Re: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens

[Shawn Honeychurch]

Hello Michael;   I have been working with freetrade for about 3 months now and am having a great deal of luck getting it working.  When i do have a question I look through all the code first and then through the mailing list archive, only as a last result do I ask for help.  I am not a programmer, but am trying hard to become one.  I have usually found this group to be supportive and helpfulI have gone out and purchased Leon's book and use it alot.   I don't know what you mean when you say "You were just given help on how to prevent an empty shopping cart from showing up."  Yours is the first response I have recieved about this query and not very helpful I might add.  The status bar display nothing about what page or screen you are on.  And the source shows nothing about the missing and/or blank screen.  I have spent a number of hours looking for the answer to this problem with no luck.     Shawn ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Puglin To: FreeTrade Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:46 PM Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens Shawn,   You were just given help on how to prevent an empty shopping cart from showing up.  You can look at the source (or the status line of your browser) to determine which screen module is being called when you click on a department. You should be able to rub those two sticks together to get a fire. It seems to me (my opinion only) that you want to be spoon-fed everything. You've been working with FreeTrade long enough that you should be able to figure this out. This is very basic. Put a message in saying "Sorry, no items..."    If you are not a programmer (or don't aspire to be one) you picked the wrong e-commerce solution. FreeTrade is a 'get your hands dirty' solution.   I don't want to discourage you from asking questions. I want to discourage you from asking questions before try to solve the problem yourself.  -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shawn Honeychurch Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:19 PM To: FreeTrade Subject: [FreeTrade] Empty categories and blank screens Hi;   Does anyone know how to prevent the blank screen that seems to always accompany an empty category?  I find it very unelegant that ahen a customer views an empty category they are taken to a blank screen.  Any way around this?   Shawn