programming language (I'd prefer having C++ types in the solutions only if possible)
Note: I have set webkit_settings_set_allow_file_access_from_file_urls() and webkit_settings_set_allow_universal_access_from_file_urls() to TRUE
Ok, I've managed to solve this. The solution had NOTHING to do with webkitgtk, which is strange. It seems that the application was trying to download the page instead of loading it. This traces to a faulty MIME type database.
Tl;Dr:
Execute this:
rm ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-html.xml
update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
and use webkit_web_view_load_uri() instead of webkit_web_view_load_html() with a file:// URI
I had the same problem in C. You have to explicitly set file:// as base_uri when you call webkit_web_view_load_html().
See also answer here

How to provide image data for embedded web control in C++

In my C++ app I'm embedding (via COM) a web browser (Internet Explorer) control (CLSID_WebBrowser).
I can display my own html in that control by using IHTMLDocument2::write() method but if the html has <img src="foo.png"> element, it's not displayed.
I assume there is a way for me to provide the data for foo.png somehow to the web control, but I can't find the right place to hook this functionality?
I need to be in full control of providing the content of foo.png, so work-arounds like using res:// protocol or saving to disk and using file:// protocol are not good enough. I just want to plug my code somehow so that when embedded CLSID_WebBrowser control sees <img src="foo.png"> in html data given with IHTMLDocument2::write() it will ask me to provide this data.
To answer my own question, the solution that finally worked for me is:
register custom IInternetProtocol/IInternetProtocolInfo/ via custom IClassFactory given to IInternetSession::RegisterNameSpace(). For reasons that seem like a bug to me, it has to be a protocol already known to IE (I've chosen "its") even though it would be much better if it was my own, unique namespace.
feed html data via custom IMoniker through IPersistentMoniker::Load() and make sure that IMoniker::GetDisplayName() (which is a base url according to which relative links in provided html will be resolved) starts with that protocol scheme (in my case "its://"). That way relative link "foo.png" in the html data will be its://foo.png to IE which will make urlmon call IInternetProtocol::Start() and IInternetProtocol::Read() to ask for the data for that url.
This is all rather complicated, you can look at the actual (BSD-licensed) code here:
http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/source/browse/trunk/src/utils/HtmlWindow.cpp
You can embed a small webserver such as mongoose and reference those impage from there.
In mongoose, you can attach callback to specific path, thus returning images from C++ code.
We use this for our debugging tools, where each images is accessible from a web interface
The easiest solution would be a Data URI. You'd inline out the image directly with IHTMLDocument2::write().

ColdFusion 8 JavaLoader LingPipe or OpenNLP, how do I init it?

I'm using the JavaLoader.cfc. I've used it before, but am having trouble understanding how to get one of these libraries to respond to me.
I've placed the JAR files into my java folder. I've created the "JavaLoader" object and passed the "paths" to it. But it keeps saying it cannot find the class names in the jar files or something along those lines...
The requested class could not be found. The requested class
opennlp.tools.sentdetect could not be found in the loaded
jars/directories.
I recognize I'm a total n00b when it comes to Java and how to tie it in with ColdFusion. I'm sure it's something stupid that IF I KNEW I could probably use any JAR file at my disposal...
Please help if you can!
I checked the OpenNLP javadocs here and it seems that opennlp.tools.sentdetect has no constructor so that's why it returns an error. Which method do you want to call?
I've done a simple example to detect sentences but for that you need to get the english model available here :
<cfscript>
// load NLP jar libraries
sourcePaths = [expandPath("opennlp-tools-1.5.0\opennlp-tools-1.5.0.jar"),expandPath("opennlp-tools-1.5.0\lib\maxent-3.0.0.jar"),expandPath("opennlp-tools-1.5.0\lib\jwnl-1.3.3.jar")];
javaloader = createObject("component", "javaloader.JavaLoader").init(sourcePaths);
// load our model (here english model)
// you can create your own model using the TrainerTool
inputFile = ExpandPath("en-sent.bin");
modelIn = createObject("java", "java.io.FileInputStream").init(inputFile);
model = javaloader.create("opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceModel").init(modelIn);
// let's try the sentence detector
sentenceDetector = javaloader.create("opennlp.tools.sentdetect.SentenceDetectorME").init(model);
sentences = sentenceDetector.sentDetect("I love working with Java in ColdFusion! CF rocks, really! But sometimes working with Java libraries is a bit tricky :-)");
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#sentences#">
Have fun! :-)
No Java expert here either , but I did get POI to work by following Rays instructions here There's two articles. He covers setting up Javaloader
You issue may just be in the path to the JAR. Also be sure that you are passing the path to the JAR file as a string in an array.
Tip 1: You do not need to place the file in your java folder. Being able to place the JAR file in any directory (application root perhaps), is what JavaLoader gives you the power to do. Otherwise you might as well not use JavaLoader and just place the JAR files into the JVM classpath.
Tip 2: Be sure that initialize JavaLoader into the server scope, as it will reduce your overhead dramatically.

How set a website as homepage in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari with C++?

Is there a way to set a website like google.com as homepage through C++ or C ? How ?
Not sure what your motive is, but I don't think of this as something I want any code on my system to be setting out from under me. It sounds like the kind of thing adware/malware would do to your grandparents (who wouldn't know how to fix it once it's set). Note the negative comments when the question was asked of how to do it from JavaScript:
How can I set default homepage in FF and Chrome via javascript?
It's better to point people at instructions for doing it themselves. Remind with a banner which says "Make us your homepage!", and link to something along these lines:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-change-your-homepage-in-5-browsers/
If not for the aesthetic reasons, there are technical reasons not to try and write code for it. Each browser stores this information in its own place. In IE's case, there appears to be a registry setting:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
So you'd use calls to the Windows Registry API to query it and set it. But Firefox doesn't save this in the registry, it saves it in something called prefs.js and you'll be looking for:
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", .... );
Then there's Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc. All told, better to just give people directions and put them in control of their experience!
Imports Microsft.Win32
...
Module Util
Sub SetHomePage(Dim theUrl As String)
Registry.SetValue("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main", "Start Page", theUrl)
End Sub
End Module
Yes.
Find the way each browser saves its configuration to disk and edit that (*). It may be a file, or records in a database, or some data in a central registry, or some other scheme --- the browser documentation should tell you.
To open/read/write/save/close a file, the C functions declared in the header <stdio.h> may be helpful.
(*) for Firefox it's a file named "prefs.ini" in a directory somewhere under the users home path; there may be more than 1 such file if the user has more than 1 profile.

How to Check if a website contains Flash

I've created a web browser using mfc and i'm using IHhmlReader to read the contents of html when the user enters a url in the browser and page is completely loaded.Now i want to check if the webpage has any flash in it.
Any Helps would be highly appreciated.
Thank You.
I think this is a bit difficult to do, just reading from the HTML source, unless you try to instantiate the page and see if it's making a call to the Flash object. I have listed some options you can try, but you'll need to make sure that the code element is not commented out and check include files and iframes to see if Flash is called from there.
* Look for the OBJECT and EMBED tags (see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/127/tn_12701.html)
* In page's JavaScript, look for SWFObject() call
* Look for the call to .swf file (could even be in an img tag)
Good luck...