Way to determine if button is pressed in browser

[Ken Ray]

Well, if you set up Rev as a CGI on a server, the web page could tell the
CGI that a button was pressed. If a local Rev app needed to know, it could
be polling a particular spot on the server for the existence of a file, and
the CGI could write that file. You'd get a delay between the click on the
page, the writing of the file by the CGI and the response by the local Rev
app, but that's the only way I can think of to do it.

Any other ideas?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: <RGould8 at aol.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Way to determine if button is pressed in browser


> I've been asked to see if it's possible to write a Revolution app that
reacts
> when a button in pressed on a web-page within Internet Explorer.   This
Rev
> app would be running the same time that Internet Explorer is running and
> would just be "sniffing" the browser to see if the user pressed a button
on
> the web-page.
>
> I know how to write a Rev app that sniffs the "page title" of whatever
> web-page is showing in IE, but I don't know if there's a way to react to a
> Javascript call from a button on the web-page.   Is there a way?
>