[Zope] I'm insane, THANK YOU!

[Ken Whitesell]

Tom,

	THANK YOU! You helped me address a couple of issues I've never 
known before. (Of course, I'm still new with this web stuff, so an 
awful lot of this is new to me.)

If I open up a subordinate window, I can write text to it, but it is 
going to clear the window when I do an open.

But, and this is the part that you probably already knew but I 
didn't guess at, I can use the different properties of that window 
to make changes even among different pages!

This is so cool...

To wit -> If I have a window open called "Stock" with a table, and a 
cell within that table with an ID="sDollars", then from the 'main' 
window, I can do this:

sdWin = open('', 'Stock');
sdWin.document.all.sDollars.innerText = "$100";

(I think I copied this correctly.)

Anyway, it works under IE, doesn't work at the moment for Netscape - 
I know the object reference is something different, just haven't 
found it yet.

Thanks again!
      Ken

> Message: 17
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:31:09 -0400
> From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin at mitretek.org>
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Writing to browser from an external script?
> 
> Well, I would consider an auto-refresh in another frame (possibly an
> iframe) or in a popup window.  When the auto-refresh loads, you can have
> it send the updated data to the parent.  The parent can do with it
> whatever it wants.  Of course, you need to use javascript to make this
> work.  I would be happy with that, myself.
> 
> A more web-like approach would be to set up another resource - another
> url - that the main page should keep checking to get new data from
>