On 4 Sep 98, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>
> Let me know if that works for you or not. You'll probably have to close
> the print statement that creates the HTML before the new code. You'll have
> to "reopen" the print statement to print any HTML that follows the new
> code.
>
Hiya Jack... OK, I've got it sorta kinda working, but with a few glitches;
I'm guessing that they arise from what you mention above, telling the
script when and where to print the output, but I don't know enough about
Perl to figure out how to do it.
At present I have the code you provided (modified so as to also
conditionally launch the MediaPlayer depending on whether a midi song has
been selected or not) working on the preview page: if a tune is selected,
the player launches and the "Current tune is..." bit displays. (Mind you, it
displays down below my main HTML, "outside my layout", because I don't
know how to make it appear where I want it. But at least it does appear.)
If no tune is selected, it doesn't appear.
However: it *also* displays on the subsequent page that appears once I
actually send a postcard ("Your card has been sent to...", etc); yet when
I go and view the sent postcard itself, it *doesn't* appear. So
presumably I need to be giving the script more specific instructions as to
when and how it should display/play the midi stuff.
If I were to send you the relevant chunks of code, would you have time to
take a gander and see what I need to be doing here?
BTW, I'm guessing that this should also fix the problem that Suz and Kathy
reported on testing the page, that their browsers tried to load "text/html
plug-in" files -- I would surmise that, if the user has not selected a tune,
but the <embed src=> is hard-coded into the page, then Netscape thinks
it's loading an empty "text" file (i.e., <embed src=null> in this case), rather
than a midi file. So it says, "Huh, I see an embed, but I don't know what
do with this "non-file", so I'll launch the plug-in dialog.") Funny that would
happen to some people but not others, though.
Anyway, many thanks for your assistance so far. BTW, that DHTML
thingy of mine is still coming along, albeit slowly what with end-of-summer
mayhem -- kids are finally back at school on Tuesday, phew :)
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