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

[splash21]

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... 
>