Hi, About iframes...
In general, iframes are like windows into another one's house. Unless the curtains are closed, you're not prevented from peeking inside. However, to have anything you see inside the house behave the way you want it to is similar to telling the tenants of some property to do something inside for your pleasure. Obviously, that requires some agreement. For example, you may have the agreement that when you wave your hands to friends inside, they wave back and smile. Or you may have the agreement that if you drop a note in the mailbox that someone will respond by calling you back, since you kindly asked them to. Now, being more specific. The way to talk to whatever is going on behind an iframe is by using certain protocols that involve a server, that server of the people living in that house. Those can be native calls to the server-side infrastructure, e.g. as if you were changing url of that iframe or it can be that — since both parties are sharing the same domain, and the same frameset — there's a script function that allows one frame to communicate with another, thus frame X calls a (javascript) function of frame Y. However, cross domain restrictions require that — for this to be allowed — both frames must reside on the same domain... and on top, the target frame must have some dynamic script interpreter you can address, thus be more than a static resource. So, in your case, you say the other end does have a kind of api that allows you to either call a very specific url which returns that representation you seek, which will turn the task into: construct the right url and refreshing that iframe. Or, perhaps, you can make a http post — as is usually sent when submitting a form — with all the required data and a server-side script that munches those and returns a desireable response. Anyhow, for being able to give you more real-world advise and less stories about tenents of houses and the intricacies of communication, you will have to tell us who your interpreter actually is and how it exposes its linguistic capacities to the outside world. There is no universal answer to that question. Some use sign language, some only reply in digital code, others will do the shuffle for hours on end unless you say, ok, thank you, I think I've seen enough. :) Best wishes, Tobias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
