Web Development

basementman9-Jul-03 10:03

basementman

9-Jul-03 10:03

The only way that I'm aware of is by having file associations. Otherwise, it's ActiveX time.... good luck.

onwards and upwards...

David Chamberlain9-Jul-03 10:24

David Chamberlain

9-Jul-03 10:24

Do you know of anything within any of the scripting variations (VBscript, JavaScript, etc) that could be called when a link is selected, and that then could start execution of a program?

I would like to stay away from having to create file associations because if the data, the HTML, and the program are provided on a CD-ROM, for example, then there really isn't any "installation." It would just appear to the user that when they selected a certain link, a program would start using the selected file.

"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

basementman9-Jul-03 10:33

basementman

9-Jul-03 10:33

David Chamberlain wrote:
Do you know of anything within any of the scripting variations (VBscript, JavaScript, etc) that could be called when a link is selected, and that then could start execution of a program?

Due to security concerns and "sandboxing", these script languages are designed not to allow you to spawn an executable program from browser scripting.

David Chamberlain wrote:
It would just appear to the user that when they selected a certain link, a program would start using the selected file.

By just specifying the data file, the OS will prompt them the first time to browse for the program to open the file with. Instruct them to browse to the CD.

Sorry, those are the best answers I can give..

onwards and upwards...

How to Perl script in Windows 2000 Pro?

Not Active9-Jul-03 10:31

Not Active

9-Jul-03 10:31

If you are hosting the browser control in your app yuou can use window.external to route the click to your app and launch the other program from there.

I know there are some examples out there, I just can't remember them at the moment.

Changing Text

Mardigin8-Jul-03 9:41

Mardigin

8-Jul-03 9:41

I would like to change Text on a webpage on the fly. I know about the innerText property for ie. I cann't use this however becuase I am not using ie. Or netscape for that matter. I need a way that is very browser nonspecific. Is there anyway to do this using javascript or JSP. I want to be able to change the text on the screen without reloading the page.

Thank you.

Mardigin.

Re: Changing Text

Hesham Amin8-Jul-03 20:39

Hesham Amin

8-Jul-03 20:39

hi..
you can put that portion that changes in a separate frame(myFrame)..
then make a link with target = myFramee .. when the user clicks the link the page in (myFrame) loads with new values So you can make it in asp to accept arguments..Got it ?

Re: Changing Text

ZoogieZork9-Jul-03 1:56

ZoogieZork

9-Jul-03 1:56

Sounds like you're looking for the DOM interfaces in JavaScript:

http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR[^]
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref.html[^]

- Mike

mittalpa8-Jul-03 8:54

mittalpa

8-Jul-03 8:54

Hello:

I want to try writing perl scripts on Windows 2000 Professional, for a web application. I am using IIS 5.0 as web server.

How can I do that? Any advices or links to examples will be highly appreciated. Thanks Blush | :O

~~~~Pankaj~~~~

Follow your goals, Means will follow you ---Gandhi---

Re: How to Perl script in Windows 2000 Pro?

Roger Wright8-Jul-03 9:30

Roger Wright

8-Jul-03 9:30

Here[^] is the binary download for Perl on WinNT. I don't know whether it will work on Win2KPro, but you might try it out. You can also download the source files from the same site - perhaps you can tweak it to run with IIS5.

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long

Re: How to Perl script in Windows 2000 Pro?

Bjoern Graf9-Jul-03 18:36

Bjoern Graf

9-Jul-03 18:36

Have a look at ActiveStates[^] ActivePerl[^], which supports ISAPI, Perl in WSH and more.

Duplicate saving ASP 3.0

Hesham Amin8-Jul-03 5:17

Hesham Amin

8-Jul-03 5:17

Hi,,
I make a page Save.asp that gets some data from a form in another page.. (method=Get)
Save.asp saves data to a DB then displays a success message..
the problem :
when the user press (Refresh or reload) in the browser the data is saved again..
How to prevent this from happenning ?

Nino_18-Jul-03 21:17

Nino_1

8-Jul-03 21:17

hspc wrote:
when the user press (Refresh or reload) in the browser the data is saved again..

HS,

Please post your code!

I believe I have seen this kind of thing before.

Tony

Dave McRae9-Jul-03 18:40

Dave McRae

9-Jul-03 18:40

Having a stab here...

Try Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER") in Save.asp to see where they came from. If coming from Save.asp then the refresh is happening.

I'm not really sure if this would work, but I'd giv this a go first. Failing this, I would then think about either passing a variable from the first page to the second, or use Session("SessionID") which is unique per browser ..ie

(SQLServer7)
sSQL="IF Exists(SELECT * FROM tblInsert WHERE sessionID='"&Session("SessionID")&_
"') SELECT -1 ELSE BEGIN"&_
" INSERT INTO tblInsert(fields...)VALUES(values...);"&_
" SELECT 0 END"
run this, if -1 then already inserted

OR
set a session variable to say that this user has already submitted (if allowing for multiple submissions from same session, get the input page to reset the session variable)

Actually, I like the last the best, if REFERER fails.

Dave McRae

Hesham Amin9-Jul-03 21:04

Hesham Amin

9-Jul-03 21:04

Thanks..

I loved the REFERRER Idea (even though I did not try it yet)

I think the Idea of SessionID will prevent the user from enterring new data in the same session .. also SessionID can be assigned to another user after the current one logs off.

the session variable is also great Smile | :)

the way I make it now is to let the save page redirects the user to another page (I don't like it coz it needs to make a trip to the client..Also won't work if a proxy exists)

Dave McRae9-Jul-03 21:10

Dave McRae

9-Jul-03 21:10

ahh - yeah - I dont mind the redirect idea
(There are many ways to skin this cat Smile | :)

)

also response.transfer (if you're using IIS5.0 or better - not an option with IIS4.0) would solve your worries with page redirects and be very good looking!!

Dave McRae

TPN15-Jul-03 0:06

TPN

15-Jul-03 0:06

Response.Transfer??? Are you sure?
I think Server.Transfer.

But if we use Server.Transfer, we can not solve the problem because all submitted data still existes.

JavaScript: get a document's Object

Dave McRae15-Jul-03 16:18

Dave McRae

15-Jul-03 16:18

You're right, Server.Transfer Smile | :)

I've not tested server.transfer at all as the most influential of my clients can't bring themselve to move from NT4 as yet, but I understand it doesnt go back to client like response.redirect, but leaves execution from that point in the page where server.transfer was encountered and re-commences at the top of the page transfered to, like an #include only dynamic.
Yep - all the data exists, but I would imagine you'ld be transfereing away from the save page.
I should give this a bit more of a test - sorry about the bum steer if I gave 1.

Dave McRae

javigimenez7-Jul-03 21:34

javigimenez

7-Jul-03 21:34

Hi all, I have a little problem with a JSP page I'm trying to develope. I need to check the value of a combo box in the page, but there are a different number of combos each time. The way I thought it would be the best is passing to the JavaScript function the name of the combo, like this:

<----------------------------------->

<----------------------------------->

The problem I have is, let's say I call the function with code = 1; I can't change "t" value from document.makers.code.value to document.makers.1.value. If I do this I have everything else done...
Thanks in advance for your help,
JaviGimenez

Re: javascript get a document's Object

-- NA --13-Jul-03 4:12

-- NA --

13-Jul-03 4:12

This isn't a direct answer, but maybe the concept is helpful:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script language="javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<form name="theForm">
<input type="text" name="text1"> <input type="button" value="Send This Object" onClick="checkObj(document.theForm.text1)"><br><br>
<input type="text" name="text2"> <input type="button" value="Send This Object" onClick="checkObj(document.theForm.text2)"><br><br>
</body>
</html>

Paul

-- modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.

Re: javascript get a document's Object

-- NA --13-Jul-03 4:15

-- NA --

13-Jul-03 4:15

Okay, here's something more useful Big Grin | :-D

function blah(obj_name){<br />
 var temp;<br />
 eval("temp = document.form." + obj_name + ".value")<br />
<br />
 //more code using temp goes here<br />
}

Paul

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. - Samuel Goldwyn

modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.

import html data from file into table?

Anonymous7-Jul-03 6:18

Anonymous

7-Jul-03 6:18

Is it possible to import html data from a file into
a table?

I'm trying to cut down on my page sizes, and I'm finding that if I change the navigation pane on one page I then have to go and change EVERY page to match it... Instead I would like to just have ONE file that contains the code for the navigation pane that I can load into each page as it comes up???

Any ideas?

Roger Wright7-Jul-03 7:10

Roger Wright

7-Jul-03 7:10

Anonymous wrote:
Is it possible to import html data from a file into
a table?

Sure! Save the HTML as Text data, and retrieve it using ADO, then use ASP to spit it out at the proper place in the page(s).

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long

Anonymous7-Jul-03 7:28

Anonymous

7-Jul-03 7:28

thanks..... i'm going to have to do some research to fingure out what you mean by ado and asp.... but THANKS!

-Cope

Roger Wright7-Jul-03 7:45

Roger Wright

7-Jul-03 7:45

Sorry.... ADO is a way to access databases from a web page - it's more than that, but that's all you're concerned with right now. ASP is the Active Server Pages technology used to create HTML on the fly using scripts which execute on the server. The output of the server script is a text stream containing HTML. You can store your HTML on an Access table, then in your ASP script create a connection to the table using ADO commands. Through that connection you then query the database table to retrieve the HTML to a string variable and send it to the client using Response.Write. There are some excellent articles on both ASP and ADO here at CodeProject, and I suggest that you spend some time reading them. Here[^] is a great starting point.

"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
Lazarus Long