Web Development

Re: Good drop down menu example

5-Mar-02 13:40

Anybody know a good cross-browser dropdown menu example I can rip apart and re-assemble (with changes of course) as my own...?

Does code project have anything like this...?

"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr

Chris Maunder6-Mar-02 3:10

Chris Maunder

6-Mar-02 3:10

I've been looking at implementing a couple of different versions of dropdowns but each one I've seen seems to have problems. I've pretty much decided that if I add dropdowns it's going to be IE only. Netscape is just too much of a dog's breakfast.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Re: Good drop down menu example

alex.barylski6-Mar-02 13:05

Re: Good drop down menu example

6-Mar-02 13:05

I was at a site which generated the menu for you, which I believe was cross browser friendly...I'd like cross-browser anyway...

Most people use IE here at CP I assume...?

I agree NS is so much more work, for what..? How many people actually use that heffty clump of shite known as NS anyways...?

p.s-Drop down menus would be a nice interface for CP. Smile | :)

"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr

Nick Parker6-Mar-02 6:36

Nick Parker

6-Mar-02 6:36

This should do the trick, this drop down menu will work in IE, Netscape and Opera Smile | :)

Here is the link: Best Lil' Drop Down Menu Around.
Hope this helps.

Nick Parker

Loading URL in current window

alex.barylski5-Mar-02 11:25

Re: Loading URL in current window

5-Mar-02 11:25

How can I load a URL into the current window using JavaScript..??? Mad | :mad:

function showProducts(index)
{
  switch(index)
  {
    case 0:
	alert("Please select a categorey");
	break;
    case 1:
	window.open("prod2.htm",_top );
	break;
    case 2:
	window.open("prod1.htm",_top );
	break;
    default:
	alert("Invalid index, application error!");
  }
}

The above is what I currently have. Notice the _self as a parameter in the window.open function...?

When using anchors and specifying _self you can load an external URL into the current window, this is the effect I am after, but I must do it like the above...

I don't want to dynamically write the new contents to the current document window, but I will have to by tomorrow if I can't figure out a simpler solution.

Can I name the document in HTML or something...?

Is the name paramter in window.open() only good for window names retured by previous calls to open()..?

Anyways I really need the quick fix for the above problem only...if you could assist me...that'd be great!

Thanx you muchly!!!

"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr

alex.barylski5-Mar-02 11:52

VS.NET keeps touching MY code!

5-Mar-02 11:52

I figured it out.

document.URL = "none.htm"

Cheers!

"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr

log out on close window

jakewilliamson5-Mar-02 8:06

jakewilliamson

5-Mar-02 8:06

hi,

got a log out problem.......

i want to be able to warn a user that they havent loged out if they navigate away from the site and force a log out if they close their browser window.

it would be also goo to do this on a timer - eg after 10 minutes of no activty it rereshes them to the log in screen saying they'd been loged out.

any ideas out there oh gurus??!

cheers,

jake

webDesign/londonEngland/newToyASP
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email : jake.williamson@28design.com
web : http://www.28design.com

Paul Watson4-Mar-02 22:48

Paul Watson

4-Mar-02 22:48

Ok, I really like VS.NET and I am exstatic at what .NET has brought to us web developers through ASP.NET.

However, VS.NET is doing something that any developer I know hates: It "helpfully" re-arranges or chops and changes code.

I put the following code into web form page in VS.NET:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Now for some strange reason VS.NET is not too happy with XHTML (it gives errors on my HTML code up the ying yang) but thats fine, what it does next is flipping annoying.

On opening the page again or opening the project it changes the above code to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html 
lang="en">

Seems like a small change but then XHTML validators throw up the file as invalid, which is obviously bad.

The annoying thing is that I switched off the options in the settings panel which I thought would stop this. It made it happen less, but not completely. And it happens whenever it feels like.

Arrgghhh.

regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront

Re: VS.NET keeps touching MY code!

Josh Knox (disabled)5-Mar-02 5:45

Josh Knox (disabled)

5-Mar-02 5:45

In Word they call it a "Feature".

Don't you know MS is smarter than you?;P

Josh Knox
that-guy.net

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes." - author unknown

I need some information

Mazdak4-Mar-02 5:27

4-Mar-02 5:27

Hi Freinds:
a little bit I know my answer but I want to become sure about it.I want to begin work on ASP project,and the customer want to register a web space.Now for the first time I want to use ASP.NET.Should .net frame work installed on that server or I just need some limit dll,and if the answer is yes how can I find out server has .net frame work
or not.Does .net frame work become common in the servers for registering web?
Any suggestion appreciated.
thanks

Mazy

"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

omkamal4-Mar-02 7:06

omkamal

4-Mar-02 7:06

Mazdak wrote:
Should .net frame work installed on that server or I just need some limit dll

Yes. And I wont suggest copying and registering certain dlls. Although, you can check out info about the .NET Redistributable package.

Mazdak wrote:
and if the answer is yes how can I find out server has .net frame work
or not

I dont know whether is a proper way to find it out. But i would just give it a try by writing an aspx page and executing it on the server. Also, if you install .NET framework, there will be for sure a .NET framework directory created in your system folder. And, there must be an ASPNET user account created on that machine. I would do these checks also.

Mazdak wrote:
Does .net frame work become common in the servers for registering web?

It is becoming. I know brinkster! hosts .NET websites. And I find it helpful.

HTH Smile | :)

omkamal

Mazdak4-Mar-02 8:50

4-Mar-02 8:50

omkamal wrote:
Yes. And I wont suggest copying and registering certain dlls. Although, you can check out info about the .NET Redistributable package.

I didn't get it ,you mean it's ok to register some dll?I want to use C#

any way thanks

Mazy

"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

Chris Maunder4-Mar-02 9:10

Chris Maunder

4-Mar-02 9:10

You'll need to install the .NET framework to run ASP.NET pages.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

Mazdak4-Mar-02 9:14

4-Mar-02 9:14

Thanks Chris,I know you are busy to answer me but could you tell me that about that part?:
Does .net framework become common in those servers?Or how can I find it out is installed on server or not?
Thanks

Mazy

"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

James T. Johnson4-Mar-02 20:56

James T. Johnson

4-Mar-02 20:56

Mazdak wrote:
Does .net framework become common in those servers?

The number of servers that are hosting ASP.NET pages is growing. Here's a list of hosts on GotDotNet.

Mazdak wrote:
how can I find it out is installed on server or not?

The easiest way of finding out is ask them; or you can create a test ASP.NET page.

testpage.aspx

<%@Page Language="c#" %>
<script runat="server" Language="c#">
  void Page_Load() {
    MyLabel.Text = "Hello";
  }
</script>
<html>
  <asp:label id="MyLabel" runat="server" />
</html>

Courtesy of Beginning ASP.NET with C# by Wrox Press.

As omkamal said if you have the server locally you just need to install the .NET Framework redistributable (a link for it is in the news for the VS.NET release on the CP homepage).

HTH,

James

Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki
"Smile your little smile, take some tea with me awhile.
And every day we'll turn another page.
Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book,
One brown mouse sitting in a cage."
"One Brown Mouse" from Heavy Horses, Jethro Tull 1978

Mazdak4-Mar-02 23:58

4-Mar-02 23:58

Thanks you very much James Smile | :)

Mazy

"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

omkamal4-Mar-02 10:40

omkamal

4-Mar-02 10:40

The .NET Redistributable package, can be installed on any machine in which you want to *run-only* any .NET application.

When you said, you just wanted to copy certain dlls, I understood that you do not want to install the entire .NET framework but looking for a minimal version, only to run the applications (and not really for any development on the server). For this purpose, you can use the .NET Redistributable package (found in MS website) and install it on the server rather than trying to copy some dlls. Smile | :)

omkamal

Mazdak5-Mar-02 0:01

5-Mar-02 0:01

Thanks

Mazy

"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

asp / asp.net interop

Kannan Kalyanaraman4-Mar-02 2:19

Kannan Kalyanaraman

4-Mar-02 2:19

I have a project here which demands somekind of interop(sesion information) between asp and asp.net.
I understand from the .net documentation that this thing is not supported.
I would like to know how do you do this using some other technique.

Thanks
Kannan

remove frames

4-Mar-02 1:00

Hi,

I found this great program : http://www.mental.co.nz/cms/
But I want it to work within an ASP page as an include, but somehow it's not working maybe mecause it's built out of frames...

Anyway how can I remove the frames and make it work without them.
Here's the code that I don't know how to change:

Is there anyway of doing this differntly, without frames?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dani Eek! | :eek:

How to start?

Michael Mac3-Mar-02 10:05

Michael Mac

3-Mar-02 10:05

I've read\viewed some articles about ASP\ASP.NET and I want to learn something about it.
I have WinXP Professional with IIS on my machine. I'm connected to Internet via LAN (linux).

Should I have any software beside VS.Net. I heard that there are some problems when the server is under Linux control. I only want to write and test ASP apps on my computer.

Confused | :confused:

Re: How to start?

Philip Patrick5-Mar-02 1:28

Philip Patrick

5-Mar-02 1:28

You don't have to be even connected to Internet if you want to develop ASP/ASP.NET. Your computer will be a server by itself, with domain name "localhost". So it is doesn't matter how you are connected to Internet.

Philip Patrick
"Two beer or not two beer?" (Shakesbeer)
Web-site: www.saintopatrick.com

TDC

alex.barylski2-Mar-02 18:01