The Batik internals can be accessed in script by using the
window object.
 | In the ECMAScript programs executed in an SVG document,
the window object is the global object, so
its properties and methods can be accessed as global
variables and functions. |
It provides the following features:
The current SVG document.
The last triggered event.
An alias to the current global object.
Shows an alert dialog.
- message: The string to display
Shows a confirm dialog with 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons.
- question: The string to display
This method returns true if the user clicks on the
'OK' button, false otherwise.
Method prompt(message[,
defaultValue])
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Shows an input dialog.
- message: The string to display
- defaultValue: The optional default value to set
when the dialog first displays.
This method returns the string value entered by the user, or null.
Method setInterval(script,
interval)
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Evaluates the given string repeatedly after the given amount of
time. This method does not stall the script: the evaluation is
scheduled and the script continues its execution.
- script: A string representing the script to evaluate.
- interval: The interval in milliseconds.
This method returns an object which can be used with
clearInterval.
Method setInterval(function,
interval)
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Calls the given function repeatedly after the given amount of
time. This method does not stall the script: the evaluation is
scheduled and the script continues its execution.
- function: A function to call.
- interval: The interval in milliseconds.
This method returns an object which can be used with
clearInterval.
Method clearInterval(intervalID)
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Cancels an interval that was set by a call to setInterval.
- intervalID: An object returned by a call to
setInterval.
Method setTimeout(script,
timeout)
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Evaluates the given string after the given amount of
time. This method does not stall the script: the evaluation is
scheduled and the script continues its execution.
- script: A string representing the script to evaluate.
- timeout: The timeout in milliseconds.
This method returns an object which can be used with
clearTimeout.
Method setTimeout(function,
timeout)
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Calls the given function after the given amount of
time. This method does not stall the script: the evaluation is
scheduled and the script continues its execution.
- function: A function to call.
- timeout: The timeout in milliseconds.
This method returns an object which can be used with
clearTimeout.
Method clearTimeout(timeoutID)
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Cancels a timeout that was set by a call to setTimeout.
- timeoutID: An object returned by a call to
setTimeout.
Method parseXML(text,
document)
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Parses and returns a DocumentFragment object.
- text: A string representing an XML document fragment.
- document: The document used to build the DOM
representation of the XML fragment.
This method returns a org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment object.
Method getURL(uri,
function[,
encoding])
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Gets data from the given URI. This method returns immediately and
the given function is called when the data is fully downloaded.
- uri: A string representing the location of the data.
- function: A function called when the data is available,
or when the loading has failed. The argument passed to the
function is an ECMAScript Object with 3 properties:
- success: true if the data is available, false
otherwise,
- contentType: the content type of the data, if the
information is known by the viewer,
- content: A string representing the data.
- encoding: The character encoding of the data file,
by default UTF-8 is used.
