Yup...that's along the lines of what I'm after (and I've thought of something along those lines), but I'm not sure if it will be user friendly enough. Any other thoughts folks? mabye CF and Flash?
Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: RE: Visual Equation Building > OTTOMH, > > What about two select boxes, one containing a list of fields, and one > containing operators. > > Use the onChange event to fire off some Javascript to concatenate each > building block to the current equation. Then have the javascript put > the > updated equation to a textarea or something like that. Behind the > scenes > you can track the IDs in a variable and put it in a database when the > user > is done (maybe a button to click). > > Does that sound like what you are looking for? > > Kathryn Butterly > Web Developer > Washington Mutual Finance > 813 632-4490 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Visual Equation Building > > > Hey All, > > OK I'll do my bets to explain what I'm trying to accomplish: > > I want to build a tool that allows the user to visually build an > equation. > The building blocks for > the equation are essentially fields in a database. I'd like to display > these "building blocks" in a > list and give the user the ability to pass them into a workspace on the > page > that will hold the > equation. Ideally I'd like to allow the user to drag and drop the > "building > blocks" into the > workspace, but I suppose passing them via a link and some JavaScript > would > suffice. I also need to > give the user a way of passing operators (+,-,*,/,[,]) to the workspace > to > help build the equation. > > Another hook is that I need to ultimately store the IDs of the records > of > the building blocks when I > store the finished equation. > > I have some ideas, but I thought before I head down those paths, I'd > see if > anyone else had any > input. > > Thanks in advance for any comments/help/hysterical laughter ;-) > > Bryan Stevenson > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > p. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
