Damein Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I've searched on the forum for a bit and all the Geolocation scripts don't see to work anymore and I don't have a great ton of experience outside of AutoIt so I'd like to stay in that field. So what I am attempting to do is a location-identifier type of piece to my program I'm writing but can't quite seem to get it to work how I need it to. Maybe I don't quite need Geolocation or anything but I feel like I am looking at this wrong. Here is what I am trying to achieve: Get the current time and City (or location) of the user. My current setup is like this Using an HTML page locally expandcollapse popup<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,height=device-height,initial-scale=1"> <title>BLANKTITLE</title> <style> /* Basics */ html, body { display:table; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin:0; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #444; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -moz-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: #f0f0f0; } #map { height: 50%; width: 50%; margin:auto; } body { display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; } #container { width: 21.25em; padding:1.25em 0; margin:auto; background: #fff; border-radius: 0.25em; border: 1px solid #ccc; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); overflow:hidden; } label { color: #555; display: inline-block;display: block; margin-left: 1.25em; padding-top: 0.625em; font-size: 0.875em; } input { font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; outline: none; } input[type=text], input[type=password] {display:block; color: #777; padding-left: 0.625em; margin: 0.625em; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-left: 1.125em; width: 25.15em; height: 2.1875em; border: 1px solid #c7d0d2; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .4), 0 0 0 5px #f5f7f8; transition: all .4s ease; } input[type=text]:hover, input[type=password]:hover { border: 1px solid #b6bfc0; box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .7), 0 0 0 5px #f5f7f8; } input[type=text]:focus, input[type=password]:focus { border: 1px solid #a8c9e4; box-shadow: inset 0 1.5px 3px rgba(190, 190, 190, .4), 0 0 0 5px #e6f2f9; } #lower { background: #ecf2f5; width: 100%; height: 4.3125em; margin-top: 1.25em; box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px #fff; border-top: 1px solid #ccc; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; } input[type=checkbox] { margin-left: 1.25em; margin-top: 1.875em; } .check { margin-left: 0.1875em; font-size: 0.6975em; color: #444; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff; } input[type=submit] { float: right; margin-right: 12.5em; margin-top: 1.25em; /*width: 5em;*/ height: 1.875em; font-size: 0.875em; font-weight: bold; color: #fff; background-color: #acd6ef; /*IE fallback*/ background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, #acd6ef 0%, #6ec2e8 100%); border-radius: 1.875em; border: 1px solid #66add6; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, .5); cursor: pointer; } input[type=submit]:hover { background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, #b6e2ff 0%, #6ec2e8 100%); } input[type=submit]:active { background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, #6ec2e8 0%, #b6e2ff 100%); } </style> </head> <body> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <!-- Begin Page Content --> <div id="container"> <form action="#" name="form1" id="form1"> <label for="username">Username:</label> <input type="text" id="username" name="username" value="BLANKNAME" readonly> <label for="password">Password:</label> <input type="password" id="password" name="password" value="BLANKPASS" readonly> <label for="text">Latitude:</label> <input type="text" id="latitude" name="latitude" readonly> <label for="text">Longitude</label> <input type="text" id="longitude" name="longitude" readonly> </form> <!-- container --></div> <script> if(!navigator.geolocation) { throw 'Geolocation not supported!'; } else { // Get current position navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(getPos); } // Function used in navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition method. function getPos(pos) { var lat = pos.coords.latitude; var long = pos.coords.longitude; document.getElementById("latitude").value = lat; document.getElementById("longitude").value = long; } </script> </body> </html> It pulls their Latitude/Longitude Then ideally I would then pull that data from the page and then I would need to input it into something else that would then give me my location ect. But two problems. A: I can't get AutoIt to read the data from the input boxes. B: This seems like a LOT more work than is necessary. So now before I go into it any further I'd like to ask if anyone else has a simpler solution. The only thing I want to restrict on it is I don't want Time/Location via IP. I want it via location or some other means. The application will be used by service technicians to check in on various job sites and will then be using a mobile hotspot which will result in their location being wherever their provider is located not the actual device. Here is my code for attempting to grab the data from the HTML, that doesn't work. ; Get a reference to the collection of forms on a page, ; and then loop through them displaying information for each #include <IE.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> Local $oIE = _IECreate() _IENavigate($oIE, @ScriptDir & "/Blank Clock Form.html") Sleep(2000) Local $oForms = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE) Local $iNumForms = @extended MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Forms Info", "There are " & $iNumForms & " forms on this page") Local $oForm For $i = 0 To $iNumForms - 1 $oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, $i) MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Form Info", $oForm.name) Next Most recent sig. 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Damein Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 Hmm.. any takers? Most recent sig. I made Quick Launcher W/ Profiles Topic Movie Database Topic & Website | LiveStreamer Pro Website | YouTube Stand-Alone Playlist Manager: Topic | Weather Desktop Widget: Topic | Flash Memory Game: Topic | Volume Control With Mouse / iTunes Hotkeys: Topic | Weather program: Topic | Paws & Tales radio drama podcast mini-player: Topic | Quick Math Calculations: Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AutoBert Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 To solve the user must allow you pulling his private data (his location) from site: after he did this you can pull data in different ways, have a look on the examples of the IE.au3. Btw.: my real location is more than 700 km different from the location your page says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 (edited) 33 minutes ago, AutoBert said: ..... Btw.: my real location is more than 700 km different from the location your page says. maybe you are connected over a (remote) proxy..... ? Edited May 1, 2016 by Chimp Chimp small minds discuss people average minds discuss events great minds discuss ideas.... and use AutoIt.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AutoBert Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 25 minutes ago, Chimp said: maybe you are connected over a (remote) proxy..... ? I connect via mobile broadband device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 so, maybe all mobile devices are connected over the broadband provider's local repeater, and exposed to internet over a centralized proxy (located elsewhere even 700km away...) Chimp small minds discuss people average minds discuss events great minds discuss ideas.... and use AutoIt.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowmore Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 From my experience, If you are connecting via a mobile broadband service you will have trouble determining location even to the correct country, let alone the correct city. Static IP addresses are not a reliable method of determining location either. I have a static IP address and live in Southampton UK on but websites think I'm in Blackburn in the north of England 400Km away. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."- Rick Cook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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