Thanks for everyone's input on the Flash question. Scott and Blair confirmed our experience with Flash's "horrific" development environment for any kind of interactivity. We'll stay on course with what we are doing now, broad band width isn't that far away: A new version of my "hakey.mc" stack is available and incorporates a lot of input from everyone who responded off list to beta test it. www.himalayanacadamy.com/studyhall/index.html gets to the location. This key stack will soon be built into two stand alones, one for mac and one for windoz. So any more input will be most useful right away. For those who responded before, I have not had chance to refine the interface on the Portal stack (which is downloaded by the Key stack) or the two "study' components that are currently available. Staying focused right now on the delivery mechanism . . . A revision list for the key stack: 1) We "conquered" the proxy problem we had here by simply giving a user the chance to enter it and save to a prefs file in the same directory. [Scott, I didn't include the headers thing for now. . .but maybe later.] 2) we added a button which allows for the user to, in the future, open stacks that he saves to disk. 3) we added "window" dressing: the stack downloads a text file of URL's for lovely images into a variable and then turns right around and randomly selects a URL for an image and loads that into the stack to give make it decent to look at. Some very lovely images from Hawaii and Mauritius will change every time the user opens the stack or reads the help file. Further comments will appreciated. I am especially interested on what happens if you don't have a connection to the net. We have a 24 T-1 connection that I can't turn off without the computer going nuts. I am not sure if I trapped properly for no connection on start up. And for those who were so courteous as to inquire about poking around the stacks: All the content, images, text etc. are copyright Himalayan Academy Publications and require permission for re-use. But all the scripts and stack structures are "open source" freeware, grab whatever you want. Let me know if you improve on anything. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager www.HinduismToday.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
