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JavaScript interaction from UIWebView with app

chuckchuck Posts: 87Registered Users
in iPhone SDK Development
I have an app which has a UIWebView which is a quiz with dropdown boxes. At the bottom there is a button within the HTML which calls a JavaScript function to show which questions were answered correctly. At this point, I need to save the user's score. If all the questions are correct, I'd like to mark that that section is finished. Is there any way I could trigger an action from the UIWebView to the view controller when a user has answered all questions correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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  • ghayengaghayenga Posts: 4New Users
    chuck;66254 said:
    I have an app which has a UIWebView which is a quiz with dropdown boxes. At the bottom there is a button within the HTML which calls a JavaScript function to show which questions were answered correctly. At this point, I need to save the user's score. If all the questions are correct, I'd like to mark that that section is finished. Is there any way I could trigger an action from the UIWebView to the view controller when a user has answered all questions correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

    In your JavaScript function call:

    window.location = "MYDUMMYURL?";

    Then in your webView's delegate implement the shouldStartLoadWithRequest method and then do whatever you need to and return NO if it's calling MYDUMMYURL.

    - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)p_webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)p_request
    navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)p_navigationType
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  • chuckchuck Posts: 87Registered Users
    ghayenga;66310 said:
    In your JavaScript function call:

    window.location = "MYDUMMYURL?";

    Then in your webView's delegate implement the shouldStartLoadWithRequest method and then do whatever you need to and return NO if it's calling MYDUMMYURL.

    - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)p_webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)p_request
    navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)p_navigationType
    Hi, sorry, got sidetracked by another project for a month and now I'm back to this one. Here is my JavaScript code:


    function checkAnswers() {
    	// So far all answers are correct.
    	var allCorrect = true;
    	for ( var selectIndex = 0; selectIndex < document.theForm.elements.length; selectIndex++ ) {
    		
    		curSelect = document.theForm.elements[selectIndex];
    		if ( curSelect.name == \"quiz\" ) {
    			for ( var optionIndex = 0; optionIndex < curSelect.options.length; optionIndex++ ) {
    				if ( curSelect.options[optionIndex].selected ) {
    					// Display checkmark for correct answers and an red X for wrong answers.
    					var answerResult = curSelect.options[optionIndex].value;
    					document.images[selectIndex].src = answerResult + \"25.png\";
    					if ( answerResult == \"wrong\" ) {
    						allCorrect = false;
    					}
    				}
    			}
    		}
    	}
    }


    This function basically determines which questions were answered correctly and then places a checkmark or X next to them. When a user finally gets all the questions correct, then I need to mark the lesson as being finished. Unfortunately I don't see a way of getting a variable's contents from the JavaScript back to my Objective-C application. Is this even possible?
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  • chuckchuck Posts: 87Registered Users
    I finally figured it out! Here's the relevant JavaScript code:


    function checkAnswers() {
      // Do stuff to see if all answers were correct
      ...
    	
      // Send all correct status back to Objective-C
      window.location = \"/allCorrect/\" + allCorrect;
    }


    Here's the relevant Objective-C code:

    - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
      if ( [request.mainDocumentURL.relativePath isEqualToString:@\"/allCorrect/false\"] ) {
        NSLog( @\"Nope, that is not right!\" );
        return false;
      }
    	
      if ( [request.mainDocumentURL.relativePath isEqualToString:@\"/allCorrect/true\"] ) {
        NSLog( @\"You got them all!\" );
        return false;
      }
    	
      return true;
    }


    I also just posted this as a tutorial on my blog: iPhone/Web 2.0 » Send a BOOL value from JavaScript to Objective-C.
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