Re: Opening a PDF using ChildBrowser and a data uri

[Daragh Barrett]

Ok I managed to get the ChildBrowser working by using:

window.ChildBrowser.showWebPage

instead of using window.plugins.childBrowser.

Next though I need to get it to display the PDF document which is a data-uri....

On Friday, 16 November 2012 12:42:46 UTC, Daragh Barrett wrote:

I'm in the process of developing my first mobile app and doing so using a combination of JQuery, Require, Backbone and Underscore and then using PhoneGap to create the packages for the different mobiles. I'm using the PhoneGap Build web site to create the package, and using version 2.1.

Now in my application I go off to the server to retrieve a PDF document of which I get down a Bas64 string representing the PDF document.

I've been testing my app in Chrome as I develop and was simply using the following to display the PDF, which worked OK in the browser:

 

window.open('data:application/pdf;base64,' + data.binaryPDF); 

Now this wasn't a fantastic solution but it at least displayed in the PDF in a new browser window.

BUT thisdidn't work in PhoneGap, it was only displaying the bas64 string in a new window and not actually translating it to a PDF document.

So after crawling the web I discovered ChildBrowser. But alas I can't get it to work, when I try to use window.plugins.childbrowser it does nothing.

This is how I call it:

 window.plugins.childbrowser.showWebPage('data:application/pdf;base64,' + aBinaryPDFstr,

                                        { showLocationBar: false, showAddress: false, showNavigationBar: false });

I've followed the guide on the phonegap site to use the plugin ( https://build.phonegap.com/docs/plugins) I've put the javascript links in the index.html and added the following to the Config:

  <gap:plugin name="ChildBrowser" version="~3" />

Is there anything else I should be doing to get this working in my application??? Any help would be much appreciated!!

[dignmg]

I am having trouble getting this to work. You mind telling me which ChildBrowser you are using? and how you got it working? All the documentation isnt really good.

thanks!