miinx wrote (on 31.08.2006 03:14): > You guys are unreal, I love the way all your collective minds think & > bounce off each other -- there's a definite pool of genius in here, I > tell you!!
I know quite a few guys here, they are simply amazing. But the most useful gems I've ever discovered are mostly hidden in the messages. Someone posts 3 lines of code, and you suddenly feel the chi-flow through you, feel enlightened, know the answer to everything ...some call it simply "the slap-on-forehead effect" or "RTFM-aftershock" :] > ...albeit down > the track, want to get New format completed before I do anything else) That's understandable. BTW, I'm amazed of what you've done there. It's quite a piece of work and looks really good! > Maybe we can incorporate this with the browser-in-a-PowerPro-bar thing > that was being discussed recently? I didn't follow the thread, but am > thinking anyway that a little PowerPro browser window dynamically > created for keyword lookups would be the bomb. That may be what you > mean anyway, Cü? Yes, that was exactly what I had in mind, but then I thought it should work much simpler than that with the net plugin. After all, we need no browser or fancy JS but only 2 simple things: 1. simplified HTML-output or any format which is easy to parse by PP. The current output is filled with some unneeded stuff, which is very usual with automatically generated HTML anyway. The important thing is it should be extremely lightweight in order to minimize the overhead. Since the generated XML is 10 MB, it's not feasible to parse it with XSLT/SomeScriptingLanguage with every request, even with caching. So, the best solution would be pre-generated files, it means some more work but I can help you with the XSLTs or programming. 2. a unique URL for each keyword, i.e. something like: lookup_url = ?"http://ppsr.info/?lookup="; ++ searched_keyword so that there are no pre-request computation. Possible scenario: I'm writing a script in Ultraedit, type "win" and want to see a list of possible actions for this keyword. I press CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE to request the online help for this keyword. The net plugin fetches ppsr.info/?lookup=win, gets the output and shows it via a menu or even a cl-generated bar. You navigate with up and down keys through the functions. With Enter you insert the highlighted function and with right arrow you send a new request for the highlighted keyword and navigate deeper. It won't be real AJAX but the feeling would come close. Of course, this requires a reliable Net connection on our side and some bandwidth on your side. I can help you with the bandwidth though, and a simple round-robin solution with a PP vector is trivial. OTOH, if you'd go the browser way, you wouldn't have to do nothing on your side, and the ouput could be much fancier and you could simply deliver XML. However, as Bruce pointed out in another thread, updating URLs in a browser control is not that easy but smart guys like Mockey could surely come up with something! Maybe I'm just talking twaddle and wanting most useless stuff - again - (I'm saying this so if you don't like the idea I can always call it brainstorming as a last resort :P) but it definitely would be a good showcase for PP. I really need to sleep now. Peace and out, Cü Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
