I am trying to create an HTA file that allows a user to add data to a text file. I am fairly Inexperienced in the area.
I need to accomplish a few things:
- Write the bit of data that is inputted to a text file (which my code does)
- Let the user chose from a drop-down list of available files to write to
- It would be nice if the data could be submitted onClick or by hitting Enter
- Clear the fields on submit
- Log every entry. No overwriting of data in the text file (my code overwrites)
example:
123
456
789
I apologize if my code looks choppy.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
<html><head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
Sub Window_onLoad
window.resizeTo 480,150
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
<script language="javascript">
function Writedata()
{
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var write_id;
write_id = document.getElementById('write_id').value ;
alert('The data has been written to \n' + write_id);
var s = fso.CreateTextFile(write_id, true);
s.WriteLine(document.getElementById('name_id').value);
s.Close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Input: </td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" value="" id="name_id"></td>
<td><select><option name="write" value="C:\temp\test1.txt" id="write_id">Option1</option> </select></td>
<td><input type="button" onclick="Writedata()" value="submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Answer
Looks like you've edited your code. Though it can be more flexible:
var s = fso.CreateTextFile(write_id, true); maybe rather:
var s = fso.OpenTextFile(write_id, 2, true);
where 2 represents a bytecode:
1 = read, 2 = write, 8 = append.
write_Id should contain a full path to file, like D:/Foldername/filename.txt.
That's not how you should use select, rather give the id for select itself like this:
<select id="write_id">
<option value="C:\temp\test1.txt">Option1</option>
</select>
Now the value of selected option is stored also as value of select, which you can read in your script exactly like you are doing now.
Also you can declare a variable and assign a value together in JS:
var write_id = document.getElementById('write_id').value;