[weblet] How can a webLet communicate with the hosting html page?

[Robert M.]

Hi! I wanted to turn back to your solution.. but I updated my runweb plugin
and spash21 does not work anymore! Just to let you know.. 

Now I'll try your solution in order to communicate to the revlet the name of
a file to open.

The objective is to be able to send a data-file by mail opening up in a
revlet browser page.
Problem is how to "pass on" the filename... 

If I get a first hack solution is :
-- include as a mail-attached-file the data-file
-- incude as a mail-attached-file an html page with
    1- a simple form that has the name of the file and that is sent straight
away
    2- a call to an .irev file like "launchit.irev" that :
         a- gets the name of the file from the form
         b- edit the XXX variable in the revlet binary file, replacing it
with the file name, then closing it
         c- launches the modified  revlet in another page

:drunk: Problem : what happens if two users get online... the revlet file
will be modified.. with filename of misterB before misterA had a chance... 

;-)maybe we wait until.. javscript comunication is added!!! 

whouau what a world : you can make marvellous animations with runrev4 that
look damn sexy but you just bang your head on the walls to just send a
little piece of data... do we sometimes forget.. what the essential is in
our lives??? !!

Robert


splash21 wrote:
> 
> Where there's a will, there's a way....
> This example is pretty basic and I've only tested it on Firefox/Vista.
> 
> http://splash21.on-rev.com/revlet/
> 
> You can send text from the web page to the revlet.  Communication can 
> flow the other way as well.
> 
> I saved the test revlet stack with a variable containing a string of 'X' 
> characters in the openStack script.
> The .rev file is not embedded on the HTML page - instead there's a .irev 
> file embedded.  The .irev file opens the real revlet file as binary, 
> replaces the string of X's with the user's session key and spits the 
> resulting binary file out to the browser.  This gets downloaded as the 
> revlet which now contains the session key and can now communicate with 
> the web page.
> 
> It may seem like a total hack of a workaround, but it's simple - and it 
> seems to work.  Hope some of you guys find it useful!
> 
> JC
> 
> 
> Robert M. wrote:
>> The webLets showed in the webinar are autistic : they only seem to work
>> as a
>> confined world with no interaction with the rest of the page.
>>
>> 1) Is it possible to send them parameters, perhaps via a user  tag within
>> the object tag??
>>
>> I hope they're not autistic, oh god I pray!
>>
>> 2) is there a way to have one weblet communicate with another on the same
>> page??? 
>>
>> Thanks... trying to figure out how to use weblets in my site design... 
>>   
> 
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