OK thanks, I will use javascript. I see a tutorial
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/show2.shtml
which does something similar to what you suggest. Is there anything
essentially different about the two methods?
rgds,
Kristian.
Mark Torrance wrote:
> You're right, and basically you will have to use Javascript to do
> this. I guess you could come up with something that has a server-
> side program which renders "back arrow - image - right arrow" for a
> given image. The back arrow link would cause just that iframe to
> reload itself from the same server-side program, but with a different
> parameter (say page=1) that would cause the first image to load. The
> right arrow would be the same, but with the URL including page=3.
> And the image would be chosen based on that page parameter (page=2
> for the current page in my example), so you can go forward, then
> back, to get back to the same page.
>
> Javascript is really not that much harder. You need to allocate a
> <div> on the page which will hold the content (just like an iframe).
> You can even give it styles, borders, padding, fixed size, etc. like
> an iframe if you want. You assign it a particular ID, and then have
> your javascript do a callback to a server-side Mason thing that will
> choose the next photo, like the code I wrote below.
>
> If your pictures are numbered simply, you could do away with the
> server-side Mason code I hypothesized ("choosePhoto.html") and just
> have the javascript construct the new image URL directly. Likewise,
> you could replace the <div> below with a simple <img> tag, and just
> use javascript to swap in the SRC attribute; in that case, you would
> want to change the /choosePhoto.html Mason script just to return the
> URL, and you would say something like document.getElementById
> ('photo').src = req.responseText; .
>
> There are also lots of ways to do this with fancier javascript
> libraries with names like Dojo and Prototype.js, but this is the way
> I like; it is "close to the metal" and doesn't require loading any
> extra javascript libraries. The only thing I tend to have in a
> separate file, for common reuse, is the "var getRequestObj" and
> "function getRequestObjClosure()" functions.
>
> --Mark
>
> <table>
> <tr><td><img src="leftarrow.gif" onclick="getPhoto(-1)"></td>
> <td><div id="photo"></div></td>
> <td><img src="rightarrow.gif" onclick="getPhoto(1)"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var curphoto=0;
>
> function getPhoto(direction) {
> var req = getRequestObj();
> curphoto += direction; // Pick the new photo to get
> if (curphoto < 0) { curphoto = 9; } // I assume you have 10
> photos, numbered 0 through 9
> req.open("GET", '/choosePhoto.mhtml?id='+curphoto);
> req.onreadystatechange = function() {
> if (req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200) {
> document.getElementById('photo').innerHTML = req.responseText;
> }
> };
> }
>
> var getRequestObj = getRequestObjClosure();
>
> function getRequestObjClosure() {
> if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
> return function() {return new XMLHttpRequest();}
> }
> var msv= ["Msxml2.XMLHTTP.7.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0",
> "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0",
> "MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0",
> "MSXML2.XMLHTTP", "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"];
> for(j=0;j<=msv.length;j++) {
> try {
> A = new ActiveXObject(msv[j]);
> if(A) {
> return function() {return new ActiveXObject(msv[j]);}
> }
> }
> catch(e) { }
> }
> return false;
> }
>
> </script>
>
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Kristian Nilssen wrote:
>
>> I think I'll go with the iframe idea - looks like the simplest to me.
>> I've already got my head around apache, mod_perl, perl, mason and html
>> just to make a simple website so I think I'll leave javascript for
>> another day. So, the only question remains - how do I force the
>> content
>> of the iframe to update? If the iframe SRC attribute points to
>> image.html file which contains just one image out of many in a
>> sequence
>> (the play, stop buttons, etc would be outside the iframe) then
>> presumable I have to rewrite the image.html file and force the
>> iframe to
>> update somehow? Is this the way to go?
>>
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