HTML Control .NET, use of form fields

[Martin]

Hi,

my application for Pocket-PC uses a HTML Control
(http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=baf7
ab21-4037-4a0f-9b39-e3914000e9cc).
How can I get the values of form fields, after a user made inserts on the
html-page, which is displayed from the HTML Control?

Thanks,
Martin

 

[Iain Simpson]

You won't be able to use this control to do what you require. Take a look at
this HTML control provided by IntelliProg
http://www.intelliprog.com/netcf/htmlctl.html. I know you can capture events
(ie clicking a link) but not sure about reading form field values.

Unless you feel like writing a simple webserver that will run on your PDA and
process the HTTP POST...

Seriously though, it -might- be possible for you to retrieve the data from the
URL if your form uses the GET method rather than a POST. I've not tried this,
so I don't know if the native browser component strips that info out before
handing you the link. If it passes the URL back untouched, you'll still have
to parse out the fields yourself.

If you're going to be using lots of forms to capture data, it might be an idea
to write your own simple forms renderer. That way you'll not have to load in a
fairly large native component.